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Opening this Today evening at the Barn Players is 'La Cage Aux Folles' - the hilarious musical that won six Tony Awards and was made into the popular movie 'The Birdcage'; the show will play through November 23rd with performances Today and Saturday evenings at 7:30 and Sunday matinees at 2:00 at the Barn Players, 6219 Martway in Mission, it is the theatre group's final 2014 regular season production.

MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL has today announced that 320,000 tickets are being put on sale as booking extends to 31st October 2015. The additional tickets will be available through the Box Office and all ticket agents from this Friday 7th November at 9am. Opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre to public and critical acclaim last month, David Bryan and Joe DiPietro's new musical, winner of four Tony® Awards including Best Musical, has been heralded as the West End's newest hit show

CINEMAX has confirmed that BANSHEE will return for its ten-episode third season FRIDAY, JAN. 9, at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The Emmy®-winning series is executive produced by Jonathan Tropper, Peter Macdissi, Alan Ball and Greg Yaitanes.

Opening this Friday evening at the Barn Players is 'La Cage Aux Folles' - the hilarious musical that won six Tony Awards and was made into the popular movie 'The Birdcage'; the show will play through November 23rd with performances Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 and Sunday matinees at 2:00 at the Barn Players, 6219 Martway in Mission, it is the theatre group's final 2014 regular season production.

Described as a “whirling dervish” onstage, Arnez J will bring his expressive stand-up routine to the Suncoast Showroom this weekend, November 1 and 2.

Cooking Channel gets in the holiday spirit with special Holiday Feast with Kelis on Sunday, December 7th at 8:00pmET/5:00pmET, when Kelis Rogers visits her favorite local markets and cooks up a fabulous holiday menu with her family and friends.

33 VARIATIONS is part fascinating music history, part poignant family drama, and part classical music concert, which adds up to an entertaining evening of theater. Park Square's production of the Moises Kaufman play satisfies on several levels - intellectual, emotional, musical - and features a great seven-person cast (plus one talented pianist) who bring the past and present together in an intriguing way. This is just one of two shows currently playing at Park Square; St. Paul is the place to be for quality theater.

When Public Enemy's second album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, was released in 1988, “it completely upended the way records are made.

Tonight, October 30th, Broadway Sessions is a DRAG- A Hallo-Queen Hootenanny. Featuring Broadway and Musical Theater gentlemen taking the stage as their glamorous female alter ego's.

On the next episode of ABC's  Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., titled "The Writing on the Wall" - The team discovers murder victims with the alien glyphs on them that Coulson's been etching. All of Coulson's secrets and lies come to a head.

Yes, gentle readers, Bobbi Morse (aka Mockingbird, played by Adrianne Palicki) has gone back to her blonde tresses that the comic book character is known for, but that's not all then went down this week. With an episode titled “A Fractured House” the ragtag band of badass on MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. probably won't be in for a light-hearted romp.

This Thursday, October 30th, Broadway Sessions is a DRAG- A Hallo-Queen Hootenanny. Featuring Broadway and Musical Theater gentlemen taking the stage as their glamorous female alter ego's.

Legendary civil rights activist and author David Mixner just premiered Oh Hell No!, an evening autobiographical storytelling, in a special one-night-only event last night, October 27, 2014 at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the event below!

Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com or call (646) 476-3551.

For one very special night only, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's critically acclaimed and award-winning musical? A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will be performed with an all-star cast at the Palace Theatre in the West End on Monday January 26, 2015

The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) presents the 25th Anniversary Fall Festival, featuring 112 events which will explore the theme of Journeys, today, Oct. 25-Nov. 9, 2014.

Hereafter Musical, a thought provoking new musical by Vinnie Favale and Frankie Keane about the age old human desire to communicate with our loved ones who have passed, told from the perspectives of both the living and the departed, is slated for an open-ended run, Off-Broadway, at the Snapple Theater Center (1627 Broadway) with previews beginning on Saturday, September 13, 2014. Co-Author's Favale and Keane draw from their own personal losses in the inspiring look at the beyond, which will have its official opening today, October 25, 2014 at 4:45PM.

Pioneer Theatre Company has cast Tony Vincent in the lead role of Frank-N-Furter in its concert production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show.

The cast is Katie Emery, Laura Spineti, Jake Pouilos, Braiden Sunshine, Abby Xenelis and Madeleine Carney. The band is Dave Anderson, Alex Rubin and Mike Lunoe.