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Following a widely acclaimed tour and run at the Globe in 2011, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the Schimmel Center, the company's New York home, elemental production of Hamlet. Using an Elizabethan-inspired stage in this scaled-down production, a handful of energetic players will perform this inexhaustible play.

Midtown Direct Rep will hold a concert event on October 1, 2012. Titled 'Broadway's Night Off.' The event will include a Broadway themed silent auction followed by a special concert performed by Midtown Direct Rep's company members, all of whom are veteran Broadway performers. Performers include Maplewood and South Orange Broadway pros, Ron Bohmer (Phantom of the Opera), Catherine Brunell (Mary Poppins), Michelle Federer (Wicked), Becky Gulsvig (Legally Blonde), and many more (performers subject to change).

ACT - A Contemporary Theatre under the direction of Artistic Director Kurt Beattie officially announces the 2013 mainstage season. One of the most distinguished artists in the world, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, will stage his play, Sugar Daddies in the fall of 2013. Leading up to that is the musical Grey Gardens with The 5th Avenue Theatre, then the premiere of local playwright Katie Forgette's disturbingly funny take on senior care, Assisted Living, followed by two of the hottest shows from New York's stages last year, Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities and Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn, and then Middletown - Will Eno's modern response to Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

The Folger Theatre continues its 2012/13 season with the Washington premiere of The Conference of the Birds, a theatrical adventure based on the poignant 12th-century Persian fable by Farid Uddi Attar about the search for the divine and the quest for truth. Beginning performances on October 23, the production is directed by two-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Aaron Posner (Cyrano, Macbeth at Folger) and will feature original music composed and performed by renowned musician and Helen Hayes Award-winner Tom Teasley.

The X Factor was headed to Greensboro in tonight's episode, and that means lots of country music, Simon asking 'to try a grit,' and even more singers vying for the attention of the judges. Whether you missed the show or just want to re-live an audition, read on for a full recap of tonight's show!

'A Phantom Returns' is set for Thursday September 20th, 7:30pm, at the Clayton Opera House, Clayton, New York. Tickets: $20. To order call 315-686-2200 or visit www.PeterKarrie.com.

Playwrights Theatre is currently accepting submissions for the 30th Annual New Jersey Young Playwrights Contest.

For over five years, the Yang Family of Bubble Artists (Fan, Ana, Deni, Melody and Jano) have been entertaining New York audiences in the most unbubblievable show in the world, the GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will host the Harman Center for the Arts Annual Gala on Monday, October 15, 2012, at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) and the National Building Museum (440 G Street NW). This year's Gala is inspired by Shakespeare's timeless characters.

The temperature is dropping. The days are getting a little shorter and ImprovBoston's annual splatter musical, Gorefest is about to rise again. The 10th Annual edition of IB's Halloween musical and comedy extravaganza, 28 Days Latte, runs October 24-31. Tickets cost $25-$20 and $20-$18 with a valid student ID. ImprovBoston is located at 40 Prospect Street. Tickets are available online at www.improvboston.com.

If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet's Jake Gyllenhaal will appear on "Anderson Live," tomorrow, September 21st between 12 noon - 1PM.

Seattle Center will welcome Polish Festival Seattle to Intiman Playhouse, 12 p.m. - 6 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30.

Comedian Jimmy Tingle, founder of the 'Humor for Humanity' party, is coming to the Palace Theatre in downtown Manchester, NH for one night only, Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm.

Based on the best-selling novel by Chaim Potok (The Chosen), My Name is Asher Lev, a new play by Aaron Posner, will begin performances at the Westside Theatre (407 W. 43rd Street) on November 8. Opening night is set for November 28.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the debut of the NYFF Artists Academy, a new filmmaker development initiative and details for the NYFF Critics Academy, a development program for emerging film critics coordinated with Indiewire and Film Comment Magazine, as well as the filmmakers and writers selected for both programs.

Festival Stage of Winston-Salem will open its third season with Alfred Uhry's warmhearted comedy The Last Night of Ballyhoo, presented Oct. 19-Nov. 4 at Hanesbrands Theatre (209 Spruce Street, Winston-Salem).

The Dallas Opera has announced that mezzo-Soprano Susan Nicely will portray twentieth-century culinary icon Julia Child in composer Lee Hoiby's BON APPÉTIT! The one-act operetta, with a libretto by Mark Shulgasser and support from The Perot Foundation Education and Community Outreach Programs, is based on two episodes from Julia Child's popular cooking show in which she concocts a chocolate cake.

Under the baton of debuting conductor Markus Stenz, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica" on Thursday, October 4 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, and Saturday, October 6 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. German violinist Kolja Blacher will make his BSO debut performing Schumann's Violin Concerto. In addition, the Orchestra will perform Chaos from Rebel's The Elements. Please see below for complete program details.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento, who celebrates his 85th birthday on October 27, has made a commitment through a charitable remainder trust to endow a professorship at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music to the value of $1.5 million. In honor of Argento, who received his Ph.D. in composition at Eastman in 1958, the endowed position will be named the Dominick J. Argento Professor.

The first new Broadway production of Tim Rice's and Andrew Lloyd Webber's landmark musical EVITA since its premiere over 30 years ago stars Grammy-winning international pop icon Ricky Martin as Che, Olivier Award-winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger making her Broadway debut as Eva Peron and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris as Juan Peron.