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The OBIE Award-winning NAATCO, The National Asian American Theater Company, presents Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, which will kick off their 22nd season.

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Tonight was the night that Phantom Phans the world over have been waiting for as Cameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE ROYAL Albert Hall was streamed live to cinemas in the United States and the UK. Additional screenings are coming soon - click here for details and to find a theatre near you.

In coming weeks Marty Thomas presents DIVA at Industry Bar will host several Broadway celebs as part of their Be A DIVA competition. This Monday, Oct. 3 is Showtunes/Broadway night in the competition.

Today is the day that Phantom Phans the world over have been waiting for as Cameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL will be streamed live to cinemas in the United States and the UK. Click here for details and to find a theatre near you. The cast will feature Hadley Fraser as 'Raoul', Kiera Duffy as 'Carlotta', Sergei Polunin as 'Slave Master' and Daisy Maywood as 'Meg Giry', Ramin Karimloo as 'The Phantom', Sierra Boggess as 'Christine', Barry James as 'Monsieur Firmin', Gareth Snook as 'Monsieur Andre', Liz Robertson as 'Madame Giry' and Wynne Evans as 'Piangi', together with a cast and orchestra of over 200 and some special guest appearances.

Two-Time Tony Nominee Alison Fraser and Jill Shackner join previously announced actress Alysia Reiner in A CHARITY CASE. This new play about adoption by Australian playwright and director Wendy Beckett, will open Wednesday, November 2nd at Off Broadway's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street - between 9th and 10th Avenues).

On October 1, The Phantom Of The Opera will celebrate 25 hit years with a special concert performance at Royal Albert Hall in London. Who would you like to see slip into 'The Phantom' mask next?

BWW:UK's Kaite Welsh speaks exclusively to the Phantom and Christine prior to this weekend's Phantom of the Opera 25th birthday celebrations!

In coming weeks Marty Thomas presents DIVA at Industry Bar will host several Broadway celebs as part of their Be A DIVA competition. This Monday, Oct. 3 is Showtunes/Broadway night in the competition.

Two-Time Tony Nominee Alison Fraser and Jill Shackner join previously announced actress Alysia Reiner in A CHARITY CASE. This new play about adoption by Australian playwright and director Wendy Beckett, will open Wednesday, November 2nd at Off Broadway's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street - between 9th and 10th Avenues). The play, which is also directed by Ms. Beckett, begins previews Friday, October 28th. The play is produced by Peter Walters for Pascal Productions. A CHARITY CASE is third in a series of Ms. Beckett's plays that Pascal Productions will produce in New York.

Celebrated singer Margaret Stewart debuts her new concert 'Under 50 Need Not Apply' at the Skokie Theatre, 7924 N Lincoln Ave, Skokie, at 8:00pm on Friday, September 30, 2011.

The Broadway aimed musical adaption of the 90's cult classic Jawbreaker will receive an industry reading in Manhattan on October 13th under the direction of Gabriel Barre. With a book by Darren Stein (writer and director of the film) and a score by Jeffrey Thomson and Jordan Mann (Jonathan Larson award winners), the cast includes Diana DeGarmo (Hair, Hairspray), Joanna Glushak (Les Miserables, Urinetown), Van Hughes (American Idiot, 9 to 5, Hairspray), Tracy McDowell (Rent), Ryah Nixon, Marty Thomas (Wicked, Xanadu) and Libby Winters (American Idiot).

Talisman Theatre is set to present the Montreal English premiere of Coma Unplugged, playing at Studio Jean-Valcourt in the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal from October 20-29.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents SUPER SHAW 2011, a lively and irreverent evening of George Bernard Shaw, on Monday, October 17 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan.

Following seventeen sold out shows, The Laurie Beechman Theatre continues their hit series, SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED, for an eighteenth installment tonight at 7pm at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Sondheim Unplugged is currently celebrating the second year of it's smash run, having begun this journey of celebrating Sondheim in July of 2010.

Following the critical successes of Terence Raittigan's Less Than Kind, Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf and Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play, this Autumn Jermyn Street Theatre continues its policy of presenting revivals of little performed European and American classics with a rare staging of Charles Morgan's The River Line.

The cast will feature Hadley Fraser as ‘Raoul', Kiera Duffy as ‘Carlotta', Sergei Polunin as ‘Slave Master' and Daisy Maywood as ‘Meg Giry' alongside Ramin Karimloo as ‘The Phantom', Sierra Boggess as ‘Christine', Barry James as ‘Monsieur Firmin', Gareth Snook as ‘Monsieur André', Liz Robertson as ‘Madame Giry' and Wynne Evans as ‘Piangi', together with a cast and orchestra of over 200 and special guest appearances.

To mark its 25th Anniversary year, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh present 'The Phantom of the Opera' in a fully-staged, lavish production, set in the sumptuous Victorian splendour of the Royal Albert Hall with a cast and orchestra of over 200. Now audiences around the world are invited to join the celebration on Sunday October 2nd when the event is beamed live via satellite to cinemas across the globe.

The OBIE Award-winning NAATCO, The National Asian American Theater Company, will kick off their 22nd season with Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.

Marking his first foray into the world of dance, Paul McCartney has announced the general release of Ocean's Kingdom, commissioned by the New York City Ballet. The recording will be released by Hear Music/Telarc and is conducted by John Wilson, produced by John Fraser and performed by The London Classical Orchestra.