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Voting is now underway for Atlanta and continues until December 31, 2012. Winners will be announced in early January. We are updating live, so check out the stats here to see how your favorite stars and shows are doing.

- The final stop for a national "Raise the Praise" tour of a Christian boy band is the concept for the next production in the Next Stage at Theatre Memphis November 2 - 18. The show will be reprised January 11 - 20, 2013. The musical satire, Altar Boyz, features characters Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham as they perform to save souls and keep count of the unsaved in the audience.

I can honestly say this performance was life changing for me, offering a broadened perspective that blasts stereotypes right out of the water.

HERE proudly presents Chimera, a HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) production, as part of the 2012 Under The Radar Festival. Created by Suli Holum (co-creator, performer) and Deborah Stein (co-creator, writer), Chimera is a multimedia theatrical work integrating sophisticated video into a dramatic story. This production plays January 5 - 28 in the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue) as a featured presentation within HERE's 2011-12 Season. Official Opening Night is set for Sunday, January 8 at 7:00pm.

HERE is set to present Chimera, a HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) production, as part of the 2012 Under The Radar Festival.

HERE proudly presents Chimera, a HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) production, as part of the 2012 Under The Radar Festival. Created by Suli Holum (co-creator, performer) and Deborah Stein (co-creator, writer), Chimera is a multimedia theatrical work integrating sophisticated video into a dramatic story. This production plays January 5 - 28 in the Dorothy B. Williams Theatre at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue) as a featured presentation within HERE's 2011-12 Season. Official Opening Night is set for Sunday, January 8 at 7:00pm.

HERE is set to present Chimera, a HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) production, as part of the 2012 Under The Radar Festival.

This past weekend the Toronto Symphony Orchestra celebrated Halloween with a special screening of The Wizard of Oz, where the original film was screened in Roy Thomson Hall with the TSO playing the score. Patrons were encouraged to dress up for the event, and BWW was on hand to bring you exclusive coverage of the trip back to Oz!

Today Toronto Symphony Orchestra Music Director Peter Oundjian announced the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's 2011.2012 concert season, which is also the orchestra's 90th consecutive season of performances. The TSO's 90th season programmes include: three extended residencies with pianist Lang Lang, conductor/violinist Itzhak Perlman, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma; Mahler's Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of a Thousand' with an all-Canadian cast of soloists led by TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian; season opening performances of Walton's Music for the film Henry V with Christopher Plummer; a 90th Season free concert presented by Luminato; and première performances of four TSO commissions including an orchestral interpretation of Roch Carrier's classic story, The Hockey Sweater. Many of the world's finest guest artists share a long history with the TSO and perform with the orchestra in concerts throughout the 90th season, including pianist Emanuel Ax, pianist Yefim Bronfman, Canadian violinist James Ehnes, conductor/pianist Leon Fleisher, Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin, and Canadian pianist Louis Lortie. Twenty-eight solo artists make their TSO débuts in the 2011.2012 season, including saxophonist Branford Marsalis, conductor John Storgaards, trumpeter Alison Balsom, and Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki.

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!

September at The Metropolitan Room features...

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!

September at The Metropolitan Room features...

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!

STEAMBATH by Bruce Jay Friedman. Imagine you wake up one morning . . . perspiring in a steam room and then realize . . . you are in the Afterlife and God is . . . the Puerto Rican bath attendant!