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According to reports, Jennifer Morrison, star of TV's 'House', Matthew Modine and Elizabeth Franz will join Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill in the Broadway revival of 'The Miracle Worker'.

Brand-new plays from six contemporary, diverse voices of the American theater come together for two weekends in Goodman Theatre's 2009 New Stages Series, December 11 - 20, 2009. The series of script-in-hand staged readings takes place in the Goodman's Owen Theatre and is open to the public.

Time Magazine has released their 'The Top 10 Everything of 2009' which notes that TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists.

The New York Times reports that the producers of Broadway's upcoming revival The Miracle Worker have cast a vision impaired actress to understudy Abigale Breslin in the role of Helen Keller. Kyra Ynez Siegel of Oregon has officially landed the role after flying in for an audition two weeks ago.

BLUEBARN Theatre will continue their 21st season with the h0liday spoof, Silent Night of the Lambs, which opens November 27th and runs through December 19th, 2009.

At the annual meeting of Goodman Theatre's Board of Trustees, under new Chairman Patricia Cox, the boards, artists and staff celebrated the success of its 2008/2009 immediate past season, one of unsurpassed artistic quality and diversity on its stages, and outreach into the Chicago community.

'New York Butoh-Kan Masters,' a series of performances by Ko Murobushi, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Mari Osanai and Yuko Kaseki, will be presented at Dance New Amsterdam from November 12 to 15 as part of the 2009 CAVE New York Butoh Festival--The Butoh-Kan Phase.

'New York Butoh-Kan Masters,' a series of performances by Ko Murobushi, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Mari Osanai and Yuko Kaseki, will be presented at Dance New Amsterdam from November 12 to 15 as part of the 2009 CAVE New York Butoh Festival--The Butoh-Kan Phase.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Mat Kearney, with special guest Vedera, on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:30pm at the Moore Theatre.

BLUEBARN Theatre will continue their 21st season with the h0liday spoof, Silent Night of the Lambs, which opens November 27th and runs through December 19th, 2009.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents staged readings of the musical ROSA PARKS on November 5-7, 2009 at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY. Tickets are FREE. Reservations are required at www.queenstheatre.org or by phone at 718-760-0064.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents staged readings of the musical ROSA PARKS on November 5-7, 2009 at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY. Tickets are FREE. Reservations are required at www.queenstheatre.org or by phone at 718-760-0064.

Newsday has published an article titled 'Lynn Redgrave's loss is audience's gain in 'Nightingale'.' The article was published November 3, 2009.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents staged readings of the musical ROSA PARKS on November 5-7, 2009 at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY. Tickets are FREE. Reservations are required at www.queenstheatre.org or by phone at 718-760-0064.

In what the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Bill Rauch and Executive Director Paul Nicholson can only describe as amazing, OSF's 2009 season results have exceeded all expectations. Initially anticipating a slump in the 2009 season attendance and revenue, the Festival closed with record attendance of 410,034 (89% of capacity), and record revenues of $17,098,115.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Mat Kearney, with special guest Vedera, on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:30pm at the Moore Theatre.

Native Chicago playwright Alan Gross teams up with director Steven Robman to bring his newest work, High Holidays, to Goodman Theatre. At the center of this four-character drama-inspired by Gross' own life and family experience-is young Billy Roman (Max Zuppa) and the anxiety-riddled preparations for his Bar Mitzvah in 1963 north suburban Chicago.

According to a report in the New York Times this morning, members of advocacy groups such the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts - an advocacy group for blind and deaf actors - are none to pleased with the casting of Abigail Breslin as Hellen Keller in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker.

'New York Butoh-Kan Masters,' a series of performances by Ko Murobushi, Daisuke Yoshimoto, Mari Osanai and Yuko Kaseki, will be presented at Dance New Amsterdam from November 12 to 15 as part of the 2009 CAVE New York Butoh Festival--The Butoh-Kan Phase.

Animal Crackers runs through October 25, 2009 in the Goodman's Albert Theatre. Tickets are currently available by season subscription - www.ExploreTheGoodman.org or call 312.443.3800. Individual tickets ($25 - $83) are on sale now.

Goodman Theatre launches its new 2009/2010 Season with tap dancing, acrobatics, tumbling, guitar- and ukulele-playing in an original take on the rarely-produced Marx Brothers classic musical Animal Crackers, written by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby

The Almeida Theatre in the U.K. has announced their Spring 2010 lineup of productions and events.

Yesterday evening marked the 41st annual Jeff Equity Awards Ceremony, honoring productions and production companies for excellence in Chicago-area theater. The ceremony took place at at the Skokie's North Shore Center for the Performing Arts.

The Jeff Awards have announced 179 nominations in 35 categories for Chicago Equity theatrical productions which opened between August 1, 2008, and July 31, 2009.

MEMPHIS, an original Broadway musical, will open Monday, October 19, 2009 at the Shubert Theatre (225 W. 44th Street) following critically-acclaimed and sold-out engagements at La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. Previews begin on Wednesday, September 23, 2009.