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Detroit - Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts is kicking off our 2015-16 Dance Series with some Broadway chops meets Hollywood glitz in the ultra contemporary Shaping Sound - dance reimagined, on Saturday, November 7th at 8:00 PM.

For more than half a century, New Jersey Ballet has thrilled audiences from Bergen to Cape May with top quality professional ballet and November 7 through the 8 in the Lackland Center they'll return to thrill with two exciting shows, NJ Ballet: Tappin' at the Ballet and Sleeping Beauty.

Griffin Theatre Company is pleased to launch its 2015-16 season with the Midwest premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's heartbreaking comedy POCATELLO, directed by ensemble member Jonathan Berry (Punk Rock, Balm in Gilead), playing November 7 - December 13, 2015 at Signal Ensemble Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice Ave. in Chicago. Single tickets are available at www.griffintheatre.com or by calling (866) 811-4111. Season subscriptions are currently available. The press opening is Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 7 pm.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts opens the 2015-16 Jazz series with Anat Cohen Quartet: Celebrando Brasil on Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 8:00 p.m at Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street). 

This melodic, memorable and quirky pop score provides biting social commentary along with a little romance and an outrageously good time for all. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll cringe.

Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar's edge-of-your-seat Pulitzer Prize- winning play about a successful Muslim-American lawyer whose dinner guests' discussion of race and identity explodes to reveal racial prejudices and personal secrets plays at the Temple of Music and Art from Oct. 17 through Nov. 7. I. Michael and Beth Kasser are Arizona Theatre Company's 2015-16 Season Sponsors.

The Alden in McLean bring the NSFW (not safe for work) humor of Judy Gold and Bruce Vilanch for a late show at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7. Tickets are $35, $20 for McLean Community Center (MCC) tax district residents. The Alden is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue, inside MCC.

Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square invites all to a special evening that will honor former President/CEO JOE GILLIE and raise funds for special programming in his name.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents an evening with The Tenors. Thrilling audiences around the world with their powerful voices and memorable songs. Saturday, November 7, 2015 8:00 PM at Prudential Hall.

An adaptation of the book STANDING TALL - the emails, journals and creative writings of 9/11 is being presented November 7th at 7:00 PM at ArtNY Bruce Mitchell Theatre, 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor produced by FACT Theatre Company.

BoSoma Dance Company performs its annual fall show at the Boston University Dance Theater on November 6th & 7th. Irada Djelassi and Katherine Hooper, BoSoma's Artistic Directors, are proud to introduce, PLUG IN. A collaborative new work based on the impact of technology in our everyday lives. Inspired by the movie, HER, as well as the life of Steve Jobs and his desire to make us more connected by offering technology that functions as an extension of our selves. Resident choreographer, Lindsey Leduc, formally of Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, has also contributed a section titled FaceTime, to this new work.

Acclaimed New York City cabaret singer and actress Klea Blackhurst will bring her signature show 'An Evening with Klea Blackhurst' to the Milford Center for the Arts as part of it's Nite Spot Nights series produced in conjunction with Pantochino Productions Inc. on Saturday, November 7th at 8 p.m.

LEA DeLARIA will perform selections from her innovative new album, House of David: delaria + bowie = jazz - which boldly reexamines the work of music icon David Bowie - in a series of concerts at Smoke Jazz Club (2751 Broadway at 106th Street). The shows are Wednesday nights, October 7, October 21, November 4 and November 25 at 11:30 PM. Tickets are $12 with an additional $20 minimum. She will be joined by Lucas Pino on saxophone, Alex Goodman on guitar, Dylan Shamat on bass and Aaron Kimmel on drums. Tickets are available here.

On Saturday, November 7th at 6:30 PM the Orpheum Theatre will host its 37th Annual Auction.

With 18 national awards in their hip pocket, including a 2014 New York Emmy® Award for Best Children's Programming, Alex & The Kaleidoscope, with Alex Mitnick at the helm, has a splendid itinerary of colorful musical adventures in store

Fresh from a SOLD OUT performance in San Diego, Paul Coates' new play PAIN will be presented in Hollywood at the Nationally recognized, award-winning Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, with two performances (3:00 pm and 7:00 pm) on November 7th. 

The Fountain Theatre continues its 15-year relationship with master playwright Athol Fugard, presenting the West Coast premiere of his newest play. Directed by Simon Levy, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek opens on November 7 at the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood.

Critically acclaimed jazz singer Laurie Krauz and her Award-winning Musical Director Daryl Kojak have reinvented Krauz's original show Tapestry Rewoven into Tapestry Rewoven UNPLUGGED and the duo-with just Krauz singing and Kojak at piano--will perform two sets at Cafe Noctambulo at Pangea (178 2nd Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets) on Saturday, November 7 at 7 and 9 pm.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in an all-Mozart program: his Divertimento in D major, K.136/125a; Horn Concerto No. 2, with Principal Horn Philip Myers; and Serenade for 13 Winds, Gran partita. The concerts take place Wednesday, November 4, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.; Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, November 6 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m.

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, America's preeminent professional Gilbert & Sullivan repertory company, kicks off its 41st season with the political fairytale Iolanthe (November 7 & 8) at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place). The seventh collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan, Iolanthe is certainly not politics as usual! The affairs of state in fairyland take center stage and the tasty tunes take wing along with the non-stop hilarity.

CRAFT IN AMERICA, the Peabody Award-winning documentary series, now in its 7th season, returns to PBS, on November 20th at 10pm*

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents Lisa Lampanelli, Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 8PM.

The devastating outcomes of lessons learned from the Holocaust are revealed in a landmark, original ballet coming to the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Ballet Austin - LIGHT/The Holocaust & Humanity Project. Presented by inSIGHT Through Education, in collaboration with the Kravis Center, the dramatic production choreographed and directed by internationally renowned Artistic Director Stephen Mills comes to the Kravis Center for one night, November 7 at 8 pm.

A talking donkey, a singing ogre, a feisty princess, a sassy cookie, tap dancing rats, and a striking band of  misfit fairytale characters will be working their magic for children of all ages when Reston Community Players opens its 49th season with the Tony Award-winning fairytale adventure Shrek The Musical, October 16-November 17.

The Explorers Club, a Michigan Premiere by Legally Blonde The Musical Composer & Lyricist, Nell Benjamin, plays at Meadow Brook Theatre on the campus of Oakland University from October 7 through November 1. There will be a special Opening Night Afterglow sponsored by Lellis of Auburn Hills and Manny's Liquor on October 10 at 6:00 PM.