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Serenade star Anika Larsen is set to perform a number from the show at the Union Square Holiday Market tomorrow, December 7 at 4PM.

Christine Ebersole began her four-night 'Winter Wonderland' concert series, accompanied by applauded pianist Billy Stritch, at Broadway at Birdland on Wednesday, December 5.

The San Francisco Fringe Festival, the second oldest such festival in the U.S., is now accepting applications for its 17th season, scheduled for September 3-14, 2008 in various downtown venues.

Stage adaptation brings to life all of the quirky characters and wacky happenings of 1983 classic film. Be forewarned that a Red Ryder BB Gun is fired during the show and someone could shoot their eye out.

SHN is pleased to announce the national tour of Disney's High School Musical will play San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre April 15-27, 2008.

In the final Actors Fund Musical Monday of the year, the incredible Sam Harris came close to blowing the roof off of the Pantages Theatre!

New York Theatre Workshop announces that the opening night for Beckett Shorts, an evening of four one-act plays written by Samuel Beckett and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, will now be Tuesday, December 18.

New musical 'Dreamchild' will be presented as a Staged Reading on December 14 and 15 at Palos Verdes High School.

Maggie Graham has decided to 'haul out the holly' and add a new holiday music segment to her acclaimed one-woman show 'Carol Channeling.' The show plays Saturdays at 9PM, through December 29, at the Triad

Known for her incomparable humor, over-the-top imagination and captivating charisma, the Divine Miss M. has appropriately titled her new Las Vegas production 'Bette Midler The Showgirl Must Go On.' The show, which is created exclusively for The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, will make its highly anticipated debut on February 20, 2008.

The Injured Party, a new comedy by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, will receive its World Premiere at South Coast Repertory during the 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. Commissioned by SCR, and directed by Trip Cullman, The Injured Party will run from April 20 through May 11, 2008 on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

Stew - whose new musical Passing Strange will begin performances on Broadway Feb. 8, 2008 at the Belasco Theatre - is one of five special guest hosts who will divulge the music they just cannot live without during WNYC Radio's annual weeklong 'Must Have Festival' December 10 to 14. Stew's evening of 'Must Have' music will conclude the weeklong Festival, broadcasting on December 14 at 7PM.

2.5 Minute Ride, the roller coaster play by Lisa Kron, will have an Off-Broadway engagement in 2008, with performances beginning Friday, January 18, at Altered Stages

'Serenade' by Jaradoa Theater is making two special matinees available at no cost to students participating in their outreach programs on December 5 and 12.

Time to order a whiskey, straight up, because the ice might melt, it's that hot. Okay, clichéd lines aside, there is something heartening going down at the Wilshire Theatre, as showbusiness's three greatest crooners are on display in all their glory...

Kathy Deitch of Broadway's Wicked, will go it solo December 9 at the Canal Room in Tribeca. Deitch will perform the music of the pop group Heart in an evening simply titled 'All Heart.' Show time is 9 PM.

Cast Members from Disney's High School Musical in association with The Knitting Factory are pleased to announce 'The Afterschool Special' on December 17.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com are proud to announce the Official CD Release Party for composer and lyricist Scott Alan's debut album, Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan, on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 7:30PM.