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Carnegie Hall has announced its October 2013 calendar updates. Details below!

Renowned English viol consort Fretwork will open the 2013-14 concert season for Houston Early Music by performing John Dowland's famous 'Lachrimae' collection at First Christian Church on Saturday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. Celebrating the 450th anniversary of Dowland's birth, the program also features the incomparable English lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.

Carnegie Hall has announced its October 2013 calendar updates. Details below!

Haas Regen's new play PERCEVAL, a four-actor adaptation of the Arthur legend, opens tonight at the Kraine theater, running through August 25 as part of FringeNYC. PERCEVAL is presented as part ofFringeHIGH, a collection of boundary-stretching plays, chosen from among the FringeNYC roster, guaranteed to captivate and entertain NYC teens.

Sheffield Theatres and Evolution Pantomimes' have announced the cast of this year's spectacular family pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, alongside the news that Sheffield's Our Cow Molly dairy farm will sponsor the production.

Haas Regen's new play PERCEVAL, a four-actor adaptation of the Arthur legend, will run at the Kraine theater from August 10-25 as part of FringeNYC. PERCEVAL is presented as part ofFringeHIGH, a collection of boundary-stretching plays, chosen from among the FringeNYC roster, guaranteed to captivate and entertain NYC teens.

This month, Points of Light will host the 21st annual Conference on Volunteering and Service, the largest convening of volunteer, national service, and civic leaders in the world.

Carnegie Hall has announced its October 2013 calendar. Details below!

Being a voted a male prom queen, on obsessively writing letters to Kathernine Hepburn as a kid and the majesty of a woman named Cate Blanchett will take the stage in QUEER NOT COOL's 'Shrugging Off the Dress', hosted by Rob Ribar tonight, June 8, 2013.

Sheffield Theatres today unveils its full autumn season of produced and touring work taking place from September 2013 - January 2014, alongside the news that Phil Davis (Whitechapel and Quadrophenia) will star as Fagin in the company's Christmas musical, Oliver! and Daniel Lapaine (Muriel's Wedding) will lead the cast of The Winter's Tale as Leontes.

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announced last night at its Spring Benefit at Tribeca Rooftop that composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel will be the orchestra's new Artistic Director, commencing with the 2013-14 season. Bermel has been ACO's Creative Advisor since 2009, and succeeds composer Robert Beaser who has been ACO's Artistic Director since 2000 and was ACO's Artistic Advisor from 1993. Bermel joins Music Director George Manahan, who has just renewed his contract with ACO for an unprecedented five years, in leading the ensemble in its mission to be a catalyst for the creation of new orchestral music.

NBC News and MSNBC will continue to provide extensive coverage of the devastation in Moore, Oklahoma after a deadly tornado ripped through the city on Monday afternoon.

Deborah Turness, former editor of ITV News, the United Kingdom's most-watched commercial network news service, has been named President of NBC News. It was announced today by Pat Fili-Krushel, Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group.

ent of new musicals at the core of its mission, The 5th Avenue Theatre is thrilled to extend its New Works Program by announcing the participants in its inaugural 5th Avenue Writer's Group. Three teams of the Pacific Northwest's most promising musical theater book writers and composers have been selected to participate in the Writers Group.ffffr

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" was the most-watched network evening newscast for the week ending May 10, 2013, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

At 8 p.m. ET, the finale of 'Fashion Star' (0.5/2 in 18-49, 2.5 million viewers overall) grew from its first half-hour to its second in adults 18-49 by 20 percent (to a 0.6 from a 0.5).

The network has yet to make the official announcement, but sources have confirmed to The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter that the Friday night news series will not return, following its inability to draw a significant amount of viewers.