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Chris Botti returns to the Blue Note with his band this Monday for his annual 3-week residency including New Year's Eve. This year's lineup features Chris Botti (trumpet), Billy Kilson (drums), Billy Childs(piano), Lisa Fischer (vocals), Ben Butler (guitar 12/17-26),Leonardo Amuedo (guitar 12/27-1/6), Richie Goods (bass), Andy Ezrin (keyboards), Arianna Warsaw-Fan (violin 12/17-26), andCaroline Campbell (violin 12/27-1/6). New Year's Eve will include a champagne toast, hats, noisemakers, a countdown and balloon drop.

City Theatre will begin the lead-up to the CityWrights Playwriting Conference in June, with a special Winter CityWrights free program on January 8-10, 2013, offering three readings of award-winning playwright Leslie Ayvazian's new full-length comedy Out of the City. The readings will give theatre-lovers a sneak peak prior to the World Premiere this summer at New York's respected Bay Street Theatre.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical, the outrageously fun show about three friends on the roadtrip of a lifetime, will make its national tour debut at Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, January 8-13, 2013. Called a "rollicking crowd-pleaser in sequins" by Variety, this international hit with more than 500 2011 Tony Award-winning costumes features a parade of dance floor favorites including "It's Raining Men," "Finally" and "I Will Survive." Single tickets are on sale now. Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust as part of its 2012/13 Broadway Across America-Minneapolis season. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit HennepinTheatreTrust.org or call 1.800.982.2787.

Andy Goldsworthy has just completed the installation of Stone Sea, a sculptural work of 25 arches constructed of roughly cut Missouri limestone, for the Saint Louis Art Museum. The sculpture is located in a new courtyard that joins the Museum's Cass Gilbert-designed Beaux Arts Main Building and the new East Building designed by renowned British architect Sir David Chipperfield set to open June 29, 2013.

Perfect Disgrace Theater presents the world-premiere of Brian Bauman's A CRUCIBLE - a new play influenced by the diaries of Marilyn Monroe and Andy Warhol, as well as the writings of Arthur Miller and John Huston's film "The Misfits" - directed by Kate Gagnon (TECHNODOULIA DOT COM) with previews beginning January 10 prior to an official press opening of January 13 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) in Manhattan.

Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, has announced that items from Star Trek, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The Big Lebowski will be up for auction at 'Drama, Action, Romance: The Hollywood Auction,' this weekend, Saturday, December 15 and Sunday, December 16. A selection of the items is below.

Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of PICNIC, in association with Darren Bagert and Martin Massman, begins previews tonight, Friday, December 14 at 8:00PM.

Award-winning producers Randy Taradash, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment, and Gregory Rae have announced that the new production of BARE will offer $30 tickets to anyone under the age of 30, 30 minutes prior to curtain on the day of the performance only. Available on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings, those with valid IDs can purchase up to 2 tickets for best available seating from the box office at New World Stages. Credit cards and cash will be accepted for the 30 under 30 program, and tickets are based upon availability. General rush tickets are still available on the day of performance only at the box office, with a limit of 2 per person. Only cash will be accepted for general rush tickets, which are valid for the 18 tickets in the front row.

In its 23rd year as the anchor fair to the city of Miami, Art Miami, the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair and its new sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami closed with record breaking attendance and sales in excess of $46 million with many galleries selling important works to major museums, private foundations and international collectors. Within hours of the opening, gallery owners were reporting extraordinary, unprecedented 6 & 7 figure dollar sales with a number selling out their booths before fair's end.

The therapy continues when Steve Solomon, the star and creator of one of the longest running one-man shows in history, returns to Bristol Riverside Theatre in My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm Home for the Holidays, running January 3-6, 2013.

Tickets went on sale this week for ANN, a new play written and performed by Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor, which will begin previews on Broadway at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street) Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8pm, and will open Thursday, March 7, 2013.

Ryan O'Connor and Musical Mondays Los Angeles has announced a list of scheduled performers for A WEST HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY at Musical Mondays LA.

The Most Christmassy Christmas Morning, a Christmas Benefit with tunes by Sam Salmond, Jenny Stafford, Alana Jacoby, will be presented on Wednesday, December 19 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Show time is 9:30pm. All proceeds will go to TOYS FOR TOTS.

Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that the creator and stars of The Sopranos, David Chase , James Gandolfini and Steven Van Zandt , will sit down for a Q&A session with a select group of SiriusXM listeners about their new film Not Fade Away from Paramount Vantage at the SiriusXM studios in New York City.

With sold out audiences in Chicago screaming for more, and a hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a 4-star review, the original parody 50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL is coming for the first time to New York at the Gramercy Theatre on Friday, January 11 and Saturday, January 12.

The world is coming to an end. The sky will catch fire, the rivers will rise, and the ground will shake! Where will you be when it all comes crashing down? Instead of roaming the streets creating havoc, eating all of your Twinkies, running for the hills, crying with your cat, or cowering in your basements, why not spend your last forsaken moment with your friends at Know Theatre? No one is really sure the exact moment, method, or duration of our path to judgment day, but one thing is for sure, Know Theatre will tell you what to expect when you are expecting…the end of the world.

A Red Orchid Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of The Aliens, written by Annie Baker and directed by Artistic Associate Shade Murray. The production will run January 17 - March 3, 2013 at A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells. Press Opening is Monday, January 21, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.

Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of GOLDEN AGE, the third play in Terrence McNally's opera trilogy, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, has extended one week at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street) due to popular demand. Tickets for the limited engagement are now on sale through Sunday, January 13.

FELA! has announced its return to Chicago for six performances only February 19 - 23, 2013 at the Arie Crown Theater (2301 South Lake Shore Drive).

Circle Theatre, a professional regional theatre located in Fort Worth's Sundance Square, has announced its upcoming 32nd season.