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The international stage hit Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage will make its Pre-Broadway East Coast premiere at the Boston Opera House for a limited engagement February 7 through March 15, 2009. Tickets go on sale to the public Sunday, October 5th at 10AM. For full ticketing information please go to the end of this release. Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage is part of the Lexus Boston Area Dealers Broadway Across America - Boston Series.

The JCC of Manhattan will present Sin-A Staged Reading by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, adapted by Mark Altman from The Unseen and directed by Robert Kalfin on Sun, Oct 5 at 3 pm

Factory Theatre will present the world premiere of the Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman's deeply moving and funny play Scratch first written when she was only 16. Scratch is a semi-autobiographical story of Charlotte's experience, told through the touching and quirky perspective of 15 year old Anna, of losing her mother, novelist and journalist Carole Corbeil to ovarian cancer. Charlotte states, 'I had an urgent need to tell a story that came from a place of pure grief. So much of who I am came from losing her. My writing and talent is so linked to that loss'.

Vocalist Ute Lemper performed Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins on Wednesday, October 1, and Thursday, October 2, in Toronto Roy Thomson Hall with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. And will perform it at Carnegie Hall tonight Saturday, October 4, 2008.

Celebration Theatre presents the first show of its 2008-2009 Mainstage Season, Porcelain. Porcelain by Chay Yew opens on Friday, October 10th and runs for six weeks through Sunday, November 9th at Celebration Theatre, 7051B Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood.

Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma's premiere professional theatre company, concludes the 2007-2008 'Lyric at the Plaza' season with the big, bad, rock-n-roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show. From October 9th through November 1st, Lyric will present the live version of the spectacular cult classic film about the madcap adventures of Brad Majors and his fiancé Janet Weiss, who approach the spooky Frankenstein place to find help for a flat tire.

The Canadian Stage Company opens its 2008/09 Bluma Appel Theatre season with Frost/Nixon, the 2007 Tony Award®-nominated play by Peter Morgan, award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen. Tony Award®-winning stage and screen veteran Len Cariou (star of the original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd) plays the role of President Richard Nixon and is joined by David Storch (Canadian Stage's Lonesome West) as TV talk-show host David Frost. Three-time Dora Award-winner Ted Dykstra (Canadian Stage's Fire) directs. A co-production with Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Frost/Nixon had its Canadian premiere September 18, 2008 in Vancouver. The production transfers to the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto October 13 to November 8, 2008.

Nightwood Theatre will present, in association with The Canadian Stage Company Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs, the world premiere of Wild Dogs from October 4 - November 8, 2008.

Something BIG, GREEN, and MEAN is coming to the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport this October! It's LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, running October 2 - November 9, 2008.

Tonight, October 4th, 2008 New Jersey Performing Arts Center will present their Spotlight Gala 2008, featuring Bernadette Peters

This is not the first time I've seen productions I've enjoyed better at the Everyman Theatre than on Broadway. Sure, Doubt on Broadway won the Tony Award for Best Play, Cherry Jones received the Tony for Best Actress in a Play, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, but I found the play lacking and unenjoyable.

Red cowboy boots…that's what I remember about my first meeting with Megan Gogerty, who penned book/music/lyrics on Love Jerry. It was 2001 and we were both entering graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin, all the new MFA students were attending this outdoor BBQ and here's this playwright with red cowboy boots on as though she may have been Lori Singer's stand-in during the filming of Footloose.

Goodspeed Musicals, the only two-time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, will host 'An Evening with Bill Berloni.' On Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 7:00 p.m., Bill will share his more than thirty years of experiences as a nationally renowned theatrical animal trainer and author of Broadway Tails, Berloni will speak about his career, introduce some of his canine stars and sign copies of his new book.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party in association with TheaterMania.com and producer Andy Sandberg will present WING AT BIRDLAND, a one night only presentation of this international recording and internet sensation at New York's premier concert venue.

Members of BroadwayWorld.com can download a track of the Broadway Bound SHREK THE MUSICAL by clicking HERE.

Elaine Paige, world renowned musical theater legend, will be the opening act for the Annenberg Theater's 2008-2009 season on Friday, October 24 at 6 p.m. and the concert will feature a full orchestra on the stage of the Annenberg Theater at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt will star in 'Every Day.'

Rumors that due to the unexpected early closing of Xanadu this coming Sunday, a limited holiday run of Slava's Snowshow is likely to take place at the Helen Hayes Theater have been confirmed as true today. Telecharge.com is currently selling tickets to performances started November 11th, 2008.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) will present a holiday production of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker featuring the renowned Paper Mill Orchestra.

'AMERICA'S MOST CONVENIENT BANK,' Commerce Bank and the John W. Engeman Theater announce the return of COMMERCE BANK CHILDREN'S TEHATER for the 2008-2009 Season.