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Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media announce today that they have acquired theatrical and all DVD and VOD rights to THE PLAYROOM, the critically acclaimed drama directed by Julia Dyer ("Late Bloomers"), which stars Academy Award-nominee John Hawkes ("Winter's Bone," "The Sessions") and Molly Parker (Dexter, The Firm). The film, which premiered in the gala/spotlight section of this year's Tribeca Film Festival, was produced by Stephen Dyer ("Hysteria") and Angie Meyer ("Wuss"), and is slated for a day and date release on theatrical and DVD/VOD February 8th, 2013.

One of China's foremost Sixth Generation directors, Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle, In Love We Trust) tells a striking, autobiographical coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution in his new film 11 Flowers.

CenterStage Foundation this evening announced that Dominion Resources, Inc. will donate $2 million toward renovations of CenterStage's Landmark Theater. The stage at the historic performing arts complex in Richmond's Fan District will be known as the "Dominion Stage."

Cirque du Soleil has announced additional performances (May 3 through May 12, 2013) to the Calgary engagement of Amaluna. Presented by the Desjardins Group, Amaluna opens Thursday, April 11, 2013 under the Blue-and Yellow Big Top at Stampede Park (Lot #6) for a limited engagement.

'However Did The Wolf Get In' is described as bringing together the introspective with more worldly concerns with political commentary on the track 'Andy Coulson' which reflects on the way absolute power corrupts absolutely ' I don't care who you tread on, I dont care, just get it done.' It's one for the 'reclaim the streets' generation.

Coyote StageWorks launched its fourth season on November 23 with the Tony-nominated comedy "Souvenir" and follows up with a starry reading of THE WOMEN on January 19.

The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Elizabeth Doran, Executive Director), announces the final week of performances for A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS, through December 30 only. This inaugural production of the new Panto at The Playhouse holiday series has been playing to nearly sold-out houses and has become the season's new hot family entertainment ticket.

Tickets for Truman Capote's BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S go on sale today via Telecharge. As previously announced, this new stage adaption of Capote's classic novella, directed by Sean Mathias, will star Emilia Clarke (HBO's 'Game of Thrones') as 'Holly Golightly,' six-time Emmy Award-nominee George Wendt ('Cheers') as 'Joe Bell' and Cory Michael Smith as 'Fred'; the show will begin performances at Broadway's Cort Theatre on Monday, March 4. Opening night is set for Wednesday, March 20.

Ballroom dance champion and Broadway actress Victoria Regan, who has been cast in the leading role of the famous aging Russian ballerina Grushinkskaya in Grand Hotel at TheatreZone next month, still dances on her tiptoes.

Dal 29 gennaio 2013, con un nuovissimo e originale adattamento firmato Massimo Romeo Piparo, arriva nei teatri italiani The Full Monty, la vicenda dei disoccupati spogliarellisti più amata e applaudita di tutti i tempi, il Musical più atteso di questa nuova stagione teatrale.

THE PEKING ACROBATS, a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists, and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments will bring to Santa Barbara and The Granada Theatre their 2,000-year-old tradition of acrobatics. THE PEKING ACROBATS will appear as part of The Granada Theatre Concert Series on Sunday, January 13 at 3 p.m. Tickets range from $28 to $65 and are available now at the Granada Theatre Box Office, 1214 State Street, Santa Barbara; by phone at (805) 899-2222; and online at www.granadasb.org.

Showtime is 8 PM. Tickets are $75 & $70 and can be purchased by visiting the State Theatre Box Office, 453 Northampton Street, Easton, by calling 1-800-999-STATE, 610-252-3132 or online at www.statetheatre.org. Sponsored by CAT Country 96 and Lehigh Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.

One of rock's most powerful and legendary bands, THE WHO will be celebrated when The Who: Quadrophenia-Can You See The Real Me? airs Friday, January 4 at 10:00 PM (ET/PT) on BBC America. Originally screened earlier this year as a one-night in-theater event, the documentary takes fans on a riveting ride back to the 1970s when THE WHO's creative musical genius was taking the world's music stage by storm. The Who: Quadrophenia-Can You See the Real Me gives fans an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look into one of rock's most influential bands and the creation of their celebrated album, Quadrophenia originally released in October 1973.

Violinist and new music advocate Jennifer Koh will make her subscription series debut with the New York Philharmonic in January performing Chain 2: Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra by Polish conductor Witold Lutoslawski. She will perform the piece at three concerts: Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, January 25 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, January 26 at 8:00 p.m. The concerts will be held in Avery Fisher Hall and will be conducted by the orchestra's former music director, Lorin Maazel. The concerts open with Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet, Overture-Fantasy and conclude with Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, offers a free, one-night-only reading of JACK KIRKLAND's powerful drama TOBACCO ROAD on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 7 pm, in its new state-of-the-art Pasadena theatre. Directed by Apollo Dukakis and featuring A Noise Within resident artists, this Depression-Era Broadway blockbuster, which exposes the South's social and racial injustices with biting satirical humor, portrays an ignorant, dysfunctional and hardscrabble family of Georgia sharecroppers whose spirits are as depleted as the soil in which they toil. Family patriarch Jeeter Lester and his clan are caught up in the excesses of evangelism and the dark side of lust as they strive just to survive the devastation of poverty. Tobacco Road, based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell, holds the record as the second longest running non-musical in Broadway history.

Stamford Center for the Arts and the Connecticut Ballet are teaming up to collect school supplies for the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School. Those attending the Ballet's The Nutcracker performances this Saturday and Sunday are asked to bring crayons, markers, lined paper, pencils, and teacher supplies to be dropped in the bins located in the lobby. These much needed supplies will help ease the transition into a new school building and bring a sense of normalcy to a very difficult situation. The supplies will be delivered to Sandy Hook's PTA next week.

The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre has announced announce that Peconic Landing is sponsoring its long-running, classic Picture Show Series for the 2013 Season.

Frequent recital partners Kirill Gerstein and Steven Isserlis will perform together in recital at the 92nd Street Y in New York on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. as part of the Distinguished Artists in Recital series in the Kaufmann Concert Hall. The recital will bring together 19th and 20th century composers in a program of songs and sonatas: Liszt's Romance oubliée for Cello and Piano and Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth for Cello and Piano; Busoni's Kultaselle, variations on a Finnish folksong for Cello and Piano; Brahms's Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 and Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in F minor, Op. 99; and, performed between the two Brahms sonatas, Bartók's Rhapsody for Cello and Piano.

After sold out shows at Fresh Ground Pepper's PlayGround Festival and Ars Nova's ANT Fest, the youthful powerhouse ensemble of Folk Wandering returns to the New York stage for a special concert performance at Joe's Pub. Tales from tenement Manhattan, Depression-era Utah, and rural 1950s Indiana are woven together in this wistful new folk musical.

SPT will present The Understudy, a biting comic examination of the entertainment industry, by Peabody Award Winner and creator and producer of NBC's Smash, Theresa Rebeck, running January 25-February 17, 2013 at the historic Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake.