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Three-time GRAMMY® winner and renowned sitar player Ravi Shankar was a true pioneer in introducing Indian music to the West. He influenced artists across classical, jazz, pop, rock, and world music genres, including the Beatles, John Coltrane, Philip Glass, and his daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar.

Originally produced by the National Theatre of Scotland, the English premiere of Iain Finlay Macleod's Somersaults opens at the Finborough Theatre on Wednesday, 2 January 2013 (Press Night: Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 7.30pm) for a limited four-week season, directed by Russell Bolam.

Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse, an innovative multi-media and multi-disciplinary production created by Normand Latourelle, one of the co-founders of famed Cirque du Soleil, announces the addition of two more cities to its debut tour of Australia. Cavalia will open in Sydney on May 15, 2013, under its signature White Big Top, on The Showring at the Entertainment Quarter in Moore Park. In Melbourne, Cavalia will open on August 7, 2013, at The Docklands. Tickets for Cavalia, one of the world's most critically acclaimed shows, will go on sale tomorrow, November 28, online at www.cavalia.com.au or by calling 1800-765-955. Prior to the Sydney and Melbourne seasons, Cavalia will play in Brisbane from March 6 under the company's famed White Big Top in the parking lot adjacent to DFO at Brisbane Airport. Tickets for the Brisbane season are already available online and by phone.

American Repertory Ballet has announced upcoming events throughout New Jersey this Spring 2013. Based in Princeton, ARB has been consistently designated a "Major Arts Institution" by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for the past two decades, and, in 2008 and 2011, was voted Jersey Arts' People's Choice for Favorite Dance Company. Presenting innovative choreography to music by such greats as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Vivaldi, ARB's upcoming performance season promises to be inspiring.

The demand for CSC's popular annual holiday production of "Every Christmas Story Ever Told" has become so great that CSC has just announced the addition of 4 performances to help meet this demand.

Quest Theatre Ensemble rings in the new year with it's 11th annual production of BLUE NATIVITY on Tuesday, January 1st, 2012 at 5:00 pm. The show will take place at St. Gregory the Great Church, 5535 North Paulina in Chicago. The performance is free to the public. Donations are greatly appreciated.

Broadway's smash hit musical comedy The Addams Family comes to spooky and spectacular life premiering on 23 March 2013 at Sydney's Capitol Theatre. Today, Producer Rodney Rigby announced the Ensemble who will make up the cast of The Addams Family.

During January and February the Brooklyn Museum will present an array of public programs for adults, teens, and kids, including performances by the Grammy Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, pianist Joe Alterman, the Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats, and Balmir Studio's salsa team; conversations with artists El Anatsui and Duron Jackson; a panel discussion about the Black female body in art; the premiere of the season finale of The Outs and a discussion with the team behind the acclaimed web show; screenings of the films La Playa D.C., Hilde Holger: Her Legacy (pictured), La Pirogue, Ethel, and Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story; a tour of the new installation Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas with curators Nancy Rosoff and Susan Zeller; and a variety of art-making classes and workshops.

Ring in the holiday season with a special one night-only performance of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY, to be performed on December 22, 2012 at 8pm at the Riverdale YM-YWHA, located at 5625 Arlington Avenue (just off of Riverdale Avenue and West 256th Street), in Riverdale, Bronx, NY.

The Recording Academy(www.grammy.com) announced its Special Merit Awards recipients today, and this year's honorees are: Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightnin' Hopkins, Carole King, Patti Page,Ravi Shankar and the Temptations as Lifetime Achievement Award recipients; Marilyn & Alan Bergman, Leonard & Phil Chess and Alan Livingston as Trustees Award honorees; and Ikutaro Kakehashi & Dave Smith and Royer Labs as Technical GRAMMY Awardrecipients. A special invitation-only ceremony will be held during GRAMMY Week on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, and a formal acknowledgment will be made during the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast, which will be held at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles onSunday, Feb. 10, 2013, and broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network. For breaking news and exclusive content, join the organization's social networks as a Twitter follower at www.twitter.com/thegrammys, a Facebook fan at www.facebook.com/thegrammys, and a YouTube channel subscriber at www.youtube.com/thegrammys.

In a change to Signature Theatre's 2012-2013 Cabaret Series line-up, Broadway favorite and Signature veteran Emily Skinner will perform her show There is Nothing Like a Dame in a special five-performance run from January 9 - 12 in the ARK Theatre.

Brooklyn's Brave New World Repertory Theatre will present its second annual production of Thornton Wilder's holiday gem, "The Long Christmas Dinner." Two casts - one black and one white - play the same American family in a celebration of life that spans 90 years and three generations all within 45 minutes. Written before "Our Town," the play takes place at the Christmas dinner table and as the family marks births, deaths and the eternal truths of life, it provides a profound and poignant theater experience.

This season, American Globe Theatre and the Puppet Shakespeare Players are proud to present the Bard's most famous love story-- Romeo and Juliet. Produced in collaboration with Dee Snider's STT Productions, the show is set to open this January.

The Handel and Haydn Society has received gifts totaling $2 million to endow its chorus and educational outreach programs. A gift of $1 million from Jane and Wat Tyler will fund the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, ensuring the continued artistic excellence of this signature professional ensemble. A second gift of $1 million from Karen Levy will support the Karen S. and George D. Levy Educational Outreach Program. These milestone gifts are the largest in the Society's 198-year history and come as the organization approaches its Bicentennial in 2015 and prepares for the early stages of a campaign to fund new strategic initiatives and endowment. Nick Gleysteen, Chairman of the Board, remarked, "Wat Tyler and Karen Levy have each given many years of service and support to Handel and Haydn. These remarkable gifts are a testament to their leadership, passion and dedication, and will help support the artistic and educational excellence of H&H for many years to come."

Due to popular demand, the Huntington Theatre Company extends David Cromer's landmark staging of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town to January 26, 2013. Tickets to extension performances are on sale now at huntingtontheatre.org and will be by phone at 617 266 0800; and in person at the BU Theatre Box Office, 264 Huntington Ave. and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA Box Office, 527 Tremont St. in Boston's South End at noon today.

More than 100 Ballroom and Latin dancers with Harlem schoolchildren from M.S. 45, 57 and 76 come together to raise thousands for Sancy victims.

Bay Street Theatre is pleased to announce its upcoming February School Vacation Kids Camp, February 18, 19 and 20. The camp is for students age 8 through 12, and runs from 9am - 3 pm each day at the Bay Street Theatre. Cost is $255 for the three-day camp per child.

The Salvation Army's third annual Rock the Red Kettle Concert, produced by Specktor Media, features a variety of performances from hot young artists led by pop sensation Owl City, who went on the road for the second annual Rock the Red Kettle Tour to encourage volunteerism and support for The Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign.

Street Tempo Theatre welcomes Santa Claus to their presentation of It's A Wonderful Santa Land Miracle Nut Cracking Christmas Story… Jews Welcome, a multimedia holiday extravaganza for the entire family at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave, for two Sundays only, December 16 and 23 at 3 p.m. Santa will be mingling in the Stage 773 lobby following the performances to listen to children's wish lists and to pose for photographs. It's A Wonderful Santa Land Miracle Nut Cracking Christmas Story… Jews Welcome is playing through Sunday, Dec. 30 with performance times Fridays and Saturdays and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Ticket are $30 for the regular run. All tickets may be purchased at the Stage 773 box office, by phone at 773.327.5252 or online at Stage773.com.