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The Guthrie today announced that actors Greta Oglesby and Sally Wingert will cohost BEHOLD: A Gala Performance. A star-studded performance featuring actors, composers and writers with ties to the Guthrie's past and future, BEHOLD will be held on June 22, 2013, on the Wurtele Thrust Stage and is a part of the Guthrie's 50th season weekend celebration (June 22-23, 2013).

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 204th season with the Philadelphia premiere of Broadway's sensational new play GOOD PEOPLE. Directed by Walnut's Artistic Producing Director Bernard Havard, this smart, funny production begins previews on March 12th, opens on March 20th and runs through April 28th on the Walnut's Mainstage.

Jamie and Jason Poole, Wild Dreams Stables and Carol Hayden, event organizer, invite you to be part of a global movement to RISE up and break the chain of domestic abuse. This event is to help raise money for The Women's Center in Waukesha and will be held on Thursday, February 14 at the Wild Dreams Stables on S58 W29914 Holiday Rd. in Mukwonago, WI. The stables will be available for an open house from 10:00 am-7:00 pm along with food provided by Mustang Shelly's Roadhouse.

Two distinguished women have been elected as new members of the Board of Directors of the New York Philharmonic. Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Whoopi Goldberg was elected in January 2013, and Pamela Thomas-Graham - Head of Talent, Branding, and Communications at Credit Suisse, the Philharmonic's Global Sponsor, and a member of the bank's executive board - was elected in October 2012.

The Stand Up for a Cure 2013 Concert Series announced today that comedy icon Jerry Seinfeld will be joined by guests Colin Quinn and TV anchor Rosanna Scotto to kick off the new season, with a show at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on April 17th. The show will partner with The American Diabetes Association to benefit research into juvenile diabetes.

Anyone who has ever been involved in community theater will identify very strongly with the maxim "If anything can go wrong - it will." That's exactly what happens in the hilarious comedy Play On! which will be presented by the Middlebury Community Players at Town Hall Theater on February 14-17.

Fifty-four years after its Broadway premiere, the Huntington Theatre Company presents A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark family classic about deferred dreams. Liesl Tommy (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Ruined - IRNE Award for Best Director and Production) returns to the Huntington to helm the production that features Leroy McClain (the title role in Hamlet at California Shakespeare Theater) as Walter Lee Younger and Kimberly Scott (Molly Cunningham in Joe Turner's Come and Gone - Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations) as matriarch Lena Younger.

In 2013, the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of German Romantic composer Richard Wagner. His legacy of lush, dramatic operas and penchant for speaking his mind about topics ranging from music to politics and society has left a lasting impact on classical music and culture. Among his greatest contributions to the Western music canon is his four-cycle opera Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the Nibelung").

The Jewish Museum presents a night of comedy and music in Pretty Good Friends with Eugene Mirman on Thursday, February 21 from 8pm to 11pm. This entertaining evening, part of The Wind Up, a series of after-hours events with art, music, performance, drinks, and socializing, features stand-up comics Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry and Wyatt Cenac; indie rock musician Eleanor Friedberger; and more. Attendees will also be able to take a special tongue-in-cheek guided tour of the Museum's permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. Complimentary snacks will be served, and there will be an open bar featuring beer and wine. Beers courtesy of Shmaltz Brewing Company.

Performances begin today for the MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) New York premiere production of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really, directed by David Cromer (the Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award-winning director of hits Our Town, Adding Machine and Tribes). The production, which marks Colaizzo's New York playwriting debut, plays at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC) through March 10, 2013. An official opening is set for Tuesday, February 19th at 7:00 p.m. As announced on January 29th, the world premiere of Really Really, which opened in February 2012 at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in D.C., has been nominated for 'The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical' at this year's Helen Hayes Awards. As previously noted, MCC's New York premiere of Really Really marks a brand new production of the play directed by Cromer.

Today, February 1, tickets go on sale for the world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company's critically acclaimed production of Julius Caesar. The production, directed with a new twist by the RSC's new Artistic Director Gregory Doran, is set in present-day Africa with a cast of highly acclaimed, black British actors and live, contemporary West African music, fostering the resonance of this classic tragedy. Having opened to five-starreviews in the UK last year, the Columbus run is the production's only North American engagement following its New York City premiere in April.

Who needs chocolate and flowers when you can have tall, dark and sexy vampire stories? DC's official Naked Girls return to bring a new twist to the monotony of Valentine's Day outings with Love Bites, a Vampire Valentine. Naked Girls Reading is a performance of Burlesque ladies who love to read stories ofmesmerizing eyes, rapid pulses and truly eternal love or heartbreak. These beauties will bring their sexily intelligent skills to their new venue, Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar on 2/14/13 at 7:30pm.

Due to overwhelming demand, Off-Broadway's newest hit comedy HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER today put a new block of seats on sale through May 25th. Written and performed by Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle, HOW TO BE A NEW YORKER opened on October 17, 2012 to rave reviews at Sofia's Downstairs Theater in the heart of Times Square.

Theatre fans will once again have the opportunity to experience some of the most acclaimed shows offered on Broadway without leaving Atlanta. Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta is set to bring another season of the hottest musicals and first-rate Broadway performances to the historic Fox Theatre.

Carly Sakolove will begin an open-ended engagement of her one-woman show, I HEAR VOICES, on February 22nd at The Duplex. Beginning in February, audiences can enjoy Sakolove's critically acclaimed "Broadway Diva" impressions on the last Friday of each month. The show, written by Sakolove and Tony Award nominee Bill Russell has previously played sold-out engagements at The Duplex and Joe's Pub.

After landing in Poland last October, Fashion One, the international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle television, announces its expansion in the Central Europe country with the launch on Cable TV platform Ogrody of Stowarzyszenie Klub Sympatykow Telewizji Satelitarnej. The channel will be available in both the basic and high definition package servicing the audience in the city of Bydgoszcz in North Poland.

Conductor Hannu Lintu will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and pianist Stephen Hough in Liszt's Second Piano Concerto on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 8 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore and Friday, February 8, 2013 and Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 8pm at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Also on the program are Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini and Sibelius' Second Symphony. Please see below for complete program details.

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) presents UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL by Glen Berger, February 20 - March 17, 2013. In UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL, a librarian pursues the mystery of a travel guidebook that is 113 years overdue. This one-man show features James Ridge who was last seen at MCT in DICKENS IN AMERICA. UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL performs in the Broadway Theatre Center's Studio Theatre in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward.

Chatterbox Audio Theater, Memphis's only web-based theater company, is proud to announce the release of its latest production, OEDIPUS THE KING, ACT I. This intense, audio-only version of the quintessential Greek tragedy features a wide variety of Memphis talent. Act I (of three) runs approximately 37 minutes and is now available for free streaming and download through iTunes and www.chatterboxtheater.org.

Ryan Innes, who gained even more fans after his win at the 2012 Stadium of Fire talent contest, will bring his live show to a much more intimate venue when he performs at the SCERA Center for the Arts Feb. 9 and share the music he calls "fat and sassy."