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Horse Trade Management Group will present the fourth annual FRIGID Hangovers, March 4-10 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery). We're bringing back the best and the brightest from this years festival, so don't miss your second chance to catch standout performances.

Manhattan Youth Ballet and Manhattan Movement & Arts Center present Annual Spring Workshop Performances on Friday, March 15 at 7pm; Saturday, March 16 at 3pm & 7pm; and Sunday, March 17 at 3pm, at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, 248 West 60th Street, NYC (between Amsterdam and West End Avenues) in the Lincoln Center area. Advance tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students. Tickets can be purchased online at www.manhattanyouthballet.org. Tickets are $30 for adults and $20 for students at the door.

Spring winds are right around the corner, blowing in two fresh new productions from the Albuquerque Theatre Guild. First, the new edition of the Albuquerque Spotlight on Live Theatre, featuring its 43 member companies and their performance schedules. The brochures are distributed at venues throughout the city, including the lobbies of member theatres, visitor information centers throughout the state, hotels, retail stores, libraries, restaurants, churches, and senior and community centers - anywhere theatre lovers will see them.

Pulitzer-Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn announced this morning the March 4th launch of the latest installment of the Half the Sky Movement: a web-based game. Half the Sky Movement: The Game is a game-based adventure that aims to reach mainstream audiences to raise awareness and donations to empower women and girls around the world. The groundbreaking Facebook game introduces direct virtual-to-real-life translation, achieved by inviting players to move through a series of quests and stories related to real-world challenges that women and girls face, with issue-specific solutions provided by seven nonprofit organizations: The Fistula Foundation, GEMS, Heifer International, ONE, Room to Read, United Nations Foundation, and World Vision. The game is executive produced by Games for Change, a nonprofit that catalyzes social impact through digital games, and all its revenue is directed to charitable causes.

This April, Center for Puppetry Arts brings back the 'beloved, fun-filled trickster tales' of Brer Rabbit & Friends from April 11 - May 26.

American Repertory Theater of WNY will present the Buffalo debut of Michael John LaChiusa's acclaimed musical classic piece, FIRST LADY SUITE. Described by The Guide to Musical Theatre, FIRST LADY SUITE is a 'four chamber pieces, ranging from riotously funny to hauntingly lyrical focusing on celebrated First Ladies and the people surrounding them.' Opening on March 1st and running until March 16th, this limited engagement will be presented at ART/WNY's home base at Bittner Hall, 16 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo NY.

The Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is currently accepting applications for Camp Volunteers (unpaid) for its 2013 Visual and Performing Arts Summer Camps. Downloadable applications are available on the "Getting Involved" page of HCAC's website at www.hocoarts.org.

The 2012-2013 season of the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series concludes Friday, March 22 with Bahu-Beti-Biwi, a solo performance by intercultural, multi-disciplinary director, choreographer and performer Sheetal Gandhi. Reviewed as "striking" and "stunning" in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Gandhi incorporates elements of contemporary and traditional dance, dramatic multi-lingual vocalizations and percussive text to comment on the Indian diaspora and the traditional roles of women in India.

Academic Theatre at CCBC Catonsville celebrates the 75th anniversary of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Our Town for its spring production. A classic American play, Our Town explores the ordinary but rather pleasant lives of the community in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. March 14, 15 and 16; 3 p.m., March 16 and 17; 10 a.m. March 18 (SOLD OUT) and 1 p.m. March 19 (Nearly sold out) in the Q Theatre at CCBC Catonsville, 800 South Rolling Road, 21228. Tickets are extremely limited for all performances and reservations are strongly encouraged. Tickets, which are $8 general admission and $5 for senior, students, CCBC faculty, staff and alumni, are available online at http://www.ccbcmd.edu/performingarts/actheatre.html or from the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS (2787).

NEXT WEEKEND, Presented by Sundance Institute will take place Aug. 8-11, 2013 at Sundance Sunset Cinema and additional venues throughout Los Angeles. The event is an extension of the popular NEXT <=> section at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which showcases stylistically adventurous films that take a bold approach to storytelling.

NY1 Anchor Roma Torre is set to host the free concert event Spotlight on Town Hall on Thursday, March 28 at 6pm which will also feature a special performance from Smash star and Tony-nominee Jeremy Jordan. He joins a lineup that will also include performances from the Broadway productions of Chicago and The Phantom of the Opera, Off-Broadway's Avenue Q, The New York City Gay Men's Chorus and The Town Hall Broadway's Rising Stars Chorus.

Cutting Ball Theater concludes its 14th season with the World Premiere of KRISPY KRITTERS IN THE SCARLETT NIGHT, San Francisco playwright Andrew Saito's poetic portrayal of the heart of the city in the spirit of Alan Ginsburg's Howl, William S. Burroughs, and the plays of Suzan-Lori Parks.

9 to 5: The Musical will be presented by the Pearland Theatre Guild, March 22-April 7, 2013, at the Pearl Theater.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) presents Fiddler on the Roof on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3pm. All tickets are $45/$36 (orchestra/mezzanine) and can be purchased by phone at 718-951-4500 (Tues-Sat, 1pm-6pm), or online at www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org.

The world's most successful Irish Dance show - Lord of the Dance created by Michael Flatley - comes to Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Moran Theater for one performance only on Friday, March 15th at 8:00PM.

Carnegie Hall today announced the names of the 120 exceptional young musicians from across America who have been specially selected to come together from June 30 through July 23, 2013 to create the first-ever National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America.

59E59 Theaters has announced that playwright Mike Bartlett's (Artefacts in 2008) return to Brits Off Broadway with the US premiere of BULL, which just ended a successful run at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield.

Live From Lincoln Center features a special concert with internationally renowned, multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban, performing songs from his most recent album release All That Echoes (Reprise) as well as other popular favorites. The broadcast, 'Josh Groban: All That Echoes,' is hosted by Audra McDonald and will air on PBS stations on Friday, April 12, 2013 at 9 p.m. (ET) (check local listings).

Guys and Dolls, subtitled 'A Musical Fable of Broadway' is set in the colorful world of New York City in the mid 20th century. It is considered one of the greatest musicals of all time. Guys and Dolls is populated with gangsters and gamblers, missionary dolls and beautiful showgirls, and has one of the greatest musical scores in the history of American theatre. Including Frank Loesser hits; 'Luck Be A Lady', 'Guys and Dolls', 'If I Were A Bell', and 'Sit Down Your Rockin' The Boat'.

54 Below will host an album release concert on March 13 at 9:30pm to celebrate the upcoming release of the See Rock City & Other Destinations Original off-Broadway Cast Recording.