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The stage of the Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare will glow with good spirits and time-honored tradition when Great Lakes Theater (GLT) presents its annual production of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, running December 2 - 23, 2011. The production has delighted more than 570,000 people in its history, making it one of northeast Ohio's most-loved and best-attended holiday events.

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' will continue its 21st season of rock theatre March 1-24, 2012 with the American regional premiere of the Broadway rock musical CRY-BABY, which The Wall Street Journal called 'the funniest new musical since Avenue Q.' The stage musical is based on the cult classic John Waters film starring Johnny Depp. The original creative team is reworking and re-orchestrating the show for New Line, to make it a smaller, more intimate musical for this first production since Broadway.

The VIP musical wine reception on Thurs., October 20, 2011, hosted by the ONE Campaign at the Embassy of New Zealand in Washington, D.C. for the USO and Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, was a triumphant success. This was the first time that the ONE Campaign teamed up with Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns for the USO, and the second time the New Zealand Embassy hosted Kearns for a military benefit. (The last time was Christmas 2010).

The Phoenix Theater Project is excited to bring their second full-length production to Minneapolis this October at the People's Center Theater.

Local theatre artist Mark Kennedy, hot on the heels of world premiere solo piece Checkers produced in the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, directs the Philadelphia premiere of Ariel Dorfman's unrelentingly poetic drama Purgatorio under the brand new wings of theatre anti-company [ad hoc theatre project]. Purgatorio runs November 16th through 19th at the Arts Locker on the 3rd floor of the Wolf Building, 1200 Callowhill Street. 80 mins. Tickets are $10. See theadhoc.tumblr.com for more information.

Bruth Media presents a limited off-off Broadway run of Neil LaBute's comedy-drama, The Shape of Things, beginning Wednesday, November 16that Theaterlab (137 W.14th Street,NY, NY).

The first episode of the new web-series Outside The Box is now up and running on YouTube. Episode one stars Beth Leavel, Melody Hollis, Barry Pearl, Sandy Rosenberg, and Brandon Uranowitz. Written and Directed by Bruce Kimmel.

For the 40th year, Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater (www.breadandpuppet.org) will return to Theater for the New City with two new works, one for adults and one for family audiences.

On Saturday November 5th, Dancing with the Stars siblings Julianne Hough and Derek Hough paid a surprise visit to the cast of the new Twyla Tharp musical COME FLY AWAY, featuring the vocals of Frank Sinatra. Following the performance, Julianne and Derek greeted the smiling cast backstage. Look below for pictures from backstage!

Broadway stars Barbara Walsh (Company) and Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q) performed in a sold-out benefit reading of A. R. Gurney's classic play, The Dining Room. Also in the cast were Bill Connington (Zombie), David M. Lutken, (Inherit the Wind), Annmarie Benedict (Robeson) and Tony Wolf (The Action Room).

Mark Twain House Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center present the East Haddam Stage Company's production of Sherlock Holmes: From Page to Stage on December 8 & 9 at 7:30pm in the Mark Twain House Museum Auditorium!

Beowulf, Charles Court Opera's fifth annual legendary boutique panto at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, promises to scale new heights of sublime silliness as the most scholarly epic of Anglo-Saxon literature is given a wickedly entertaining Christmas makeover by a cast of nine classically trained singers, including the Eaton-Young Piano Duo in cameos.

Southern Rep continues its 25th Anniversary Season with the 2010 Tony Award Winning play RED, by John Logan (screenwriter of many films including Rango, Gladiator, Any Given Sunday). The production features two of Southern Rep's & New Orleans' favorite actors, Bob Edes, Jr. (2010 Big Easy Theatre Person of the Year, Southern Rep credits include I AM MY OWN WIFE, LOVE CHILD, OPUS) and Sean Glazebrook (member of the NOLA Project, Southern Rep credits include WITH A BANG, THE FOUR OF US, SPEECH AND DEBATE).

The Trap Door Theatre will present the North American Premiere of Matei Visniec's 'the word progress on my mother's lips doesn't ring true,' translated by Joyce Nettles and directed by Istvan Szabo K.

The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company is presenting 'Vaudeville!' on Thursday, Nov. 10. The aggressive waiter, the down-and-out dance duo, the Irish landlady, and the spunky ingénue are just a few of the characters comically brought to life. Along with original Vaudeville skits, there is music and singing, a lovely dinner, a live and silent auction, and a raffle.

Compañía Ligeros de Equipaje presenta CARKALATA. Un espectáculo musical para toda la familia

Bruth Media presents a limited off-off Broadway run of Neil LaBute's comedy-drama, The Shape of Things, beginning Wednesday, November 16that Theaterlab (137 W.14th Street,NY, NY).

Alces Productions announces that due to serious cast illness it is postponing the opening of its forthcoming production of John Van Druten's classic comedy about witchcraft and romance, Bell, Book and Candle to Thursday, 10th November. As a result of illness, Christine Lohr is unable to continue in the role of Aunt ‘Queenie' Holroyd. She is replaced by Carole Street, an actress of considerable experience in numerous London Off-West End venues.

Celebrating the art of David Driskell and in honor of his eightieth birthday, DC Moore Gallery's new exhibition, Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell, features outstanding examples of his work from more than five decades. In his paintings, drawings, and collages, Driskell unites a strong modernist impulse with personal vision, memory, and aspects of traditional culture. As an artist, scholar, and curator, he has made many contributions to the field that have changed the way we think about African American art. Organized by co-­?curators Julie L. McGee and Adrienne L. Childs for the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, the exhibition continues at DC Moore through February 4.

Open auditions will be held at Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Rte. 28 in Cotuit on December 5 and December 6 at 7:30 p.m. for the Off-Broadway hit, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.