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The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller, America's favorite holiday concert, rolls into San Francisco's Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street) for a limited engagement beginning Thursday, December 20 and running through Sunday, January 6, 2008.

Turtle Shell Productions is proud to present the world premiere of a new translation of Moliere's Scapin, beginning with a preview on December 5 and opening on December 7 at The Turtle's Shell Theater in Manhattan.

Sonnet Repertory Theatre (SRT) announces the lineup for 'Sonnet Sings: The Bard,' the company's annual benefit event. Scheduled performers include: two time Tony-nominated actor Terrence Mann and Tony award-winning and Grammy award-nominated composer Duncan Sheik, performing their original songs, in addition to Will Chase, Bradley Dean, Brian D'Arcy James, David Miller, Brandon Wardell, Q. Smith, and Rachel Ulanet.

Enter now to win one of five copies of the newly re-released holiday album from Lena Horne, 'Merry From Lena,' from DRG Records.

Launching a new winter tradition, Mud/Bone announces their first annual Holiday Print Show and Cabaret in Hunts Point starting on December 1. With two free cabaret performances by singer Marni Rice and prints by urban artists, Mud/Bone's artists invite the community to celebrate the season by sharing the gift of art in the South Bronx.

Saga Theater's Individualist Ensemble announces the world premiere of Homesick, an original work that explores the elusiveness of finding happiness through the company's intense physicality and experimentation with narrative form. Performances begin November 29 at the Ohio Theatre.

Jamie McGonnigal and Joe's Pub present Broadway Loves the 80's Vol. 2: a concert featuring your favorite Broadway stars singing their favorite hits of the awesomest decade ever! Directed by McGonnigal with Music Direction by Ben Cohn, Broadway Loves the 80's Vol. 2 will take place on Monday, November 12 at 11:30PM

The Tony Award-winning playwright Mark Medoff (Children of a Lesser God and When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?) has joined the theatre faculty at the University of Houston - where he will take over the role of teaching playwriting at the UH, following in the footsteps of Edward Albee and Lanford Wilson - it has been announced by the director of the University of Houston's School of Theatre & Dance, Steven Wallace.

Growing Up 70s, a new off-Broadway musical revue, beginning performances at the HA! Comedy Club on November 15 features Barry Williams of 'The Brady Bunch'

RAIN-The Beatles Experience comes to Newark's NJPAC for one show Wednesday November 14 at 7:30PM

The curtain rises on a spectacular new Broadway theatre season at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills (8440 Wilshire Blvd.) featuring three attractions that celebrate the rebirth of this legendary venue with shows from Broadway and London.

WHO: Baltimore Shakespeare Festival WHAT: Antigone WHEN: Through November 11. Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 5PM. WHERE: St. Mary's on Roland Avenue TICKETS AND INFORMATION: www.baltimoreshakespeare.org or 410-366-8596

Jason Robert Brown's 'The Last Five Years' will be presented by Hole in the Wall Theater in New Britain, CT beginning November 16th

Broadway star Rachel York will sing with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, December 1st at the Garde Arts Center in New London, CT

Porchlight Music Theatre will again feature the popular musical A Wonderful Life, a stage version of Frank Capra's legendary film 'It's a Wonderful Life.' The production, which broke Porchlight box office records in 2006, previews November 17 and runs through December 30 at Theatre Building Chicago

The cast and director of the new hit production of The Rocky Horror Show have a rocking good time in this hilarious interview direct from the Mercury Theatre.

The original Belle of Broadway's Beauty and the Beast, Susan Egan, will co-host An Evening of Legendary Bingo on Wednesday November 21 at Hamburger Mary's beginning at 9PM.

Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry, starring Johanna Day, Bill Pullman and Dallas Roberts officially opens at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street) on Sunday, November 11 at 6:30PM; directed by Pam MacKinnon.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its new adult education program entitled 'Midday with Masters' on November 15 with Scenic Painting Tricks of the Trade: Techniques to Bring Home.

For the third and final production in its 2007 season of musicals, the Vortex Theater Company will present a radical new adaptation of one of the most classic ghost stories of all time - Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol.' Created and adapted by downtown favorites, director Kris Thor and musician Joel Bravo, the Vortex version, A Christmas Carol: the new musical, stars anti-folk performance-art legend Jason Trachtenburg as Scrooge. Officially open on Thursday, November 29 at the newly renovated Sanford Meisner Theater. The production will close on Saturday, December 22.

Award-winning musical director and choreographer Barry Ivan will be filling some pretty big shoes when he takes over the reins as artistic director and executive producer of the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts this coming February.