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The Community College of Baltimore County, Essex Academic Theatre performs Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams 8 p.m., Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1, 10 a.m. Dec. 3 and 1 p.m., Dec. 4 in the B Building Theatre at CCBC Essex, 7201 Rossville Blvd. Tickets are $8 general admission and $5 for students, seniors, CCBC faculty, staff and alumni. Tickets can be purchased from the Box Office at 443-840-ARTS (2787) or online at http://www.ccbcmd.edu/performingarts/actheatre.html. Please note: Some mature subject matter.

The Theater for the New City with the support of Spain Culture New York-Consulate General of Spain presents The New Stage Theatre Company's Garden of Delights, written by Fernando Arrabal and directed by Ildiko Nemeth (NY Innovative Theatre Award nominee), with original music by Jon Gilbert Leavitt (Outmusic Award winner). Garden of Delights runs through December 2, 2012 in a limited engagement at Theater for the New City's Johnson Theater, located at 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in New York City.

Seattle Opera has announced several robust new education and community engagement programs, including newly commissioned operas. With the goal of providing more effective cultural service to residents of Washington state, and with a particular emphasis on young people, these new programs offer ways for those who have never before experienced opera to connect with and develop a passion for this art form. Seattle Opera's Education and Community Engagement programs reflect and inspire creativity, provide multiple entry points to the world of opera, foster lifelong learning, facilitate meaningful exchange, and build capacity for opera.

Back by popular demand, the critically acclaimed Jim Post returns to the Theatre at the Center, where he delighted audiences last holiday season with his show MARK TWAIN AND THE LAUGHING RIVER. The musical docu-drama GALENA ROSE: HOW WHISKEY WON THE WEST will run Thursday, December 27 through Sunday, December 30 at 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana.

NJ Ballet, The Nutcracker: For more than 40 years, New Jersey Ballet's Nutcracker has been cherished holiday tradition with three generations of families from Bergen to Cape May.

Famed singer and Taiwanese icon, Pauline Lan, will star in the Pauline Lan and Friends Concert inside the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas Monday, Dec. 24 and Tuesday, Dec. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Lan will also be inviting special guests to join her on stage during this limited engagement.

The X Factor's pint-sized powerhouse Carly Rose Sonenclar made the leap to the $5 million singing competition this fall with her audition to Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good,' which has skyrocketed to over 15 million views on YouTube in just over a month.

The new Broadway revival of "Anything Goes," Cole Porter's timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, opens at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre on November 28, 2012 at 8 p.m., and continues through January 6, 2013. A preview performance will take place on November 27.

Victory Gardens continues its 2012-13 season with the American Premiere of Disconnect, written by Anupama Chandrasekhar and directed by Ann Filmer. The production runs January 25 - February 24, 2013 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park. The Press Opening is Monday, February 4, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

WFUV will give thanks musically this holiday season with two days of concert broadcasts from venues as small as Electric Lady Studios and The Living Room and as large as music festivals like Newport Folk and SXSW, starting on Thursday, November 22nd from 10 AM-Midnight and continuing Friday, November 23rd from 10 AM-2 PM. The first day of the annual Thanksgiving Feastival brings listeners performances by the likes of Dawes, Calexico, Regina Spektor and Wilco as well as a broadcast of the Arlo Guthrie classic "Alice's Restaurant" at noon. On Friday, the live music marathon continues with performances by Shawn Colvin, Alabama Shakes, Norah Jones, and Sigur Ros throughout the day. New Yorkers can tune into WFUV at 90.7 FM, while Thanksgiving revelers across the country and worldwide can stream the whole Feastival at www.wfuv.org.

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts and The Irish Tenors are teaming up to help raise money for the Hunger Task Force during THE IRISH TENORS-THE PREMIERE IRISH HOLIDAY CELEBRATION TOUR that takes place this Sunday, November 25 at 6:00 p.m. in Uihlein Hall. $10.00 from each ticket sold using the code HUNGER will be donated to the organization. ONLY tickets sold at the Marcus Center Box Office (414-273-7206) or in person at 929 North Water Street, Downtown Milwaukee using the code will trigger the donation to Hunger Task Force.

