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Joe's Pub presents the release show for Playground, the debut album from Swiss-born percussion wizard Mathias Künzli on Sunday, October 26th at 9:30pm.

FX has given the greenlight for a 10-episode true-crime series from Ryan Murphy which will serve as a companion to the GLEE creator's 'American Horror Story' franchise.

"Nothing runs for ever," says Mike, played expertly by Michael Russell in UCO Musical Theatre's production of, A Chorus Line. Maybe not, but the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line ran 6,137 performances, receiving 12 Tony Award nominations and winning nine as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama. A 1975 version of a reality show, A Chorus Line is a groundbreaking musical which gives the audience a snapshot of the inner workings of the audition and more importantly into the psyches of the dancers.

Lisa Renee Jordan, David Margolin Lawson and Betsy Heffron have joined the creative team of BIRDS, Marcina Zaccaria's provocative new play which premieres Friday, October 17 at 10PM, kicking off the THIS/THAT Festival at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The young and unpredictable military leader of North Korea is placed in the crosshairs of an assassin's scope at the Great Wall of China. The killing attempt points to the CIA and President Harris O'Neil. A revenge plot unfolds aimed at Secret Service vulnerabilities. The president's teenage daughter, Bibi, the victim. A brief and flirtatious encounter with 17-year-old Baltimore superstar athlete Dante Brown the night Bibi is abducted offers Homeland Security a surprising clue. But is it enough to unravel the mysterious kidnapping, the identity of the abductors, and the reason behind the revenge? Author novelist Kent Politsch sends his readers on a new adventure with federal bureaucrat Jack Fitzgerald and his team of teenage basketball players. 'Blood Anger' releases Dec. 1, 2014. The eBook will be available through all major Internet retailers for $2.99; a $12 paperback available at http://www.kentpolitsch.com. Jack Fitzgerald, an enigma himself with a history of secret foreign missions, is about to start his second season as volunteer AAU coach of a team from Baltimore. He takes over the team from his long-time friend Rodney Armstrong. Armstrong, a retired Baltimore cop, has undergone a heart transplant. He is unable to continue coaching the PAL All-stars. (PAL, the acronym for Police Athletic League.) Armstrong, the PAL stalwart, is still regarded as a top cop. His young athletes seek his help when they uncover evidence the FBI hasn't found. Armstrong's first call is to Fitzgerald, the agriculture administrator with federal lawmen connections. While the young vigilantes search for the president's daughter, Politsch takes the reader deep into the Caribbean where the Chinese Navy cross the Panama Canal on a mission that gets the U.S. military's attention. The Chinese stop at Curacao, a Dutch island 50 miles north of Venezuela. They connect with Jack Fitzgerald's familiar foe, Korean billionaire Pak Yong-sung. Suspense escalates when seemingly disparate events complicate President O'Neil's stressful decisions. With the world's leading security force combing Washington, D.C., for his daughter, Fitzgerald, Armstrong and the young basketball team, led by Brown, stay passionately involved in the drama. So do Pak Yong-sung and the Chinese Navy. Blood Anger is the second of Politsch's novels involving Fitzgerald, the eclectic team of teenagers and their distant nemeses, Pak Yong-sung and Global Anchor. The author's first thriller, Global Anger, was released in 2012 to five-star praise. ForeWord Reviews' Jill Allen called Global Anger a compelling thriller. 'The dialogue is powerful and realistic... the variety of players and theaters of action help to ramp up the suspense...'

The Fabulous Fox Theatre is excited to announce that the national tour of MOTOWN THE MUSICAL will play at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis November 18 - 30, 2014.

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Dante: Purgatorio by Alejandro de la Costa and translated by Mark-Brian Sonna with original music by Mark-Brian Sonna will run October 16 - November 8, 2014.

Today in 2006, the first Broadway revival of A Chorus Line opened at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 759 performances. A Chorus Line is a musical about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. With nineteen main characters, it is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition for a musical. The show provides a glimpse into the personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they describe the events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers. The original Broadway production received 12 Tony Award nominations and winning nine of them, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Synetic Theater will open its 2014/2015 season with a new adaptation of HG Wells' haunting novel The Island of Dr. Moreau directed by and starring Paata Tsikurishvili.

The power of the witch has always gripped the artistic imagination. This is the first exhibition at the British Museum to present a survey of the subject in this rich and innovative exploration of the representation of the witch and malevolent female figures in the graphic arts. Spanning from the 1400s through to the end of the Victorian age, 'Witches and Wicked Bodies' will delve into the origins of the traditional image of the witch and how this developed as artists fed off public attitudes and current events. Prints and drawings will be shown alongside additional objects that illustrate that the imagery of sorcery and magic extends back to antiquity. Some examples of Greek vases and oil flasks with paintings of sirens, harpies and the famous classical sorceresses, Circe and Medea are included to emphasise this link.

BWW Interviews: Catching Up With Set Designer Jodi Bobrovsky

The Kitchen and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism are pleased to present the U.S. premiere of Gaia Global Circus, a one-of-a-kind theatrical experiment that explores society's ambivalence toward mankind's greatest threat: global warming.

The star-studded team of the Emmy Award-winning HBO special, THE NORMAL HEART is appearing in Emmy Magazine's Emmy Bash Photo Splash issue. Among those included in the pictures are THE NORMAL HEART actors Julia Roberts, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, and more.

The romantic and richly textured tale of East versus West, THE KING AND I, comes to The Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, IL., previewing October 22, opening October 29, and running through January 4, 2015. Nick Bowling (Juno and The Normal Heart at Timeline Theatre) makes his Marriott Theatre directorial debut with a fresh take on this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, merging history and romance with today's social and political issues. THE KING AND I takes audiences on an uplifting journey of the power of education as characters transform from instructor to students themselves, learning from one another in the process. In consultation with the Thai Cultural and Fine Arts Institute of Chicago, Bowling and Choreographer Tommy Rapley will explore ancient Siamese customs, dance and traditions, and bring them to life on stage.

Chazz Palminteri stars in 'A Bronx Tale,' his acclaimed one-man show that launched him to fame, at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, Friday, October 17 at 8 pm. Tickets are $49-69.

Raven Theatre Co-Artistic Directors Michael Menendian and JoAnn Montemurro have announced the appointment of Cody Estle as Associate Artistic Director. Estle, a Raven ensemble member, has directed five of the theatre company's productions over the past three seasons, including Dating Walter Dante, Boy Gets Girl, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Good Boys and True and Vieux Carre'. He is set to direct the company's Chicago premiere of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate in January.

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center is pleased to launch its 2014-15 season with Neil Simon's hit Broadway comedy THE GOOD DOCTOR, co-directed by Steven Calzaretta and Max Cervantes, playing tonight, September 12 - 27, 2014 at Jedlicka Performing Arts Center, 3801 S. Central Ave. in Cicero.

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center will launch its 2014-15 season with Neil Simon's hit Broadway comedy THE GOOD DOCTOR, co-directed by Steven Calzaretta and Max Cervantes, playing tomorrow, September 12 - 27, 2014 at Jedlicka Performing Arts Center, 3801 S. Central Ave. in Cicero. Tickets are available at www.jpactheatre.com or by calling (708) 656-1800. The press performances are tomorrow, Friday, September 12 and Saturday, September 13, 2014 at 7:30 pm.

Broadway veteran Mitzi Hamilton, one of the dancers inMichael Bennett's original developmental workshop that provided the inspiration for the character of Val in A Chorus Line, directs and choreographs the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical at Surflight Theatre, now playing through September 14.