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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.

On July 4-14, the Wagon Wheel Theatre presents Carousel. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway's pioneers, accumulated 34 Tonys, 15 Academy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and two Grammys.

Mixed Blood Theatre announced today that its 2012-13 season will open October 5 with the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical NEXT TO NORMAL, which will also be part of the second Center of the Margins festival. The triple-feature mini-fest will be followed in February 2013 with the culture clash comedy-of-bad-manners ELEMENO PEA and a bilingual world premiere based on Julia Alvarez' bestselling novel IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES to be staged in April 2013.

Arts Education returns to the Stamford Center for the Arts for the third straight year with a focus on music, dance, acting, musical theater and puppetry. With the generous support of presenting sponsors RFR Stamford and Purdue Pharma, SCA will present four unique experiences for the area's youth: SummerJazz, (generously supported by Pitney Bowes, Purdue Pharma, RFR Stamford and the Italian Center;) the Triple Threat Performer Intensive; Lumina String Quartet's Chamber Music Institute for Young Musicians and Jim West's "Dinosaurs."

West End stars Louise Dearman (Wicked), Tim Driesen (Never Forget), Gerard Carey (Masterclass) and Lucy Sinclair (We Will Rock You) will lead a workshop presentation of a brand new musical comedy version of JM Barrie's Peter Pan.

The 10th Sydney Intentional Piano Competition of Australia (SIPCA) commences next week and music enthusiasts can follow the action as all stages of the competition will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM from Wednesday 4 to Saturday 21 July.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the crown jewel of Ravinia's classical programming, kicks off its annual summer residency at the festival with a concert of American favorites at 5 p.m. on July 4.

Disney's The Little Mermaid, the hit Broadway musical based on the popular animated film, will have its West Coast premiere at Wells Fargo Pavilion for a two-week run from July 10 - 22. This Disney family favorite, part of the 2012 Music Circus season, features the popular songs "Part of Your World," "Under the Sea," and "Kiss the Girl." Tickets start at $30 for all performances, with specially-priced children's tickets available in any seating section.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced cast members for the final two shows of the 2012 National Music Theater Conference. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Paulette Haupt, the Conference will continue through July 13 and, for a second consecutive year, will develop four new musicals.

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 Fabulous Fox Theatre on Saturday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m.

Adirondack Shakespeare Company's original children's programming continues this year with The Twelve Labors of Hercules, an adventure story written by Jessica Hackett.