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The Casting Society of America will honor producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron with career achievement awards at the 24th Annual Artios Awards. On November 10th they will be honored with a dinner hosted by Neil Patrick Harris at the Century Plaza Hotelin Century City, CA.

Theatre star Rob Guest is critically ill in hospital after suffering a stroke.

Ellie Covan, Artistic Director of Dixon Place, announced today the opening of the world premiere of FOREVER., created by Laura Peterson Choreography, on October 29, 2008. FOREVER. will be the inaugural production at the new Dixon Place, a state-of-the-art laboratory facility located at 161 Chrystie Street.

You know you want some play. Come see GET SOME, the play everyone has been talking about after a sold-out workshop production in April 2008. It's a timeless tale of boy-meets-boy-then-meets-girl-then-screws-over-boy-while-girl-screws-over-other-girl-and-then-everyone-else-for-good-measure! Performance is one night only, October 21st, at the Zipper Theater. Written by Megan Cossey and Stephen Schulman and directed by Schulman, GET SOME promises a satisfying night of shallow gay comedy, without a single closet-case or scary angel in sight. Everyone gets some lovin', no one dies and, most importantly, nary a lesson is learned by our fearless, sometimes-clothed characters. Naomi (Yue Xu), an ambitious photo-journalist, finds herself out on the street after her girlfriend Corey (Mariah Freda) does one too many downward dogs with their yoga instructor. Peter (Paul Gregg), a struggling actor, needs a roommate to help pay the bills at the suggestion of BJ (Sam Osheroff), his older lover and the driving force behind NYC gay politics. Naomi moves in and drama ensures as everyone tries to get some of what they think should be coming to them. GET SOME takes its inspiration from the gritty streets of Chelsea and the Lower East Side, with much of the action occurring at the infamous Mrs. Wong's Noodle Shoppe and Lesbian Bookstore and Peter's crappy Bushwick apartment. The Zipper Factory Theater is located at 336 W. 37th Street. Tickets at $20 each can be ordered online at www.thezipperfactory.com or call (212) 352-3101. For dinner and drinks: The Zipper Factory Tavern: (212) 695-4600.

The Manitoba Theatre Centre is opening its 51st season with an enchanting adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved romantic comedy, Pride and Prejudice.

My Fair Heathen Productions continues their foray into the dark and irreverent with the fall show, 'Memoirs of Madness'. Opening Halloween weekend, this horror double feature adapts two classic diaries of diseased psyches! Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is an indictment of the patriarchial prescription for 'bed-rest' forced on a woman with post-partum depression.

Variety is reporting that stage and screen actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has just signed onto to lend his voice to the role of 'Max' in the upcoming Icon Film claymation feature 'Mary and Max'. The film center around the unlikely pen-pal friendshipe between Mary (voiced by Toni Collette), lonesome girl living in Australia and Max, a 40 something overweight man who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome living in New York. Eric Bana also stars and Barry Humphries narrates.

Now celebrating ten glorious years of girls, glitz and glamour across the country, the record-breaking smash hit musical CHICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and its PURE ENTERTAINMENT! Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the return of CHICAGO The Musical for a limited run February 24 - March 1, 2009 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.).

Spiegelworld and BroadwayWorld.com are teaming to bring you a chance to win a pair of tickets to one of three exciting events! Click HERE to enter to win a pair to tickets to see Nellie McKay on 10/12, John Kelly & Dargelos on 10/19, or Jollyship and the Whizbang on 10/20

Broadway actor John Halbach, known best for his performances in Roundabout Theatre Company's 'Tartuffe' and Off-Broadway in Irish Repertory Theatre's 'Beowulf,' has been cast as the male lead role of Paul in 3S Theatre Collective's upcoming performance of 'The Affair in 22B.'

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.

Michael Arden will sings the Joni Mitchell Blue CD on Tuesday - Thursday, October 28 - 30 at 11:30 PM.

Sarah Brightman is giving away 4 pairs of meet-n-greet backstage passes.

'What happens when several composers each try their hand at the same song? What do you get when you combine an amazing theatre composer with a great twentieth-century poet? What happens if you ask a pop composer to write for a string quartet?' Find out the answers on Sunday, 12 October, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., when Artistic Director Joel Fram brings his acclaimed New York New Voices series to London's Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre. An astonishing line-up of cutting-edge musical theatre composers include Jason Robert Brown, Sam Davis, Joel Fram, Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Andrew Lippa, Paul Loesel, Steve Marzullo, Marc Smollin, Georgia Stitt, and Joseph Thalken.

This October Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Triangle will host some of the entertainment industry's favorite writers, celebrities, newsmakers, and musicians such as Diahann Carroll, Tom Perrotta, Lea DeLaria, Nicholas Sparks, Geoffrey Canada, Isaac Mizrahi, Cesar Milan, Sarah Vowell, Tony Curtis, Dave Barry, Robert Vaughn, Victoria Osteen, Naomi Wolf, George Hamilton, Richard Belzer, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, Maya Angelou, and many more.

Every Sunday in October -- in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- Sharing Miracles, a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients, will feature Academy Award-winning actress and patient advocate Marcia Gay Harden. Sharing Miracles now shows on 185 television stations across the United States.

Linny Fowler, Beth Falcone and Karla Mosley to present BROADWAY FOR OBAMA, over twenty Broadway performers will join local High School 'rising stars' in a concert that will send Barack straight to the White House. This amazing one-night event will take place on Monday, October 20, 2998 at the State Theatre in Easton (53 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 18042.)

Now celebrating ten years of entertainment across the country, the record-breaking smash hit musical CHICAGO will come to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts this January. Tony nominee Tom Wopat stars in the upcoming tour set to play the SJCPA for a limited engagement January 14 - 18, 2009. Mr. Wopat is currently starring in the role of Billy Flynn on Broadway.

To celebrate the show's Broadway premiere, 300,000 new tickets will be released for sale on 1 October for the London production of Billy Elliot the Musical, taking bookings to 24 October 2009.

I was one of the creators of Naked Boys Singing, and it was amazing to me that my dirty mind and sparkling wit (I say with a wink) could combine to help create what became pretty much a phenomenon…people love it. I caught a lot of flak for writing 'that kind' of show…a boyfriend split with me over it, my mother thinks I'm a pervert…but the truth is, that's how I think…sex, and all the accoutrements that come with it, is funny to me, but that's not all I'm about…I'm incurably romantic and I think smart is sexy