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"Nearly every show had its audience shrink last week, with 14 productions experiencing more than a 10 percent drop in ticket sales. So musicals and plays are trying to hang on until the holidays bring an influx of cheer-seeking visitors to new york, looking to be entertained. After the new year they will try to hang on again, through January and February, traditionally two of the industry's slowest months."...

"Surrender" laudably encourages empathy for our troops but doesn't try to explain just why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The harried married couples in Lucinda Coxon's sharp, entertaining comedy-drama are London dwellers with all the earmarks of couples living in new york City.

Las Vegas Entertainers Bruce Ewing (Phantom Cast Member) & Joey Singer (Mamma Mia Keyboards) are pleased to announce the release of their Christmas CD, "REMEMBERING TO DREAM".

Lisa Kron's Tony-nominated comedy WELL, which recently made its European debut in London at Trafalgar Studios, will transfer to the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.

Downtown diva Kate Pazakis headlines her first Zipper Factory show, Kate Pazakis: Unzipped! December 9th, 2008 at 10:30pm. This brand new show uses a mix of pop, rock, country and musical theatre to reveal the woman behind the powerhouse belt. The evening also gives the audience a chance to witness the live recording of Kate's debut album.

Obie Winner, Christopher Shinn's searing drama, DYING CITY will receive its premiere Los Angeles performance, Tuesday, November 18th as part of the Neighborhood Playhouse's Fall Play Reading Festival

The new york Times is reporting that HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical which played this summer to sold out houses at The Delacorte theater in Central Park will play Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theater (currently home to A TALE OF TWO CITIES). Previews begin on February 13, 2009 with the official opening set for March 5, 2009.

Storyteller, poet and performer David Gonzalez will bring his family hit THE FROG BRIDE to life at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, directed by Lenard Petit.

Direct from a critically acclaimed European tour, the world's best (and probably only) comic cabaret on roller skates, AMY G: ROUND SHE GOES, rolls into Joe's Pub on Friday Novemeber 21 at 11:30 pm.