On November 26th at 9:30pm, BroadwayUnderstudies.com has once again invited some of Broadway's most talented understudies to the stage of the Laurie Beechman Theatre to share their rare talent-the ability to perform at a second's notice. They'll be thrown into the fire in 'Half Hour 2: A Last Minute Concert,' a show where even they don't know what they'll be singing before they step up to the microphone. The audience will get to vote on what song each performer will sing.

Grace United Methodist Church presents pianist David Buddin (voted best New York composer 2012 by the Village Voice) performing the New York premier of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Natural Durations 1-12. The concert will be held on Sunday, December 2 at 4pm, free admission. This is the first half of Karlheinz Stockhausen's vast meditation on piano sonority. One of Stockhausen's last pieces, it is the third 'hour' of his 'Klang' cycle, derived from a single twenty-four-note set ran through a myriad of permutations and transformations.

Worldwide, more than 13 million people have seen JERSEY BOYS. And now, the show that made critics and audiences cheer is 'Workin Its Way Back' to Memphis at The Orpheum Theatre on December 4th-16th. Tickets are on sale now and available for purchase online at the official Orpheum Theatre website at www.orpheum-memphis.com, The Orpheum Box Office (901-525-3000), the ticket counter at The Booksellers at Laurelwood and all Ticketmaster centers (901-743-ARTS).

Lyric Opera of Chicago announces that respected stage, film and television actor, Patrick Stewart, will co-host The Second City Guide to the Opera on Saturday, January 5, with internationally renowned soprano and Lyric Opera creative consultant, Renée Fleming.

ITHT is has announced the triumphant return of the incredibly gifted actress and singer, Carole Demas in a concert created to benefit Irvington Town Hall Theater. Star of Broadway, television, cabaret, concerts and more, Ms. Demas, best known as the originator of 'Sandy' in Broadway's Grease, was Luisa in NYC's The Fantasticks, introduced the title role in Stephen Schwartz's The Baker's Wife and starred in TV's iconic Magic Garden, PBS's Great Performances and other shows.

After many years of live performance in both the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York, Aria Knight brings her new songs to a live audience for the first time in San Francisco for two shows in early December. The shows include a performance at Karneycopia, a weekly Singer/Songwriter event in the SOMA district at Brainwash Cafe, and a set at Independent Distribution Collective's Holiday Party at the Union Room in the Union Square neighborhood. This run will be capped off with a few studio sessions at Petting Zoo Studios in Emeryville, CA, working with producer/engineer Ben Bernstein (New Monsoon, Deborah Crooks, Ian Franklin).

UnsungMusicalsCo. (UMC) will present a developmental reading of Sounds Like Love, a new comedy by Arnold B. Horwitt (Make Mine Manhattan, Plain and Fancy) featuring three original songs by Horwitt, Tony Award winner Albert Hague (Plain and Fancy, The Fig Leaves Are Falling) and Grammy Award winner Allan Sherman (The Fig Leaves Are Falling). Originally written circa 1955, the previously unproduced play is adapted and directed by Ben West (At Home Abroad, Make Mine Manhattan, Gatsby).

Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that Starvox Entertainment and Potted Productions' hit off-Broadway show, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff, is extending by popular demand and moving from the Broadway Playhouse on Dec. 23, 2012 to the Harris Theater (205 E. Randolph Dr.). A new block of tickets for the Harris Theater performances Dec. 26, 2012 - Jan. 6, 2013 will go on-sale to the public Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.

MTV today announced that the network will air "I'm Positive," a 60-minute special produced by DrDrew Productions and Octagon Entertainment on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT, with a simulcast on MTV Tr3s. "I'm Positive" goes inside the lives of three young people from around the country who are HIV positive. Although each faces struggles that are part of living with this virus, they all work to maintain a positive outlook on life, while taking steps to remain healthy and to stop the spread of HIV.