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Artistic Director Bonnie Metzgar and Executive Director Jason Held are pleased to announce the world premiere of WHAT'S THE T? by Sara Kerastas and the About Face Youth Theatre Ensemble, directed by Eric Hoff. The press opening is Friday, July 20th at 7:30pm at the Red Tape Theatre (621 West Belmont Ave, 2nd fl).

Emmy Award and Grammy Award winning comedian Louis C.K. - creator, executive producer, director, editor, and star of FX Network's critically acclaimed series Louie - will perform a special engagement, Louis C.K. Live at the Paramount Theatre on December 20 & 21, 2012 in Seattle, WA.

Ron Eldard, John Getz, Lesley Ann Warren and James Woods have joined Ashton Kutcher in jOBS, the biopic about the iconic Silicon Valley visionary. The cast also includes Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, Matthew Modine and Dermot Mulroney.

Canada's premier full service booking agency, S.L. Feldman and Associates (SLFA), is pleased to announce the signing of Johnny Reid to its Canadian roster. Reid, who just released his sixth studio album, Fire It Up, on March 12, will be represented by Vinny Cinquemani, SLFA's Senior Vice President, Artist Touring. SLFA's core business is talent representation and its roster encompasses a wide array of internationally successful concert attractions as well as critically acclaimed up-and-coming talent.

The Festival welcomes avant-garde Toronto theatre company VideoCabaret's spectacular production The War of 1812 (The History of the Village of the Small Huts: 1812-1815) as part of its 60th season. The show, which has been programmed to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812, begins previews at the Studio Theatre Annex performance space on June 26.

Shakespeare Orange County will open their twenty first season with the presentation of RICHARD III. The production runs July 19-August 4 at Garden Grove's open air Festival Amphitheatre ---outside and 'Under the Stars.' Returning to the Festival this season are John Walcutt as Richard, Evelyn Carol Case as Queen Elizabeth, and Amanda Zarr as Lady Anne. Veteran company member Carl Reggiardo directs this production.

Lookingglass Theatre announces 3 weeks of additional performances for Eastland: A New Musical. The world premiere, smash-hit Lookingglasss Original musical written by Artistic Director Andrew White, with music by Andre Pluess and Ben Sussman and direction by Amanda Dehnert, has been extended through August 19, 2012, at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson. Tickets for the extension are now on sale and available online, www.lookingglasstheatre.org; by phone, (312) 337-0665; or at the Lookingglass Theatre box office. For more information and box office hours, visit www.lookingglasstheatre.org.

Shakespeare IN THE RAW is about to return to Schroon Lake! The Adirondack Shakespeare Company (ADK Shakes) is back for their third annual Summer Festival Season and prepared to present some of the finest comedy and tragedy that the Bard has to offer.

The Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 production of SLOWGIRL, a new play by Greg Pierce, directed by Anne Kauffman, has extended its limited engagement run through Sunday, July 29 at the Claire Tow Theater (150 West 65 Street). The world premiere production, which features Željko Ivanek and Sarah Steele, began performances Monday, June 4, opened to critical acclaim on Monday, June 18 and was originally scheduled through Sunday. July 15. This is the first production to be presented by LCT3 in its new home on the roof of Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Academy Award® nominated and Emmy Award® winning actress and singer/ songwriter Mare Winningham (Georgia) will play an intimate evening of music at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street) on Monday, July 16th at 8:00 PM. Winningham, who is currently starring in the Drama Desk Award-winning new play Tribes at the Barrow Street Theatre, will be accompanied by Tim Crouch on fiddle/mandolin and Irl Hees on upright bass, playing original country folks songs and Hebrew lullabies.

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts will host The United States Air Force Band of Mid-America Starlifter on Sunday, July 1 at 2:00 p.m at the Marcus Center's Peck Pavilion. The event is free and tickets are not required.

REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL has announced the New York production of Yoshvani Medina's PROBATION. PROBATION will begin on Thursday, July 12 (7pm) at Repertorio Español's Gramercy Arts Theater (138 East 27th Street, btw. Lex. & 3rd). The play will be directed by the playwright and its cast includes Hannia Guillen as Yenny, Alfonso Rey as Pancho & Sandor Juan as Freddy. Probation is the first production at Repertorio to be presented in Spanish with subtitles via Repertorio's new in-seat Simultext® Captioning System. Tickets are on sale now.

The Madison Square Garden Company (NASDAQ: MSG), City of Inglewood and Faithful Central Bible Church announced today that The Madison Square Garden Company has acquired the celebrated Forum in Inglewood, Calif. for a purchase price of $23.5 million. The acquisition will be followed by a comprehensive renovation of the historic venue, which is scheduled to begin later this year.

The Guggenheim Museum has announced the following upcoming exhibitions.

Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Rick Springfield will bring his tour to Hershey Theatre on Thursday, October 18 at 8 p.m.

On July 7, Caramoor's Director of Opera Will Crutchfield, leading the Orchestra of St. Luke's, will open the 16th season of the Bel Canto at Caramoor series with the American premiere of Gioachino Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia in collaboration with the renowned Rossini Festival in Pesaro, Italy.

The Canadian Opera Company has closed another successful opera season with 2011/2012 recording an average attendance of 91%. A total of 125,238 patrons attended the 67 performances of the company's seven mainstage productions in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts: Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris, Verdi's Rigoletto, Puccini's Tosca, Saariaho's Love from Afar, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, the double bill of Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Handel's Semele.

The Latin Recording Academy® (www.latingrammy.com) andUnivision announced today a new six-year deal that will keep the biggest night in Latin music, the annual Latin GRAMMY Awards® telecast, on Univision through 2018. Univision has been the home of the Latin GRAMMY®s since 2005. This year's XIII Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards will take place live on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas from 8 - 11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central). For updates and breaking news, please visit www.latingrammy.com and The Latin Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook: www.twitter.com/latingrammys and www.facebook.com/latingrammys.

On the heels of the nation-wide audition tour in search of Dorothy, the Top 20 Dorothys for CBC Television's OVER THE RAINBOW have been selected.

Leigh Silverman, Carolyn Cantor, Jean-Michele Gregory and Cape Cod Theatre Project's Artistic Director Hal Brooks will be developing new plays this summer with The Cape Cod Theatre Project.