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ocal and international choreographers - Rodney A. Brown, Susan Hadley, Ohad Fishof and Noa Zuk, and Melanie Bales in collaboration with Catherine Turocy - create original works featuring deconstructed baroque ballet, emotionally laden expressionism, tender narratives of passage, and gutsy new movement. With a sensual and diverse palette of flavors and styles, Dance Uptown gives the audience a journey through time and space through the ever-evolving languages of contemporary dance.

New York City?s cutting edge percussion quartet, S? Percussion, will give a unique performance aboard a Capital Metro Red Line train on Thursday, November 1 at 3:44 p.m., beginning at the Downtown Station (401 E. 4th Street). The quartet will be in Austin attending the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC). S? Percussion and Capital Metro will present this unconventional concert experience, which is the first event developed by Texas Performing Arts? Classical Music Task Force.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will celebrate Thanksgiving weekend with performances by Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio on Friday, Nov. 23, and The Capitol Steps on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24 and 25.

The new concept album by former legendary Uriah Heep / Lucifer's Friend vocalist John Lawton titled 'The Power of Mind'. An innovative new CD, conceived, written and produced by the CGI member, Dr. Milen Vrabevski, but performed by John Lawton and Bulgarian ensemble Diana Express, 'The Power of Mind' is an exploration into the science of positive thinking and its applications to the subconscious mind. Featuring 14 amazing songs that showcase the soulful vocals of John Lawton and the powerful instrumentals by Diana Express will leave you wanting to hear it again and again.

It is She Who I See is the inaugural production of the new multimedia performance company Interference Arts. In this show, Artistic Director Craig Harris draws the audience into an innovative immersive multimedia environment. The production creates a rich visual environment designed by Jim Peitzman that integrates remarkable digital illustrations by artist Candy Kuehn, projected on a series of scrims hung around the stage. The mood created by these projections is enhanced with lighting design by Mike Grogan, a 2012 Ivey Award winner. After the formal performance, audiences are invited to interact with others in the immersive environment, in whatever "character" the experience encourages.

Receiving honors two years in a row with a BEST PRODUCTION Award, most recently from Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Ovation, and Garland Awards for Small Engine Repair, Rogue Machine's 2012 will now include this presentation of John DiFusco's The Long Way Home - Reflections on the Tracers Journey.

Kloppenberg, "a choreographer of nuances" according to The Boston Globe, will be showcasing repertory highlights from her company's ten years on November 16 and 17 in Cambridge, MA. Discounted tickets are available to anyone who brings a concert program from another professional Boston area dance performance in the last month and/or non-perishable food items for donation for Thanksgiving.

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD), ranked among the top performing arts schools in the nation, has received an $8-million gift from William K. and Delores S. Brehm to renovate and expand one of the school's principal North Campus buildings, the Earl V. Moore Building, pending regental approval at the Nov. 15 meeting.

Northlight Theatre announces today that George Wendt is leaving the cast of The Odd Couple for medical reasons.

A Christmas Carol, Alliance Theatre's annual holiday gift to Atlanta, returns November 23, 2012 for its 23rd production.

Sunday, November 4 at 2pm the Warner Theatre welcomes Ruth Loiseau (Ruth L) to the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre for a look into the White House past and present.

For the first time Road Less Traveled Productions and RLTP Ensemble member Victoria Pérez will join forces to bring a unique play-reading series to WNY. The RAICES series will consist of 4 plays written by Latino playwrights and dealing with the Latino experience.

Anthony Bourdain will bring his Guts & Glory tour to Jacksonville this spring, and tickets go on sale this Friday, November 2nd at 10AM through the Artist Series! The internationally renowned chef, author, and television host will visit the Times-Union Center's Moran Theater for one night only, Thursday, April 25th at 7:30PM. Bourdain will spend the evening sharing candid, often hysterical, insights about his life's work and travels, including an open question and answer session with the audience.

It's the brassy, bright and promising year of 1959. Boston's Colonial Theatre is host to the opening night performance of a new musical. When the leading lady mysteriously dies on stage the entire cast & crew are suspects. Enter a local detective, who just happens to be a musical theatre fan!

Saturday, November 3 will be opening night of Andrew Lloyd Weber's seven-time Tony award -winning musical, Sunset Boulevard at the Warner Theatre. This will be the first community theatre production of Sunset Boulevard in Connecticut.

Winning the prestigious Woodward/Newman Award for best play, while being developed at Rogue Machine for their 2012 season, brought with it a fully funded production mounted at the Bloomington Play Project in Indiana. It turned out to be one of their most successful projects to date. A Holland New Voices Award came shortly afterwards, and now playwright Henry Murray is enjoying an extended run of his new play at Rogue Machine, known for staging new works. This is a World Co-Premiere in one of the country's most vibrant cities for new plays, Los Angeles.

Christian Youth Theater - North Idaho (CYT-NI) says 'Be Our Guest' for something magical! Step into the enchanted world of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Nov 1-11 at the Salvation Army Kroc Community Theater, 1765 W.Golf Course Rd., Coeur d'Alene, ID. Seventy-eight local school children ages 8-18 make up the cast with an additional 25+ on crew all overseen by 65+ adult volunteers. All of the children are currently taking theater arts classes in CYT's fall session of their after-school theater arts education program.

Following the huge success of the Papatango New Writing Festival 2011 in partnership with the Finborough Theatre which saw unprecedented press acclaim for the sell-out production of the winning play, Dawn King's Foxfinder, the partnership between Papatango and one of London's leading new writing venues, the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre, continues...??This year's competition saw 700 entries from all over the world.

Following ATC's UK tour of artistic director Ramin Gray's production of Illusions by Russia's foremost contemporary playwright and screenwriter, Ivan Viripaev in the Spring of this year, the work has been chosen to feature in the Bush's festival of new writing RADAR 2012.

Stages of Discovery will sponsor workshops, on Saturday, November 3rd on Improvisation. The Developing Improvisation Skills workshop for grades 7-12 will begin at 10:00 and conclude at 12:00 p.m.