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WaterTower Theatre (WTT) celebrates the holidays with the musical Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings. It will run December 3 - 23, 2009.

Horton Foote's THE ORPHAN HOME CYCLE, currently playing at the Signature Theatre, is featured in the current issue of Christian Science Monitor. The article is titled 'Horton Foote: The playwright's 'Odyssey' for modern times' and is written by Gregory M. Lamb.

The 'On the Air' light flickers on and the magic begins. Experience the captivating story of George Bailey as a live radio broadcast, set in the auditorium of Studio 4 at WDAF in Kansas City on Christmas Eve, 1946.

This holiday season a family favorite comes to life in It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, adapted by Joe Landry, at American Heartland Theatre. Opening Thursday, November 5th and running through December 27th, 2009, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play puts a new spin on Frank Capra's holiday classic with all the heart-tugging drama, sweetness and joy of the original.

THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, the world premiere of a three part theatrical event by the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright Horton Foote, begins performances on Thursday, November 5 at Signature Theatre Company at the Peter Norton Space, 555 West 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.

'Sooner or later we're bound to get it right.' That's the final line of Road Show, the new Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical, directed by John Doyle, that's opened at The Public. It was also the final line of Bounce, the Harold Prince directed previous version of Road Show, which for a time was to be known as Gold!, that that did not make its presumed arrival to Broadway after tepidly received engagements in Chicago and Washington, back in ought three.

Due to overwhelming audience demand, WaterTower Theatre's production of Grey Gardens has added an additional weekend of performances. Tickets for these performances, scheduled for October 28 - November 1, are currently on-sale in the box office.

MBS Productions is pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for their first play of their season: Theatre of Death, which runs from October 15 ? November 1, 2009.

MBS Productions is pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for their first play of their season: Theatre of Death, which runs from October 15 ? November 1, 2009.

Act Out Halloween Dance, sponsored by Addison Central Teens. The ultimate local Halloween bash for teens. DJ's, scary stuff, and prizes for the best costumes. October 31, 8 pm at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. Tickets, $7/$5 if you wear a costume, will be available at the door. Call for information.

Cow. Slob. Pig. Size does matter. Aurora Theatre Company continues its 18th season with FAT PIG, bad-boy playwright Neil LaBute's exploration of body consciousness in contemporary America, the second play in a trilogy that began with The Shape of Things (produced by Aurora and directed by Tom Ross in 2003).

Cow. Slob. Pig. Size does matter. Aurora Theatre Company continues its 18th season with FAT PIG, bad-boy playwright Neil LaBute's exploration of body consciousness in contemporary America, the second play in a trilogy that began with The Shape of Things (produced by Aurora and directed by Tom Ross in 2003).

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the second Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Aurora Theatre Company Education Director Michael Mansfield hosts this moderated discussion series.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre will present the theatrical spectacular, Aurélia's Oratorio this holiday season. Aurélia Thierrée grew up in the circus and has charmed audiences around the world with this display of stage illusion. The show was conceived and directed by Aurélia's mother, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, who - along with her husband, Jean Baptiste Thierrée - created Cirque Bonjour, Cirque Imaginaire, and Cirque Invisible, innovative troupes that inspired Cirque du Soleil. Performed in the state-of-the-art Roda Theatre, Aurélia's Oratorio begins previews on December 4, opens December 9, and closes January 24.

This holiday season a family favorite comes to life in It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, adapted by Joe Landry, at American Heartland Theatre. Opening Thursday, November 5th and running through December 27th, 2009, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play puts a new spin on Frank Capra's holiday classic with all the heart-tugging drama, sweetness and joy of the original.

This past Sunday, Bruce Weber penned a big review of Tiny Kushner in the new Bay Area section now appearing in West Coast editions of the Times.

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the second Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast - Opens December 4th Belle, dissatisfied with life in her small provincial French town, constantly tries to fend off the misplaced 'affections' of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle's father, causes the two to meet. The show runs December 4-27, 2009. Tickets $10-17.

This Saturday, Halloween night, is the Theatre of Death's annual 'Trick & Treat' show. All audience members will receive a goodie bag full of sweets, treats, and tickets to other shows around town. Though not required, audience members are encouraged to come in costume, and at the end of the evening the best costumed audience member will receive a prize (hats and headdresses must be removed during showtime as to not block other audience members sight of the show).

Horton Foote, the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award-winning author of THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE is featured in a Critic at Large essay by John Lahr in The New Yorker, in the issue for the week of October 26, 2009. The piece examines the life and career of Foote, who died on March 4, 2009. The New Yorker is currently available on newsstands.