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Rehearsals begin tomorrow, October 27, for Kansas City Repertory Theatre's highly anticipated world premiere of A Christmas Story, The Musical!

Westchester's Dance Theatre production of The Nutcracker will play Yorktown Stage on December 19th and 20th. Performances are Saturday, December 19 at 1PM and 5PM, and Sunday December 20 at 1PM.

The Yorktown Stage will present THE WIZARD OF OZ from November 14th through November 29th. The show will run fomr November 14 - November 29.

Into the shading of the nation's first bi-racial president, enters Juliette Fairley and her one woman show the Making of a Mulatto. Arriving in Manhattan for a winter run, starting December 12, 2009 through Feb. 6, 2010, at the Matthew Corozine Theatre.

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre will dissect revolution with stilts and strings in 'REVOLUTION!,' a theatre spectacle that examines revolutions throughout the history of mankind as a backdrop for the extraordinary peaceful 1989 Velvet Revolution in former Czechoslovakia. Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue will present the work March 4 to 21, 2010. It will feature regulars of Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre and guest artists.

Thunderbird American Indian Dancers will hold their 35th annual Dance Concert and Pow Wow at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, from January 29 to February 7, 2010. The troupe's appearances benefit college funds for needy Native American students. The company's Pow-Wows have been presented annually as a two-week event by TNC since 1976, with the box office donated to these funds. There will be dances, stories and traditional music from the Iroquois and Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast, the Southwest, the Plains, and the Arctic regions. Between 25 and 30 dancers will assemble for the event.

Zagreb Youth Theater, from Zagreb, Croatia, will present 'The Garage' at La MaMa E.T.C. from January 28th to February 7th.

Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, a radical innovator of the theater and founder of the movement called Teatro Patologico (Pathological Theater), will stage a novel version of 'Romeo and Juliet' at La MaMa. The production opens on December 3rd and runs through December 13th.

ANGRY YOUNG WOMEN IN LOW RISE JEANS WITH HIGH CLASS ISSUES, written and directed by Matt Morillo, will play Theater for the New City from December 3rd through the 20th.

Producers Thomas Schumacher and Cameron Mackintosh announced today that tickets for the highly anticipated Australian premiere of MARY POPPINS are now on sale to the public at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne. The show will officially open on July 29, 2010.

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Drama, will return this holiday season to the Falcon Theatre. Falcon will be holding auditions on Monday, November 2nd at 7:00 PM at the Monmouth Theatre for several open roles. Available roles are for both men and women with flexible age requirements. Most actors in this show will play multiple voice roles. There are also 2 roles open for female singers who are integral to the show. Auditions will consist of cold reading from the script. No appointment is necessary.

Since Community of Unity (CofU) was founded in 2001 by youth development specialist Eric Komoroff, over 30,000 youth from around the world have been touched by their programs. This year's annual benefit, which will take place on Thursday, October 29 at 7p at the Winston Wachter Gallery in Chelsea (530 West 25th Street), will raise funds for groundbreaking programs that are responsible for the 90% college attendance rate of graduates from their after-school program participants. MTV news correspondent Sway Calloway will be the emcee for the evening.

Chicago Dramatists announced today that Resident Playwright Lydia Diamond's play Stick Fly was nominated for 5 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (including Best Production, Director, Ensemble, Lighting and Scenic) and Resident Playwright Keith Huff's play The Bird and Mr. Banks was also nominated for Ovation Awards for Best Actor for Sam Anderson (Bernard on 'Lost') and Best Sound Design.

The Opera House Players production of THE FULL MONTY, directed by Philip D. Vetro, will play the Broad Brook Opera House from November 13th to November 29th. On opening night, $1 from each ticket sold will be donated to the East Windsor Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Fund and concession stand proceeds will benefit Harvest for the Hungry supporting the East Windsor 5 Corner Cupboard.

After being honored with five Ovation Award nominations last week - including Best Musical for the second year in a row, Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara is closing out its run on Sunday, November 8. The production has been playing in the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse since March. While these final weeks mark Angeleno's final chance to see th production, the team behind the musical is in the process of planning the show's future.

Virginia Stage Company (VSC) presents the second play in its 2009-2010 season, a new modern adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless Romeo and Juliet in //romeo&juliet/ running October 20 through November 8 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk.

Texas Performing Arts' flagship venue Bass Concert Hall has moved from number 13 (mid-year ranking) to 7 on the top 100 Worldwide Theatre Venues with 215,237 tickets sold for events between January 1 and September 30, 2009, according to Pollstar, the trade journal for touring artists, booking agents and performance venues.

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced the kickoff of a national tour at the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts conference yesterday, October 21, 2009. Over the next six months, the chairman will visit neighborhoods and towns throughout America to learn and highlight the ways that art can create jobs, stimulate the economy and revitalize communities.

DiverseWorks presents the official launch of Inbound: Houston, a public art billboard project with Mitchell Center artist-in-residence Karyn Olivier, on view from Oct. 26 - Nov. 22. The launch event on October 26 from 6 PM to 8 PM includes live music, billboard viewing, an artist talk with Olivier, plus additional surprise happenings.

Actress Kathleen Chalfant and analyst Margaret Klenck will interpret C.G. Jung's Red Book during THE RED BOOK DIALOGUES at the Rubin Museum of Art on Sunday, November 15th at 6PM.