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Casa Mañana Children's Playhouse presents The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales at Casa Mañana Theatre, October 24 - November 9, 2008.

Soho Rep - the nine-time OBIE Award-winning, Off-Broadway theatre company - will extend its critically acclaimed, sold-out production of Sarah Kane's landmark play BLASTED by two weeks - through November 9th, it has been announced by Soho Rep's Artistic Director Sarah Benson.

The Met's acclaimed production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, directed by the late Academy Award-winning film director Anthony Minghella, returns to the stage for twelve performances beginning Friday, October 24, 2008. Reprising their portrayals in the production this season are sopranos Patricia Racette and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs in the title role, tenors Roberto Aronica and Marcello Giordani as Pinkerton, and baritone Dwayne Croft as Sharpless. Patrick Summers conducts the opera for the first time at Met.

Beloved children's author Judy Blume's Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, an enormously popular tale of sibling rivalry and unfortunate digestive mishaps, will open South Coast Repertory's 2008-09 Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) season.

Finalists have been announced for the 2008 American Harmony Prize, a playwriting award sponsored by Stamford, Connecticut's Curtain Call, Inc., to spotlight new musicals that explore our country's many ethnic, religious and gender identifications. The second annual American Harmony Prize will showcase a new musical that dramatizes an aspect of the experience of Jewish Americans.

NEW YORK THEATRE EXPERIMENT PRESENTS CAPTURE THE FLAG: A FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN PLAYS. Featuring World Premiere Work by Robert Attenweiler, Juan Castro, Nathan Dame, George Cameron Grant, Terence Patrick Hughes, Daniel Kelley, Victor Lesniewski, Vincent Madero, Dan Monaco, and Rebecca Ortese.

Renowned actor Delroy Lindo returns to Berkeley Repertory Theatre with the play that netted him a nomination for the Tony Award - but this time, he's in the director's chair. Following last year's triumph with Tanya Barfield's Blue Door, Lindo takes on August Wilson's African-American epic, Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Staged in the state-of-the-art Roda Theatre, this show begins previews on October 31, opens November 5, and closes December 14.

Broadway Artists Alliance, the dynamic not-for-profit educational organization that is gaining a reputation for ensuring the future of great Broadway talent by bringing together Broadway artists and promising young performers announces their 2008/2009 series of monthly master classes.

Jeffrey Finn Productions announces a special return holiday engagement of THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER for two weeks only at the Kennedy Center's newly-renovated Eisenhower Theater, Tuesday, December 23, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009. The engagement marks the first return of the special concert since a sold out holiday run at the Kennedy Center Opera House in December 2004.

PBS filmed the San Francisco Symphony's opening night gala on September 24, 2008. The concert took place at Carnegie Hall as part of their celebration of their 118th season in a tribte to Leonard Bernstein. The performance featured Christine Ebersole as vocalist. The evening was musically directed and performed by Michael Tilson Thomas.

The record-breaking Chicago Company of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, is thrilled to celebrate its first anniversary in Chicago on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.

MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT, the Tony Award winning musical lovingly ripped-off from the internationally famous comedy team's most popular motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is currently playing at Broadway's Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th St.).

Due to tremendous audience interest, the critically acclaimed Goodman Theatre production of Hughie, starring Brian Dennehy and Joe Grifasi and directed by Robert Falls, will be extended for a week with the run now concluding on Nov. 16.

Managing Maxine, a World Premiere by Janece Shaffer, directed by Susan V. Booth will play at the Alliance Theatre from October 8 - November 2, 2008

Before heading to Broadway Mark Nadler's Russian on the Side will play at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco starting October 16th, 2008- November 16th, 2008. For tickets please call 415-771-6900.

Apple Corps Ltd./Cirque du Soleil, The Bigger Picture, an AccessIT company, AEG Network LIVE present the highly acclaimed feature-length documentary 'All Together Now' to digital cinema audiences on October 20th. This one night only event follows well-received film festival screenings across North America, including a sold out opening night U.S. premiere at the Silverdocs Festival in Washington D.C. where the Washington Post observed that 'All Together Now' 'cuts into the heart of [LOVE].'

The Brothers Karamazov, written and directed by Heidi Stillman, adapted from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky and translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky will premiere at The Lookingglass Theatre Company.

Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe, directed and adapted by Sean Graney will premiere Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater October 1 - November 9, 2008.

DISNEY's ALADDIN opens October 30th and runs through January 4th at The Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences, 10 Marriott Drive. Based on the smash hit 1992 Disney film Aladdin, DISNEY's ALADDIN is a magical journey for all ages, featuring an Academy Award-winning score.

A popular holiday tradition entertaining hundreds of children and families each year is back once again this Christmas season at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace. The presentation of the timeless classic A Christmas Carol opens November 20 and runs through December 20 at 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, 60181.