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Mama and Her Boys, the new off-Broadway musical, has announced its guest star schedule through April 1. February 18 and 25 will feature the previously announced Christina Sajous (Spider Man, American Idiot, Forever Dusty). Nicole Lewis (Hair, Rent, Murder Ballad) will join the cast for the March 4 performance. March 11 will feature Bethany Moore (Spider Man, Pippin). On March 25, the cast welcome Ellyn Marie Marsh (Priscilla, Kinky Boots) and on April 1, Eric Riley (Dreamgirls, Once On This Island, Ain't Misbehavin) will appear. Additional guest stars will be announced shortly.

Pacific Symphony performs Puccini's passionate and beautiful music in its full glory for the orchestra's second semi-staged opera production. The new opera-vocal initiative "Symphonic Voices" launched last season with three sold-old nights of "La Boheme," in an effort to bring opera back to Orange County following the loss of Opera Pacific. Inspired by Music Director Carl St.Clair's successful career as an opera conductor in Europe, the Symphony once again takes the music out of the pit and onto the stage to reveal the composer's brilliant orchestration, which paints the scenery and emotion behind the tragic tale. The production stars a cast of world-renowned opera singers, Pacific Chorale and the Southern California Children's Chorus.

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, presents FRANK GALATI'S adaptation of JOHN STEINBECK'S iconic THE GRAPES OF WRATH, opening Saturday, February 23 and closing Saturday, May 11, 2013 (previews begin Saturday, February 16), which brilliantly distills the quintessential American novel to its core while preserving its essence as perhaps the greatest American travel tale ever written. Directed by Michael Michetti, this timely work, filled with heartbreak and strength, features Steinbeck's words almost exclusively as well as deeply evocative music that includes period hymns, Dust Bowl songs and original music by Michael Smith written for the play's original 1988 Steppenwolf Theatre Company production, hailed by the London Daily Mail as "shatteringly perfect." The Chicago Sun-Times praised Frank Galati's adaptation as "utterly faithful to its source - that it is not only uncompromising, but devoid of sentimentality, and that it is flawless in the way it sweeps us into the lives of the characters, and their time, without a wasted word or motion." The run includes a 'Pay What You Can" date on Thursday, February 21.

If you pay attention, will the clues lead you in the right direction? Replete with farcical spy antics and ill-fitting shoes, something smells fishy in this comedic noir fable. A pulpy delight awaits with Commie spies afoot, the H-bomb looming and McCarthy's detective daughter hot on the trail of a fog-filled murder case. As the knots of three convoluted relationships tie and fray, the plot-crossed lovers in this 1950s espionage tale will bumble, subvert and strategize their way to finding each other… eventually unraveling their trysts into a riotous, inescapable tangle.

Miranda Jonte's world premiere play, Greasemonkey, pays homage to her northern Californian roots, and is inspired by the modern day love poetry of Alice Walker, Noel Coward and James Tipton. Stephen Brotebeck (Movement Associate, Peter and the Starcatcher; Director, 29 Lives, New York Theatre Barn) will direct the production, which runs February 13 through 24, 2013 at the Robert Moss Theater at 440 Studios (440 Lafayette Street, near East 7th Street).

The Neo-Futurists explore the world of 'fate' in Analog. The show opens Monday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland.

Romeo and Juliet might just be the best-known teenagers in the history of English literature. Highlighting the famous pair's youth, this production of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet has cast two local teenagers in the title roles. Margaret Flock, a senior at the Lovett School in Atlanta, and Jake West, a senior at North Cobb Christian School in Kennesaw, GA, will portray the ‘star cross'd lovers' in the professional company's annual production.

After breaking box office records in 2006 and 2011, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster returns to Segerstrom Center for the Arts February 20 - March 17.

