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Tomorrow, Friday October 12, The After Party is thrilled to welcome 2006 Broadway Idol Jaclyn Huberman and singer / songwriter / pianist Tracy Stark. Hosted by Brandon Cutrell and Alysha Umphress featuring Lisa Asher, The After Party begins at 10:30PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Café (407 West 42nd St.) and admission is free!

Fuerzabruta ('Brute Force') begins previews in New York on October 11 to play a strictly limited engagement at the Daryl Roth Theatre through February 17, 2008. Official Opening Night is set for Wednesday, October 24.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater continues its 13th anniversary season with the New York premiere of Rag and Bone, a play by Noah Haidle. Performances begin Wednesday, November 14, 2007. Opening night is Tuesday, November 20 at 7PM. The show will run through Sunday, December 16, 2007.

Simon Callow is the latest international star to be added to the Stratford Festival's ranks. Mr. Callow will be presenting a new work of his own composition, based on Shakespeare's sonnets.

Tony Award winning actress Christine Ebersole has just been added to the roster of talent for the upcoming 'Rockers on Broadway Salutes Motown' concert scheduled for Monday October 22 at 8PM at BB Kings Blues Club and Grill on West 42nd Street.

Who Knows Productions presents Greetings from Yorkville with music and lyrics by Robert Grusecki, lyrics and book by Anya Turner. Turner and Grusecki will both perform. The production, directed by Thommie Walsh, will run Off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse with previews beginning Tuesday, September 25. The official opening is Thursday, October 4 at 7PM.

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 at Joe's Pub

Kwame Kwei-Armah has both written and will direct the world premiere of Let There be Love running at the Tricycle Theatre from January 17 - February 16, 2008. Starring Joseph Marcell, Let There be Love is an immigrant's tale of beginnings, endings and Britishness set against the music of Nat King Cole.

Nicolas Kent, the Tricycle Theatre's Artistic Director, will direct Dearbhla Molloy as Sister Aloysius, Nikki Amuka-Bird as Mrs Muller, Padraic Delaney as Father Flynn and Marcella Plunkett as Sister James in the British premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. Doubt will run from November 22 - January 12, 2008.

'Entourage's' Rex Lee, Mackenzie Phillips, Beth Grant and Aram Rappaport star in a staged reading of the screenplay, Daybreak, Monday, October 29 at 8PM at The Hayworth. Directed by Lynne Moses, and written by Moses and Aram Rappaport, Daybreak is a production of The Hayworth Theatre's popular Bruno Kirby Celebrity Reading Series.

German-born cabaret legend Ute Lemper takes up residence at Joe's Pub November 19 through December 1.

Jewish Community Centers of Chicago (JCC) will hold its annual Benefit Concert, featuring Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Monday, November 5 at 7:30PM at Symphony Center

Acclaimed actress/singer Betty Buckley makes her Town Hall solo concert debut on Saturday, October 20 at 8PM as part of the Third Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival in 'An Evening with Betty Buckley'.

A new production of the Broadway-aimed musical adventure ACE will play a limited regional engagement at Washington DC's National Theatre early next year.

The New York Times reports that 'after two and a half months of sometimes contentious contract negotiations, the organization representing most of Broadway's producers and theater owners and the union representing stagehands are at an impasse, bringing most of Broadway to the brink of a shutdown.'

Network Television Pays Homage to Broadway

Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn is coming off Broadway and will open at the New World Stages on Monday, November 12 with previews commencing on Tuesday, October 30.

Grand Delusion, a biting black comedy, by David Rock begins performances at The Lost Studio, Los Angeles on November 16.

WHO: Mobtown Players WHAT: The Pillowman WHEN: Through October 20. Fri - Sat at 8PM. Select Sunday Matinees at 4PM. WHERE: The Mobtown Theatre at Meadow Mill in Hampden. HOW MUCH: $12 general, $10 students. INFORMATION: 410-467-3057 or www.mobtownplayers.com

BBC News reports Barry Humphries, the creator of world-famous character-act Dame Edna Everage, has been made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.