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TOP DRAWER recounts writer & performer Adelaide Mestre's autobiographical journey from the gilded penthouses of Manhattan's Upper East Side to the old city streets of Havana, Cuba. On a mission to re-discover her colorful family's heritage, one that includes Marshall Field (founder of Marshall Field & Company Department Stores), Marshall Field III (founder of The Chicago Sun Times), Cornelius Bliss (founder of the Metropolitan Opera) and Abel Mestre (CMQ network, Cuba), Mestre establishes her personal independence and takes the audience from dysfunction to redemption. With a gay, Cuban, concert-pianist father and a mother who was an exacting, strong-willed socialite and professional opera-singer, Mestre's extraordinary life makes for a riveting theatrical experience.

Pride Films and Plays has announced that submissions for the Women's Work Contest are being accepted from January 15 to April 1.

Come see twelve of the Bay Area's up and coming vocalists perform unconventional love confessions with twisted conclusions to some of opera's favorite pieces. The evening features songs from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), Bizet's Carmen, as well as the infamous mad scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

Vika Bull, one of Australia's most respected, powerful soul singers, is set to tell the story of one of the most influential soul singers of all time: Etta James.

The Pulitzer Prize and OBIE Award-winning Theatre for the New City (TNC) will hold its 10th Annual LOVE ‘N' COURAGE benefit gala on Monday, February 25, 2013 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan), this year honoring award-winning actor and playwright Charles Busch, it has been announced by Crystal Field, co-founder and artistic director of Theater for the New City. The LOVE ‘N' COURAGE celebration will begin with cocktails at 6:30pm, with dinner following at 7:00pm, and performances at 8:00pm. Proceeds benefit the Emerging Playwrights' Program at Theater for the New City, located at 155 First Avenue in the East Village, where it remains one of the few remaining outposts for experimental and political theater in 21st century New York.

HERE WE ARE takes a look at how decisions are made and how we govern ourselves. It seeks to find better solutions to our problems. The ensemble and the audience work together to manufacture and perform the potential creative possibilities for a post-revolutionary world of beauty and non-violence.

A brand-new commercial for the eagerly anticipated MATILDA THE MUSICAL begins airing this week. View it below!

For the second year in a row, Windy City Times, Chicago's weekly LGBT newspaper, has received a nomination from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Nominated in the same category are The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Known for melding progressive rock with psychedelia, folk with electronica, and dance music with jam, the quintet has amassed a dedicated following of thousands of like-minded individuals, each sowing the seeds of unity and spreading the sounds of exultation. As a result, the five-piece band will hit the road with a brand new visual production and a new website loaded with features to bring further awareness about Papadosio, their music, and their spiritual vision.

The A State of Trance 600: New York City show of #1 DJ Armin van Buuren at Madison Square Garden has sold out within an hour of the public on sale. The New York celebration of the 600th episode of the A State of Trance (ASOT) radio show is part of the extensive world tour of the Dutch DJ and will gather over 12,000 dance music fans for one spectacular night.

This year the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival closes with six days of improv comedy. The festival began as an improv festival and the final weekend is always a highlight. This year the festival is welcoming legendary improviser Susan Messing and acts from all across the country. The improv block runs Tuesday, February 12-Sunday, February 17. Tickets to festival shows range $12 - $18 and are available online at www.nccomedyarts.com. Final shows will take place at DSI Comedy Theater, 200 N Greensboro St. and at the Arts Center 300-G East Main St.

Upright Citizen Brigade has announced February extension dates for The 2017 Tony Awardz, a musical parody by Stephanie Streisand and Rocco Privetera. Performances will be held Monday, February 18th at 8pm and Wednesday, February 27th at 8:00pm (with future dates to be announced). Evan Greenspoon (Jest) directs a cast of seven including Stephanie Streisand (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Michael Hartney (30 Rock, Small Time), Richard "Big Rich" Armstead, Adam Bozarth, Caroline Cotter, Matthew Frazier, and Douglas Widick. The 2017 Tony Awardz will run at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, 307 West 26th Street, in New York City.

"Let us entertain you!" That's just what the award-winning J*Company Youth Theatre, a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, is getting ready to do as they prepare to stage the third show in their musical theatre line up for its 20th Anniversary Season tribute to Barbra Streisand.

Downtown Cabaret Children's Theatre welcomes families with children on the autism spectrum or other sensory challenges to its first-ever SENSORY SENSITIVE PERFORMANCE of Freckleface Strawberry - The Musical. Based on the beloved book by celebrated and award-winning actress Julianne Moore, Freckleface, nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new Off-Broadway musical, steps inside the book's pages with Freckleface and her friends as they confront bullying and learn to love the skin they're in. The Downtown Cabaret Theatre is the first professional performing arts organization in the State of Connecticut to offer a Sensory Sensitive Performance of one of its own productions .

ASD Publishing has announced the launch of the latest novel by award-winning author, Gregory G. Allen that sends a man tumbling down the rabbit hole instead of Alice. COOL SIDE OF THE PILLOW is a story of a stay-at-home dad whose life becomes intertwined with an eccentric older actress specializing in children's theater.

The three cast members of My Name is Asher Lev come to 92YTribeca on Thursday, March 28 for a conversation about this highly-praised new play based on the best-selling novel by Chaim Potok (author of The Chosen). The cast will also perform a few of their favorite excerpts from the show.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & CHRIS ISAACSON are thrilled to announce that Upright Cabaret's AMERICAN ICON Series is going "Disco," so get your Seventies duds on and get ready to "Get Up and Boogie."

Beginning in February, Country Dance*New York will be presenting both its weekly dances - American contra dancing and English country dancing - at the Church of the Village at 201 West 13th Street near Seventh Avenue, Manhattan. The church (previously known as Duane Hall) was for nearly 50 years the location for these dances until early 2010 when the hall was closed for renovation. During the past several years dances have been held at other locations.

Due to the runaway success of the second annual "Rewind Scotland - The 80s Festival" at Scone Palace, Perthshire in 2012, the weekend festival returns for the third year! As with last year's unforgettable concert performances and audience participation, this year's Rewind Scotland boasts another impressive line-up of the creme de la creme of 80s pop artists.

Casa 0101 Theater, Josefina Lopez, Artistic Director, will present the play, "I Don't Have To Show You No Stinking Badges" written by Luis Valdez, the creator of "Zoot Suit," "La Bamba" and "Cisco Kid." This new production of "I Don't Have To Show You No Stinking Badges" is the first to be presented in Los Angeles in 25 years. It will star Carmelita Maldonado (of El Sereno as Connie Villa), Daniel E. Mora (of Glendale as Buddy Villa), Elizabeth Pan (a native of Thousand Oaks and resident of Beverly Hills as Anita Sakai) and Alex Valdivia (of Santa Monica as Sonny Villa) under the direction of Hector Rodriguez (of South Pasadena). The play will be presented in a Limited Run from February 8 - March 10, 2013 at the New Casa 0101 Theater; 2102 E. First Street (at St. Louis Street; Boyle Heights, CA 90033.