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Wednesday night, SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody opened its debut City Theatre engagement with seven sold-out performances; playing now through Sunday, February 3. Due to the overwhelming demand, Olympia Entertainment is excited to announce the wildly popular musical, which brings all the naughty fun of the best-selling book to life onstage, will return for an additional eight performances starting Wednesday, May 1 through Sunday, May 5. City Theatre is located inside Hockeytown Cafe at 2301 Woodward Avenue.

Adapted from Ayn Rand's dystopian novella of the same name, Random Access Theatre presents Anthem at the Abingdon Theater in New York City. Under the direction of Jennifer Sandella, five actors embody a nightmare of complicit collectivism where individual identity is a death sentence. However as two inhabitants of the soulless city fall in love, they will have to risk their lives to stay together.

The Importance of Being Earnest has delighted millions since its first London performance in 1895. A masterful comedy of manners, widely acknowledged as the wittiest play in the English language, it sparkles with classic bon mots, comic invention and brilliant dialogue that will lift your spirits. With mistaken identities, young love, giddy confusion and lots of laughs. It's the classic comedy that is anything but earnest!

4@15: Four New Fifteen-Minute Musicals, performed in conjunction with NYU Steinhardt, will commence performances this weekend, February 2 and 3, for five performances only at The Pless Hall Black Box Theatre. Explore the secret lives of stoners, home-shopping hosts, bible fiends and childbirth experts from writers Bert Bernardi and Justin Rugg, Dan Collins and Julianne Wick Davis, Katya Stanislavskya, Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel. Tammy Holder serves as Music Director; Brian Blythe directs.

California Shakespeare Theater announced today that its recently concluded 2012 season was the best attended in the organization's history, capping a stellar year of unprecedented growth for the organization. In addition to finishing the year in the black and breaking box office and attendance records, 2012's other accomplishments included: the launch of programming designed to engage more people in the act of theater making via the Triangle Lab; measurable growth of the Artistic Learning programs; and the addition of a solar array which marked the ongoing commitment to stewardship of the Bruns Amphitheater.

Children of Eden, written by the creators of Wicked, Godspell, and Les Miserables, opens at the Contra Costa Civic Theatre (CCCT) in El Cerrito on Friday, February 15. Director Stewart Lyle, in his CCCT debut, helms this joyous retelling of beloved stories from the book of Genesis with music direction by Michael Wiles and choreography by Rick Wallace.

Introducing a fresh wave of entertainment to downtown Las Vegas, the D will welcome two new shows to its recently remodeled showroom beginning in February. Joining nightly performances of the longest running dinner-show in Las Vegas,Marriage Can Be Murder, the showroom will now be home to LaughterNoon starring Adam London and Raack N Roll topless revue.

The Old Globe today announced the complete cast and creative team for the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, a new musical comedy with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak and lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak. Former Old Globe Co-Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak returns to the Globe to direct the production. Based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman, the musical also features choreography by Peggy Hickey. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will run March 8 - April 14, 2013 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Preview performances run March 8 - March 12. Opening night is Wednesday, March 13 at 7:00 p.m. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a co-production with Hartford Stage. Single tickets go on sale Sunday, Feb. 3 at 12 noon. Tickets can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

As part of the William H. Gile Series, The Capitol Center for the Arts presents Hooray for Hollywood on Wednesday, March 20, at 7:30pm. This event is free of charge; however tickets need to be reserved to ensure seating.

Timberlake Wertenbaker's Olivier Award winning play Our Country's Good, has announced 2 extra weeks at the St. James Theatre. Max Stafford-Clark's 25th anniversary production started previews on Wednesday 30 January and will now run until Saturday 23 March.

Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Carlo A. Scissura has released the following statement.

A dazzling visual valentine will be shared with New Yorkers and visitors to the Crossroads of the World this Valentine's Day season as part of a synchronized program on over fifteen of the largest digital signs in Times Square. Tracey Emin's work, I Promise To Love You, will premiere just before midnight on February 1st and play throughout the month as part of the 'Midnight Moment,' a presentation of the Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. s[edition], the leading platform used by the worlds most recognized artists to distribute art digitally, has been instrumental in working directly with Emin to bring this project to life.

Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc. has announced its first April Vacation Theatre Camp for young actors, April 15-19th in Milford. The one-of-a-kind experience for children ages 7 to 12 allows them to learn, rehearse and perform a new musical in just five days.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) presents Fiddler on the Roof on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3pm. All tickets are $45/$36 (orchestra/mezzanine) and can be purchased by phone at 718-951-4500 (Tues-Sat, 1pm-6pm), or online at www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org.

On Tuesday, February 26 at 6pm and Monday, March 4 at 6pm, Bang on a Can and The Museum of Modern Art present a pair of concerts in conjunction with MoMA's exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 that reveal how pioneering European composers of 100 years ago forever changed music in New York. Curated by Bang on a Can co-founder and artistic directorDavid Lang, each concert pairs two composers-an early-20th-century innovator, and a New Yorker he influenced- and is performed by alumni and faculty of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, a utopian residency program dedicated entirely to the creation, study, and performance of the most adventurous music of our time.

The Downtown Cabaret Theatre presents the awe-inspiring live show, John Lennon Imagined (The Beatles and Solo Years) featuring The Nutopians for Two Performances ONLY on Saturday, February 23at 5pm and 8pm. The Downtown Cabaret Theatre is located 263 Golden Hill Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Save the date for Theatre Seven of Chicago's fifth annual gala, the NEIGHBORHOOD BALL on Saturday, April 13, 2013 from 7 pm - midnight at the historic Swedish American Museum, 5211 N. Clark St. in the heart of Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood. The spectacular party features libations from local breweries, dinner from Chicago eateries including RL Restaurant, live musical entertainment plus a sneak preview of Theatre Seven's summer production of Unwilling and Hostile Instruments: 100 Years of Extraordinary Chicago Women, as well as silent auction and raffle prizes that highlight all corners of Chicago's unique neighborhoods. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 8, 2013 at www.theatreseven.org.

Victory Gardens Theater, The League of Chicago Theatres, Silk Road Rising and Lifeline Theatre are collaborating on a new conversation series, Race and Representation in Chicago Theater, that will discuss the issues of race and representation in Chicago's theater community. The series, featuring panelists to include actors, playwrights and directors, will focus on the importance of cultivating, developing and producing work that "looks like Chicago," and will frame for both artists and audiences the importance of accurate representations in the work we experience together. Race and Representation in Chicago Theater comprises two events, Playing Race, to be hosted at Victory Gardens on Thursday, January 31 following the 7:30PM performance of Disconnect; and Building a Theatre of Inclusion: Perspectives on Asian American Casting and Producing, to be held at Silk Road Rising on Monday, February 18 at 7:00PM.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has announced the availability of In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett, published by Oberon Books (London). This is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller, the controversial humorist, public intellectual and TV personality who first shot to fame, co-starring with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett, in Beyond the Fringe - the groundbreaking satirical revue which became a Tony Award-winning Broadway hit.