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Broadway Loves Joe's Pub happens Sunday, November 2. Hosted by Judy Gold, and featuring Laura Benanti, Cady Huffman, Gavin Creel, Steven Pasquale, Hairspray's Nikki Blonsky and Rent's Will Chase. The performers will be reprising songs they have performed in previous Joe's Pub events.

Don and Jeff Breithaupt, the composer and lyricist (respectively) that comprise the Breithaupt Brothers, bring their songbook back to Joe's Pub on October 27, 2008, for another all-star revue, featuring a bumper crop of new songs and favorites, as well as a sampling of songs from Seeing Stars.

The Duplex presents DREAMER - The Songs of Beck & May - an evening of music by Jordan Beck and Jonathan May, which will be performed on Sunday, November 2 and Monday, November 3 at the Duplex in New York.

BOO-LESQUE WITH ZOMBIE RALPH is a rampant revue of vamping vampires, Transylvanian trannies and gorgeous go-go-ghouls, presented by your Master of Scare-a-Moanies, Zombie Ralph. (Bradford Scobie, Doctor Donut of Shortbus, Moisty of Moisty the Snowman, Pilgrim William of Turkey Day with Pilgrim William). The show will be performed on October 25, 2008 at 11:30pm.

Broadway In Chicago encourages all Chicagoans to vote and then celebrate the election of the 44th President by offering theater patrons $44 tickets on Election Day, November 4, 2008, to the international stage hits DIRTY DANCING, JERSEY BOYS and WICKED. Election returns will be announced during intermission and at the close of the show.

The Custom Made Theatre Company presents TWO BY WOODY!, two recent one-act plays by Woody Allen, directed by Brian Katz. The Custom Made Theatre Company is located at 965 Mission Street (between 5th and 6th), San Francisco. Performances begin Friday, November 7 at 8PM. The show closes Saturday, December 13 at 8PM.

TheatreFIRST announces its 15th Anniversary Season running from January 2009 to June 2009, comprised of a staged reading series and revival of a Pinter masterpiece. TheatreFIRST continues its active pursuit of a permanent Downtown Oakland location, a space that will serve as home for TheatreFIRST and for other Oakland-based arts organizations. Each day we grow closer to this goal. TheatreFIRST looks forward producing to a full season of 3 shows beginning Fall 2009 to Summer 2010.

Daniel Benzali, noted actor of stage, screen and theater performs scenes from Shakespeare and songs by Stephen Sondheim in a one-man, one-night-only performance benefiting the 6th Street Playhouse, GK Hardt Theatre, 52 West 6th Street, Santa Rosa, California (located in historic Railroad Square) on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008, at 7pm.

Daryl Roth Productions has announced the premiere of the ZINA GOLDRICH and MARCY HEISLER musical, DEAR EDWINA. A fully staged musical comedy for kids, DEAR EDWINA will have a limited engagement, as part of the DR2 Kids series at the DR2 Theatre, 103 E. 15th Street, NYC, from Friday, November 14, 2008 through Sunday, January 25, 2009, with an official opening on Sunday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m.

Improbable Fiction presents William Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS, directed by Tracy Liz Miller, which runs from October 27 through November 17 at the West Side Dance Project in New York. Bill Van Horn leads an ensemble of nine actors in TITUS ANDRONICUS, William Shakespeare's bloody exploration of love, lust and revenge.

92YTribeca Theater has added new events to the Fall 2008 schedule, including 'Dance-a-Raoke,' Naked Angels First Mondays: BEND and An Evening with [title of show].

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble has announced its revival of 'MR. SHAKESPEARE & MR. PORTER,' the melding of the plays of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE with the music and lyrics of COLE PORTER. The production features two different evenings of mini-musicals: Volume 1 ('Hamlet,' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from November 13th through the 23rd; Volume 2 ('Measure for Measure,' 'Richard III' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') runs from December 4th-December 21st.

6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California, in a co-production with Cinnabar Theater, presents ALWAYS, PATSY CLINE, by Ted Swindley, which pays tribute to Pasty Cline (who epitomized the country music sound in the late 1950s and '60s) in a true story told with humor, emotion, music and a little audience interaction. The show runs from November 7 through December 7, 2008.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College kicks off its 2008-09 World of Dance series with the return of the Argentine company Tango Fire on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8pm.

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has introduced the 2008 Academy Performance Ensemble. Under the artistic direction of NSMT's award-winning education program, these singers and dancers from Boston's North Shore ages 14 to 18 perform a wide range of selections from classic and contemporary musical theater. Their first appearance will be at Boston Medical Center's 'Halloween Town' at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston on Saturday, Oct. 25.

After fighting a long battle with cancer, theater executive Harry S. Gold died on October 10, 2008. He was 50. As the executive director of business and legal affairs for Disney Theatrical Productions, Gold oversaw the company's musicals on Broadway and internationally, managing the business and legal affairs of such hits at THE LITTLE MERMAID, MARY POPPINS and THE LION KING. He joined Disney in 1997.

To celebrate a frightful all-Hallows Eve, Here Arts Center, the starting point of the Village Halloween Parade, will host two very special curtains on Halloween night. After the performance of ARIAS WITH A TWIST, spooky sounds will be provided by DJ Flotilla DeBarge and Joey Arias, the creature of the night himself, will judge a petrifying pumpkin carving contest. Prizes will go to the most creepy, creative and cringeworthy costumes.

Splash Bar will present Scott Nevins' Curtain Call on Monday, November 3 at 11:30pm with this week's guest performer Kristy Cates.Admission is free until 10pm, $5 after. Splash Bar is located at 50 west 17th st (b/w 5th and 6th).

For the fourth year in a row, Seth Bisen-Hersh will perform a solo show at Theater Ten Ten. This year in Seth Sings Bisen-Hersh, he will sing highlights from his six cabaret acts of original songs.

A special performance of 'Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not To Do It Again' by Jean-Claude van Itallie will be presented one night only, October 27, 2008 at La MaMa E.T.C. (Annex Theater), 66 East Fourth Street, Manhattan, to support the rebuilding of the century-old theater barn at Shantigar, the unique center for theater, meditation and healing located in Rowe, MA.