The Dallas Opera has announced that Broadway legend and Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning director, producer, playwright, and lyricist Jack O'Brien has been engaged to direct the company's world premiere production of GREAT SCOTT, a new, full-length opera by acclaimed American composer Jake Heggie (Moby-Dick) and the Tony Award-winning playwright/librettist Terrence McNally (Master Class) in their first joint opera since their groundbreaking masterpiece, Dead Man Walking.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced today casting for Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, a 75-minute abridged production of Shakespeare's tragedy of true love found-and tragically lost, adapted and staged by Jeff Award-winning director and Chicagoan of the Year in Theater Rachel Rockwell. Providing a quality, family-friendly introduction to Shakespeare on Saturday mornings from February 23 to March 23, 2013, the cast of Rockwell's production includes Chicago actors Christopher Allen and Laura Rook, who make their CST debuts in the title roles.

Forum Theatre has announced that it will continue to house the Project Gym. Now in its second year the Project Gym serves DC performance-based artists as they work out their creative muscles.

The Music Institute of Chicago joins the local celebration of Evanston's 150th anniversary and the national celebration ofMusic In Our Schools Month with a day of music for all ages Saturday, March 16 at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Talent Development Program (TDP) student musician Myrtil Mitanga and TDP alumnus Xavier Foley are semi-finalists in the prestigious 2013 Sphinx Competition. The annual competition offers young African-American and Latino classical string players the opportunity to compete under a renowned panel of judges and to perform in a competition setting.

Following its widely acclaimed inaugural edition, the groundbreaking Art Wynwood Fair, enthusiastically embraced by the international art dealer community, Miami and the Wynwood Arts District will return for its second year during Presidents Weekend February 14- 18, 2013. Art Wynwood will take place in the spacious 100,000-square-foot Art Miami Pavilion, which attracted more than 60,000 attendees during the 2012 edition of Art Miami.

The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2013 preview performances begin February 15, and the season will open Friday night, February 22 with Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, directed by David Ivers. On Saturday, August Wilson's Two Trains Running, directed by Lou Bellamy, takes the stage, as does Lerner and Loewe's classic American musical My Fair Lady, directed by Amanda Dehnert. Sunday afternoon in the Thomas Theatre, Shakespeare's King Lear opens, directed by OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch.

The Private Theatre (John Gould Rubin, Artistic Director; Lucy Di Rosa, Executive Director) is excited to announce the addition of Rachel Merrill Moss as resident dramaturg and Rob Urbinati as head of the company's literary department. Moss and Urbinati join The Private Theatre Managing Members, Summer Crockett Moore, Cheryl Dennis, Lucy Di Rosa, Tony Glazer, Salomé M. Krell, and John Gould Rubin along with their Literary Committee: Evan Cummings, Tony Glazer, Shane Bly Killoran, Salomé M. Krell, John Gould Rubin and Sarah Wharton.

New York Theatre Barn (New York, NY) is partnering with Encore Theater Company (Dayton, OH) to produce an out-of-town developmental production in Dayton of Speargrove Presents, the new musical about two families in a North Texas town who struggle with a community battle ignited by a controversial high school production of the musical Rent, in Summer 2013.

On Monday, January 28, the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met will open George Condo'sJesters, presented in conjunction with the new Metropolitan Opera production of Rigoletto. Condo has created 9 original ink-on-paper drawings of jesters for the show, which will be on display through May 11. The Met's new production of Rigoletto, Verdi's opera about a court jester whose life unravels after his insults go too far, will premiere January 28.

Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Recital Centre today announced the premiere visit to Australia of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (MCO). Regarded as one of the most artistically interesting and successful ensembles on the international classical music scene, the MCO gives two performances at Sydney Opera House on 10 and 11 June followed by two performances at Melbourne Recital Centre on 12 and 13 June.

Singer, comedian and celebrity impressionist, Terry Fator, has another milestone to celebrate as his first DVD, "Terry Fator: Live From Las Vegas," has been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as having gone quadruple platinum. This accomplishment means more than 400,000 units of Fator's 2009 DVD have been sold.