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Saddam: The Musical, a satiric show about the former Iraqi dictator, will run at the Drama Book Shop from October 21st through 30th

A number of new plays from France will come to off-Broadway's 59E509 Theatres this November as part of the Act French Festival

Cabaret performer Milla Ilieva will present her show So Many Nights, So Many Men at the Encore from October 28th through November 12th

On October 10th, musicians from around the country joined at Birdland to celebrate The Matthew Shepard Foundation with music and fun. The cast included Randi Driscoll and Noah Heldman, Jason & deMarco, Max von Essen, Christopher Sieber, Billy Stritch, Scott Nevins, David Gurland and host Jim Caruso.

Legendary playwright Harold Pinter has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature

Tony Award-nominee will perform songs from his debut album Goodtimenation in New York City venues on November 7th, 14th and 21st

JESSE GREEN of The New York Times, MICHAEL MUSTO of The Village Voice and DAVID ROONEY of Variety join MICHAEL RIEDEL of The New York Post and producer SUSAN HASKINS to handicap the upcoming season on Broadway.

Anne Heche, Christian Slater, Andre De Shields, Thora Birch, Michael York and others led the all-star cast of the Actors' Fund's benefit reading of Casablanca on October 2nd

Broadway In Chicago announces their 2006 Neumann Homes Broadway In Chicago Season Series.

Michael Arden, Laura Benanti, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Sara Gettelfinger, Max Von Essen and more will headline the World AIDS Day Benefit Concert of The Secret Garden on December 5th

A new stage adaptation of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, starring Brian D'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee, Meredith Patterson and Jeffry Denman, will be presented in LA from November 28th through January 1st, 2006

Cabaret star David Gurland will reprise his hit Madonna tribute Neurotica at Ace of Clubs from October 14th through November 11th

The cast of The Color Purple will be seen on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the second week of November

La Tempestad, Larry Loeball's contemporary adaptation of The Tempest at Renosance Ensemble, will play in repertory with the Shakespeare play through October 30th

Singer and Grease star Olivia Newton-John performed at the Nokia Theatre Times Square on October 11th

The Goodman Theatre's staging of the musical Purlie has extended its run through October 30th

Beginning on November 5th, Avenue Q's John Tartaglia will host four Young People's Concerts for the New York Philharmonic through May 6th, 2006

The film version of Dreamgirls, starring Beyoncé Knowles, Jamie Foxx and Eddie Murphy, will commence shooting in January of 2006 for a December release that year

The public is invited on a first come, first served basis to attend the rededication ceremony of the August Wilson Theatre on Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 8:00 p.m.

Handwritten Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of SODOM: THE MUSICAL. This new musical comedy about the last days of Sodom and Gomorrah features book & lyrics by Kevin Laub and music by Adam David Cohen.

Grosses for the week ending October 9 (Week 19) were $15,412,092, up from last year's week 19 gross of $12,689,084, a 21.5% increase, and up 29.1%, from the same period in 2003-04's total of $11,933,974.