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Life is Beautiful (L.I.B.), a new two-day music, food and arts festival plans to attract thousands of locals and tourists to Downtown Las Vegas in the fall of 2013. L.I.B. is being developed by Aurelian Marketing Group in partnership with Another Planet Entertainment, MAKTUB Marketing and Downtown Project.

Light Opera Works presents the musical OLIVER! with full 26-piece orchestra, December 22 through 31, 2012, at Cahn Auditorium in Evanston.

Redefining what it means to "work" in Lower Manhattan, 26 emerging artists and writers have been awarded studio residencies in LMCC's Workspace program, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) announced today. Each artist will be granted free studio space in minimally adapted, temporarily vacant office space donated by Goldman Sachs, Co in Lower Manhattan at One Liberty Plaza, and will have access to talks and seminars, public programs, access to a network of peers and new audiences, a financial stipend and other professional development opportunities.

Due to popular demand, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co.'s hit production of SUPERIOR DONUTS will add two additional weeks of performances - extending through December 9, 2012 at The Royal George Cabaret Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St. in Chicago. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts and directed by Matt Miller, the critically acclaimed remount features nearly all of the original Mary-Arrchie cast members.

The Albuquerque Theatre Guild (ATG) has awarded a $500 grant to the Rio Grande Players (RGP) as part of a pilot program to fund member-generated projects. The grant will to help defray the cost of purchasing portable sound-amplification equipment to enable the group to take its free productions to more venues that do not have sound systems.

Mary Verdi and special guest Tony Lee Thomas will ring in the Holiday Season at The Colonial Theatre on December 1 at 2pm and 7pm.

Headlining the event are The Duprees, known the world over for their romantic interpretations of some of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Their New Jersey street-corner roots are still audible in the doo wop harmonies, The Duprees became known for mixing doo-wop vocals with big band arrangements with songs like 'You Belong to Me' making the Top 10. The Duprees followed up this success with 'My Own True Love", 'Have You Heard,' and 'Why Don't You Believe Me', all Top 40 hits.

A. D. Players Children's Theater will continue its Children's Theater season November 27 with Four Maps to Bethlehem, an imaginative take on the nativity story, written by former A. D. Player Marion Arthur Kirby.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) continues its 2012-2013 Target Storybook Series with The Little Prince on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 2pm. All tickets are $7 and can be purchased by phone at 718-951-4500 (Tues-Sat, 1pm-6pm), or online at www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org. Recommended for ages eight to eighty.

Renowned for their charming stage presence and impeccable harmonic style, Barbara, Sandra and Ann Mantini never miss a beat connecting with the audience. This holiday season the trio takes to the stage to create more musical memories in The Mantini Sisters: A Christmas Concert with two performances only, Thursday, December 13th at 8:00 p.m. and Friday, December 14th at 2:00 p.m. at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse.

Tis the season for Pandora's annual all out, over the top original yuletide production, and this year's gift to Kentuckiana audiences is a laugh your-a**-off yuletide rollicker, Velma & Louise's Holiday Balls.

Current Latin GRAMMY® nominee Pasion Vega, along with The Latin Recording Academy® President/CEO Gabriel Abaroa Jr. and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Luis Cobos will host the XIII Annual Latin GRAMMY® Pre-Telecast Ceremony (www.latingrammy.com), it was announced today by The Latin Recording Academy. Additionally, current Latin GRAMMY nominee Milly Quezada will present awards in select categories and current Latin GRAMMY nominees Amaury Gutierrez, Jotdog, Gian Marco, and Cuartetango String Quartet, will perform at the Latin GRAMMY Pre-Telecast Ceremony, which is set for Nov. 15, from 1:30 - 3 p.m. PT at House of Blues inside theMandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Additionally, Latin GRAMMY En Vivo will feature a live stream of the ceremony (beginning at 1:30 p.m. PT) and the Latin GRAMMY green-carpet arrivals (3 - 5 p.m. PT) at www.latingrammy.com.

Country Dance*New York will present the Fall Fling contra dance on Saturday, November 17, 2012 from 9:00 pm to 11:45 pm at the Chinatown YMCA's Houston Street Center (273 Bowery, near Houston Street, Manhattan). No previous experience is required. From 8:30 pm to 9:00 pm there is a beginner's contra workshop, and the caller walks everyone through the patterns of each dance. There is also a contra dance for experienced dancers from 5:45 pm to 7:45 pm.

The 41st annual Heida Hermanns International Voice Competition, a two-day event presented by the Connecticut Alliance for Music (CAM) with the support of the Westport Arts Center, will bring together young musicians from around the world at Westport Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Avenue, Westport, on Saturday and Sunday, December 1 and 2. The bi-annual competition is named for the late Heida Hermanns, a world-class concert pianist and music lover, who lived in Westport for more than 40 years.

B. Someday Productions and Walking Fish Burlesque will present an adult holiday show, THE YOUNG ADVENTURES OF SANTA - A YULETIDE BURLESQUE! Written and directed by Stan Heleva. Runs December 19-31, 2012 at Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. Tickets are $18, and can be purchased online and at the door.

In his first New York major engagement in 25 years, Emmy-nominated musical director, conductor, arranger and jazz pianist Donn Trenner collaborated with MAC and Bistro Award-winning jazz vocalist Shaynee Rainbolt for four Fridays in September. That critically acclaimed engagement returns to the Metropolitan Room in New York City for Four encore performances: Sunday, December 9th at 4pm; Tuesday December 11 at 7pm; and Saturday and Sunday December 15 & 16 at 4pm.

Dress Circle Publishing announces the release of Showbiz, A Novel, the debut novel from award winning Broadwayproducer Ruby Preston. This Broadway beach read offers a fictionalized account of opening night intrigue, backstage romances, Broadway gossip, and colorful characters that inhabit American musical theater. Showbiz, A Novel is available on Kindle and paperback at Amazon.com, Nook, iTunes and the Drama Book Shop.

Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, begins the final 8 performances of its acclaimed limited engagement tonight at 7 PM. When it ends its extended, acclaimed run on Sunday, November 18 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street), the production will have played 59 regular performances and 26 previews.

Described as a "sometimes pensive, often poetic, and continually progressive folk-pop ensemble," the Cincinnati-based, husband-and-wife team of Over the Rhine has been making music for more than 20 years. Fronted by Karin Bergquist's torchy, devil-may-care voice brimming with Midwestern soul, the band is led by brilliant keyboardist and songwriter Linford Detweiler who can seamlessly move from avant garde jazz to whisper-quiet folk subtleties to flat out rock.

Since their inception in 1996, The Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt-Managing Director) Rising Star Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater have ignited the careers of many notable performers, all of whom attended high school in New Jersey. Among the early nominees and winners are Academy Award® nominee Anne Hathaway, Tony® award winner Laura Benanti, star of Broadway's CHAPLIN, Rob McClure and 2011 Tony® award winner Nikki M. James.