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Sideshow Theatre Company continues its 2012/13 season with the Chicago premiere of MARIA/STUART by Jason Grote, directed by Marti Lyons, playing March 30 - May 5, 2013 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago. MARIA/STUART features the work of Sideshow Ensemble member Nate Whelden (Stuart) and Artistic Associate Scottie Caldwell (Hannah) with Mary Ann Bowman, Ann James, Susan Monts-Bologna and Jennifer Joan Taylor. Tickets are available at www.theaterwit.org or by calling the Theater Wit box office at (773) 975-8150. The press performance is Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7:30 pm.

The August Wilson Monologue Competition, sponsored by The League of Chicago Theatres, Goodman Theatre, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and organized in Chicago by Derrick Sanders, will hold the Chicago Finals on March 11, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. at the Goodman Theatre, 170 North Dearborn St.

Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey announces the first ever March Sweet 16 Promotion starting Friday March 1st at 11AM where you can buy tickets for 16 selected shows for only $16.00 by using the CODE "Sweet 16" There are shows for everyone! World Class Entertainment close to home just got better buy your tickets now as there is a limited supply 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.

Artists Rep will extend Red Herring by four performances due to phenomenal audience demand for this hilarious show. Added performances are Wednesday, March 20 through Saturday, March 23 at 7:30pm. Tickets for these performances are on sale now.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) today announced the selections for the 2013 Next Link Project, NYMF's primary writer service program. The Next Link Project empowers emerging musical theatre writing teams as both artists and entrepreneurs by providing the training and relationships needed to help them move their musicals from readings to fully-realized productions and to advance their careers by maximizing the exposure they receive in the Festival. Ten of the Festival's full production slots are reserved for participants in The Next Link Project.

Broadway and Smash star Jeremy Jordan stopped by East Rockaway High School to help the students put the final touches on their performance and scenery before their first performance on their new stage.

This Tuesday, February 26, the first broadcast spot encouraging schools across America to apply for a chance to improve their school theater premiered during NBC's "Smash." It features "Smash" and Broadway star Jeremy Jordan as the spokesperson.

Making people laugh is never easy. Doing it on stage, in front of a packed house, with no script and no idea what happens next - that's the challenge of improvisational comedy. The best improv troupe around is Middlebury College's Otter Nonsense, which returns to Town Hall Theater on March 15.

William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that its third Manning Chamber Music Series Concerts of the 2012-2013 season will be held at the Browne McPherson Performing Arts Center on Monday, March 11 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Admission is free to this musical collaboration between the university and the North Carolina Symphony, but reservations are recommended.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

In what would have been Patsy Cline's 80th year of life had she not died tragically in a plane crash fifty years ago, CJ Harding will bring the legendary Cline to life on the Palladium's mainstage for two shows: Saturday, March 9 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 10 at 3 p.m.

Forever Flamenco! presents Ecos de Andalucia ("Echoes of Andalusia!") - Dancer/show director Adriana Maresma Fois and flamenco guitarist Juan Antonio Gomez return to Forever Flamenco from from Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia, Spain via the flamenco "hub" of Albuquerque, New Mexico - the two towns between which the couple divides their time. Joining them on stage at the Fountain Theatre is 'formidable cantaor (singer) Antonio de Jerez and bailaores (dancers) Mizuho Sato, recognized for her deep interpretation of the cantes (songs) and assured technique, and Manuel 'de la Cruz' Gutierrez, known for extraordinary footwork and fierce passion.'

The Apothecary Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of the ensemble created play how i learned to become a Superhero, written by Dennis Flanagan, directed by Christopher Klinger.. …Superhero will begin performances on Thursday, April 4 and will celebrate its opening on Sunday, April 7, 2013 (running through April 27) at The Gloria Maddox Theatre at T. Schreiber Studios (151 W. 26th St.). Tickets are $25 and are available on www.apothecarytheatrecompany.org.

Twenty young singers who won regional competitions around the United States will come to New York to sing on the Met stage in the semi-finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The Met Auditions, this year celebrating their 60th anniversary, are a major stepping stone to a career as an opera singer and were crucial in introducing many of today's best-known stars, such as Renee Fleming, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Ramey, Deborah Voigt, and Dolora Zajick.

Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), Houston's leading performing arts presenter, launches its Satellite Series at Space Center Houston in March. Performances will include Blue Lapis Light from Austin on Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23, at 12 and 1:30 p.m. Boomshaka, from Chicago, will take the stage for three performances on Friday, March 29, at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.

BORN YESTERDAY, the classic comedy with political punch, closes Moonlight Stage Productions' 2013 AVO Playhouse Winter Season with performances March 21 - April 7. Tickets are priced from $22-$30 and are on sale now through the VisTix box office by calling (760) 724-2110 or visiting moonlightstage.com.

Kinky Boots creators Harvey Fierstein (book) and Cyndi Lauper (music & lyrics) will sit down with New York Times theater reporter Patrick Healy as part of a New York Times TimesTalks on Monday, March 18th at 6:30 PM E.T. at TheTimesCenter (242 West 41st Street). The pair will discuss their collaborative experience on the hotly anticipated new musical; the evening will also include a performance by Kinky Boots stars Stark Sands and Billy Porter. For those not in the room, the conversation and performances will be streamed lived on the Web at www.Livestream.com/NYTimes.

The first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is coming to the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre April 16 - 21. Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 1 at 10 a.m.

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the world premiere of Gnit by Will Eno, directed by Artistic Director Les Waters. The play will run in the Pamela Brown Auditorium and will begin previews on March 15, open March 17 and run through April 7. Tickets are on sale now to the public and can be purchased at the Actors Theatre Box Office by calling 502-584-1205 or online at ActorsTheatre.org. The 37th Humana Festival of New American Plays is made possible by a generous grant from the Humana Foundation. Gnit is presented as part of the Brown Forman Series, by special arrangement with Signature Theatre and was developed at The Pershing Square Signature Center, with thanks to the J.A.W. Festival, Portland Center Stage. Director is underwritten by Todd P. Lowe and Fran C. Ratterman; Bruce Merrick and Karen McCoy.

The Jewish Museum and the New School for Public Engagement are presenting In Dialogue, a series of performative dialogues between experts in diverse fields in conjunction with the Museum's new exhibition, As it were ... so to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom. Each evening concentrates on a different aspect of 'dialogue,' pairing speakers demonstrating theory and practice. Unlike traditional conversations, the speakers do not engage with one another, each addresses the subject at hand and the audience members directly. The series begins at The Jewis