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Fifty2&Nine is thrilled to announce the launch of a new web series, CONVERSATIONS W/ MY EX, to be featured on Gwist TV (www.youtube.com/gwist). The series is scheduled to premiere on April 1, 2013 with an eight (8) episode first season.

Black Diamond Pictures is starting production on its next feature film titled My Brother's Keeper. The film is a psychological horror film based on true events. The story centers around a white collar insurance executive who serves host to an overly possessive spirit. When the host attempts to exorcise the spirit it threatens the hosts livelihood and well-being.

Sadie and Bessie Delany, each having passed the century mark, gained international recognition in 1991 when their book HAVING OUR SAY (with NY Times writer Amy Hill Hearth) spent six months on the best-seller lists. In the play by Emily Mann, the audience is invited to spend an evening with Sadie and Bessie, two VERY old ladies whose infectious charm and intelligence guides us through a century and a half of America's social history. Their recounting of family stories about the changes witnessed by the Delany family from slavery through the close of the twentieth century vividly recalls the painfully slow progress of race relations in the United States.

Cirque du Soleil's Quidam, which has been experienced by millions worldwide, will bring an international cast of 50 world-class acrobats, musicians, singers and characters to Houston at the Toyota Center tonight, March 6 - 10.

In LIVING DEAD IN DENMARK, zombies are on the loose and it's up to Shakespeare's most famous heroines to save the day, with a little help from Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Fortinbras and Lady Gaga. It is an epic zombie action thriller by Qui Nguyen, that will invade the East Village's Gene Frankel Theater for a strictly limited 17-performance engagement April 5 - 21, 2013.

Assisted Living written by husband and wife Winnie Holzman (Wicked, My So-Called Life, Huge) and Paul Dooley (Breaking Away, Sixteen Candles, Curb Your Enthusiasm), explores the surprising connections between four very different characters - Frank, a beloved soap opera star facing an uncertain future; Emily, his former makeup artist and longtime girlfriend; Edgar, a curmudgeon who feels abandoned in his assisted living facility; and Heather, Edgar's unfulfilled, unmarried daughter who is Frank's biggest fan.

We are very sorry to announce that the opening two performances of "Don't Talk to the Actors" have been cancelled. The show will now open on Friday, March 15 and continue on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 through March 23, as originally scheduled. Performances are in Pilling Hall at The First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Avenue, between High Street and Walnut Lane.

With the goal of teaching students how to "Study Funny," Columbia College Chicago's new theatre degree in comedy writing and performance is far from the usual academic fare for students dreaming of having a career you can laugh at.

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, which was originally set to perform through March 3rd, has been extended to now perform through March 24th. The extension is due to unexpected popular demands of the public!

Community Partnership for Arts and Culture Artists in Residence Grantee, local artist Linda Zolten Wood, was inspired by St. Clair's 'Year of the...' statue competition/auctions, and Northeast Shores Development Corporation free rain barrel distribution for 25 Collinwood residents per year.

The sparkling new high-tech production of the Tony and Academy Award winning musical DREAMGIRLS will electrify audiences in Baltimore as Big League Productions, Inc. brings this high-energy Broadway hit show to the Modell Performing Arts Center At The Lyric from May 4-5 for three performances only!

Arkansas Repertory Theatre (The Rep), the state's largest nonprofit professional theatre, is proud to announce its 38th MainStage Season. The new season will include vibrant new artistic experiences that exemplify The Rep's mission of producing diverse work of the highest artistic standards for its Arkansas audience.

Worldwide phenomenon and Worcester, Mass. native, Doug Stanhope, is coming back to New England to perform for his hometown fans at Foxwoods Resort Casino, as Comix welcomes the comic visionary to the Fox Theater stage on Saturday, May 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available for presale through Comix and Ticketmaster on Wednesday, Mar. 13 at 10 a.m., and regular tickets will go on sale Friday, Mar. 15 at 10 a.m. Fans can purchase tickets in advance for $25, $35 and $45. This show is for mature audiences only.

The popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series continues with a screening of Wattstax, the 1973 Mel Stuart documentary chronicling the legendary Stax Records-sponsored Watts Summer Music Festival, at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue, Wednesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Chicago Public Media's Sound Opinions, the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show, is co-hosted by acclaimed pop music critics Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune and Jim DeRogatis of WBEZ.org and airs on more than 100 radio stations around the country.

Opening the Canadian Opera Company's 2012/2013 spring season is Gaetano Donizetti's bel cantomasterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor, starring American soprano Anna Christy in a production created especially for her by director David Alden at English National Opera. American conductor Stephen Lord, named one of the "25 Most Powerful Names in U.S. Opera" by Opera News, leads the COC Orchestra and Chorus through Donizetti's cascading romantic melodies. Last presented by the COC in 2004, Lucia di Lammermoor returns for nine performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on April 17, 20, 26, 30, May 9, 12, 15, 18 and 24, 2013, and is sung in Italian with English SURTITLES.

The Celtic culture is interwoven with journey, comings and goings that shaped family, friends, love and loss. But the thread of music and dance was the constant. Preparing us for the March season of all things Irish, 'Celtic Nights: The Emigrants Bridge' will arrive in Jorgensen's award-winning Cabaret on Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9.

FLASHDANCE - THE MUSICAL, the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit film that defined a generation, will perform at The Paramount Theatre from Tuesday, April 16, through Sunday, April 21 as part of the KeyBank Broadway at The Paramount series.

Due to overwhelming initial demand stemming from the 2013 artistic season announcement, Park Avenue Armory announced today the addition of two performances of the New York premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's OKTOPHONIE.

Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling vocalist, Debby Boone will make her debut at the legendary Cafe Carlyle on March 19 through 30 with her new show "Swing This," featuring a nine piece band.

It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.