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Felicia Finley (The Wedding Singer, Aida, Catch Me If You Can) is set to make her first New York appearance with her band at Joe's Pub on Monday November 16th at 9:30pm.

RACE, the new play written and directed by David Mamet, is proud to announce its award winning design team: set designer Santo Loquasto, lighting designer Brian MacDevitt and costume designer Tom Broecker.

Felicia Finley (The Wedding Singer, Aida, Catch Me If You Can) is set to make her first New York appearance with her band at Joe's Pub on Monday November 16th at 9:30pm.

Regina Taylor -- best known to television audiences for her starring role in the critically acclaimed series 'I'll Fly Away' and the first African-American woman to play Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet' on Broadway -- will discuss her work in TV, theatre and film Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Northwestern University.

Tony Award-winning choreographer and internationally celebrated tap dancer Savion Glover will perform in a series of concerts, Jammin' With the Masters, at The Blue Note in November. He will appear on stage with legendary jazz improvisers McCoy Tyner (November 17), Roy Haynes (November 18), Eddie Palmieri (November 19), and Jack DeJohnette (November 21-22). A co-performer for the November 20 performance has yet to be announced. On each night, the performances will be held at 8pm & 10:30pm.

On Monday, November 2nd at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, This is Tisch! honored Academy Award® winning producer Brian Grazer, two-time Academy Award® winning director Ron Howard, Academy Award® and Tony Award® winning actress and Tisch alumna Marcia Gay Harden, arts philanthropist Diana King, and Academy Award®, Emmy Award® and Peabody Award® winning Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films.

Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell of the Tisch School of the Arts announced today that Kristen Johnston '89 will host this year's annual gala, This is Tisch!, on Monday, November 2nd at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. This is Tisch! will honor Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, two-time Academy Award winning director Ron Howard, Academy Award and Tony Award winning actress and Tisch alumna Marcia Gay Harden, arts philanthropist Diana King, and Academy Award®, Emmy Award and Peabody Award winning Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films.

Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell of the Tisch School of the Arts announced today that it will hold its annual gala, This is Tisch!, on Monday, November 2nd at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

A BOY AND HIS SOUL - Colman Domingo's acclaimed play about his life growing up in Philadelphia in the 70's and 80's amid the cool, smooth sounds of soul, R&B and disco - is anticipated to return to an Off-Broadway stage in New York this season following its run at The Vineyard, it has been announced by The Vineyard Theatre and producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann.

Colman Domingo's critically acclaimed play A BOY AND HIS SOUL will conclude its extended run at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) as previously announced on November 1.

The Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre has announced that it will extend its critically acclaimed play A BOY AND HIS SOUL - written and performed by Colman Domingo - by 2 weeks, now until November 1.

A BOY AND HIS SOUL - Colman Domingo's acclaimed play about his life growing up in Philadelphia in the 70's and 80's amid the cool, smooth sounds of soul, R&B and disco - is anticipated to return to an Off-Broadway stage in New York this season following its run at The Vineyard, it has been announced by The Vineyard Theatre and producer Elizabeth Ireland McCann.

Colman Domingo's critically acclaimed play A BOY AND HIS SOUL will conclude its extended run at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) as previously announced on November 1.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced initial casting today for the world premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' THE BOOK OF GRACE (previously titled Snake).

Felicia Finley (The Wedding Singer, Aida, Catch Me If You Can) is set to make her first New York appearance with her band at Joe's Pub on Monday November 16th at 9:30pm.

Into the shading of the nation's first bi-racial president, enters Juliette Fairley and her one woman show the Making of a Mulatto. Arriving in Manhattan for a winter run, starting December 12, 2009 through Feb. 6, 2010, at the Matthew Corozine Theatre.

After a sold-out one-week only engagement last Spring, Donal O'Kelly's THE CAMBRIA returns to the Irish Arts Center to run in rep with Roger Guenveur Smith's FREDERICK DOUGLASS NOW. CAMBRIA/DOUGLASS begins previews on Wednesday, September 16 for a limited engagement through Sunday, October 25.

Carolines on Broadway, 'America's Premier Comedy Nightclub,' announces its all-star line-up of talent for the month of November 2009, highlighted by headliners Mario Cantone, from HBO's 'Sex and the City,' Broadway's 'Laugh Whore' and ABC's 'The View,' November 5 - 8 (as part of the New York Comedy Festival) ; Ruperto Vanderpool, from HBO's 'P Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy,' BET's 'Comic View' and the film 'The Cook Out,' hosts 'El Spanglish Comedy Show,' November 6 and 7 as part of the NYCF; Louis CK, from HBO's 'Lucky Louie' and the film 'The Invention of Lying,' November 8 (as part of the NYCF), and on November 25; Paul Mooney, 'Negrodamus' from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show,' from Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled' and his Showtime special, 'Jesus Was Black,' November 12 -15, 19 - 22 and 26 - 29; 'The Gangster of Comedy' Capone, from BET's 'ComicView,' 'Showtime at the Apollo' and the film 'Death of a Dynasty,' November 20 - 22; and Charlie Murphy, from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show' and the film 'Norbit' hosts 'Charlie Murphy and Friends,' on November 27 and 28.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced world premieres by Roger Guenveur Smith and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins for the 2009-2010 Public LAB season.

The Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre (AVENUE Q and [title of show]) will open its 2009-10 season with the Off-Broadway premiere of A BOY AND HIS SOUL -- a new play written and performed by Colman Domingo (PASSING STRANGE, Logo Network's 'The Big Gay Sketch Show') set to begin previews September 9, prior to officially opening on September 24 at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) in Manhattan.