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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: The Morrisville-based Actors' NET of Bucks County continues its fifteenth season with a special holiday season presentation of the family favorite musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress.

According to an article by Baz Bamigboye for UK Daily Mail, If Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark ever makes it to the West End, Brittish film actor, Matthew James Thomas will star as Spidey himself. Thomas is currently the alternate for the role on Broadway.

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that Natalie Mendoza, who plays the lead role of Arachne in SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark has received a concussion and the role will be played through Tuesday by understudy America Olivo.

SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark is now in previews at the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway. Opening night is scheduled for January 11, 2011. Click below for a recent interview with Bono and The Edge conducted by MTV on how the two men match up to Spidey and his foe, the Green Goblin.

SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark is now in previews at the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway. Opening night is scheduled for January 11, 2011. The online merchandise store is now open! Click here to view the available loot.

The Cornelia Street Cafe announces their December lineup.

With a Hollywood adaptation of the hit novel in the works, Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO will be making its stage debut at Copenhagen's Norrebro Theatre on December 4. A recent article for The Independent asked, 'how long until the West End gets in on the act?'

As the world now knows, SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark got off to a rocky start on Sunday, suffering many technical difficulties that caused major delays in the first preview. Click below to see Conan's answer to the $65M Spidey problem.

Tuesday, December 7, 6pm- JOIN US FOR A DISCUSSION ON WITCHES & WITCHERY IN SHAKESPEARE & THE JACOBEANS with ARIN ARBUS • JEAN HOWARD • JESSE BERGER

National Jazz Museum in Harlem December Schedule

The Cornelia Street Cafe announces their December lineup.

A general view of atmosphere at the 2010 UNICEF Snowflake Ball at Cipriani 42nd Street on November 30, 2010 in New York City.

Lead producer Michael Cohl announced today that SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark sold more than one million dollars worth of tickets within 24 hours of the show's first preview performance. Directed by Julie Taymor and featuring a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger, and new music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in previews at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street).

On Sunday, November 28, the highly anticipated SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark had its first preview on Broadway. Message boards and Twitter were abuzz throughout the show, as audiences sat through 4 technical stops in Act 1, and 1 in Act 2 as well as an elongated intermission and one heckler, but the show as performed from beginning to end. The show also garnered what was most likely the most press co

Seattle's Paramount Theatre is currently letting the sun shine in with the national tour of the Tony Award winning revival of the 60's rock musical "Hair". And while I've never been a fan of the show that much before, I can tell you that with this production I left the theater with what I can only describe as a theatrical contact high.

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: The Morrisville-based Actors' NET of Bucks County continues its fifteenth season with a special holiday season presentation of the family favorite musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress. Starring Cheryl Mazzarini of Philadelphia as 'Princess Winnifred the Woebegone,' the role that made Carol Burnett a star! Also starring Scott Lutz of Philadelphia as 'Prince Dauntless,' Pam Jorgensen of Franklin Park, NJ as 'Queen Aggravain,' Ed Patton of Fairless Hills as 'King Sextimus,' Katie Skelly of Bordentown, NJ as 'Lady Larken,' and John Bergeron of Morrisville as 'Sir Harry.' Costarring Marco Newton of Yardley as 'The Wizard,' Dennis McGuire of Levittown as 'The Jester,' Tim Johnson of Yardley as 'The Minstrel' and John Helmke of Yardville as 'Sir Studley.'

Photos from after the first night preview of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark at the Foxwoods Theater on November 28, 2010 in New York City

All anyone in the theatre world is talking about so far this morning is last night's first preview of the highly anticipated SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark. I was there and it was certainly a night to remember. Message boards and Twitter were abuzz throughout the show, as audiences sat through 4 technical stops in Act 1, and 1 in Act 2 as well as an elongated intermission (and one heckler), but the show as performed from beginning to end.

Tonight at approximately 10:15, the first preview of the highly anticipated SPIDER-MAN ended, some 3 hours and 45 minutes after it was scheduled to begin. Message boards and Twitter were abuzz throughout the show, noting that there were 4 technical stops in Act 1, and 1 in Act 2 as well as an elongated intermission, but the show as performed from beginning to end.

Lesley Stahl and '60 Minutes' cameras got the first look at the rehearsal and production of 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,' the most ambitious and expensive musical ever brought to a Broadway stage. Sunday, Nov. 28, 7 p.m. ET/PT. Watch it here!