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New York City is getting a very special Christmas "Carol" this year! Richard Skipper, brings his critically-acclaimed show RICHARD SKIPPER AS "CAROL CHANNING" IN CONCERT Off-Broadway, with performances set to begin December 22nd at St.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents George Bernard Shaw's beloved classic… just in time for the holidays HEARTBREAK HOUSE- A light comedy about love, life, longing and laughter.

New York Times Bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates attended the staged reading of her play I STAND BEFORE YOU NAKED on Sunday, November 28th.

Tabatha is taking over at My Big Gay Italian Wedding! For three performances only, Thursday December 2nd - Saturday December 4th, the star of the hit Bravo series "Tabatha's Salon Takeover" Tabatha Coffey will be the special guest in the hilarious comedy now playing at St.

Mortal Folly Theatre is excited to announce that all tickets are available at half-price for performances of Macbeth on December 2nd, 8th and 15th.

Shelby Company presents the world premiere of THE LAND WHALE MURDERS, a dizzying tale of murder and deceit from the mind of playwright Jonathan A.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party! from December 2 - 12, 2010 at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.

Direct from a sold out engagement in Toronto, Rebecca Northan ("Mr.

Direct from a sold out engagement in Toronto, Rebecca Northan ("Mr.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party! from December 2 - 12, 2010 at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.

The Production Company proudly presents the World Premiere of Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart, written by Lally Katz and directed by Oliver Butler.

The Gallery at Access Theater will host the World Premiere of THE WIFE by Tommy Smith.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party! from December 2 - 12, 2010 at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.

For the 39th year, Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater (www.

EBE Ensemble announces the full cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Steven Michael Walters' (NBC's "Friday Night Lights") The Girl from Nashville directed by Kristine Ayers.

Cameron Mackintosh's 25th Anniversary production of Les Misérables, presented by The Paper Mill Playhouse, has finally hit the friendly American shores after touring Britain, and perhaps symbolic of its Atlantic crossing is the new opening picture devised by co-directors Laurence Conner and James P

The Amoralists will extend the New York Premiere of Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, written and directed by Adam Rapp.

Meredith Vieira, of the TODAY show and WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE, is producing the national tour of the hit Off-Broadway solo show LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION written & performed by James Braly.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is pleased to announce the finalists in the 2010 TRU Voices New Musicals Series.

The Oscar-nominated actress Patricia Clarkson - whose many stage credits include the Nicky Silver plays RAISED IN CAPTIVITY and THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER at the Vineyard Theatre - will be the featured guest at a "Vineyard Voices" evening at the theatre (108 E.

Dreamlight Theatre Company, under the leadership of Dean A.

The Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation and The Flea Theater are thrilled to announce the US premiere of the critically-acclaimed production of PANTS ON FIRE'S METAMORPHOSES, adapted and directed by Peter Bramley.

Out of Time and Place: An Anthology of Plays by Members of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, Volumes 1 & 2, the long overdue anthology of plays by a group of contemporary female writers, will go on sale after a free reading by eight of the playwrights at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street,

Junior Mendez, a recent Florida State graduate, has been hand-picked to star in Wildcat alongsideLuba Mason and Robert Cuccioli in the Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical Wildcat, presented December 19 in Manhattan to benefit the Actors Fund.

Following a sold-out run at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival in August, producing company Mind The Art Entertainment has announced that the award-winning play, The Timing of a Day, written by Owen Panettieri, will be returning in the spring of 2011 for a three-week run at Center Stage