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Playwrights from Switzerland, France, Canada, Egypt, Austria, Brazil, Italy, and Wales are all represented in the 4th annual International Voices Project (IVP 2013), running from March 7 to March 17 at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. The International Voices Project is the largest event of its kind in the country and introduces Chicago audiences to some of the most exciting voices on the international theater scene.

Arden Theatre Company, now celebrating its 25th Season of great stories by great storytellers, presents A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Directed by Walter Dallas, A Raisin in the Sun will run March 7-April 21 on the Arden's F. Otto Haas Stage.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) offers more opportunities to look inside its operas through its new initiative, Viewpoints. These collaborations with Chicago cultural institutions will draw audiences even further into the passionate world of COT's 2013 Season, "Power of Love, Love of Power."

Registration opens today for the Fourth Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival (www.hollywoodfringe.org). Organizers are calling for artists and producers of the performing arts to join the celebrated event invading Hollywood this June. The registration deadline to be included in the printed Fringe Guide is April 1st.

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present West Water Outlaws at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, April 27th. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, February 1st for $12.00 in advance and $14.00 day of show.

Winner of the 1990 Tony Award for Best Musical, "City of Angels" is two shows in one. It is the interweaving of two plots, one dealing with the writing of a screenplay in the legendary Hollywood of the '40's; the other, the enactment of that screenplay. This double feature quality leads to many other unique production values, the most notable being the fact that "City of Angels" is perhaps the only "color coded" show any theatre audience is likely to see. The movie scenes appear in shades of black and white, and the real life scenes are in Technicolor. The show boasts two musical scores. One provides the cast with numbers to help reveal certain emotions or to celebrate particular moments in the way that only music can. The "other" score was written to emulate pure move soundtrack music, 1940's vintage. It is entirely appropriate, then, that the final curtain comes down on two happy endings.

The Jewish Museum is offering Movement Makers, a dance workshop and gallery tour on Sunday, February 17 at 10:30 am. Participants can explore creativity through movement with dancer Ashton McCullough, learning expressive techniques for putting the body in motion. This specially created program for children ages 8 to 12 is inspired by the Museum's current exhibition, Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol.

Nationally recognized actor and vocalist Gia Mora (a four-time Helen Hayes Award nominee), in association with Jonathan White, has announced the world premiere of her new solo show, Einstein's Girl, at The Gardenia Restaurant and Lounge in Hollywood for one performance only, on Thursday, February 21, at 9pm. The Gardenia is located at 7066 Santa Monica Boulevard, just east of La Brea Avenue.

The New Theatre Project continues it's successful third season with a return to contemporary reworkings from the classical theater canon. "We spent many months last year searching through anthologies and old books looking for just the right play to take on," says Artistic Director Keith Paul Medelis. "Eventually we came to look at Edward II published in 1593. It is not frequently produced but there is magic in it." Edward the Second will play March 1-31.

Olney Theatre Center's Interim Artistic Director Alan Wade announces the Theatre will be producing the groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Chorus Line this summer as part of the 2013 Season line up.

Critically acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer, Miri Ben-Ari, launches 'The Beautiful Sound Tour' atThe Gramercy Theatre in New York on February 20th. Ben-Ari is known world-wide as a musical pioneer as every phrase of her unique sound -- a revolutionary fusion of classical, jazz, R&B and hip hop -- is a storied experience of her origins in Israel, life in New York City, and career that includes a string of honors. Miri has been named one of 25 “Remarkable Women” in 2011 by First Lady Michelle Obama, an “Apollo Legend”by the famed Apollo Theatre in New York City, is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nation Associations for Brazil, and is a recipient of theMLK Community Service Award by Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

Casting has been announced for the Omaha return engagement of DISNEY'S THE LION KING. Omaha's most eagerly awaited stage production ever will leap onto the Orpheum Theater stage from Tuesday, March 12 ending Sunday, April 7, 2013. (The press opening night is Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m.) The show's five-week premiere engagement in 2007 played a sold-out run at the Orpheum.

Tony Award winner Richard Maltby, Jr. will direct The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's world premiere production of Cathy Tempelsman's A Most Dangerous Woman about the famed Victorian-era writer George Eliot. The production begins performances on September 18, 2013 at The Shakespeare Theatre's F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in Madison New Jersey.

Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC) will present the world premiere of SENSE & SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL, running April 5 - May 26 in The Stage Theatre.

Joshua Harmon's sold out dark comedy BAD JEWS, will make the move upstairs from Roundabout Underground's 62-seat Black Box Theatre to the 420-seat Laura Pels Theater beginning September 20, 2013. The limited run will be a part of Roundabout's 2013-2014 subscription season.

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre, opening Friday February 2nd at the Burton Leavitt Theatre. This 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, handcuffs, missing fingers, some good old-fashioned romance and over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 5).

MoMA presents Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth, an exhibition focused on Roth's incredibly innovative and prolific period of art-making from 1954 to 1972, from February 13 to June 24, 2013. Presenting a comprehensive selection of prints, books, and multiples from the first half of the artist's career, the exhibition offers a lens through which to examine not only Roth's radical redefinition of these mediums but also his essential contributions to art in the 20th century.

NBC's '30 Rock' bid farewell yesterday, and among those making surprise appearances for the series finale was Tony Award winner Alice Ripley - view her cameo below!

A group of eight talented dancers from Beck Center for the Art's Dance Education program traveled to Chicago January 18 through 20, 2013 to participate in the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world's largest student ballet competition, and proudly came home with top honors.

A team of international experts and celebrities have been assembled this year to judge the Fifth Annual Born Free USA Fur Free Fashion (fffashion) Competition, where independent fashion designers are invited to enter their fur-free creations for a chance to win prizes; significantly boost their fashion career; be featured in a national magazine; and help promote the ethical and environmental benefits of fur free fashion.