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Nominees for the 2010 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards were announced on the evening of Monday, October 18 at The Autry National Center for the American West in Griffith Park. The nominations were presented by 2009 Ovation Award winners Jake Broder, Vanessa Claire Smith, Michael Paternostro, Sarah Cornell, Tasha Ames and Hugo Armstrong, along with Ebony Rep Executive Director Wren Brown and LA Stage Alliance Executive Director Terence McFarland.

The Sydney Fringe today announced the nominees of their 2010 Fringe Awards. A jury selected from industry professionals joined 100,000 other attendees in seeing the 260+ events that made up the Sydney Fringe, and the nominees have been selected from the finest works they saw at this year's event. The winners of these awards, as well as the Sydney Festival Award for Outstanding Independent Artist, will be announced October 27.

Camp Broadway® is celebrating Halloween at The Addams Family with a special Kids' Night on Broadway (KNOB) holiday package that features a pre-Halloween workshop on Saturday, October 23 to help children 6-10 years old develop their character and create a costume inspired by characters from the hit musical.

THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE has announced an exciting schedule of events for the month of November full of diverse musical styles for all kinds of musical tastes!

Revels Houston invites the public to usher in the holidays this November by toasting their upcoming performance. The community-based, nonprofit performing arts group is celebrating its 20th season and wants to thank their supporters for making each performance possible.

With still a couple of weeks to go before the opening night on 28 October, the French production of Mamma Mia! has already sold over 100,000 tickets since they went on sale in early April this year.

Fox Associates has named Kristin Caskey to the position of President of Fox Theatricals. Ms. Caskey has been a producer with New York based Fox Theatricals, a division of Fox Associates, for more than 12 years.

The Cornelia Street Cafe will host Ghosts in the Ocean and John O'Gallagher Trio tonight, October 14 at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Vocalist Pamela Luss will perform with saxophonist Houston Person at The Metropolitan Room on November 4, 6, and 11 at 7 p.m.

Last week in front of a packed Birmingham Town Hall, Dudson Limited and The Regent Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent won the Jaguar Land Rover Arts and Business Sustained Partnership Award, in association with Rolls-Royce plc. The award is awarded to an established, on-going partnership that continues to set standards in creative arts-business collaborations.

The Immediate Gratification Players improv group will perform at The Tank (354 W. 45th St, NYC) on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $10.

Eyal Vilner Big Band will perform at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Lincoln Center October 26-30, 2010. Fourteen of NYC's finest young musicians will perform new arrangements of jazz standards and originals.

Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin, T.D. will officially open the 59th Wexford Festival Opera on Saturday, October 16 on Wexford's Quay front at 7pm, with the traditional spectacular fireworks display winding up the activities on the town at approximately 7:30pm, before all the attention turns to the opening night opera, the Italian lyric tragedy Virginia by Saverio Mercadante. Following the official launch on the quay, the Minister will also attend a ceremony in the Opera House to recognise the achievements of the Wexford Festival Foundation in raising over €5.3m in private donations towards the redevelopment costs of the new building, before attending the opening night opera at 8pm, which will be broadcast live on RTÉ Lyric FM.

Extant Arts presents GHOSTS, a retelling of Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking drama through Nemonie Craven's bold and muscular new adaptation (commissioned especially for this production). Director Sophie Hunter leads a dynamic cast and an international award-winning creative team from the worlds of opera, Broadway, film, and installation art in transforming this 19th-century Norwegian classic into a timeless and searing piece of theatre. Performances begin November 5th at the Access Theater, located at 380 Broadway.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) is now accepting entries today, Wednesday, October 13, for its popular LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to the New York premiere of AFTER THE REVOLUTION, a new play by Amy Herzog.

American Repertory Theater will present THE BLUE FLOWER by Jim and Ruth Bauer at the Loeb Drama Center December 1, 2010 - January 8, 2011. The production will be directed by Will Pomerantz, with movement by Tom Nelis, and music direction by Mark Rubenstein.

FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP will host three 'Girls Night Out' performances on October 21, November 18 and December 16 at 8pm, at the Daryl Roth Theatre. In a unique twist, this GIRLS NIGHT OUT features the men of FUERZA BRUTA at the center of the action in one of the show's signature scenes - a mylar pool suspended just inches above the audience.

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City continues its 53rd season after a record-breaking run of Carmen with the Company debut of Norma. Norma is the quintessential bel canto opera showcasing brilliant vocal singing and is the first Bellini opera ever produced by the Company. The production features a renowned cast of singers and The Kansas City Symphony conducted by Lyric Opera Artistic Director Ward Holmquist. Norma opens on Novembers 6, 2010 in celebration of National Opera Week October 29 - November 7, 2010. This will be the Company's final season in the Lyric Theatre. Beginning in the fall of 2011, the Lyric Opera will perform at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Matthews Playhouse has announced that all student and senior tickets for its production of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK are $6 per seat.

Am Sa 23. Oktober 2010 gibt es im Rahmen von Blätterwirbel 2010 im Landestheater Niederösterreich die Österreichische Erstaufführung von: DIE VIERTE SCHWESTER von Janusz G?owacki