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On Monday, December 6th, Geja's Café, 340 West Armitage, invites guests to enjoy this holiday season with a fondue dinner paired with the best of the Maison Marques & Domaines Collection. The Maisons Marques & Domaines portfolio represents some of the most prestigious wineries in the world. The Maison Marques & Domaines Winemaker Dinner, part of Geja's Café's ongoing popular 2010 Winemaker Dinner series, will be a special and informative event featuring a representative on hand to provide commentary and answer questions on the wines. Geja's will feature four of Maison Marques & Domaines' most prized wineries and will start with sparkling wines from the highly esteemed Roederer Estate (makers of the celebrated Cristal Champagne) and the ultra-premium bubbly producer, Scharffenberger Cellars in California. Next the entree will be escorted by the spicy Cotes du Rhone St Espirit Rouge by the world renowned Delas Freres from the Rhone Valley in France. Lastly, Geja's will complement decadence with extravagance by allowing chocolate fondue to commingle with a 10 year Tawny Port from Portugal's consummate port producer, Ramos Pinto.

What do you get when you combine classic holiday characters with human frailties - a smash hit that has audiences rolling in the aisle! Enjoy characters such as Uncle Sam, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Ezekiel the Pilgrim, Hagatha the Witch, Donner, Blitzen, Barbie and GI Joe. These six wonderful holiday scenes, (including the trial of the reindeer that ran over Grandma with the entrance of Scrooge as the prosecuting attorney), use satire and comedy to reveal the meaning of Christmas. Director, Deborah Bonds has directed two Holiday shows at Fells Point Corner Theatre. She has an MFA in Directing and has acted in both Parade and Trenches, also at FPCT. Stocking Stuffers is a perfect evening or afternoon out for the entire family! Included in your outing will be our very popular Annual Holiday Bazaar, held before and after all performances of Stocking Stuffers! Proceeds from the Bazaar will benefit our youth programs.

Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World, a stunning IMAX film, opens at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday, January 10, 2011. This 41-minute film sheds light on the extraordinary prehistoric underwater world and its larger-than-life creatures, which, with their daunting size and natural ability for predation, were ruling the seas 20 million years before dinosaurs roamed the earth. Moviegoers will meet Julie, an imaginative young woman, as she travels from a modern-day aquarium to the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. Viewers will explore an amazing underwater universe inhabited by, among other animals, the powerful Liopleurodon, the long-necked Elasmosaurus, Ophthalmosaurus or 'eye lizard,' the ferocious Prognathodon, and the gigantic 75-foot Shonisaurus. The film was shot in studio and on location at various museums in Paris and London, as well as in Egypt and New Zealand to capture the aerial, landscape, and underwater scenes. Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World was written and directed by Pascal Vuong and Ronan Chapalain and produced by Catherine and Pascal Vuong and Francois Mantello. The film features an original score by Franck Marchal and a screenplay by Pascal Vuong, Rick Dowlearn, and Ronan Chapalain. The film is produced by N3D LAND Productions and Mantello Brothers Productions. Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World is distributed worldwide by 3D Entertainment Distribution. Screenings of Sea Rex: Journey to a Prehistoric World will be held daily in the LeFrak Theater every hour on the half hour from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. To purchase tickets in advance, the public should call 212-769-5200 or visit www.amnh.org. A service charge may apply.

Galleon's production of A Woman of No Importance transposes Wilde's comedy drama to a Christmas party at the end of the 1950s. The seamless and careful repositioning of the play from1893 to the end of the 1950s liberates Wilde's heartrending play from melodramatic Victoriantrappings and brings it to an age closer to our own. Whereas, Bruce Jamieson's sensitive realignment of Wilde's text heightens contemporary audience empathy with the characters, their predicaments and delivers a thought provoking and highly enjoyable seasonal theatrical treat.In A Woman of No Importance Wilde exposes, through piercing wit, the hypocrisy of a society which scorns and punishes a woman for her sexual misdemeanours but applauds and grants honours to the man in question. The play centres on the then publically damning revelation of Mrs.Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret - she conceived a child out of wedlock. 'The Greenwich Playhouse really is producing the very best theatre in London.

The Christmas Schooner is the heart-warming musical about a German-American shipping captain and his crew who braved the icy waters of Lake Michigan to bring Tannenbäume (Christmas trees) to the immigrant families of Chicago. Heartfelt storytelling - with wonderful music and dance - captures the true spirit of the holidays, celebrating the joy of giving and the importance of sharing traditions between generations and between neighbors. 'In a world of ‘me first' mentalities, this story of an immigrant family is one of love and sharing; a generosity of spirit that drives people to use the skills and resources at their disposal to reach out to those who are less fortunate,' says History Theatre artistic director Ron Peluso. 'That is why The Christmas Schooner is so popular; it reflects the best of what our nation and community can be, at the holidays and throughout the year.'

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) today announced that their world premiere production of The Break of Noon, by Neil LaBute, has been extended through December 22, 2010 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC). The production features actors Tracee Chimo, David Duchovny, John Earl Jelks and Amanda Peet, under the direction of Jo Bonney. An official opening night is set for this Monday, November 22, 2010. The Break of Noon is a co-production with the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles (Gil Cates, Producing Director; Randall Arney, Artistic Director; Ken Novice, Managing Director).

Grab your umbrellas, Gleeks! It's raining guest stars and sickness on this week's Glee. After getting Principal Figgins sick with a rare form of flu, Sue follows suit by getting Will sick, as well. Determined to not let the sickness get to him, Will goes about Glee Club rehearsal as planned, but soon realizes that he's too sick to continue, especially after envisioning the Glee Clubbers as children.

