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"Milwaukee Shakespeare's lightning-quick demise last week has a bitterly ironic parallel with the financial market forces that caused it. Just as several venerable Wall Street firms suddenly collapsed with virtually no warning, Milwaukee's 8-year-old Shakespeare troupe made an abrupt and shocking exit from our arts community."...

"The fringe grew up to provide space for new and experimental forms of work; theatre that could not be staged under the nose of the Lord Chamberlain; theatre that challenged the status quo; theatre that asked unpalatable questions of society; theatre that made aesthetic choices that outraged audiences - disquieting theatre; disruptive theatre." Today, "the fringe now often seems to be less forward-looking in terms of staging and material than the Lyttleton or the Gielgud."...

Kids adore Horrid Henry. Currently, he's one of the most popular characters in children's fiction and is coming to the West End in Horrid Henry - Live and Horrid! opening at the Trafalgar Studios on 21 November for a limited Christmas run until 11 January.

High School Musical 3:Senior Year had an impressive $15M weekend for a new total of $61.8M, holding the top spot once again at the box office. The film will be debuting a 'sing- along' version in select markets including Los Angeles, new york, Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia on Friday, November 7.

The Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 200th anniversary season with HAIRSPRAY. This all-new production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show explodes onto the Walnut stage with toe-tappin' hits including "You Can't Stop the Beat" and "Welcome to the 60s." HAIRSPRAY brings big songs, big hair and even bigger dreams to life this holiday season.

The San Francisco Playhouse is offering FREE tickets to their production of SHINING CITY to anyone who votes today, November 4th. While their election day performance has been cancelled, voters can go to the box office and show their voting sticker to receive a free ticket for them and a friend to see the play before it closes on November 22nd, 2008.

Tickets for Westport Country Playhouse's (Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, artistic directors, Jodi Schoenbrun Carter, managing director) five presentations of 'Our Town,' community gatherings to celebrate the life of Paul Newman, were sold out in a matter of hours yesterday (Monday, November 3).

Feinstein's at Lowes Regency has announced additions to their upcoming winter lineup.

The new york Public Library honored playwright Edward Albee, children's author and illustrator Ashley Bryan, screenwriter and essayist Nora Ephron, and novelist Salman Rushdie at its annual Library Lions black-tie benefit on Monday, November 3, 2008, at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

The last time Jane Fonda appeared on Broadway, John F. Kennedy was still in the White House and "Barbarella" was just a gleam in Roger Vadim's eye.