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Blumenthal Performing Arts announces Jennifer Coolidge joining the cast of Celebrity Autobiography, coming Jan. 25-30 to Booth Playhouse at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.

Atlantic Theater Company Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director is proud to announce that Patricia Conolly, Michael Countryman, Francesca Faridany, Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, Rick Holmes, John Keating, Peter Maloney, Jaime Ray Newman, Patricia O'Connell, Jeremy Shamos, Joey Slotnick and Tom Patrick Stephens will star in the world premiere adaptation of THE NEW YORK IDEA by Tony Award® winner David Auburn from the original play by Langdon Mitchell and directed by Mark Brokaw.

On Tuesday, December 14, Morgan Karr and Carrie Manolakos joined forces at The Bitter End to a sold out house for a night of original tunes. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage of the concert below.

For one night only, on Thursday December 16th, Lance Bass will be the special guest star in My Big Gay Italian Wedding, the hilarious comedy now playing at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street.

Award-winning actor, singer and comic Lea DeLaria will introduce and present contributors from Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 (Cleis Press), at the December edition of the long-running reading series, Drunken! Careening! Writers! on Dec. 16, at 7pm, at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. Admission is free. No reservations are required.

Last night, December 8, Doug Maxwell and wife Liz Caplan, one of Broadway's most in-demand vocal coaches, hosted the official opening of Maxwell's Not for profit company, Visionary Media. Maxwell started his company in order to help retain employment for blind musicians and performers, studio engineers, and actors.

Shoshana Bean has returned home to New York City after a string of twelve sold out engagements at Barre Vermont in Los Angeles with an all-new show.

Graham Phillips, of The Good Wife and Broadway's 13, will join a host of Broadway artists in singing seasonal favorites at Broadway in South Africa's third annual holiday party fundraiser and digital camera drive.

42nd Street Moon today announced that Tony-winning Broadway star KAREN ZIEMBA and her Curtains co-star NOAH RACEY will head the cast for AND ALL THAT JAZZ! - A JOHN KANDER SALON EVENING on Thursday, January 27 at the Alcazar Theatre.

Once a year, Celebrity Make Up Artist Rob Harmon and friends hold a cabaret-style benefit to raise money for Trinity Place, a shelter for GLBTQ Youth. Trinity is an amazing grassroots organization that provides shelter to New York's GLBTQ teenage community who have been displaced from their homes and families. Over the past several years this humble "Cabaret" show has become so successful that it has produced more than half the church's annual budget. The event on Sunday night featured appearances by Shoshana Bean (Wicked), Joey Taranto (Rock of Ages), Carrie Manolakos (Wicked), Donna Vivino (Wicked), Scott Alan, Neil Davis, Breedlove, SIRPAUL, Joe Hubrich (Housewives of Beverly Hills), Felicia Ricci (Wicked), Libby Servais (Wicked) and was hosted by Bianca Del Rio Sunday night's event raised more than $12,000 for the shelter. If you'd like to learn more about Trinity Place, or to donate to their organization, please visit their site! http://www.trinityplaceshelter.org/

Last night, December 6, Award-winning actors Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, Rabbit Hole) and John Slattery (Mad Men, Rabbit Hole) starred in a one-night only play reading of the quirky comedy, Hate Mail, to benefit Opening Act, an innovative nonprofit that provides free after-school theater programs to New York City's most under-served public high schools. The benefit reading of Hate Mail reunited Nixon and Slattery after their performances in the award-winning Broadway show, Rabbit Hole. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage below.

Last night, December 6, LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), presented Celebrity Charades at St. Paul's Hall.

For one night only, on Thursday December 16th, Lance Bass will be the special guest star in My Big Gay Italian Wedding, the hilarious comedy now playing at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street.

Award-winning actor, singer and comic Lea DeLaria will introduce and present contributors from Best Lesbian Erotica 2011 (Cleis Press), at the December edition of the long-running reading series, Drunken! Careening! Writers! on Dec. 16, at 7pm, at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. Admission is free. No reservations are required.

Graham Phillips, of The Good Wife and Broadway's 13, will join a host of Broadway artists in singing seasonal favorites at Broadway in South Africa's third annual holiday party fundraiser and digital camera drive.

Following a sold out concert last spring, Sean Bradford returned to Joe's Pub Monday, November 29 for another unforgettable evening of music. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage below.

Award winning composer/lyricist Bobby Cronin made his Birdland debut as part of Jim Caruso's Broadway at Birdland Series, last night, November 29th. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you photo coverage below.

Monday November 29th, 7:30pm GERTRUDE - THE CRY by HOWARD BARKER with F. MURRAY ABRAHAM • DAVID BARLOW, STEPHANIE JANSSEN • BRENT LANGDON, ROBERT EMMET LUNNEY • JAN MAXWELL AND MORE

Monday November 29th, 7:30pm GERTRUDE - THE CRY by HOWARD BARKER with F. MURRAY ABRAHAM • DAVID BARLOW, STEPHANIE JANSSEN • BRENT LANGDON, ROBERT EMMET LUNNEY • JAN MAXWELL AND MORE

Joe Lodato and Matthew Morris, The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, GeekNerdWonk Charitable Foundation, and Sing for Hope presented 'You Are Not Alone' a star-studded concert to benefit the Trevor Project last night, November 22. Lea DeLaria hosted the evening with feature performances from Ricky Ian Gordon, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Marc Kudisch, Aaron Lazar, Erin Quill, Seth Rudetsky, John Tartaglia, Jeanine Tesori, and Tony Yazbeck, as well as Emily Albrink, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Attila Joey Csiki of Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Constantine Germanacos, Joe Lodato, Matthew Morris, Todd Palmer, Kate Pazakis, Kathleen Tagg, and Nurit Tilles. Michael Rader directed the concert with stage management from David M. Beris.