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EVE SONNEMAN: SIGHT/SOUND, an exhibition comprised of 7 color photographs will be on view at the Nohra Haime Gallery from December 8th through January 29th. These seminal works, previously exhibited in Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, mark the artist's transition from black and white to color photography.

Urban Stages (Frances Hill, Artistic Director) is proud to ring in the holiday season with its 2nd Annual Holiday Cabaret Nights, featuring some of the most outstanding talent in the Cabaret and Theatre worlds at Urban Stages (259 West 30th Street) every evening from the 6th through 15th of December. Holiday Cabaret Nights will help support the Urban Stages Outreach Program which brings theatre to children and families through over 200 programs to over 92 libraries in over 44 Council Districts throughout the five boroughs.

Yoko Nagae Ceschina, a patron of the New York Philharmonic since 2004, will give a significant annual gift to name the position of Music Director Alan Gilbert. The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Music Director - the first such designation for a Music Director of the New York Philharmonic - has been created to support Mr. Gilbert's artistic vision. Ms. Ceschina, a native of Japan and a trained harpist, a friend of Zarin Mehta and Mr. Gilbert, and of the Philharmonic, has provided major support for several of its Gala Opening Night concerts and initiatives of Alan Gilbert. Ms. Ceschina provided the lead underwriting gift for the Philharmonic's historic performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, in February 2008.

Convergence-continuum, concludes its 2010 Season at the Liminis theatre with the world premiere of APORKALYPSE! - our not-for-the-kiddies holiday show by Cleveland playwright and con-con company member Chris Johnston. Christmas, Marines AWOL from Iraq, a Persian love goddess and corporate American agri-business all collide down at Pawpaw's pig farm. And since it's the holiday season, there's some singing and accordion playing, too. For the three-week run, we've added 7 pm Sunday performances in addition to our usual Thu-Sat 8 pm shows.

The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Huston, Texas announces schedule for November 17th through November 24, 2010 including The Drowsy Chaperone, 9 to 5: The Musical, Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas, as well as Yo Gabba Gabba! Live!.

Negro Ensemble Company (www.necinc.org), America's legendary black theater company, will present 'With Aaron's Arms Around Me and The Mire,' an evening of two one-acts by Sophia Romma, a Russian-American playwright, both on the theme of intolerance. Both plays deal with eternal themes of intolerance from an émigré's perspective. Performances are December 3 to 19 at Cherry Lane Theatre (Studio Theatre), 38 Commerce Street. Since our notice of November 2, there has been a change of directors on one of the plays. Now both one-acts will be directed by Negro Ensemble Company's Artistic Director, Charles Weldon.

In conjunction with its upcoming presentation of Leonardo's Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway, Park Avenue Armory will present two lectures with key members of the artistic team behind this groundbreaking installation: Artist Talk: A Conversation with Peter Greenaway and Duplicating da Vinci: The Art of Cloning a Masterpiece.

The Station North Arts and Entertainment District has come together to raise goods for Project PLASE. Project PLASE addresses homelessness in Baltimore by providing transitional housing, permanent housing and supportive services to homeless adults. PLASE serves the most vulnerable and underserved, including persons with mental illness, HIV/AIDS, addiction, developmental disabilities, and ex-offenders.

Broadway In Chicago and TRACES, a fantastical blend of circus, physical theater, music and dance created by the Montreal?based performance group 7 Fingers, are thrilled to announce the hit show has been extended two weeks by popular demand. TRACES will continue through January 1, 2011 at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St.). Individual tickets for the extended dates are on sale now.

The Sauter Piano Company begins a nationwide piano partnership with significant venues of jazz, classical and alternative music with their presentation of Sauter Omega, 220 Firebird to Zinc Bar, a small but prestigious jazz club in Greenwich Village that until now has not had an acoustic piano. In conjunction with the installation of the piano, Sauter will sponsor the renowned performance series 'New Dimensions in Latin Jazz' at Zinc Bar from November 2nd through December 2nd 2010.

