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The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute has always been a location known for multiple celebrity sightings and many certainly turned out last Saturday, Nov 6th, for the opening night of 'BARRYMORE' starring Jack Betts as the famous thespian. The standing room only crowd included representatives of stage, film and TV with Julie Newmar, Fred Willard, Rip Taylor, Thao Penghlis, John Glover, Don Swayze, Ned VanZandt, Larry Pressman, as well as Ana Strasberg and John Barrymore, Jr. The evening's festivities included a birthday celebration for the opening's hostess, Doris Roberts.

In the November 9th installment of GLEE, Puck gets out of juvie, the girls rock out to 'Livin' on a Prayer', and Kurt changes schools? Check out some images from the episode below!

Porchlight Music Theatre will present the exhilarating live stage production of Miracle on 34th Street, based on the holiday film classic at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmont. The production will run from November 19 through January 2, 2011. The Press Opening is Sunday, November 21 at 2:30 p.m. Porchlight Music Theatre Artistic Associate Christopher Pazdernik will direct.

Gray Line New York's Ride of FameTM campaign honored award winning and legendary actor, Richard Dreyfuss for his achievements as an outstanding New Yorker today. A double decker tour bus bearing his likeness was unveiled at a ceremony which took place in front of the Cherry Lane Theatre located on Commerce Street, where his new play, Imagining Heschel which started this week is playing. Dreyfuss, who is also current on the hit TV show Weeds, took a tour on his new bus, with 30 of his fans, and got on the microphone and helped with the tour!

On Monday, October 18th, HOT MESS IN MANHATTAN played the Midtown Theatre to a standing room only, energy-filled house. Many of the contributing composers of MESS IN MANHATTAN were on hand for a meet & greet with fans prior to the show.

The Un-Common Theatre Company and The Orpheum at Foxboro are pleased to present 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ', a fun and lively adaptation of the Broadway classic. This international audience hit plays weekends at the Orpheum Theatre, Foxboro, December 3rd - 12th. This is the third collaboration for the Orpheum and Un-Common.

Barbadian singer Rihanna launches the Christmas lights decorations at Westfield Shopping Centre in London on November 4, 2010. UPI/Rune Hellestad Photo via Newscom

Fangs, freaks and fright fill Archaia Black Label's newly announced horror anthology, MOON LAKE, an original graphic novel hardcover coming October 2010 in association with the diversely talented writer/director Dan Fogler and his company, Unkatush, Inc.

The American Theatre Wing has announced the 10 recipients of its 2010 National Theatre Company Grants, who are the first group of theatres receiving ATW support following its revision of its long-standing theatre company grants program. This year's recipients are: 1812 Productions Philadelphia, PA, About Face Theatre Chicago, IL, Boise Contemporary Theater Boise, ID, Company One Boston, MA, Curious Theatre Company Denver, CO, The Flea Theater, Inc. New York, NY, Profile Theatre Portland, OR, Silk Road Theatre Project Chicago, IL, Synetic Theater Arlington, VA, and Triad Stage Greensboro, NC. The companies will be celebrated at a private luncheon at the Intercontinental Hotel Times Square on Monday, October 25th.

Bizet's Carmen will return to the Metropolitan Opera on November 4 in Richard Eyre's critically acclaimed production, featuring star mezzo-soprano El?na Garan?a as the alluring Gypsy seductress; rising tenor Brandon Jovanovich as her lover and victim, Don José; Nicole Cabell as the innocent Micaëla; and John Relyea, singing the toreador Escamillo for the first time at the Met. English National Opera Music Director Edward Gardner, who is making his Met debut, will conduct all Carmen performances this season.

DEPARTURE LOUNGE, a musical comedy by Dougal Irvine. Produced by Bailiwick Chicago in association with Andy Barnes, Joseph Smith and Hilary A. Williams. Directed & Choreographed by Tom Mullen with Music Direction by Kevin Mayes. Playing at the Royal George Cabaret Theatre (1641 N. Halsted St) from October 28 - December 12, 2010. Show times are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Saturdays at 3:00 p.m., and Sundays at 7:00 p.m. No show November 25 (Thanksgiving). For more information visit www.bailiwickchicago.com.

Sony Cierge hosted an exclusive holiday preview event on Wednesday, Nov. 3 in NYC to showcase the hottest and newest Sony products in advance of the holiday shopping season to an audience of celebrities, VIPs and influencers.

In a year chock full of star-studded 80th birthday tributes to legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the March 15-16 gala evenings with the New York Philharmonic at New York's Lincoln Center stood tall.

Project 891 Theatre Co proudly opens their second season with The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry in the historic North Lakeside Cultural Center. Set in 1939 Atlanta with the premiere of Gone with the Wind as a backdrop, the Jewish Freitag family is forced to face how they identify with who they are and where they come from when a newcomer from New York enters their lives and illuminates the prejudices within Atlanta's Jewish community. With the circa 1910 North Lakeside Cultural Center mansion as the set, the audience has a unique opportunity to be a fly on the wall of the Freitag living room as the family members go about their lives. The intimacy of the vintage space allows for heightened drama and a sense that the audience has genuinely wandered back in time.

Check out this photo that FOX has just released for Daniel Radcliffe's upcoming guest appearance on 'The Simpsons'. The former wizard will put down his broom in favor of fangs for a spoof on the 'Twilight' craze.

A world premiere screening of the Sondheim: The Birthday Concert was held at the NYIT Auditorium on November 1, 2010 and attended by cast, crew and friends. The star-studded event, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert, celebrating the 80th birthday of the Broadway and film legend Stephen Sondheim with performances of his music and songs by some of the world's biggest talents, will make its debut on PBS stations across the country on November 24th, thanks to the Emmy Award-winning producer Ellen M. Krass and multiple Tony Award-winning co-producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley in association with Thirteen/WNET and Image Entertainment. The production, which is hosted by David Hyde Pierce, will air at 9PM ET (check local listings).

BroadwayWorld has learned that Broadway favorites Kyle Dean Massey and Levi Kreis have made the list of Out magazine's annual '100 People of the Year'. Additional honorees include GLEE's Chris Colfer, and star of the stage and screen, T.R. Knight. The other 96 on the Out 100 List will be announced on November 11. For more information, visit: Out.com.

Ground UP Productions will present the world premiere of LETTER FROM ALGERIA, Michael I. Walker's edgy and exhilarating play. Directed by Adam Fitzgerald, performances of LETTER FROM ALGERIA will be held at The June Havoc Theatre at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 West 36th St., 2nd Floor) October 29 through November 20, 2010. The schedule is Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors (with valid ID) at http://www.theatermania.com or (212)352-3101.

A Shakespearean tragedy not seen in Buffalo in over half a century will finally see the footlights in a new production at the Road Less Traveled Theater. Road Less Traveled Productions will raise the curtain on William Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra on Friday, October 22, in a new adaptation by RLTP Resident Playwright Jon Elston. The show will run through Sunday, November 14.

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, the provocative and wickedly witty theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from a demon's point of view, celebrated its 200th performance at The Westside Theatre, 407 West 43rd Street, New York on November 1.