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Creator Rupert Holmes and star Will Chase of Roundabout Theatre Company's The Mystery of Edwin Drood will be interviewed on "Theater Talk" beginning tonight, December 28 at 1am (early Saturday morning) on Thirteen/PBS (channel 13). Additional air times are December 29 at 8:30PM, December 30 at 12:30PM, and December 31 at 7:30AM, 1:30PM and 7:30PM. Starting January 3, the interview can also be viewed online at www.cuny.tv/show/theatertalk.

Tickets for Broadway's ORPHANS, starring Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf, will go on sale to the general public on December 30. Lyle Kessler's play will be directed by Daniel Sullivan. This production will begin performances on March 19 and open on April 7 2013 at the Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street); this will be the first Broadway staging of the play. Frederick Zollo and Robert Cole are the producers.

Will LES MISERABLES return to the Great White Way? With the starry film adaptation on track for a successful opening week nationwide, producer Cameron Mackintosh confirmed today with Showbiz411 that the show is preparing to return to Broadway in 2014.

Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey- is celebrating 2013 and is offering a special promotion, 13 different shows for $13.00 a ticket by using the CODE 13for2013. There are shows for everyone! World Class Entertainment close to home just got better reserve your tickets now as there is a limited supply. Reserve your tickets today from the following 13 shows for only $13.00 a ticket at Ticketmaster.com or by calling 201 227 1030 or visit the Box Office at 30 North Van Brunt Street, Englewood- New Jersey. This promotion can't be combined with any other offer and is not retroactive.

Ovation, the only network devoted to artists and every kind of artistic expression, is kicking off the New Year with a full slate of artful series, documentaries and films, including those focused on classic and modern painters, a pop icon's most ambitious concert tour, classic and contemporary dancers, the film version of a literary thriller and a behind-the-scenes look at New York's competitive art world. Here are the highlights:

The latest destination for laughs on the strip, and two time winner of the sought-after "Best of Las Vegas award," Sin City Comedy, features a rotating lineup of renowned headliners weekly. Sin City Comedy has announced John Bizarre is the featured headliner from December 31st- January 6th.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery will feature the interactive installations of San Francisco artist Camille Utterback in an exhibition entitled Tracing Time/ Marking Movement from February 1 to May 19, 2013.

Are Women Inferior to Men in Math and Science? NYC writer/performer and "recovering mathematician" Gioia De Cari offers a woman's perspective on this question, as she shares her experiences in higher mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the autobiographical solo show, TRUTH VALUES: One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T.'S Male Math Maze, directed by Miriam Eusebio. The show runs January 9-12 at the Lyceum Theatre.

Last year, the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival began a partnership with the Carolina Theatre in Durham and partnered with the theatre to present two shows during last year's festival. Both shows were wildly successful and this year should prove to be no exception. Two of the festival's headliners are slated to take center stage at the Carolina Theatre on February 8 and February 10.

Big Noise Theatre Company will present Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday as their 2nd production of the company's 2012-13 season. Performances will be held at the Prairie Lake Theatre from January 13-February 5th, 2012. Catherine Davis returns to direct for the company, with Peter Rasey serving as producer.

From the writer of DreamWorks' hit science-fiction parody Galaxy Quest comes an original musical comedy, The First Gentleman. Starring Emmy Award winning Actress Sally Struthers as The First Gentleman's Chief of Staff. Michelle Duffy as President Kathryn Cassidy. Steven Ted Beckler in the title role of Russell Cassidy and Daniel Quadrino as their son, Steven Cassidy. Featured roles are played by Inga Ballard, Nick Sullivan, Jane Blass, Kevin Carolan, Howard Kaye, Dan Debenport, Jillian Mueller, Brandon Kelly, Mark Campbell, Jennifer Dinoia, Richard Cerato, L.R. Davidson, Jessica Dillan, and Matt Stocke.

The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has given crucial funding to the New York Academy of Art, one of the few graduate art schools in the United States that focus on a purely classical approach to the visual arts.

After a successful reading with us last year, the rock opera, 'The Clowns' is back at Playhouse On Park and will be presented in a full production workshop Friday, January 4th through January 6th.

The Classical Theatre Company's (CTC) second production of their 2012-2013 Main Stage Season will be Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry. The production runs three weeks from January 16th- February 3rd 2013 at Studio 101- located in Spring Street Studios, 1824 Spring Street in the Heights.

Center Theatre Group has announced the cast of the upcoming production of "Tribes" at the Mark Taper Forum which will feature cast members from the acclaimed off-Broadway production at Barrow Street Theatre. The West Coast Premiere of Nina Raine's "Tribes" will be presented February 27 through April 14, 2013. The opening is set for March 10.

A recent newsletter for The Public Theater has added another hint for the first show of the 2013 Shakespeare in the Park season, which will be 'a delicious comedy that will feature a beloved Public Theater Park alum in one of the lead roles.' The second hint teases that 'the first show next summer has been adapted into a musical more than once.'

Theatre in the Round Players presents RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire, January 11 - February 3, 2013.

In Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, actor John Turturro (O Brother Where Art Thou?, Barton Fink, Do the Right Thing) takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island's vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater's few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, who instructs him in the distinctively Sicilian art of puppetry.

Upright Citizen Brigade has announced January extension dates for The 2017 Tony Awardz, a musical parody by Stephanie Streisand and Rocco Privetera. Performances will be held Monday, January 2nd and 9th, 2013 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.

Just in time for the heartwarming holiday season, music enthusiasts can welcome the highly anticipated release of the Loving the Silent Tears: The Musical album to recreate the magic of the new musical exploring humanity's universal search for inner peace.