BWW Photo Special - Page 5

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson), Producer Mark Russell and The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP President and CEO Sandra Gibson) present UNDER THE RADAR 2011, running January 5-16 at The Public Theater as well as at partner venues around the city. This highly-anticipated 12-day festival is committed to tracking new theater from across the U.S. and around the world and, this year, will feature shows from 11 counties including Chile, Italy, Belgium, and Mali. Tickets are $15 to UNDER THE RADAR shows at The Public, and $15 to $25 for shows at partner venues. For more ticket information visit www.publictheater.org or www.undertheradarfestival.com

Spanish model Mar Saura attends Rafa Nadal Foundation Charity Gala at Cibeles Palace on December 22, 2010 in Madrid, Spain.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of A SMALL FIRE, a new play by Obie Award winner Adam Bock (The Drunken City at PH, The Receptionist, The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows). Directed by Trip Cullman (Adam Bock's The Drunken City at PH and Swimming in the Shallows, plus Bachelorette, Some Men, The Last Sunday in June, the upcoming Edgewise), the production opens January 6 at 7PM. The limited engagement will play through Sunday, January 23 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

Guests in period costume arrive for the Secession Ball on the 150th Anniversary of South Carolina's Secession from the Union on December 20, 2010 in Charleston, SC. South Carolina was the first state to secede resulting in the US Civil War.

Five people struggle with greed, hope, desire and integrity in the wake of an emailed plea for money that promises big returns. Is it a scam or a golden opportunity? RED DOG SQUADRON presents the West Coast premiere of greedy by Karl Gajdusek. RED DOG SQUADRON co-artistic director James Roday directs a cast that includes Amanda Detmer, Kurt Fuller, Peter Mackenzie, Ivana Milicevic, Brad Raider and Roday's co-star on the USA series psych, Maggie Lawson. The limited four-week engagement takes place at the El Centro Theatre, January 8-29.

Stephen Sorokoff captured Broadway and cabaret star, Karen Mason, as she shared her golden voice for her Annual Christmas Show at Iridium, presented by ScoBar Entertainment. Mason starred on Broadway in Sunset Boulevard, Mama Mia, Hairspray & Torch Song Trilogy & will portray the Queen of Hearts in Frank Wildhorn's upcoming Broadway-bound, Wonderland. She is a ten-time MAC Award winner for Major Female Vocalist, the 2006 Nightlife Award winner for Major Female Vocalist & three-time Back Stage Bistro Award winner.

David Hasselhoff and Louie Spence launched the First Family Entertainment Pantomime Season at the Piccadilly Theatre in London, England. BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage below.

The Last Five Years and Songs for a New World director Daisy Prince helmed a premiere concert reading of 35mm, a multimedia musical exhibition featuring songs by Ryan Scott Oliver based on photographs by Matthew Murphy, on Dec. 13 at 7pm and 9pm.

The Obie Award-winning New Paradise Laboratories and The Riot Group present the New York Premiere of Freedom Club, written by Adriano Shaplin and directed by Whit MacLaughlin. Freedom Club runs from January 6 - 15, 2011, as part of the APAP Conference 2011, at the Connelly Theater, located at 220 East 4th Street between Avenues A and B in NYC.

Stage and screen legend, Theodore Bikel, was on hand to introduce his colleague, friend and Tony Award Winner John Lloyd Young to the Los Angeles theatrical community for the Actors Fund concert series entitled MUSICAL MONDAYS, held in the lobby of the historic Pantages Theatre, where WESTSIDE STORY is currently playing.

Signature Theatre presents the legendary Hollywood musical Sunset Boulevard running through February 13, 2011. Headlining the production is Broadway's Florence Lacey Evita; Hello Dolly!; Signature's Follies as the tragic silent film star Norma Desmond, complemented by D.B. Bonds The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Signature's The Visit as Joe, Susan Derry Wonderful Town as Betty, and Ed Dixon The Iceman Cometh, The Three Musketeers as Max von Mayerling. Three time Helen Hayes Award winner J. Fred Shiffman is Sheldrake and Washington favorite Harry A. Winter is Cecil B. DeMille.

Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the FOURTH PLAY IN THE CINO NIGHTS SERIES BUSTED a new play by Florencia Lozano / directed by Portia Krieger featuring Maggie Bofill, Audrey Esparza, Nate Miller, Puy Navarro, Ana Reeder, and Jeanine Serralles

Neo-Baroque dance-theatre group Company XIV proudly presents the World Premiere of Nutcracker Rouge, a Baroque - Burlesque confection of dance, theatre and sumptuous design. The show is directed, choreographed and conceived by Austin McCormick, with a script adapted and written by Jeff Takacs. Nutcracker Rouge runs from December 10, 2010 to January 9, 2011 in a limited engagement at Company XIV's theatre space, located at 303 Bond Street, between Union & Sackett in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Company XIV is donating 50% of the show's proceeds to the Ali Forney Center in New York City.

X Factor 2010 contestant Aiden Grimshaw attends Capital Rocks at Old Billingsgate on December 13, 2010 in London, England.

Announcing auditions for Ordinary Magic, a new play by William Snow to be produced at VSA North Fourth Theater. Ordinary Magic is based on the life of Alexandra David-Neel, a pioneering French explorer and writer who, in the early part of the 20th century, became the first Westerner to reach Lhasa, the forbidden city of Tibet.

Based on the stories of radio humorist Jean Shepherd and adapted from the hilarious 1983 family holiday film, A Christmas Story: The Musical! follows young Ralphie Parker, as he schemes his way towards the holiday gift of his dreams -- a Red Ryder 200 Shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. With its sparkling original score by Broadway's hottest young composer/lyricist team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, its wicked wit, and its heart of pure gold, A Christmas Story: The Musical! is a yuletide delight for the whole family.

Oprah Winfrey arrives at The Royal Botanic Gardens for a garden party on December 11, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Oprah Winfrey is in Australia with 302 audience members from the US, Canada and Jamaica and will tape episodes of the 25th and final season of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' from the Sydney Opera house next week. The shows will air in the US and Australia in January 2011.

Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa performs at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida on December 10, 2010. UPI/Michael Bush Photo via Newscom

Jack Johnson performs on stage at The Domain on December 11, 2010 in Sydney, Australia.

Giaan Rooney arrives at the 2010 Samsung Mobile AFI awards at the Regent Theatre on December 11, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia.