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Award-winning Broadway and cabaret star Jason Graae brought his acclaimed cabaret show 'Graae's Anatomy' back to 'Broadway at Birdland' on October 21 and 22 at 7 PM joined by musical director Alex Rybeck plus Surprise Guests.

On Saturday November 3 from 6:30-8:30PM, The Guild at Papermill Playhouse (Brookside Drive, Millburn NJ) is hosting a wine tasting event to benefit the education and outreach programs at the theatre.

Enter now to win 1 of 3 copies of Emmy Rossum's debut CD 'Inside Out.'

Actors Judith Ivey and Kelli O'Hara will read short fiction from 'The Best American Short Stories 2007,' edited by the best-selling author and pop culture icon Stephen King, in 'Selected Shorts,' a live version of the renowned PRI show of the same name, on Tuesday, November 6 at 8PM, at Westport Country Playhouse.

The 'Rockers on Broadway' concert returned this year with the latest edition - 'Rockers on Broadway Salutes Motown' at BB King Blues Club & Grill on Monday, October 22 at 8PM.

The 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival was held October 17-22, followed by The Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, October 22.

'Broadway Unplugged at The Ford' was held on October 15, 2007 at the John Anson Ford Theatre in Los Angeles; serving as a Benefit for the Valley Musical Theatre's programming.

P.O.V., a new play by Sharon E. Cooper, Cheryl L. Davis, ML Kinney and Bethany Larsen. Directed by Riv Massey, P.O.V. plays the Michael Weller Theatre. The three week limited run officially opened on Saturday, October 20, 2007.

By Oscar Micheaux, a new play by Cheryl L. Davis. Directed by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, By Oscar Micheaux plays the Michael Weller Theatre. The three week limited run officially opened on Saturday, October 20. Performances run through November 4.

Making their US performing debuts at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Thursday, October 25 at 8PM are the acclaimed English soprano singer/actress (London's original Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, and Les Miserables) Claire Moore and Spring Awakening's Simon Hale (Strings and Additional Orchestrations) in 'Claire Moore and Simon Hale: Back 2 Back in Concert,' presented by Josephine Buchan.

Rhode Island's oldest community theater group, The Community Players, has announced its 2007- 2008 season.

Jessica Molaskey, actress and radio personality, will perform selections from her new PS Classics CD, 'Sitting in Limbo,' at the jazz club Birdland on November 13. She will be joined by her husband, celebrated jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 10/21/2007

Emerging Artists Theatre kicks off their bi-annual EATfest, a collection of 18 one-act plays in three series. Series A, the first 6 plays, sheds some interesting light on different relationships.

The new Off-Broadway theatre company the stageFARM has announced that the world premiere engagement of its current production, Vengeance, has been extended through December 1.

Hairspray's pop-stars Lance Bass and Ashley Parker Angel, plus Wicked's Julia Murney are added to the star-studded line up, ready to rock out in 'Broadway Loves the 80s Volume 2' at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) on Monday November 12 at 11:30PM, with returning host Mo Rocca!

West Bank, UK - a world-premiere musical about a Palestinian and an Israeli who must share a rent-controlled apartment in London's West Bank - by Oren Safdie and Ronnie Cohen, creators of the popular musical about interfaith dating, Jews & Jesus, will be presented by La MaMa ETC, in association with Malibu Stage Company, for a limited New York run, with previews set to begin November 29, prior to an official press opening December 2 at La MaMa ETC.

In 'I Got Love' a new cabaret/musical revue style show at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Broadway performer Anastacia McCleskey (Tarzan) sings her way through a variety of genres: Broadway, jazz, rhythm and blues and gospel. On October 22 at 7PM and October 23 at 8PM & 10:30PM

Greasy Joan kicks off their 12th Season with a haunting set of ghost stories; presenting the classic Halloween chills and thrills of Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde brought to (after)life by Greasy Joan actors, directed by Cecile D. Keenan on Friday October 26 at 7PM.

Scott Allen Jones and Amy Armstrong give the performances of their lifetime in this new production of a cult favorite.

Oscar-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones and Hugh Jackman hosted a star-studded evening, 'A Fine Romance,' celebrating the love affair between Broadway and Hollywood on Saturday, October 20 at Sony Pictures Entertainment (Culver City, CA) for the third annual benefit the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

Jerry O'Connell, Michael Urie and Carol Kane star in a staged reading of Badge on Monday, November 12 at 8PM at The Hayworth Theater. Written by Matthew Schneck, produced by Stacy Cole and directed by noted television director Steve Zuckerman, Badge is a production of The Hayworth Theatre's popular Bruno Kirby Celebrity Reading Series.