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Direct from a critically acclaimed European tour, the world's best (and probably only) comic cabaret on roller skates, AMY G: ROUND SHE GOES, rolls into Joe's Pub on Friday Novemeber 21 at 11:30 pm.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, beings its 2008-2009 season on Thursday, November 13, at 6:00 pm with a pre-performance talk with Horton Foote, the playwright of LCT's production of "Dividing the Estate" which opens at the Booth Theater on Broadway (222 West 45Street) on Thursday, November 20.

The landmark NYC restaurant Serendipity will bestow the highest honor on the Off-Broadway show Rock of Ages by presenting an ice cream concoction that is fueled by high-octane 80's rock: 'I Wanna Rock Root Beer Float'.

Obie Winner, Christopher Shinn's searing drama, DYING CITY will receive its premiere Los Angeles performance, Tuesday, November 18th as part of the Neighborhood Playhouse's Fall Play Reading Festival

MC Squared Productions has announced the addition of 3 Sunday performances to the New York premiere of THE FUNERALOGUES, a site-specific look at eulogies and the people who deliver them.

Las Vegas Entertainers Bruce Ewing (Phantom Cast Member) & Joey Singer (Mamma Mia Keyboards) are pleased to announce the release of their Christmas CD, 'REMEMBERING TO DREAM'.

Lisa Kron's Tony-nominated comedy WELL, which recently made its European debut in London at Trafalgar Studios, will transfer to the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

"Theater Talk," the nationally syndicated program co-hosted by New York Post theater columnist Michael Riedel and producer Susan Haskins, has announced two new additions to their upcoming lineup.

What's On Stage is reporting that Mandy Patinkin will be bringing his one man show MANDY PATINKIN LIVE IN CONCERT to the Duke of York Theatre on the West End from January 8th-18th, 2009.

Theatre Development Fund announces that effective immediately, the TKTS Discount booth in Downtown Brooklyn in 1 MetroTech Center at the corner of Jay Street and Myrtle Avenue will be open from Tuesday - Saturday, 11am to 6pm. The booth has been open from Monday - Fridays. The Saturday hours (effective this Saturday, November 8) replace Monday hours, a day when most shows do not perform.

Members of BroadwayWorld can now save on tickets to the upcoming holiday sensation Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS on Broadway.

DEAR EDWINA, starring Kerry Butler, Terrence Mann, Lynnette Perry, Andrea Burns, Rebecca Luker, Danny Burstein, Jeff Blumenkrantz, and more, will release their cast recording in stores on November 11th, 2008. The album is currently available for purchase online at www.psclassics.com.

Men Are Real, the spicy, savagely-funny monologue show featuring an all-Latino cast returns to Off-Broadway's Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street on Friday, Nov. 7th, after a successful summer run.

Beloved nightclub and Broadway vet Teri Ralston (Company, A Little Night Music) returns to New York's famed Metropolitan Room on Monday, 17 November, at 9pm to reprise the cabaret show she recorded there, live, this past January, and to celebrate the release of the resulting CD: I'VE GOTTA GET BACK TO NEW YORK.

Swimming Upstream, a project incubated and coordinated through the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and V-Day with Eve Ensler, playwright of The Vagina Monologues will play at True Colors Theatre Company from November 5th through 16th at the 14th Street Playhouse. It will feature Jasmine Guy, Shirley Knight, Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington and the women of New Orleans.

Broadway performers Shayna Steele (Hairspray) and Gavin Creel (Tony nominee for Thoroughly Modern Millie) will perform in concert with their bands in a double bill at The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street/between 8th and 9th Avenues) on Thursday, November 6 @ 8:00 P.M

In November, Electric Theatre Company presents the world premiere of The Men of Mah Jongg by Richard Atkins, directed by Tony Award winner, Mark Medoff. This charming tale of four elderly men, who secretly take up the traditionally female game of mah jongg, will tickle your spirits and touch your heart. From Scranton the production moves directly into New York; a co-production with Queens Theatre in the Park. Pay-What-You-Can previews begin Wednesday, November fifth and opening night is Saturday, November 8th.

Starting Wednesday, November 5 at 10:00 AM, Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will be accepting entries for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to its next production, the New York premiere of PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY.

The Broadway League had asked the FCC to refrain from approving new devices that will transmit in the "white space" radio spectrum (currently occupied by wireless microphones) into the public air space. Wireless microphones are an essential tool of the live performance industry, used in the daily operations of countless theatres and non-profit performance venues, sports arenas, and concert halls across the country. On November 4th, the issue was voted on and the FCC voted five to zero to approve opening up the 'white space' frequency to public use.

The Irish Repertory Theater (132 West 22nd Street) will present CONFESSIONS OF AN IRISH PUBLICAN, with Des Keogh in the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre beginning November 5, 2008 until November 30, 2008.