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Through the generous support of the Target Foundation, Performance Network's production of CHRISTMAS CAROL'D will feature the Target Family Holiday Series, a program offering $40 Family Packages for Saturday matinee performances. One of the main focuses of the Target Foundation's work is to make art and culture accessible and affordable to the community. CHRISTMAS CAROL'D runs November 19 though December 27, 2009.

There is no better way to ring in the holidays this December! Your magical evening begins at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar located at 217 Stuart Street as they present a special 3-course Pre-Theatre Menu at 6:30pm (tax and gratuity included). After dinner, it's off to Boston's Colonial Theatre for the 8:30pm performance of the Christmas music of MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER in Orchestra seats.

Extraordinary singer songwriter Brandi Carlile has announced an Austin show on the second leg of her "Give Up the Ghost Traveling Show" which will begin January 12 in Boise, Idaho and includes more than 40 cities across the country. Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin welcomes Brandi Carlile and her Give Up The Ghost Traveling Show to Hogg Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, March 6, 2010.

Diversionary Theatre will produce the West Coast premiere of Paul Rudnick's big gay comedy, The New Century, as the third show of their 2009-2010 season. The New Century features the outrageous and poignant stories of a Jewish matron, a flamboyant aging homosexual and a Midwestern craftswoman, and is filled with snappy one-liners and a moment of gratuitous nudity. Diversionary's production will be directed by Igor Goldin, and feature Phil Johnson, Dana Hooley, Jacque Wilke, Noah Longton and Stacey Hardke. Goldin directed last summer's smash hit Yank! The show will run December 3-January 2, including performances over both the Christmas and New Year weekends.

THE GOLDFISH TWINS SWIM THE BIG BLUE SEA! has announced an updated performance schedule. The show will hold performances at St. Luke's Theatre on Saturdays at 11:30 am through November 21, and at the Actors Temple Theatre on Sundays at 12 noon through January 31, 2010.

Dance/theater company anna&meredith presents GORMANZEE & Other Stories, an evening of dance, theater, and puppetry with live music. The evening features BILL IT, a kinetic portrait of the restaurant industry, POPULATION: 2, the story of the two remaining residents of a Midwestern ghost town, and GORMANZEE, a macabre puppet comedy exploring ritualistic primate slaughter, premiering at Spoke the Hub, 295 Douglass St., Gowanus, Brooklyn. Performances are November 20, 21, and 22 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15/$12 students, available at spokethehub.org. Press and Industry tickets are available.

The show will play at The Van Every Theatre, The Mint Museum of Art from Friday, December 18 through Sunday, December 20. A 7:30 evening show will be held on Friday and Saturday and a 2:00 matinee performance will be held on Saturday and Sunday.

The Triad hosted APRIL NIXON IS REBORN on Monday night, November 2nd at 7pm. She will reappear for a second show Sunday, December 13th at 9:30pm - on Lee Summers' JUST A PIANO Concert Series.

The New York Philharmonic Ensembles, composed of Musicians from the Orchestra, will perform Trio Sonatas by Rossi; Gliere's Suite for Violin and Double Bass; Beethoven's String Trio, Op. 9, No. 2; and Arensky's Piano Trio No. 1 on Sunday, December 13, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall.

ViVoce, the Revels women's vocal ensemble, will be performing at the PSU Farmers' Market from 9 to 10 am this Saturday morning, October 31st. You'll find the market at the South Park Blocks, on the PSU campus. Enjoy ViVoce's lovely sound as you select beautiful and nutritious foods.

The opening of a new show is always an exciting time, but this year marks the 15th Anniversary of the Christmas Revels in Portland and deserves special recognition. The Portland Revels are hosting a 15th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, Dec. 5th.

Man of La Mancha, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre's second production of the season presented in association with Michael James, is a 'can't miss.' It is powerfully reimagined in a contemporary mental facility with the patients sympathetically playing the story of Don Quixote as told by Cervantes. Man of La Mancha's book is by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh.

Since 1997, Twin Cities taiko ensemble Mu Daiko has journeyed through the roots of Japanese drumming toward the heart-pounding blend of theater, dance and music that it is today. Taiko Caravan celebrates that metamorphosis with a return to the Southern Theater, featuring a program of traditional favorites, original compositions and new commissions. San Jose Taiko, one of North America's oldest and most prestigious taiko ensembles, joins Mu Daiko on stage the second weekend (Dec. 4-6 only).

The Weston Friendly Society will be holding another round of auditions for their special 125th anniversary event, "The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)" by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart, on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 7:00 PM at the Weston Town Hall (Townhouse Road, Weston, MA). The show is being directed by Paul Dixon and music directed by Chris Roppola.

Village Players Theatre is proud to announce it's Main stage Holiday production, 'Chad Morton's TV Christmas Miracle' which opens on December 5th, 2009 at 8:00pm. This original production is written by Jack Crowe and Jim Keating, directed by Doug Long with music arranged and composed by Keith Harrison.

With its newest production Store Trek, Princeton's famed Triangle Club boldly goes where no musical comedy has gone before to the crass crossroads of corporate greed and American consumerism. The production will run Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14 at 8pm on the Matthews stage of McCarter Theatre Center (91 University Place, Princeton).

Before Town Hall Theater closed down for renovations in 2005, the THT Gala had become an annual must-see event. The celebratory evening returns on Thursday, November 19, with the Opening Night performance of Middlebury Community Player's production of The Music Man. An elegant reception begins at 7:00 pm, followed by the show at 8:00.

Christoph von Dohnanyi will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola, performed by Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps; and Bruckner's Symphony No. 4, Thursday, December 10, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, December 11, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, December 12, 2009, at 8:00 p.m.

The Children's Playhouse of Maryland's production of Guys and Dolls is entering it's final weekend of performances. Shows this weekend include Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1 at 1:00 pm. This junior performance of this classic musical is performed by over 25 area student performers.

Blue Spruce Theatre's 'Angry Inch' (a.k.a. Hot Protestants with Emeen Z) from their production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch will be performing in two gigs this coming weekend. Friday, October 30 they will be performing at TT the Bear's in Central Square, Cambridge. The festivities starts at 9 with Emeen Z. If that weren't enough, Hot Protestants will also be performing at O'Brien's in Allston on Halloween, Saturday, October 31.