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The Princess Grace Foundation-USA (PGF-USA) is proud to announce that the 29th Annual Princess Grace Awards Gala will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. The Awards ceremony will include the presentation of 21 awards to emerging artists in theater, dance and film as well as the Prince Rainier III Award to be presented to Julie Andrews and the Princess Grace Statue Award to be presented to Jon M. Chu. The Awards recipients hail from cities and states across America and will travel to New York City to receive their honor at the glamorous black tie ceremony. The 29th Annual Princess Grace Awards Gala will take place in the presence of TSH The Prince and The Princess of Monaco, marking their first U.S. visit since their July wedding. The evening will be chaired by Dr. Jon Turk (PGF-USA Trustee) and Carolyn Gusoff Turk. This year's Awards Gala will be highlighted by the unveiling of a unique tribute to Princess Grace by Montblanc. Presenting Sponsor for the Gala is Hermès; Platinum Sponsor is Noelle and Dick Wolf; Crown Sponsor is Lily Safra; American Airlines is the Official Airline of the Princess Grace Awards Gala and 1800-Flowers.com is the Official Florist.

The ABC Television Network announces highlights of its upcoming November sweeps programming, including special Halloween and Thanksgiving-themed episodes of some of television's biggest hit series, 'The 45th Annual CMA Awards' and '2011 American Music Awards,' a one-hour 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition A Veterans Day Special,' and of course 'Jimmy Kimmel Live.'

The sins of the father are visited upon the son once again in Sam Shepard's primal family drama Curse of the Starving Class, which will be presented starting October 27th at The Bridge Theatre in Manhattan by a new company, Actors and Directors Living in Brooklyn (AdLib).

According to Deadline.com, comedy actress Jenna Elfman will be joining the cast of the upcoming film fifth and final season of DirectTV's DAMAGES.

Triple-Platinum Recording Artist Aaron Carter, who burst onto the pop music scene in the late nineties and quickly achieved worldwide superstardom and the adoration of millions of loyal fans, will join the cast of The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, on Monday, November 7, 2011.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, veteran actress Glenn Close will be honored with the 2011 Hollywood Career Achievement Award as part of Starz Entertainment's 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards on October 24 at the Beverly Hilton.

The Hornets' Nest series has theatre-goers itching for that conversation. The Hornets' Nest series of script-in-hand readings with professional actors and directors returns with three plays investigating the most difficult and controversial questions of today.

The 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, have announced that Oscar winner George Clooney will be honored with the 'Hollywood Actor Award' for his critically acclaimed performance in Alexander Payne's 'The Descendants.'

Gary Naylor talks to the writer of Death and The Maiden, back in the West End twenty years on.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the sellout sensation by Mark St. Germain, will host special post-performance discussions October 22nd (evening), 23rd (matinee) and 27th, led by the playwright and the show's stars, Mark H. Dold (C.S. Lewis) and Martin Rayner (Sigmund Freud).

On the upcoming episode of ABC's EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION, the designers help to create a new student lounge at a local school in order to help the Keefer family and some well deserving students.

Theatrical Outfit has announced that Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain, has been held over by popular demand through November 13, 2011 at the Balzer Theater at Herren's.

On last night's moving episode of ABC's EXTREME MAKEOVER: Home Edition, the Korpai Family received a well-deserved home makeover.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the sellout sensation by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its official Opening Night Sunday, October 16th at 7 pm at its new home at New World Stages.

Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, today announced the return of the acclaimed new play, The Best of Enemies, by Mark St. Germain (author of Freud's Last Session), for a run from October 5 through 16 at the BSC Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the sellout sensation by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its official Opening Night this Sunday, October 16th at 7 pm at its new home at New World Stages.

According to TV Line, actor Ryan Phillippe will be starring in a leading role in the upcoming fifith season of the courtroom drama DAMAGES, which currently stars actress Glenn Close. The show now airs on DirecTV.

George Manus has been a part of the theater community in Nashville and Middle Tennessee for so long that it's easy to forget he's not yet 40 years old. He cut his teeth as a young director at Dennis Ewing's late and lamented Actors Playhouse of Nashville, which led him to spearhead the opening of his own theater company, DreamWeaver Productions on Third Avenue South in downtown Nashville during the early to mid-1990s, and now he heads up Murfreesboro's Out Front On Main, a storefront operation that specializes in bringing edgier theater to that burgeoning college town.

The Hornets' Nest series has theatre-goers itching for that conversation. The Hornets' Nest series of script-in-hand readings with professional actors and directors returns with three plays investigating the most difficult and controversial questions of today.