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Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Mulgrew will host the Vineyard Theatre's annual Emerging Artists Luncheon today, Oct. 3 from noon to 2 p.m. at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan. The event will feature the presentation of the 2013 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to Christopher Chen, a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include THE HUNDRED FLOWERS PROJECT and other plays. Ms. Vogel will be in attendance and present the award.

Christopher Chen -- a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include THE HUNDRED FLOWERS PROJECT and other plays - is the 2013 recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, presented annually by Vineyard Theatre to an emerging playwright of exceptional promise, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Vineyard Theatre's Artistic Director and Sarah Stern, Co-Artistic Director.

NBC Sports Group has announced sports events coverage for October 5 - 27. Check out the full schedule below!

Matt Schaub, J.J. Watt and the Houston Texans (2-2) travel to Candlestick Park in San Francisco, Calif., to take on Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers (2-2) on Sunday, in the final Sunday Night Football game at Candlestick Park (pending flexible scheduling). Coverage begins with Football Night In America at 7 p.m. ET on NBC.

NBC Sports Group's 23rd season broadcasting Notre Dame Football continues this Saturday with the 2013 Shamrock Series from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas – the home of the Dallas Cowboys – when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish host the No. 22 Arizona State Sun Devils at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC.

On October 7, Broadway legend Chita Rivera will return to the stage in a special 80th Birthday concert benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and according to a recent interview with the Huffington Post, that's not the only thing on the triple threat's plate coming up. Rivera revealed that the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit might be heading to Broadway in 2014, following a tryout in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

OnBoard Sightseeing Tours, the only sightseeing tour company with operations in New York City, Washington DC, and Las Vegas, is operating all tours on a normal schedule despite the government shutdown.

Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Mulgrew will host the Vineyard Theatre's annual Emerging Artists Luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 3 from noon to 2 p.m. at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan. The event will feature the presentation of the 2013 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to Christopher Chen, a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include THE HUNDRED FLOWERS PROJECT and other plays. Ms. Vogel will be in attendance and present the award.

Amidst the ongoing debate over income disparity in America, the timely documentary REDEMPTION looks at this growing army of jobless New Yorkers, whose treasures are found in trash, when it debuts MONDAY, OCT. 14 (9:40-10:20 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Broward Cultural Division encourages all college-bound high school students interested in pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies in the areas of music, dance, theater, visual arts, graphic design and other related disciplines, to attend the National Association for College Admission Counseling's (NACAC) Fort Lauderdale Performing and Visual Arts College Fair. This must-attend event for all college bound 'artists' is held today, September 30, 2013 at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is FREE and open to the public.

Though there are challenges, even a less than perfect Synetic show is always a pleasure to behold to see the masterful artistry at work.

Dance Currents presents 'One Hundred Years of Modern Dance' tonight, September 28, 10AM at the Underground Theater, 7 Medford St., Arlington, Mass., with workshop to follow in Modern Technique/Repertory.

YouTube and NBC Sing-Off sensations, Pentatonix, will delight UConn Family Weekend audiences in two shows at Jorgensen on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, after judging a campus and regional high school a cappella competition tonight. And for a real a cappella a pportunity, the winning group from each division will open for Pentatonix on Jorgensen's stage for both Saturday shows, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

The 2013-14 Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra (CSYO), comprised of 97 students from 20 Ohio school districts, will showcase CSO violinist Alicia Hui in its concert at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, October 6. Currently principal second violin for the Columbus Symphony, Hui will perform Scottish Fantasy by Max Bruch. CSO Associate Conductor Peter Stafford Wilson will conduct the program which also includes Beethoven's Overture to Creatures of Prometheus and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Synetic Theater kicks off its 2013-2014 season with a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, directed by Synetic Founder and Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili. Synetic's reinvention of this classic tale features dynamic movement and multimedia, and promises to be a unique fusion of visual and verbal poetry that will explore the internal and external dimensions of Wilde's only novel, which many consider his most personal work-a timelessly supernatural story of man's endless conflict with the nature of mortality.

Set with the backdrop of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Plaza (55 Water Street), the show will take place October 10th, 11th and 12, starting at 5:30pm. The late afternoon will be filled with a beautiful sunset, hot drinks and a night of theatre that makes a difference.

Soprano Susanna Phillips, a star of New York's Metropolitan and Chicago's Lyric Opera stages, will headline a concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, in Anderson Chapel at North Park University, 5149 N. Spaulding Ave., Chicago, to benefit the spring 2014 Bach Week Festival in Evanston and Chicago.

Compelled by an inner conviction to protect and serve their country in a time of war and driven by deliberate decisions to join the fight against terrorism in ground-pounding combat as United States Army infantrymen, the soldiers of Third Platoon Charlie Company had no idea exactly what they were getting into and even less where this adventure would take them.

ARLINGTON, VA - Summer is slowly winding down, and Crystal City is giving visitors and locals one last chance to savor the season. For the month of September, the Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID) will be hosting the 4th annual Vintage Crystal festival featuring wine, food, music and dancing just minutes from this Arlington, VA hotel. Guests of the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel will have easy access to this year's events.

ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ ARC, the financial settlement link between airlines and travel sellers, reported today that the consolidated dollar value of airline tickets sold by U.S.-based travel agencies increased 0.39 percent* year-over-year in the first eight months of 2013 compared to the same period last year, totaling $60.3 billion vs. $60.1 billion in 2012.