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SHOWTIME has announced the air dates for some its highly-anticipated programming for first and second quarter 2010. Highlighting the new schedule will be a Monday comedy block pairing of the second season of SHOWTIME's acclaimed Nurse Jackie starring Emmy award-winner Edie Falco leading into the second season of United States of Tara showcasing Toni Collette in her Emmy award-winning title role. Nurse Jackie will premiere on Monday, March 22 at 10:00 PM ET/PT followed by United States of Tara at 10:30 PM ET/PT.

On Sunday, January 3rd, The Marvelous Wonderettes will play its final performance at 3:00PM at New York's Westside Side Theatre. Written and directed by Roger Bean, The Marvelous Wonderettes currently features Courtney Balan, Christina DeCicco, Lindsay Mendez and Lowe Taylor.

BWW Discounts is offering you the chance to purchase tickets at a very special price to the much anticipated Encores! production of GIRL CRAZY, starring Anna Gasteyer, Wayne Knight and Marc Kudisch at New York City Center!

Sense & Sensibility, the new musical originally developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York - which has nurtured Broadway shows such as Avenue Q, Ragtime, and A Chorus Line - will get an industry reading at Playwrights Horizons on November 16. The musical most recently had a development reading at the Berkshire Musical Theater Workshop this past May.

According to a report in the New York Post, off-Broadway star Shami Chaikin, sister of the late, famed director Joseph Chaikin, was critically injured in Greenwich Village on Bleeker Street and 8th Avenue yesterday morning when a garbage truck hit her on her mobility scooter. Chaikin, 78, who had been riding in the bicycle lane underwent surgery at St. Vincent's hospital and remains in critical condition.

Jonathan Pryce is set to star in the first West End Pinter production, The Caretaker, since Harold Pinter's death in December last year. The Caretaker runs at Trafalgar Studios from January 12 - April 17, 2010.

There is no escaping Cheyenne Jackson this fall. The 34-year-old leading man, who hails from the Idaho-Washington border, will debut on NBC's 30 Rock next week for a new stint, is starring eight shows a week on Broadway in the revival of Finian's Rainbow, and has just released an album of love songs with theater vet Michael Feinstein, the Power of Two. Recently, entertainment's hottest asset sat down with the Wall Street Journal to discuss his career in 'three mediums,' just what it feels like to get those great reviews, and growing up without running water.

Reports are circulating that Jeffrey Katzenburg, who runs Dreamworks Animation, has been looking around the London Palladium with the creative team of Shrek: The Musical.

The entire cast and all-star band of HAIR, the Tony-Award Winning Best Musical Revival, will perform live in-studio on CBS's 'The Early Show' this Friday, November 6th. The cast will perform songs from the hit musical as part of the show's 'Time Machine' Series. Friday's show takes viewers back in time to - you guessed it - 1967, the year HAIR had its world premiere at the Public Theater.

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that Loserville: The Musical, which was successfully staged at Bracknell's South Hill Park Arts Centre in August, may be heading to the West End -- if the play's creator, James Bourne's twitter account is to be believed.

Today, November 6, is one of celebration for JERSEY BOYS everywhere. Four years ago to the day, the Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning monster hit musical opened on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre, launching an international empire. The famous foursome will also be celebrating the Yankees World Series win this week with a special performance at City Hall between 12pm & 1pm.

The cast and crew of SHREK THE MUSICAL®, the Tony Award®-winning production, will celebrate the show's one year anniversary on Broadway with a reception on stage at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday, November 8th after the matinee performance. Cupcakes will be provided to the cast by CRUMBS Bake Shop.

In big news from the U.K. today, Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton have teamed up to star in a new production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Chichester Festival Theatre, prior to leading the show to the West End, according to a report from Baz Bamigboye in the U.K.'s Daily Mail.

Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 11/7/2009.

One of the world's greatest musical comedies is going full steam ahead at The Court Theatre, with ANYTHING GOES opening on November 21st. The production will run through February 13, 2010.

Variety is reporting that former off-Broadway Topdog/Underdog star and international film sensation Don Cheadle has sealed a first-look deal on a new television drama with NBC through this production company Crescendo that he runs with with former managers Kay Liberman and Lenore Zerman.

One of the world's foremost interpreters of Chekhov, Tamás Ascher, the Hungarian director of Ivanov which was a major hit at this year's Sydney Festival and around the world, will direct Uncle Vanya, a highlight of Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 Main Stage Season. The production at Sydney Theatre in November 2010, featuring Co Artistic Director Cate Blanchett alongside John Bell, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving in a new adaptation by Co-Artistic Director Andrew Upton, is already proving to be the most popular choice for 2010 Season Ticket holders.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center will honor celebrated Tony Award-winning producer Robyn Goodman at its 12th Annual Women's Event on November 7 at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers.

Continuing its tradition of celebrating the arts, Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle will host Brian Stokes Mitchell, Capathia Jenkins, Marvin Hamlisch and Donna McKechnie among others in discussion and performance this month.

Featured in NY Magazine, NY Times, LA Times and the Wall Street Journal, the 2009 Drama Desk Award recipients and the Presidential 'Coming Up Taller Award' winners TADA! Youth Theater (Janine Nina Trevens, Executive & Artistic Director), celebrates their 25th anniversary season with three musical productions. The season will begin with The Sneak Peak: A Musical Revue, followed by the main-stage productions of B.O.T.C.H., Wide Awake Jake and The Magic Pot: Three Tales from China at TADA! Theater in Manhattan.