This December DSI Comedy Theater will showcase a unique and blisteringly funny improv show, The Josh and Tamra Show. This show is a feature length improv show that weaves different scenes with new characters and puppets. The two night run of this show will be Thursday December 9 and Friday December 10 at 9:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10. DSI Comedy Theater is located at 200 N. Greensboro St, in the Carr Mill Mall. More information and tickets are available at www.DSIcomedy.com

Every night is a Friday night for HELLYEAH and their fans. No matter what thesituation,HELLYEAH's mission issingular: to provide fans with good time, spirit-lifting hard rock. When you are at a HELLYEAH show or listening to their music,everything else takes a backseat to feeling good and focusing onliving in the 'here and now.'Because that's what real life is all about. Frontman Chad Gray adds, 'The band is called HELLYEAH, come on! It's like 'Hell yeah, let's do it!'

Jerrod grew up in the small town of Liberal, Kansas. Like many rural communities, the economy relied on agriculture, and the weekend entertainment revolved around high school football. With the nearest major city almost three hours away, live music came in the form of acounty fair once a year. His parents worked hard to provide Jerrod, and his siblings with a stable and loving home environment. For most of hischildhood, his parents owned and operated a roller skating rink, which offered Jerrod his first real introduction to music.

Tradition takes a twist this holiday season when A Beef & Boards Christmas 2010 opens on Nov. 26. Inspired by the Golden Age of television, this annual production offers an entertaining cavalcade of comedy, dance and music with performances by many Beef & Boards favorites through Dec. 23. Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is taking a fresh approach to its own original holiday extravaganza, which is now in its 18th year. Styled after the classic variety shows of Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan, Red Skelton, Dinah Shore and Bob Hope, A Beef & Boards Christmas 2010 presents the sights, sounds and songs of the season in an all-new, fun and festive production. The Beef & Boards Orchestra takes the stage, making the music an integral part of each performance. Holiday songs, skits and stories are showcased by a variety of talent including Christine Mild, Christopher Dickerson, John Vessels, Kenny Shepard and Deb Wims. Even Santa stops by to be a part of this musical celebration of the season.

The Red Bull Theater is proud to present a one night only reading of DON CARLOS, a German take on the classic tale of Hamlet. The performance is scheduled for Monday, November 15th at 7:30pm. The cast includes: Tina Benko, Bradford Cover, Daniel Davis, Richard Easton, Philip Goodwin, Luke Forbes, Cynthia Mace, Paul Mullins, Everett Quinton, Matthew Rauch, Gareth Saxe, David L. Townsend, Jennifer van Dyck, and more Don Carlos is written by Friedrich Schiller and directed by Joseph Hardy.

Actor/Playwright Frank Ingrasciotta plays over 20 characters in his tour de force performance of Blood Type: RAGU. This hilarious & tender coming-of-age story explories the first-generation Americans' delicate dance between culture and identity! Anyone who has a family will resonate! No Goombah, No Mafia! 100% heartfelt and natural! Produced by Flying Machine Productions and directed by Ted Sod.Theatre Source)

Cape May Stage, Cape May's professional Equity theatre, in collaboration with Bristol Riverside Theatre of Bucks County, PA, is proud to announce an astonishing and beautiful new take on a classic story. Often regarded as a children's story, The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's, is actually a tale for all ages about understanding how to laugh, love and cry again. Opening November 26 and running through December 30, this new adaptation, directed and re-conceived by stage and screen puppeteer Scott Hitz, uses life sized puppets, live actors, original music, and magnificent sets to bring to life the heart-warming story of the Little Prince who gains rare and unique insights into love, loss, and laughter. Perfect for the whole family, this heart-warming production exemplifies the best of what the holiday season means to each of us.

Gleeks, some of our favorite things make a return in this week's episode: Puck! Mash-ups! Girls vs. Boys challenges! After a grueling practice, Finn and Sam exchange stories about their girlfriends, finding they are both dating two girls who are not willing to give them exactly what they want. Finn enlightens Sam to his secret of how to keep himself from urging for more, giving Sam the idea to use Coach Bieste as a cooler of sorts when he's making out with Quinn.

The Imagination Movers (with special guests Nina, Warehouse Mouse, and others) will perform at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 6:30 pm. Ticket prices range from $35, $30, & $25 with a limited number of VIP packages are also available. On-Sale Information:Tickets on sale Friday, November 12 at 10 am! Purchase tickets at the Fox Box Office, MetroTix outlets or by calling 314/534-1111. Order tickets online at www.metrotix.com

The 2010 AMERICAN COUNTRY AWARDS will air live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena Monday, Dec. 6 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST live/PST tape-delayed) on FOX. The two-hour special will be the first and only country music awards show where fans determine every winner by voting for their favorite nominees in music and video categories.

The Westport Players has announced their two big December productions: A Song At Twilight and The Greatest Gift.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has been one of the most unique entertainment venues in the region since it first opened. Offering a fantastic dinner combined with a Broadway-style show, the Way Off Broadway experience is a full evening of leisure and entertainment. But the dinner theatre is only on piece of what makes up Way Off Broadway. In 1996, the theatre opened, what has become, it's wildly popular Children's Theatre. To this day, the Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre is the only children's lunch matinee offered in the area.

Aurora Theatre Funny Fridays continues club comedy performances on the square in downtown Lawrenceville welcoming Short Bus Heroes. Short Bus Heroes Comedy Tour is four talented comedians with diverse styles and outlooks who have banded together their comedic powers for good rather than evil. The next bus stop is at Aurora Theatre Funny Fridays on November 19, at 7:15 & 9:15 PM.