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Founded by Larry Rosen and keyboard player and composer Dave Grusin, GRP Records was among the first to release digital commercial recordings.

K Pictures announces today that director Sam Kadi's debut drama THE CITIZEN will have its International Premiere at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival in Abu Dhabi on October 14th at 9:30pm at the Emirates Palace Theater.

American Repertory Ballet will present its first 'Emerging Artist Showcase' with performances at 8:00 PM on Friday, October 26th, and Saturday, October 27th at Princeton Ballet School's Studio A, 301 North Harrison Street in the Princeton Shopping Center, above McCaffrey's Supermarket. The performances will feature choreography created and performed by the dancers of American Repertory Ballet and the ARB/Princeton Ballet School Trainee Program. While no one will be turned away at the door, a suggested donation of $10 will go directly to the artists.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater announced casting today for the moving, true story, The Diary of Anne Frank, their next production in the Quadracci Powerhouse.

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) presents its 22(nd) annual Simply Shakespeare reading of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' September 27 at the Freud Playhouse, UCLA Campus. This event features a star-studded tie-dyed cast of hilarious hippies for an evening filled with peace, love reading a psychedelic 1960's adaptation of Shakespeare's play that includes iconic music of the era. Directed by SCLA's Artistic Director Ben Donenberg, the groovy participants include Billy Crystal, William Shatner, Martin Short, Topher Grace, Gillian Jacobs, Eddie Redmayne, Cedric the Entertainer, Paul Dooley, Olivia Thirlby, Alan Tudyk and co-chairs Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks and more!

The Performing Arts Project Presents the New York Series Dance Intensive, an exciting full day of dance classes with the Tony Award-winning choreographer of Newsies, Christopher Gattelli, Assistant Choreographer of Smash Ryan Kasprzak, and choreographer and SAG Award-winning actor Susan Misner. The New York Series Dance Intensive consists of three two-hour classes taught individually by Gattelli, Kasprzak and Misner, and culminates in an hour-long panel discussion with them.

Grammy® Award and Tony Award-Winner, and soon-to-be turning heads on the West End stage in London, UK, Heather Headley, releases her latest CD, Only One In The World. The CD, which bows today, features new songs penned by Headley, R&B hits, familiar favorites and a cut from the upcoming production of The Bodyguard: A New Musical in which Headley makes her London West End debut this fall in Whitney Houston's role, Rachel Marron. Only One In The World is released by in:ciite Media, distributed by EMI-CMG/EMI Distribution.

The Collective Theatre presents its inaugural production: the Chicago premiere of HooDoo Love by Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall, directed by Nelsan Ellis, star of HBO's hit series True Blood. HooDoo Love plays now through October 21, 2012 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Avenue in Chicago. The production features Toni Lynice Fountain, LaRoyce Hawkins, Mark Smith and Lynn Wactor with Sam Bailey, Mark Hood, Opal Demetria Staples and Greg Williams. Musicians include Leon Q. Allen, Giles Corey and Thomas Lowery. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

On September 24th, pianist Steven Blier headlined a benefit concert at the New York Botanical Gardens to raise funds for FSH Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD). The most common form of muscular dystrophy, FSHD has left Blier unable to walk. Sharing the stage with him was his friend Kelli O'Hara, the multi Tony award-nominated singer and actress who has entranced audiences in such Broadway hits as South Pacific, The Pajama Game and, currently, Nice Work If You Can Get It. At the benefit event, the pair captivated the crowd with Gershwin, Sondheim and other classics from the American songbook, but they also had an urgent message to deliver through a new video, which appears below.

The United Nations, Hyde Park-Image Nation, and Variety have teamed up to produce a non-scripted series featuring filmmakers from The Middle East, India, and Singapore. This unprecedented effort will bring together documentary filmmakers from diverse backgrounds in a filmmaking competition where the contestants must team up to produce one cinematic vision while drawing on their varied cultural perspectives. The show will be hosted by prolific film producer Ashok Amritraj, and will shine a spotlight on a number of United Nations global initiatives. The series is a collaboration between the United Nations, Variety, Hyde Park Entertainment and Image Nation.

Single Carrot Theatre has announced that Drunk Enough to Say I Love You by Caryl Churchill will perform on MICA's campus from October 5th - October 21st at Falvey Hall in the Brown Center (1301 W. Mount Royal Ave Baltimore MD 21217) and at the new auditorium in Studio Center (113 W. North Ave Baltimore MD 21201). Opening night on October 5th will be held at MICA's Falvey Hall with show time at 8:00pm.

The New Ohio Theatre and IRT Theater (neighbors in the historic Archive Building on Christopher Street) have announced their exciting new initiative: beginning this Fall, the Archive Alliance Residency is offering select independent theatre companies a two-year commitment of space, artistic support, and institutional continuity for the development and presentation of a new work. In other words, a home.

Direct from their phenomenally successful Broadway engagement, the internationally-acclaimed Beatles concert, Experience the Beatles with RAIN, returns to the Fox Theatre for one performance only on Saturday, February 23 at 8 p.m.; part of the Fifth Third Bank Fox Theatre Series.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION will feature a post-show talkback series in October to discuss Love, Sex, the Meaning of Life and the Existence of God at the Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport in Chicago. Winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play, the Midwest Premiere of FREUD'S LAST SESSION has received rave reviews and three Jeff Award nominations, including Best Play. The production has been extended multiple times and is now in final weeks, ending its successful Chicago run on November 11. Written by Mark St. Germain, under the direction of Tyler Marchant, the production stars local theater legend, Mike Nussbaum (Emmy, Drama Desk Award, four-time Jeff Award winner, and recent Sarah Siddons Award recipient), as "Sigmund Freud" and Coburn Goss (Vigils at the Goodman Theatre, Dead Man's Cell Phone at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Off Broadway When the Messenger is Hot at 59E59) as "C.S. Lewis."

The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts has announced the winners of this year's Ensign-Darling Vocal Fellowship, a scholarship program for young singers.

Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn has been obsessed with pop music for as long as he can remember: "I was hooked from day one. My older brother had a band that rehearsed in our basement, so I heard Bacharach, The Beatles, Ray Charles, and Motown coming up through the floorboards from the time I was six years old. By the time I was eleven though, the Beatles were breaking up and singer-songwriters were breaking through, and a lot of that music really resonated for me"

Lowis Lowry's powerful award-winning novel, THE GIVER, comes to life in a thought provoking production by the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC). Dramatized by Eric Coble, THE GIVER plays The Ricketson Theatre September 28 - November 18, 2012. Tickets may be purchased now, by calling 303.893.4100 or visiting www.denvercenter.org.

Z2 Entertainment will present Never Shout Never with William Beckett, Anarbor & Me Like Bees at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, December 8th. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Tuesday, September 25th for $20.00 in advance and $22.00 day of show.

An industry reading of Sevan K. Greene's Narrow Daylight will be presented Oct. 9 at 3 PM at Primary Stages.

N-Y Historical Society has announced the following upcoming events.