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Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood New Jersey presents Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures and Into the Wild, animal expert Jack Hanna is known as America's favorite zookeeper. Jungle Jack's live show features many of his favorite animal friends, as well as fascinating and humorous stories and footage from his adventures. Don't miss this exciting show on Saturday October 5th, Tickets for this show goes on sale Friday February 8th at 11AM secure your tickets by visiting www.ticketmaster.com or by calling the box office at 201 227 1030.

The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel will welcome Tony Award-Winner John Lloyd Young for his Cafe Carlyle debut where he will perform his program "My Turn." Mr. Young opens at the Cafe Carlyle on February 12th and will play through February 23rd where he will be joined by GLEE music producer Tommy Faragher as his music director with a seven piece band including Mr. Faragher on piano/keyboards, John Putnam on guitar, Paul Socolow on bass, Eric Kalb on drums, Goke Erem on violin, Eddy Malave on viola, and Leigh Stuart on Cello.

On Saturday, March 2nd at 3pm, join us in the stunningly beautiful sanctuary of the Saint Charles Borromeo Church in Brooklyn Heights for a narrated chronology of the German Heroic Tenor, as seen through the voice of Heldentenor, Marc Deaton, with Pianist Michael Fennelly. This history includes scenes and arias by: Handel, Mozart, Weber, Wagner, Strauss and Korngold.

The Collegiate Chorale announces the New York Premieres of two works by major composers: Symphony No. 7 'Toltec' by Philip Glass and Oceana by Osvaldo Golijov, featuring international jazz vocalist Biella Da Costa and the American Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, NYC. The Collegiate Chorale's Music Director James Bagwell will conduct. Tickets are $20-115 and are available at www.carnegiehall.org.

The 2013/14 season will begin with Dial M for Murder, a thrilling murder mystery filled with suspense, jealousy, blackmail and backstabbers. We continue with Annie, the Tony Award-winning musical celebrating America's favorite comic-strip orphan - just in time for the holidays! Next up is A Chorus Line, the poignant and inspiring Tony Award-winning hit musical that follows the audition process of theatre "gypsies" as they try to land a job in a Broadway show. Then join us for Other Desert Cities, the Tony-nominated new drama that follows a young novelist as she returns home to Palm Springs for the holidays and threatens to expose family secrets. Our incredible season ends with the beloved Tony Award-winning phenomenon The King and I, sure to leave you whistling a happy tune!

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) proudly announces the launch of AVTiki, an innovative online sales channel that will give theater patrons the ability to purchase tickets without leaving Facebook. The theater company becomes the very first in New York to offer ticket sales - with the added option to make additional reservations for friends - through this unique distribution channel for social ticketing.

'Not as Cute as Picture', a GLAAD-Media Award Nominee for Outstanding Theater: Washinton DC, played to sold out houses, January 11-12 of this year and returns to The Duplex (61 Christopher St., NYC - at 7th Ave.) for four additional performances on Feb. 8 & 22 and March 8 & 22 - all performances are at 9:30 pm.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company 'dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit,' and named '2012 Company of the Year' by Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal, announces the cast and creative team for Happy Birthday by Anita Loos, the final production of the company's 20th Anniversary Season. Directed by TACT Co-Artistic Director Scott Alan Evans, performances begin at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street - between 9th & 10th Avenues) on Tuesday, March 12th, 2013. Opening night is set for Thursday, March 21st at 7:30pm. Performances will continue through April 13th, 2013.

Renowned conductor Lorin Maazel will make a rare appearance at the Metropolitan Opera-conducting his first Verdi opera with the company-when he leads a revival of Don Carlo, opening February 22. Ramon Vargas sings his first Met performances of the title role, opposite Barbara Frittoli, also in her house role debut, as the tragic Elisabeth de Valois. Reprising their roles from previous Met seasons are Anna Smirnova as the mysterious Princess Eboli; Dmitri Hvorostovsky as the revolutionary Rodrigo, Count of Posa; Ferruccio Furlanetto as the tormented King Philip II; and Eric Halfvarson as the Grand Inquisitor. This season's performances are the first revival of Nicholas Hytner's production, which opened to critical acclaim in the Met's 2010-11 season.

"When the world that once had color fades to white and gray and black…" sings Diana, a wife and mother, learning to live with her bipolar disorder. How does a "normal" suburban family cope with the stress, the treatment, the future? "Next to Normal"-winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama-is one family's story of how to survive when the world seems to be crumbling.

Over the years, many in the Way Off Broadway family have gone on to appear in countless productions around the country on national tours and on Broadway. Now, for the first time, a WOB alumnus will be starring in a national webseries as Jordan C. Allen plays the role of Wyatt in Cinevore Studios' Nerd vs. Geek.

Manhattan Theatre Club welcomes Bill Pullman ("1600 Penn;" The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) to the cast of THE OTHER PLACE tonight at 7 PM at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Foundation presents ED ASNER as FDR in the Fred Kavli Theatre at 7:30 pm on Sunday, March 10, 2013.

Harper Lee's Pulitzer-prize winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, returns to Park Square after sold-out performances in 2011. Set in a small town in Alabama in 1935, it is a story of one man's pursuit of justice in a climate of racial inequality. The novel's hero Atticus Finch serves as an iconic inspiration for tolerance and integrity; his eight-year-old daughter Scout remains among the most beloved young characters in literature with her pluck, smarts and willingness to understand the perspectives of others. Directed by David Mann, this large-scale staging of Christopher Sergel's adaptation includes a gospel chorus and an evocative set designed by Joel Sass. To Kill a Mockingbird is on stage for eight general audience performances April 4-14, 2013.

President and CEO, Myron Martin, hosted the center's first-ever President's Reception. Held in the intimate Troesh Studio Theatre inside Boman Pavilion, Martin welcomed guests to an evening of cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as he remarked on the success of The Smith Center's first year before announcing the 2013-2014 Broadway Las Vegas season.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced a limited engagement of George Gershwin Alone, a play with music that invites audiences to enjoy an evening with a great composer. This celebrated production plays two weeks only - June 8 through June 23 - on the intimate Thrust Stage. Tickets for these 18 performances go on sale today to Berkeley Rep's subscribers; the public can access seats beginning on Sunday, February 10. This special presentation features music by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin with a book by Hershey Felder. Starring Hershey Felder as George Gershwin, it has been staged by acclaimed director Joel Zwick.

WICKED, the most anticipated musical production of the 2013 - 2014 season will go on sale to the public on Saturday, February 16; tickets will be exclusively available at The Morris Theater Box Office, 211 N. Michigan Street from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Beginning at 10 a.m., any remaining tickets will be available for purchase online at morriscenter.org, at Hammes Bookstore/Eddy Street Commons, South Bend; and Super Sounds/TG Music, Goshen or by calling 574-235-9190. There is an 8-ticket limit per patron.

The Music Center announces that it will partner with Los Angeles Ballet to present that company's productions of Agon and Rubies on Saturday evening July 6, free to the public. Both have music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine.

Pittsburgh Dance Council, a division of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, presents New Zealand dance company, Black Grace, under the direction of choreographer and founder Neil Ieremia, on Saturday, March 2, 2013, at 8:00 p.m., at the Byham Theater. Black Grace will present several works on this tour including Pati Pati, Objects and Amata. The program also includes a piece from Ieremia's new full length work, VVaka*.

Steps off Broadway Productions, Inc., has added 3 more shows of Shrek the Musical due to an overwhelming response. The first three shows were sold out before opening night. The musical will be performed on February 8th, 9th, 16th at 7:30 PM and February 10th, 16th, 17th at 2:00 PM.