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Neil Jacobson, musician and songwriter, has announced all proceeds from sales of his new single, 'It's Thanksgiving Time,' will be donated to the Food Bank For New York City. To purchase the single, please go to http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/neiljacobson.

On Saturday, November 17 at 8pm, the Torrington Symphony Orchestra will perform its Fall Concert in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.

Chicago's Theater Wit has announced that The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince has awarded the company a three-year, $60,000 grant for general operating support.

Tony® Award-winner George Hearn (La Cage Aux Folles, Scandoulous) joins the The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), to honor legendary Broadway Music Director and Conductor Paul Gemignani with the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre at the 21st Annual Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala to be held next Monday, November 19, 2012 at The Edison Ballroom (240 West 47th Street).

Impressive. Beautifully lyrical. Stunning. Strange and wonderful concoction. Unconventional. Clever. Whether describing one of her avant-garde works or simply summing up her unique movement style, words and phrases like these flow throughout the reviews of choreographer Helen Pickett.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company will present Jeff Daniels' Onstage & Unplugged for a limited six-show engagement from Thursday, December 27 through Monday, December 31, 2012. (Editors' Note: Please find a full performance / pricing schedule on page 2). All performances will be at The Purple Rose Theatre Company, 137 Park Street, Chelsea, MI 48118.

Performances for two-time Obie Award-winning actor/director/playwright Matthew Maguire's new solo show, Wild Man in Rome, begin tonight at The Wild Project (195 E. 3rd Street). Wild Man in Rome will run for a strictly limited two-week engagement through November 24. Wild Man in Rome is a follow-up to Maguire's smash hit solo show, Wild Man, which premiered at The Wild Project in 2010.

Due to popular demand the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) season of Hairy Maclary and Friends, has been extended until 23 January 2013 in the Cremorne Theatre.

Darlings of the South African cabaret stage, Emile Minnie and Godfrey Johnson, join forces and hands to bring you an evening of fun, humour and fabulous songs.

Australian rock band TRACER won "Best New Band" at last night's Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards. Held at the London Roundhouse, lead singer and guitarist Michael Brown was flown in from Adelaide, Australia to accept the award on behalf of the band.

CPCC Dance Theatre Invites dance aficionados from across the region to attend its upcoming "A Patchwork Christmas" performance this holiday season.

THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins November 27 at the SHN Curran Theatre in San Francisco and plays a limited 5 week engagement through December 30. In San Francisco, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making a limited number tickets available at $29 apiece.

Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi will lead his first company performances of Aida,Verdi's grand opera of love and war, beginning November 23. Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska makes her Met debut in the title role of the Ethiopian slave, opposite Marco Berti as Radames and Olga Borodina as Aida's formidable rival, Amneris. Later performances feature Hui He as Aida, Roberto Alagna as Radames, and Dolora Zajick as Amneris. The role of Amonasro, Aida's father, will be shared by Alberto Mastromarino and George Gagnidze. Štefan Kocan will sing the priest Ramfis, and Hungarian bass Miklos Sebestyen will make his Met debut as the King of Egypt. The December 15 matinee performance of Aida will be transmitted worldwide as part of The Met: Live in HD series, which now reaches more than 1,900 theaters in 64 countries around the world.

This holiday season, the Merchant's House Museum (NYC's "best-preserved" mid-19th century home) again time travels back 100 years to celebrate Christmas in the 1950s -- when the traditional American Christmas hit its mass-produced, post-War-prosperous peak. The halls will be retro-decked with an authentic tinsel tree trimmed with bubble lights and vintage ornaments; molded-plastic, lit-from-within Santas, Rudolphs, and Frostys; iconic Lefton "Holly" china and vintage holiday cooking paraphernalia; toys (Mr. Potato Head! Cooti! Slinky! Tinkertoys!), and Christmas cards.

Epic Megalopolis Productions (New York/Los Angeles) will produce a concert reading of Swedish pop band Brainpool's new rock opera JUNK on November 17th and 19th at the National Opera Center in New York City. JUNK will be the first rock opera presented in the new recital hall opened by Opera America earlier this year, a venue dedicated to supporting the creation, presentation, and enjoyment of opera.

On Saturday, November 17 at 8pm, Grammy award-winning country/pop singer LeAnn Rimes will perform at the Warner Theatre in Torrington, CT.

The RRazz Room, San Francisco's premier nightclub, presents the return engagement of acclaimed jazz and pop vocalist, MARLENA SHAW. Whether she's singing jazz, R&B, pop, rock, soul, blues or gospel, Shaw's originality makes such distinctions irrelevant, and each song becomes intimate and new. For her new show at The RRazz Room Shaw gives a vocal master-class performing classic jazz and R&B standards leaving no room for question why critics call her a soul legend. Her big hits include 'California Soul,' 'Wade In The Water' and the classic Disco remake of 'Touch Me In The Morning.' The show will run November 29 to December 2.

Songs you'll never forget, the film you've never seen and a story that's never been told. In August 1967, in the wake of the extraordinary impact of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles made a film. It was seen in the U.K. by a huge audience, at 8.35 p.m. on BBC One on Britain's Boxing Day...and all hell broke loose.

Park Square Theatre presents the regional premiere of Johnny Baseball, a touching new musical that deals with baseball, love, and the "Curse of the Bambino"-on stage January 18-February 10, 2013. With a lively score, and a grand finale that features a curse-busting home run, Johnny Baseball delivers a whole lot entertainment.

The 2013 national tour of the new musical The Addams Family, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will play the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center February 26 - March 3, 2013 as part of the Kimberly-Clark Broadway Across America - Fox Cities Series.