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On February 22, American Repertory Ballet will present an inside look at its upcoming spring performance season.This On PointeEnrichment Series event, "Spring Repertory Preview", will be held at 5:15pm in the Company's rehearsal studios at Princeton Ballet School (301 North Harrison Street, above McCaffrey's Supermarket). ARB launched its On Pointe series in 2010 to help make ballet more accessible to the community by offering free lecture demonstrations, guest lectures, intimate company performance previews, and panel discussions.

Tenor Stephen Costello will be hitting the high Cs - nine of them, in fact - when he opens San Diego Opera's season, making his role debut as Tonio in Donizetti's La fille du regiment (Jan. 26-Feb. 3). The Philadelphia-born singer - winner of the Richard Tucker Award - performed in the company's production of Faust in 2011, leading San Diego.com to declare that Costello's "polished tenor boasts all the traits we hope for." He is coming off his Berlin State Opera debut in December as Rodolfo in Puccini's La boheme, of which Der Neue Merker observed that he "won over the audience quickly," adding that the singer "has a mellow sweetness in his voice and produces a delightful piano. Yet he has the vocal force required for outbursts of anger and despair." The tenor is looking ahead to more Donizetti, with a March run in L'elisir d'amore at the Vienna State Opera and an April production of Lucia di Lammermoor with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

Riverdale Rising Stars Performing Arts Conservatory (RPAC), the educational arm of the Riverdale Rising Stars, the resident performing arts company at the Riverdale YM-YWHA, is now taking registrations for its spring semester of performing arts classes.

The Guthrie Theater continues its 2012-13 season with the British company Propeller's all-male, modern and physical productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Propeller artistic director Edward Hall. The two plays, performed in repertory (audiences can choose either show, or both on two different nights), come to the Guthrie as part of Propeller's international tour running through August 2013. Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew begin performances at the Guthrie on February 27, and continue through April 6, 2013. Single tickets start at $29 and are now on sale through the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.STAGE, 612.225.6244 (Group Sales) and online at www.guthrietheater.org.

Written by award winning playwright and director Ben Woolf, Angry Young Man tells the story of Yuri, a brilliant Eastern European surgeon who arrives in London in search of work and a new life. Instead he meets Patrick, a young man offering help, friendship and a trip to the heart of the English countryside. But what they find there reveals some cold truths about England. And what Yuri discovers about Patrick forces him to choose between a life in Britain and his honour.

8-10 February, Pontine Theatre presents Sandglass Theater's, Eric Bass, in his solo production, Autumn Portraits. Performances are Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 4pm & at 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm. Tickets are $24 and may be purchased online at www.pontine.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the door a half-hour prior to each show (cash & checks only), based on availability. Pontine's West End Studio Theatre is located at 959 Islington Street in Portsmouth NH. Pontine's 2012-13 season is supported by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. This production is funded in part the New England States Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with fundis from the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies. Accommodations are provided by The Sise Inn.

Sundance Institute this evening announced the jury prizes and honorable mentions in short filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Park City, Utah.

Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the top ten movies-on-demand titles based on consumer transaction rate. Movies-on-demand are transactional (pay-per-purchase) films available through cable and telco providers.

Six-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift this week reaches #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart with 'I Knew You Were Trouble.', from her 5+ million-selling current album RED. Released on Big Machine Records, RED has been certified 4X Platinum in the U.S. for sales in excess of 4 million albums, and the disc's worldwide sales total is now past 5.4 million. The single 'I Knew You Were Trouble.' has sold over 3 million copies in the U.S. alone, has topped the iTunes all genres chart, and is a worldwide smash, already reaching #1 in Australia and New Zealand, and rapidly ascending Top 10 airplay charts around the globe in the UK, Canada, and territories in Europe, Asia and Africa. The pop success of 'Trouble' follows Taylor's recent Billboard Hot 100 #1 and 3X Platinum single 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,' another worldwide chart-topper and the lead single from RED.

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel about spiritual warfare from a demon's point of view returns to Glendale by popular demand at the Alex Theatre, 216 North Brand Boulevard. The production previously sold out the Alex Theatre in January of 2011. This limited engagement will run Saturday, April 13 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The world's best-selling, multi-artist album series, NOW That's What I Call Music! presents NOW That's What I Call Love Songs, a romantic audio valentine featuring major hit ballads by today's top artists. A special 40-track Deluxe Edition of NOW That's What I Call Love Songs is available starting today, exclusively on The iTunes Store (www.itunes.com).

AMERICAN IDIOT will make its debut at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester, MA February 1-3, 2013.

The WhiteListed Theatre Company presents a new production of Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanovic's award-winning play Belgrade Trilogy at the 4th Street Theatre (83 East 4th Street in New York City) Set in Prague, Sydney and Los Angeles, Belgrade Trilogy is a dark comedy, following the lives of young Serbians, spread across the globe in search of a better future. Edgy, sexy and heartbreaking, Belgrade Trilogy is a tale of love, rebellion and social misplacement.

"From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook" will take place 7:00 pm on January 28, 2013, at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. The evening will be a concert of love and healing for the Newtown community from the composers, musicians and more than 100 stars of Broadway together with over 100 students from several Newtown dance groups and the Newtown High School Chamber Choir. All proceeds and donations will go directly to United Way of Western Connecticut's Sandy Hook School Support Fund.

Pianist and composer Stephen Hough will perform the New York premiere of his Piano Sonata No. 2, "notturno luminoso" in recital in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium on Monday, March 4 at 8:00 p.m.

The producers of Peter and the Starcatcher, the five-time Tony Award-winning play that Ben Brantley of The New York Times says has "more imagination and innovation than you'll find in a host of Hollywood spectacles," announced today that the critical and audience favorite will offer special tickets prices, in conjunction with NYCGo's 2013 Off-Broadway Week. Although Peter and the Starcatcher does not begin performances at New World Stages (340 West 50th St.) until March 18, 2013, theatergoers can purchase tickets at this special 2-for-1 rate beginning January 28 through February 10, for performances during the first two weeks of the Off-Broadway run by visiting BroadwayOffers.com and using this code: OBW13W.

International Pop Star Olly Murs will release his highly anticipated US debut album RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME on Columbia Records on April 16, 2013. The album will feature the top 40 summer hit 'Heart Skips A Beat' ft. Chiddy Bang and the BRIT Award nominated #1 pop anthem 'Troublemaker' ft. Flo Rida, which debuted top 30 at US pop radio this week. The music video for 'Troublemaker' has already garnered over 18 million views. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQDOUbErNg.

RENTRAK CORPORATION (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending January 13, 2013.