Rock-It Science Records presents Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Volume 10. Featuring highlights from the Volumes 1-9, as well as the incredible talents of stars from the 2008 Broadway season, the annual holiday CD benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). This two-disc set offers 36 original and traditional holiday songs recorded especially for this benefit CD, and features the cast of Billy Elliot with the premiere of an original song by Elton John, "Cold Christmas." Included are the voices of Antonio Banderas, Harvey Fierstein, Idina Menzel, Bernadette Peters, and Andréa Burns, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nick Jonas and American Idol's Constantine Maroulis and Ace Young, plus new recordings with performances by stars from In the Heights, South Pacific, Wicked plus many more! Also performing on this year's CD are Rosie's Broadway Kids, young students in the performing arts program founded by Rosie O'Donnell. (read story...)

Be Among The First to See Off-Broadway' s Newest Theatre Irondale Center for Theater, Education and Outreach Open House Saturday, October 11th, 2008, 1:00PM to 10:00PM (read story...)

VITAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the opener of its new Family Series DAISY IN DISGUISE, an original musical for children and families performed by adults with music by SIMON GRAY and book and lyrics by STACIE LENTS and direction by DAVID HILDER featuring ANGIE PEREZ, ROSS HEWIT, NORMAN PAYNE, STEPHANIE TORNS, BETHANY JAMES, and REBECCA LIEB WALSH. (read story...)

Elisa DeCarlo, aka The Mad Fashionista, returns to the Manhattan Vintage Show with a collection of plus-sized vintage clothing. She will be sharing a booth with Matinee New York, the premiere source of men's and women's vintage clothing supplied to the film and theater industry, with credits including American Gangster, The Good Shepherd and Factory Girl. (read story...)

Landmark on Main Street proudly kicks off our 2008-09 season with the dynamic Christine Ebersole in concert on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 8 PM. (read story...)

"Halloween High School," a new musical makes its world premiere performance at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Saturday, October 11, 2008. Billed as the new high energy monster mash musical, the show will play at the acclaimed theatre through November 2, 2008. (read story...)

Wicked's Sean McCourt and Mary Poppins' Anthony Glade will headline the debut of "Planet Broadway" on October 19th, 2008 at Planet Hollywood. (read story...)

You have a front seat for three hot productions in this episode - Billy Elliot, The Marvelous Wonderettes and Fault Lines - only right here on BroadwayWorld! (read story...)

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, directed by ensemble member Randall Arney. The production, featuring ensemble members Francis Guinan, Tom Irwin, John Mahoney and Alan Wilder with Randall Newsome, runs December 4, 2008 – February 8, 2009 in Steppenwolf’s Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. The press performance is Saturday, December 13 at 3 p.m. (read story...)

Profiles Theatre continues its 20th Anniversary Season with the OBIE Award-winning dark comedy The Thugs by Adam Bock, directed by Profiles Artistic Director Joe Jahraus. The production runs October 29-December 14, 2008, at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway. The play will run in repertory with Profiles’ production of Men of Tortuga, playing through December 7, 2008. The press opening for The Thugs is Wednesday, October 29, 2008, at 8:00 p.m. (read story...)

The previously announced Alice Ripley and J. Robert Spencer will be joined by Adam Chanler-Berat, Jennifer Damiano, Louis Hobson and Aaron Tveit for the upcoming hit musical Next to Normal. (read story...)

The Brick Theater and Third Lows Productions continue their innovative theater series Penny Dreadful on Saturday, October 18 at 11:00 PM and Sunday, October 19 at 2:00 PM, with the premiere of Penny Dreadful Episode 7 - The Peril of Penny, a Damsel Lost in Time! The newest chapter in the serialized story marks the beginning of Season Two that will consist of six new plays through March 2009. (read story...)

Pig Iron Theater Company returns to New York with the hilarious and brilliant "Chekhov Lizardbrain", a comedy inspired by Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and autistic author Temple Grandin's inquiries into the evolving contortions of her own brain. (read story...)

Opera Pacific’s 2008-2009 main stage season at Segerstrom Hall of the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, opens with Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, which performs October 22 - November 1, 2008. This is Opera Pacific’s first main stage offering of The Barber of Seville since 1996. (read story...)

The Sun is reporting that actor actor Zac Efron may be considering the role of Alan Strang in EQUUS. At the London premiere of High School Musical 3 Efron was quoted as saying, "You know that Daniel Radcliffe role on Broadway? Well it's been mentioned." (read story...)

Keen Company (Artistic Director Carl Forsman, Producer Wayne Kelton) is thrilled to announce a special promotion for its run of Jan de Hartog’s The Fourposter: 15 seats available for $15 at every Tuesday night performance. (read story...)

Westport Country Playhouse (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) will stage John Steinbeck’s classic drama, “Of Mice and Men,” directed by Mark Lamos. Peformances began October 7th and will run through November 1. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 and the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” The production will honor the late Paul Newman, who was married to Westport's Artistic Director Joanne Woodward and who participated in many Westport Playhouse productions. (read story...)

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) presents the New York premiere of A Body of Water by Lee Blessing. Maria Mileaf (Going to St. Ives) returns to Primary Stages to direct the three-member cast that features Michael Cristofer (Romeo & Juliet, The Shadow Box) as Moss, Christine Lahti (“Chicago Hope,” The Heidi Chronicles) as Avis and Laura Odeh (The Rivals) as Wren. (read story...)

New writing from Niger will be performed by actors in New York City to raise funds for girls' education in the West African country. This unique collaboration, featuring stories, poems and songs written by young Nigerien women, will be held at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal Street) on Saturday, November 1, 2008. (read story...)

Gates of Gold, a new drama by Frank McGuinness will open at 59E59 on Tuesday, January 27, 2008. Directed by Lonnie Price, the production will be produced by Artists Theatre Group, Sally Jacobs and Warren Baker. McGuinness, a Tony Award winner, has his new version of Oedipus, starring Ralph Fiennes opening at the National Theatre in London and will soon have his adaptation of Ibsen’s The Master Builder opening in New York at the Irish Repertory Theatre on October 29. (read story...)

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to present The Lieutenant of Inishmore. (read story...)

Ellie Covan, Artistic Director of Dixon Place, announced today the opening of the world premiere of FOREVER, created by Laura Peterson Choreography, on October 29, 2008. FOREVER. will be the inaugural production at the new Dixon Place, a state-of-the-art laboratory facility located at 161 Chrystie Street. (read story...)

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2008-2009 season, an exploration of the imagination, with The Seafarer by Conor McPherson, directed by ensemble member Randall Arney. The production, featuring ensemble members Francis Guinan, Tom Irwin, John Mahoney and Alan Wilder with Randall Newsome, runs December 4, 2008 – February 8, 2009 in Steppenwolf’s Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. (read story...)

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) announced today that the role of Peggy Sawyer in its upcoming production of 42nd STREET (October 28 to November 23, 2008) will now be played by actress Melissa Lone. Ms. Lone comes to NSMT from Broadway where she recently appeared as Maggie in the Tony(R) Award winning revival of A Chorus Line. No stranger to 42nd STREET, she played Gladys in the National Tour and Peggy Sawyer in the Trump Plaza's production in Atlantic City. (read story...)

Direct from New York, VALARIE PETTIFORD - THANKFUL, the smash hit solo show starring Tony Nominee Valarie Pettiford makes its west coast debut at Upright Cabaret at Mark’s Restaurant, 861 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069. (read story...)