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Everyone's favorite storybook characters are brought together for a timeless yet relevant piece and rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.  The story follows a Baker and his wife who wish to have a child, Cinderella who wishes to attend the King's Festival, and Jack who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch's curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone's wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.

This is an amusing story of the age-old tale of Boy-Meets-Girl and the complications which ensue wrapped around one of Cole Porter's magical scores. Terrific Cole Porter songs include It's De-Lovely, Friendship, I Get A Kick Out Of You, All Through The Night, Anything Goes, You're The Top and Blow, Gabriel, Blow.

Refugees takes place in the home of an Icelandic family in Hlin Agnarsdottir's highly relevant play from 2010. Vala returns to Iceland from New York to find her mother's house occupied by her two unemployed brothers, Bo and Dan, and Dan's Estonian girlfriend, Elena. It turns out that the brothers are not the only ones living off the goodwill of the mother; the granddaughter, Sara, is hiding refugees in the basement. The family's crises merge with both the Icelandic economic crisis and the international refugee crisis on many levels. But with a clever hint to the Old Testament's nativity of Jesus, this story may have a happy ending . . . 

Articulate Theatre, an ensemble collection of playwrights, actors, directors and designers, is presenting its signature benefit performance -Articulating the Arts: Folk City Scenes. The event includes a discussion after the Saturday show with producer Doug Yeager, musician Phil Marsh, director David Marquez and author/curator Stephen Petrus.

Thousands of dancers are limbering up in preparation for the 10th Annual Dance Parade and Festival in New York on Saturday May 21st 2016.  The annual event is a street parade and dance festival in a city park that brings together dancers from around the city and as far away as Japan to showcase dance styles in a multi-cultural, rhythmic-infused magical display of human movement, art and color. 

Long Beach Opera (LBO) announces the world premiere of Fallujah, the first opera composed about the Iraq War experience. This powerful work by Canadian composer Tobin Stokes and Iraqi-American librettist Heather Raffo is about the anguish of war, the residual scars of battle, and the search for hope and redemption. Like many veterans returning from combat, the opera's central character struggles to come to terms with the violence he has experienced and to reconnect the broken bonds to his family and friends.

The University of Hartford's Hartt School Dance Division presents "Reflected Light", the Spring Senior Dance and Music Collaboration, Friday, March 4th at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 5 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Theater, at the Mort and Irma Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford.

Love, seduction, jealousy, vengeance, and death all come together in the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera's 2016 season presentations of grand, traditional opera at the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC).  During 2016, Verismo Opera, the house opera company of bergenPAC, will present Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda and Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.  

YouthWorks newest production is opening it's barn doors on March 4 - 20.  Get caught up in Charlotte's Web as this colorful, fun and timeless story is spun unto the stage.

El Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podesta, en el año de su 130° Aniversario, anuncia su apertura y lanzamiento de la programacion 2016. Sera una temporada llena de actividades, ciclos y espectaculos de primer nivel, nuevos proyectos culturales, entre otras tantas propuestas artisticas. Este año, el Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podesta bajo las ordenes de su nuevo Director General GASTON MARIONI (Actor, dramaturgo, director multipremiado y docente teatral), estara signado por una nueva apertura en su vision, por una pluralidad de expresiones artisticas y culturales, y por una gran conciencia del cuidado que el teatro merece.

Starting March 16th at Davenport Theatre The Ivy Crest Theatre Co. will present two powerful one act plays by Edward Allan Baker centering around working class families in crisis. Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, and Truth directed by Erica Silberman features David Newer*, Lacy Marie Meyer (Inside Amy Shumer) and Kelly Kozakevich. North of Providence directed by David Newer features Lauren Duffy and James McCloskey. *(Member of Actors Equity)

The Unknown Artists open the Los Angeles professional premiere of 35MM: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 8 PM at the Dorie Theatre at The Complex, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood 90038.

Louisville Repertory Company will present A Behanding in Spokane by Martin McDonaugh, directed by Angela D. Miller.

MediaRites, a nonprofit organization that provides innovative, award-winning radio, theatre and documentary programs, today announced that it will produce The Language Archive, written by award-winning playwright and television writer, Julia Cho. MediaRites' Theatre Diaspora produces staged readings focusing on Asian American identity and cultural issues, providing visibility and engaging audiences in insightful talkback discussions on cultural diversity.

Bergen County Players continues its 83rd season with Ken Ludwig's hysterical comedy, Leading Ladies, through March 5, 2016 at the Little Firehouse Theatre, 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell. The high-heeled hilarity is helmed by veteran director Lynne Lupfer of Tenafly.

NewFilmmakers is a unique Screening Series now in its eighteenth year that gives new filmmakers the opportunity to screen their films in New York Los Angeles, and Online.

According to Mirror, Downton Abbey will return as a full-length movie set ten years after the end of the final episode.

According to Premium Times, the hit Broadway musical SISTER ACT will be performed in Nigeria later this year. The Nigerian production is conceived by manufacturer and 'serial entrepreneur,' Dr. Soji Akinkugbe in collaboration with top executives from Cape Town's Waterfront Theatre Company and will feature an all-Nigerian cast. 

Experience again the circus as you never did before: Chillounge Night presents Cirque du Chill - an epic and dynamic circus arts presentation.

Writer/performer Isaac Oliver's debut collection of essays, Intimacy Idiot, was hailed as 'hilarious and unsparing' by New York Magazine, 'transcendent' by Entertainment Weekly, 'surprisingly moving' by Kirkus, and named one of NPR's Best Books of 2015. After two sold-out engagements last year, Oliver returns to Joe's Pub for a spring residency and a glass of pink wine, debuting brand-new stories as well as sharing old favorites.