The 33rd annual production of A Christmas Carol at Theatre Memphis is getting a facelift. After more than three decades of performing on the original set (designed Jay Ehrlicher and Elinor Hawkins) the 2010 cast will be scurrying around on a new set that current resident scenic designer at Theatre Memphis, Christopher McCollum, has partnered with returning director Jason Spitzer to re-envision the traditional holiday classic.

The benefit event is a benefit for Krista Langberg, Terry Chance, and their family. Krista, a longtime member of the Minnesota dance community, and her husband Terry are both battling cancer. This event is a 100% volunteer effort, including the generous contribution of the Southern Theater as a venue. All donations go directly to Krista and Terry and their family.

American Repertory Theater presents The American Musical in the 21st Century: A conversation with Diane Paulus and Stephen Schwartz on November 30 at OBERO.

Experience the spirit and wonder of Christmas as the 130-voice RUMC Sanctuary Choir, Celebration Ringers Handbell Choir, RUMC's Youth Choir Outloud, Cheryl Rogers, and renowned organist Tom Alderman present an awe-inspiring concert filled with favorite holiday music. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the season amid the beauty of the candlelit Roswell United Methodist Church Sanctuary as we celebrate the miraculous birth of the Christ Child through scripture and song. Before or after the concert, stroll through the new Charis Gallery to view the art exhibit, Angels Among Us.

Bay Street Theatre is pleased to present an evening of jazz with Broadway veteran TINA FABRIQUE on Saturday, November 27 at 8 pm. Fabrique will perform her treatment of jazz standards, songs from her CD, and by Ella Fitzgerald. Tickets are $35 and $45. Call the box office at 631-725-9500 or log on to www.baystreet.org.

Therepy holds show BROADWAY BROUHAHA featuring Brandon Cutrell with special guests Broadway's Michelle Dowdy, Singer Adam Chander, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show's Travis Morin tonight, Tuesay, Novemner 16th from 11 pm to 12 am located at 348 w52nd St., NYC. Admission is free with no cover and no minimum.

Beginning Saturday, November 20, L.A. Theatre Works' Radio Theatre Series will air The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Betty Garrett and Sharon Madden. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 KPCC, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/.

Max Schumann cut his teeth in that moment and on that end of the political spectrum, consorting with such critical culture brokers as Bread and Puppet Theater, Paper Tiger Television, The Cheap Art Collective and Printed Matter. It is from this fevered brow that he springs, but as these radical politics are a birthright and second nature there is also another generational layer steeped in critique and Deconstructionism-- -a cool detachment, a ready laugh, a sense of fatalism and an attraction to the knowing cynicism of Punk and the nihilistic gore/bodycount of heavy metal. Schumann's extensive knowledge of the machinations of global power structures breezes past the Logic of Late Capitalism and confronts the reality of Early Doom.

The New Stage Theatre Company (www.newstagetheatre.org) returns to La MaMa December 2 to 19 with 'Mapping Möbius,' a new play directed by Ildiko Nemeth and written by Colm O' Shea, Marie Glancy-O' Shea and Ildiko Nemeth. In the piece, an aging scientist, realizing his inquiries continually return him to a model of his own mind, devises a set of experiments that blur the distinction between his inner and outer worlds. New Stage Theatre Company (NTSC) made an auspicious La MaMa debut last season with 'Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls!,' an evening of the music and dance associated with exotic dancer Anita Berber, who symbolized many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin. 'Mapping Möbius' reunites director Nemeth with the team of that production, notably Julie Atlas Muz (choreography), Federico Restrepo (lighting design), Javier Boné-Carboné (costume design) and actors Peter Schmitz, Chris Tanner and Markus Hirnigel.

This landmark exhibition includes works by many illustrious artists including Gretna Campbell, Paul Georges, Lois Dodd, Robert De Niro, Sr, Rudy Burckhardt, and Robert Henry. Altogether 80 artists are represented who at one time were affiliated with Green Mountain Gallery, Blue Mountain Gallery, or both. Lucien Day opened Green Mountain Gallery on Perry Street in 1968 and it evolved into an artist's cooperative as the Blue Mountain Gallery, now at its home in Chelsea.