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The Library of Congress has announced its annual list of the 25 movies it has added to the National Film Registry. The list features title deemed to have cultural, historic and/or aesthetic importance to American heritage.

La Jolla Playhouse announces the cast and creative team for its upcoming production of The Cake, by Bekah Brunstetter (TV's This Is Us), directed by Casey Stangl (Playhouse's The Car Plays), running February 6 - March 4, 2018 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals and encouraging youth to pursue their dreams through higher education, today announced that multi-media entertainer and entrepreneur Reba McEntire has been selected for membership in this prestigious organization.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers, announces its Top Holiday Songs for 2017. According to an ASCAP analysis of streaming and terrestrial radio data, 1994's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You,' written by Walter Afanasieff and Mariah Carey, moves to #1, joining enduring Christmas classics like 'A Holly Jolly Christmas'(written by Johnny Marks, 1962) and 'Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow'(written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, 1945), at the top of the charts. (Check out ASCAP's interview with Afanaseiff about writing 'All I Want' at http://bit.ly/2k8S9E0)

Actress Peri Gilpin, best known as Roz on the now classic TV series Frasier, is currently preparing to open at the Pasadena Playhouse in a radio play of Miracle on 34th Street December 15. She took time out of her busy schedule to talk about her role in the play, her director Cameron Watson... and of course, Frasier. LET'S TALK ABOUT MIRACLE ON 34th STREET AND YOUR ROLE IN IT. I am playing Doris Walker in a Radio Play version of the 1947 film MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET at Pasadena Playhouse. The way the story was told has always struck me as very original. It's almost like a commercial for a sermon about a commercial for a department store. But, because it never denies that about itself it stays relevant, rooted in authenticity, and honest. It also feels so American. Doris is a very buttoned -up single Mom. She works as an EXPERT P.R.' ( public relations) person for Macy's department store. This working, single mom with a high powered job doesn't feel anachronistic if you are familiar with Katharine Hepburn or Maureen O'Hara, the original Doris Walker, movies, but by

Pasadena Playhouse, the State Theatre of California, has announced complete casting for their production of the original 1947 radio play of Miracle on 34th Street, which is being presented in honor of its 70th anniversary for a limited engagement of 14 performances from December 14 to 23 (press opening is December 15).

As usual, come the festive season, there is a plethora of shows on offer to begin the merriment - and if a pantomime or version of A Christmas Carol isn't for you, there is still plenty of choice. A popular venue in London is Penge's Bridge House Theatre, and this year their Christmas treat is a stage version of the perennial film favourite, Miracle On 34th Street.

The Aviva Players and Algonquin Theater Productions in association with Diodati Productions, Original Cast Records and The New York Association present Lady of the Castle, a ghostly post-Holocaust chamber opera based on a true story and an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg with music and lyrics by Mira J. Spektor.

San Diego Musical Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its holiday production of Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play.

Generation Women: The Skin I'm In is set for Today, November 17, at 7 p.m. at CAVEAT (21 A Clinton Street, Manhattan). Admission is $25.

Julien's Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, has announced its highly anticipated event Icons & Idols: Hollywood AND MORE to take place today, November 17, 2017 at their pop up auction gallery 805 North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California and live online.

City Parks Foundation has announced the return of The Three Bears Holiday Bash, an original marionette production beginning Today, November 11, 2017 at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park and running through the end of December.

Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House, in partnership with The Millay Colony for the Arts, marks the centenary of Women's Suffrage and the reopening of New York State's oldest surviving theater with a new production of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's 1947 opera, THE MOTHER OF US ALL - a comic and profound musical pageant of 19th Century American social and political life.

The Belgrade Theatre is partnering with Junges Theatre from Werftpark, Kiel this November in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the twinning of Coventry with the German city of Kiel.

Generation Women: The Skin I'm In is set for Friday, November 17, at 7 p.m. at CAVEAT (21 A Clinton Street, Manhattan). Admission is $25.

City Parks Foundation has announced the return of The Three Bears Holiday Bash, an original marionette production beginning Saturday, November 11, 2017 at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park and running through the end of December.

Since 1989, WRAL has collected 158,000+ coats and raised nearly $2 million to provide winter clothing for Salvation Army families. This holiday season, Raleigh Little Theatre and Theatre In The Park are proud to announce their support of WRAL's Coats for the Children campaign.

The Belgrade Theatre is partnering with Junges Theatre from Werftpark, Kiel this November in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the twinning of Coventry with the German city of Kiel.

San Diego Musical Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for its holiday production of Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play.

The Aviva Players and Algonquin Theater Productions in association with Diodati Productions, Original Cast Records and The New York Association present Lady of the Castle, a ghostly post-Holocaust chamber opera based on a true story and an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg with music and lyrics by Mira J. Spektor.

It will be difficult for Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble (PSYWE) to top last season's milestone 10th anniversary, culminating in a triumphant European Tour, but if anyone can, it's this highly talented group of young musicians.

October 1947, little known novelist Samuel Beckett, with practically no theatrical experience, sits down and writes the most radical play of the 20th century in a mere 12 weeks.

Arthur Miller's The Crucible, written as a parable for a specific time, seems to strike such a deep and resonant chord that its themes are universal and always relevant. The historical setting is Salem, Massachusetts and the infamous 18th-century witch trials, but Miller had the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee on his mind.

AC Smith is memorable as Troy Maxson

The Aviva Players present Mira J. Spektor's Lady of The Castle, A Ghostly Post-Holocaust Chamber Opera, based on a true story & an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg.