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This season, Harvey Fierstein's seminal Broadway classic, Torch Song has made its way back to Broadway 36 years after its original run, in a brand-new production.

History, legend, magic realism, and hilarious comedy illuminate the tale of John Wesley Powell's famous 1869 expedition down the Colorado River into the Grand Canyon. Under the command of an intrepid Civil War veteran with only one arm, ten men set out through uncharted territory in wooden rowboats on the adventure of their lifetimes.  Six men completed the journey.  New Hampshire Theatre Project's 30th Anniversary Season opens with the exciting adventure story Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. 

Part contemporary fairy tale/part modern day parable about lost love, missed chances and the cruelty of fate, Brooklyn: The Musical, is given a startlingly good production by Nashville's Street Theatre Company, with strong direction by Bakari King (the much-in-demand peripatetic - and multi-hyphenated - actor/singer/director/choreographer/producer/educator) and the consistently impressive performances by an ensemble of nine actors who bring the show to life with palpable vitality and remarkable commitment.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) held its annual Symposium and Awards Luncheon yesterday at the New York Hilton Midtown. The annual event recognized more than 300 BCRF-funded scientists from around the world who are devoted to ending breast cancer through groundbreaking research.

Hot off award-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and reunited with Matthew Dunster, who directed his hit Hangmen, Martin McDonagh brings his latest to the Bridge - quite a coup for Nick Hytner. Yet this provocative take on Hans Christian Andersen, and on the nature of storytelling, takes too scattershot an approach to fully land.

The Chemotherapy Foundation, a not-for-profit organization providing critical start-up seed money grants for innovative cancer research projects, is celebrating 50 years of research and discovery by hosting its 2018 Innovation Gala on Wednesday, November 7th at The Russian Tea Room in New York City. Media personality Valerie Smaldone will emcee the event which will honor Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, The Son), actor, producer, and philanthropist, with the Humanitarian Award; renowned Oncologist Malcolm Pike will receive the Ezra Greenspan Award, and Journalist Marvin Scott will accept the Chemotherapy Foundation Appreciation Award. Dr. Eric Manheimer, author of Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital and the inspiration behind NBC's hit series New Amsterdam, will participate in a Q&A session. The program will include a look back at some of the foundation's most notable achievements and discovery in a special video tribute as well as a cocktail reception and sit-down dinner.

Rockwell Table & Stage will present the brand-new "Unauthorized Musical Parody of Stranger Things" running Thursday, Today and Saturday nights at Rockwell October 26th thru November 17th.

Hawaiian by birth, southern by sound: Kings of Spade's gritty, whiskey-soaked swagger is making its way to the mainland forefront with the just-released self-titled LP, produced by Nashville favorite Dave Cobb. Kings of Spade's de-facto battle cry and album highlight “Strange Bird” is getting the video treatment today, along with a personal essay by lead singer KC. The Talkhouse premiered the visuals alongside a deeper dive into KC's experience growing up, the resistance she faced, and how this shaped her perspective.

Los Angeles-Craft Recordings has confirmed plans to re-release the debut album from influential industrial rock band Filter. The platinum-selling Short Bus will be reissued on two vinyl configurations: black vinyl (available widely), plus a limited-edition white vinyl edition available only to indie record stores (1,000 available). Both have been mastered by George Horn and Anne-Marie Suenram at Fantasy Studios and pressed at Memphis Record Pressing.

Theatre Royal Bath today announces A Season of UK Premieres from the Americas at the Ustinov Studio opening next month. The Model Apartment by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, directed by Laurence Boswell will run from 22 November to 22 December with opening night for press on 28 November. This will be followed by Tanya Barfield's play with music, Blue Door, directed by Eleanor Rhode from 7 February to 9 March 2019, and a third production, to be announced, will complete the season.

Back by popular demand, Mark Lockyer's critically acclaimed Living with the Lights On - produced by ATC - will tour the UK again in early 2019. This follows three previous UK and European sell-out tours and two sell-out runs at the Young Vic London.

The Fizz have teamed up once again with Mike Stock to produce their FIRST ever Christmas record: Christmas With The Fizz, out on MPG Records on 16th November 2018. 

In a sculptural costume designed by artist Arlene Shechet, two-time Academy Award Winner Dianne Wiest has been perming pieces from Samuel Beckett's Happy Days this week (through October 26).  The action of the play takes place within and around Madison Square Park's reflecting pool, which has been emptied by Shechet for her new, site-specific installation Full Steam Ahead.

Laura Little Theatricals and Theater Latte Da announce casting for the Off-Broadway premiere of the new musical ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914.

Netflix has renewed Atypical, the critically acclaimed original series created, written and executive produced by Robia Rashid (How I Met Your Mother, Will & Grace) for a third season.  

The Broadway musical phenomenon that is Wicked has become the very definition of defying gravity. Not only is it the 6th longest running Broadway musical of all times, it's been translated into 8 languages, performed in 15 countries, and seen by almost sixty million people worldwide.

The Los Angeles Master Chorale will perform five festive Christmas concerts in Walt Disney Concert Hall in December including a new program called English Cathedral Christmas on December 2 that aims to bring the unbroken advent tradition of British carols and anthems to Walt Disney Concert Hall with works by a range of composers dating from the 16th century to today. The concerts include the popular Festival of Carols concerts (December 8 and 15), Handel's Messiah (December 16) and the 38th Annual Messiah Sing-Along (December 17) when the 2,200-strong audience sings as the chorus.

When listeners first hear the new JENNIFER SARAN single “LET THE WAVES WASH OVER ME (SONG FOR CHRISTINE),” they will be transported by the singer's elegant and gorgeous phrasing over producer and co-writer Narada Michael Walden's impeccably lush bed of jazz-blues instrumentation. But as Saran points out, a second listen reveals the dramatic intention behind her lyrics. There is a message that she wants to convey to the public, and its time is “now.”

Creating growth and empowering opportunities: The Andrea Bocelli Foundation's mission finds a further concrete application within the forthcoming album by Andrea Bocelli, out on October 26. A very special participation, that of the choir 'Voices of Haiti', the expression of one of the projects that the Andrea Bocelli Foundation has created in Haiti with its local partner Foundation St Luc.