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Wicker Park upscale sports bar The Fifty/50 (2047 W Division St) will throw a "Welcome To The Jungle" themed Halloween party from 7pm until 3am on Saturday, October 27.

WVIZ/PBS ideastream® will broadcast the world premiere of The Cleveland Orchestra in Performance: Bruckner Symphony No. 4 on Monday, October 29, 2012, at 9:00 pm. Under the musical direction of Franz Welser-Most, the performance was filmed in 2012 at the beautiful 17th-century baroque Abbey of St. Florian in Austria. Emmy Award-winner Brian Large directed the video recording. This is the first video produced of the recent critical edition of the 1888 version of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, edited by Benjamin Korstvedt and published in the Bruckner Collected Works edition (Vienna, 2004).

Due to extremely high demand, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is happy to announce that Clybourne Park has been extended through Sunday, November 18, 2012. The added dates and times are as follows.

The annual presentation of the Museum of the City of New York's Louis Auchincloss Prize will be held on Monday, October 22nd at 6 pm. This year, the prize will be awarded to Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director of the Manhattan Theatre Club, and the event will feature a performance by Bebe Neuwirth and special appearances by Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker.

Lookingglass Theatre's Board of Directors and Gala Committee announce one of Chicago's highly anticipated events of the season, the 2013 Lookingglass gglassquerade, which will celebrate 25 years of ensemble collaboration, transformation and invention. Host Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, will be presented with the Lookingglass Civic Engagement Award at the event. gglassquerade will be held Saturday, March 2, 2013, at 6:00 p.m. at The Four Seasons, 120 East Delaware Place in Chicago.

Jeff McCarthy, the actor whose New York credits include Urinetown, Chicago, The Pirate Queen, Side Show and Beauty & the Beast, among others, will lead the cast as the title character in THE GRINCH at MSG.

This November, after five years of ongoing renovations, the popular Upper West Side performance space the Triad Theater (158 West 72nd Street) will officially re-launch as STAGE 72 as a part of the New York Comedy Festival, which will include performances and appearances by Susie Essman, David Steinberg, Meredith Vieira, two special editions of Celebrity Autobiography featuring Janeane Garofalo, Tony Danza, Mario Cantone, Oscar-nominee Jennifer Tilly, SNL alum Rachel Dratch, and more.

The Clive Barnes Foundation has announced the nominees for the 2012 Clive Barnes Awards, a distinguished annual honor recognizing the work of young actors and dancers in New York City.

Jim Caruso & Billy Stritch return to Bemelmans at The Carlyle Hotel with their evening of swinging standards on Sunday, October 28, and running every Sunday in November, from 9pm - 12 midnight.

The Comfort Team by Deborah Brevoort will premiere at Virginia Stage Company October 30-November 18, 2012 at downtown Norfolk's Wells Theatre.

Prospect Theater Company will present a November 5, 2012 one-night-only staged reading of Rob Urbinati's original play Death By Design, a witty and wonderfully mysterious whodunit inspired by Noel Coward and Agatha Christie.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the full Broadway cast of PICNIC, starring Reed Birney as "Howard Bevans", Maggie Grace as "Madge Owens", Elizabeth Marvel as "Rosemary Sydney", Sebastian Stan as "Hal Carter", Mare Winningham as "Flo Owens" and Ellen Burstyn as "Helen Potts".

Bad Kids Productions announces today that BAD KIDS GO TO HELL, starring Judd Nelson and directed by Matthew Spradlin, will have its theatrical release on December 7th, in select markets nation-wide.

Streisand is currently touring North America, selling out from Brooklyn to LA, and yesterday performed at Montreal's Bell Centre where she performed 'Get Happy/Happy Days Are Here Again' - the duet arrangement Judy Garland and Streisand made famous on The Judy Garland Show - with her sister, Roslyn Kind.

Producers of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? have announced that the 50th anniversary Broadway revival has been extended, and is now on sale through February 24, 2013. The production, which was originally on sale through January 27, 2013, officially opened on October 13, 2012, at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street), exactly 50 years to the day of the play's original Broadway opening on Saturday, October 13, 1962.

Berlin's Deutsches Theater was to present CLYBOURNE PARK, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, earlier this year - with a white actress in 'experimental makeup' playing the black characters Francine and Lena. Today, Village Voice columnist Michael Musto writes that the production was cancelled after playwright Bruce Norris revoked the rights; in a published letter to the Dramatists Guild, Norris explains his reasoning and condemns the tradition of blackface in German theatres:

Red Branch Theatre Company will host a family friendly production of Bunnicula from October 26th to 28th Drama Learning Center. The weekend will include kid-friendly Halloween fun including a Parents' Night Out Pajama Party on Friday, October 26th, Family Fun ticket packages for Saturday and Sunday matinees, and Halloween costume contests and prizes.

A creative team from London England's West End has been assembled for the Drayton Entertainment production of Disney's and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins, which will launch the new Dunfield Theatre Cambridge next March.

The York Theatre Company will remember legendary Broadway director, Albert "Albie" Marre who passed away at the age of 87 on September 4th, with a memorial service set for Monday evening, October 29th beginning at 7:00 p.m. at The York Theatre at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). The event is open to the public with a reservation.

Comic veteran and American Comedy Award winner, John Pinette, will be bringing his award-winning material to the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods for one hilarious stand-up show on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the highly-anticipated show went on sale on today, Friday, Oct. 18 at 10 a.m. Fans can purchase tickets in advance for $30, $40 and $50.