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Theater Works - Peoria Center for the Performing Arts Resident Theatre Company will present the dramatic stories of a real-life legendary hobo in Dale Wasserman's Burning in the Night: A Hobo's Song opening January 25, 2013 and playing through February 24, 2013.

The folks from the And I Am Not Lying blog (andiamnotlying.com) put on one of New York's most innovative and eclectic storytelling-based variety shows, featuring comedy, storytelling, music and sideshow.

Chris Isaacson PRESENTS and UPRIGHT CABARET will present the West Coast debut of up-and-coming Broadway songwriting duo of Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk featuring performances by Sarah Hyland ('Modern Family'), Melissa Benoist ('Glee'), Barrett Foa ('NCIS-LA'), Max Ehrich ('Young and The Restless,' Broadway: Newsies), Dezmond Meeks ('America's Got Talent'), Meghann Fahy ('One Life To Live,' Broadway: Next To Normal), Matt Sax ('Clay'), Morgan Karr (Spring Awakening), Arielle Jacobs (In The Heights), Colleen Ballinger ('Miranda Sings'), Laura Dickinson ('Disney's Phineas & Ferb') and more.

The inaugural production of the Kindling Theater Company-the world premiere of The Future Is Not What It Was, written by Michael Rabe and directed by Jay Stull-begins tonight, Saturday, January 12 at 8pm. The production plays at Soho Rep's Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street. The opening night is set for Monday, January 21 at 8pm.

La Jolla Playhouse has announced the major projects and partners for its inaugural Without Walls (WoW) Festival of site-based work, running October 3 - 6, 2013. This one-of-a-kind Festival will showcase events occurring simultaneously in and around the Playhouse Theatre District, presented by the Playhouse as well Festival partner institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and UC San Diego.

Trinity Rep has announced that there are still a limited number of tickets available at their Red White & Blues benefit event this Saturday, January 12, 2013. A casual evening featuring food, wine, and dancing to the music of local band The Silks, all proceeds from the evening go towards Trinity Rep's artistic and educational programming.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) presents the World Premiere of THE FLICK, a new play by Obie Award winner Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation at PH, The Aliens, her recent adaptation of Uncle Vanya). Directed by Obie Award winner Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation, Kin and The Big Meal at PH; Seminar and the current Picnic on Broadway), the production will begin previews Friday evening, February 15 at 8PM with an Opening Night set for Tuesday, March 12 at 7PM. The limited engagement will play through Sunday, March 31 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

The 2013 Sarasota Opera Winter Festival will open with the Sarasota Opera premiere of Giacomo Puccini's vocally extravagant final opera Turandot on Saturday, February 9, 2013, which features some of the composers most glorious music including the famous tenor aria "Nessun Dorma" (None shall sleep).

The Manatee Players production of ANYTHING GOES is now SOLD OUT! There is a waiting list started at the box office one hour before curtain time of each performance. Being on the list does NOT guarantee you a seat, but every effort is made to fill unoccupied seats at curtain time. Performances are January 17-February 3.

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer will make his Met debut with a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto, in a staging that moves the opera's tragic events from a decadent 16th-century Italian court to the glitzy, depraved setting of the Las Vegas strip circa 1960.

The "Viennese oracle" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) pianist Rudolf Buchbinder will be the featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic led by Music Director Alan Gilbert in three concerts from February 14-16, 2013 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Buchbinder will perform Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83; the concerts will also include Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Pathetique. Buchbinder's next performances in the U.S. are on March 8-10, 2013, as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Christoph von Dohnanyi, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466.

The Flea Theater will continue it's tradition of late-night offerings with The Shakes: Romeo and Juliet. Five teams of actors helmed by five Flea Resident Directors each perform an act from Shakespeare's most tragic love story. Cast from The Flea resident acting company, The Bats, Romeo and Juliet follows the inaugural Shakes, The Honest Whore by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton. The Shakes: Romeo and Juliet will be performed in one-act installments until the play is complete.

Luna Stage has announced the first ever New Moon Short Play Festival. The festival will be presented on Monday May 6th, 2013 at 7:30pm. Luna Stage is accepting submissions until February 15th, 2013 (postmark). Playwrights residing in New Jersey, New York or Pennsylvania may apply. All selected playwrights must be present for the presentation on May 6th. There will be a talkback with the audience following the presentation of the plays.

Pop music group All-4-One, best-known for its smash hit "I Swear," will perform at the Suncoast Showroom February 16 and 17.

The Bay Area's trailblazing and internationally acclaimed women's vocal ensemble, Kitka, is pleased to announce New Folksongs from Within, an original program featuring two world premieres conceived and created for the ensemble by two of Kitka's own vocalists, Janet Kutulas and Elizabeth Setzer. Kutulas's Iron Shoes is centered around the heroines of three separate Eastern European fairytales. Iron Shoes will be presented as a concert version of what will eventually be a fully-staged folk opera. Setzer's Apple Blossoms and Brine is a song cycle about the timeless experiences of love and heartbreak, loss and celebration. New Folksongs from Within takes place at Oakland's intimate new concert venue, the Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland, California, Friday, March 8 through Sunday, March 10, 2013.

Following approval by the Englewood City Council and their respective boards, The Englewood Economic Development Corporation and the Bergen Performing Arts Center are pleased to announce the signing of a long-term lease for the new home of the bergenPAC Performing Arts School, to be located in the former Bennett Studios / Railroad Station building on North Van Brunt Street. Renovation of the building is expected to begin immediately.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will premiere a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull, the forerunner of modern character-driven dramas with interwoven storylines such as Downton Abbey and Mad Men. Celebrated director John Gould Rubin (LAByrinth Theater Company) brings a realistic, deconstructed and more accessible version of the play to the stage with a new translation by Royston Coppenger.

Fresh off two sold-out shows at Chicago's new City Winery in December, Poi Dog Pondering next plays one of suburban Chicago's best live music venues, the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora, one-night-only, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at 8 p.m.

The Dallas Opera is particularly excited to bring Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Dominick Argento back to Dallas after a very long absence for a special "Composing Conversation," conducted in partnership with Art&Seek, KERA's arts initiative. The visit is prompted, in part, by the Dallas Opera's upcoming 25th Anniversary production of the world premiere of Argento's masterful adaptation of Henry James' THE ASPERN PAPERS.

The New York Jewish Film Festival will feature An Evening with the Safdie Brothers on Sunday, January 13. Acclaimed filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie will present and discuss five shorts at 6 pm: There's Nothing You Can Do, We're Going to the Zoo, The Acquaintances of a Lonely John, John's Gone, and Black Balloon. Daddy Longlegs (AKA Go Get Some Rosemary) will be shown at 8:15 pm. The Safdie Brothers started making films at an early age and formed the collective Red Bucket Films while students at Boston University, eventually winning international recognition for their featureDaddy Longlegs, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.