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New York City Opera kicks off a new year and a new era of city-wide productions with LA TRAVIATA at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Feb. 12-18. The Jonathan Miller production of Verdi's masterpiece is the season's first NYC Opera staging at BAM, and is followed by the US premiere performances of Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna from Feb. 19-25. As a gift to the City of New York, The Reed Foundation and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation have bought the remaining seats for all NYC Opera performances at BAM and will offer these seats at a special $25 price to celebrate NYC Opera's new beginning.

On Sunday, February 12 at 7pm, WQXR - the nation's most listened-to classical radio station - welcomes Juno Award-winning, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright for an intimate evening of performance and conversation at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.

New York City Opera kicks off a new year and a new era of city-wide productions with LA TRAVIATA at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Feb. 12-18. The Jonathan Miller production of Verdi's masterpiece is the season's first NYC Opera staging at BAM, and is followed by the US premiere performances of Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna from Feb. 19-25. As a gift to the City of New York, The Reed Foundation and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation have bought the remaining seats for all NYC Opera performances at BAM and will offer these seats at a special $25 price to celebrate NYC Opera's new beginning.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), Lower Manhattan's largest dance center and one of NYC's most vibrant cultural hubs, will offer an entire day of FREE dance and wellness classes in a range of levels, from beginner to professional, on October 9, 2010.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), Lower Manhattan's largest dance center and one of NYC's most vibrant cultural hubs, will offer an entire day of FREE dance and wellness classes in a range of levels, from beginner to professional, on October 9, 2010.

Cameron Mackintosh's current touring production of Les Miserables will run at London's Barbican Theatre, it's English-language birthplace in 1985, for 22 performances through October 2, 2010. A Queens Theatre staple for nearly 22 years in the West End, this new run will mark the first time in London that the same musical has run simultaneously.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare. This rollicking roll through the forest includes wild fairies and mixed-up lovers, all with the modern twist that made last season's 'Hamlet Remix'd' so popular. Directed by Jean Gottlieb.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare. This rollicking roll through the forest includes wild fairies and mixed-up lovers, all with the modern twist that made last season's 'Hamlet Remix'd' so popular. Directed by Jean Gottlieb.

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. This rollicking roll through the forest includes wild fairies and mixed-up lovers, all with the modern twist that made last season's Hamlet Remix'd so popular. Directed by Jean Gottlieb, the show runs about two hours with one intermission.

Blue Note, the popular theater district jazz club and restaurant has announced their August and September 2008 schedule.