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On Thursday, October 23rd, a crowd gathered at a chapel, filling to standing room only capacity, in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to remember a man known to hundreds of millions simply as Mr. Blackwell.

SFB-SHOTGUN PLAYERS PRESENTS 'MACBETH' at the Ashby Stage

New York Theatre Workshop announces that TIM ROBBINS, JAN MAXWELL, KERRY WASHINGTON, CARRIE PRESTON, ADRIANE LENOX, AND MARGO MARTINDALE will lead the cast in a reading of Gore Vidal's WEEKEND on Monday, November 3rd, at 7PM. The reading is free to the public.

Asolo Repertory Theatre's Producing Artistic Director Michael Donald Edwards announces the full cast for the theatre's upcoming production of Barnum the musical.

Performance Space 122 will present CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT, written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, on November 22nd through December 7th, 2008.

Pacific Lyric Association announced that it has been awarded not-for-profit status by the IRS this week.

Artist Take Action! is a not-for-profit organization created by artists, for artists, to benefit arts education in inner-city public schools. Their mission: to support, encourage and enrich positive thinking in the arts and its future. The Artists Take Action! Benefit Concert will feature an extraordinary night of diverse musical performances by some of New York's best. Artists scheduled to perform include accomplished New York based rockers, Ryness; pop-mod-rock band, The Academics; singer/songwriter, Alex Brumel; spoken word and hip-hop artist, Matt Sax; singer/songwriter, Maddy Wyatt and the electronic sounds of DJ Kyle Sullivan, amongst others. The concert will kick off Monday, November 10th at 8 p.m. at New York City's Sullivan Hall (Sullivan St. between West 3rd and Bleecker St.). All proceeds will go to The Striking Viking Story Pirates for their work in furthering arts education in New York's inner-city public school system. Artists Take Action! Founder and Co-Producer, Eli Zoller, along with Co-Producer, Michael Kohn, say of their motivation for launching the benefit, 'Good art with good intentions is getting ignored, as are the children in our public schools who are lacking a decent arts education. Forming Artists Take Action! is the ideal way to begin solving these problems. It is in the interest of everyone that children be given arts education opportunities to create open-minded, free-thinking, fully educated adults.' Tickets for the Artists Take Action! Benefit Concert are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and also includes limited table options currently up for auction. Tickets can be purchased by calling CEG Music on 212-634-0427 or online at www.cegmusic.com. For more information on Artists Take Action!, or to make a contribution, please e-mail artiststakeaction@yahoo.com. For more information on The Striking Viking Story Pirates, please visit www.storypirates.org. About Founder/ Co-Producer, Eli Zoller: Eli Zoller is a professional actor/musician and a proud member of AEA. He received a B.F.A. from The University of Michigan for Musical Theatre and attended Interlochen Fine Arts Camp. He is also an accomplished orchestrator and music director. About Co-Producer, Michael Kohn: Michael Kohn is a New York based actor and proud member of Actors Equity. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Theatre Dept. and an alumnus of Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, where the seeds of Artists Take Action! were planted.

Parsons Dance presents the World Premiere of an all-new, as-yet-untitled collaboration with the lead vocalists of East Village Opera Company (EVOC), featuring the music of the acclaimed rock opera band.

The American Theatre Wing has announced the newest members of the Nominating Committee for the 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards.

Dixon Place & Blesso Properties POSTPONE FOREVER UNTIL FEBRUARY 2009.

NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances, presented by Yale Repertory Theatre and World Performance Project at Yale, kicks off its 2008-09 season with the FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL DANCE AT YALE November 10-15, featuring new work by Israel's Yasmeen Godder, Kenya's Opiyo Okach, and the USA's Yvonne Rainer.

After an absence of more than 15 years, maestro Seiji Ozawa returns to the Met to conduct six performances of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, from November 21 to December 13, 2008.

Royal Shakespeare Co's Boyd to speak at Columbia University November 6

Bristol Riverside Theatre continues its America Rising: Voices of Today series and welcomes playwright Michael Elyanow for a staged reading of his play Lullaby.

The upcoming Broadway production of IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, a new musical stage reinvention of the beloved classic film, is pleased to announce the complete company and special pre-show lottery tickets.

Vocalist Simone returns to the Blue Note for the second time in her career almost twenty-five years after her mother Nina Simone played her only run at the Blue Note in 1984.

'The F Trip' travels to be performed at The Zipper Factory Theatre for a series of Tuesday night performances, October 7, 14 & 28 at 7pm.

New Repertory Theatre is pleased to celebrate Halloween with a special ticket offer for Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

JEREMY SCHONFELD'S 'DRIFT' benefit with EMICK, MANN, MURNER, COULTER will take place on NOVEMBER 3 at BB KING

A one-night-only concert performance Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, The New Musical on Tuesday, October 21, at Rochester, NY's historic Eastman Theatre earned a lengthy standing ovation from its full house of almost 3,000, and drew glowing reviews from local press.