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Come to the Allen Room from January 14 through March 6* for an American Songbook season that looks to the future with a nod to the past.

Everyone loves a backstage story, and none so much as the one about the brilliant but unsung talent who finally makes it into the spotlight. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the League of Professional Theatre Women bring that long-deserved moment to 140 of those stories in Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance.

John Breglio, producer of the upcoming 2009 national tour of Dreamgirls, announced today the open casting call is being postponed from Saturday, November 1, 2008, to Saturday, November 22, 2008. The talent search for the new 'Dreams' will still take place at the Apollo Theater.

After successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, 108Productions award-winning production of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi returned to the New York stage where it concluded its limited run at the Rattlestick Theater on October 26th, 2008.

As the Phillies and the Rays duke it out in the World Series, Manhattan Theatre Club celebrates the final innings of the baseball season with a special offer to baseball fans for their upcoming production of Itamar Moses' BACK BACK BACK, the stirring new baseball drama.

Join Celebrity Interviewer/Media Personality Valerie Smaldone as she kicks off a new series of up close and personal interviews with Broadway celebrities and theater icons, SUNDAY SALON.

NYMF will make available a limited number of $125 dessert tickets for the Fifth Anniversary Season Awards Gala honoring Robyn Goodman.

Award-winning songwriter Stephen Schwartz, famed for his scores for such hit musicals as Godspell, Pippin, and Wicked, will speak, answer questions, and perform several of his songs during the book signing event Thursday, October 30th, 5:30 pm at Barnes and Noble at 1972 Broadway at 66th street in Manhattan.

The hit Broadway production of EQUUS will offer $31.50 student rush tickets beginning Tuesday, October 28 at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street). Peter Shaffer's EQUUS stars Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe and is directed by Thea Sharrock. The production is playing a strictly limited engagement through February 8, 2009.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will begin preview performances for ROAD SHOW tomorrow night, October 28th.

Ten Chimneys Foundation, the National Historic Landmark estate of Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, has chosen Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member Francis Guinan as one of its eleven inaugural LUNT-FONTANNE FELLOWS, as part of the LUNT-FONTANNE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, a groundbreaking national program to serve regional theatre actors and the future of American Theatre.

'Little Death' won't die. The provocative new musical performance that reveals the erotic intersections between sex and death, will have an afterlife after all. The well-received two-part performance starring Karen Kohler, who is backed by a delicious 5-piece band led by Doug Oberhamer, adds three performances through Tuesday November 18.

The Shakespeare Society (Michael Sexton, Artistic Director) will present Richard Easton, Christian Camargo, Jeremy Strong, Elisabeth Waterston, and Professor David Scott Kastan in Politics, Prince Hal, and the Making of a Leader on Monday, November 3 at 6:30pm at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, East 68 Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues.

Following visionary New York productions of The Misanthrope (2007) and Hedda Gabler (2004), Flemish director Ivo van Hove returns with Opening Night, a U.S. premiere engagement that also marks the New York debut of his company, Toneelgroep Amsterdam. A joint production by Toneelgroep Amsterdam and the Belgium-based company NTGent, Opening Night transforms director John Cassavetes' award-winning 1977 film to the stage. Five performances of Opening Night will take place in the BAM Harvey Theater on Dec 2-6 at 7:30pm.

Center Theatre Group announced today that one of its new plays has been chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as one of the inaugural selections in the NEA New Play Development Program.

Full Spectrum and New York Theatre Workshop will present THE SKEPTICS, a panel discussion with six creators whose work explores the ground between belief and uncertainty.

Cirque du Soleil is seeking new backstage, production and operations talent for its current productions and upcoming creations, and will send some recruiters to New York City in from November 17-19, 2008.

Row Man Productions NYC and LSNelson Productions proudly present the New York Premiere of Missa Solemnis or The Play About Henry, written by Roman Feeser and directed by Linda S. Nelson.

The 2008 Dramatists Guild Awards Celebration, presented by the Dramatists Guild Fund will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at The Players (16 Gramercy Park, NYC 10003).

TVGuide.com is reporting that actor Nathan Lane will be appearing on FOX's sitcom 'Til Death' on November 19th, 2008. Lane will be 'playing the gay brother of Brad Garrett's Eddie. Recently split from his longtime companion, Lane's character ultimately commiserates with his kin over how they each have come to rely on their better halves.'