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The Saint Sebastian Players open the company's 32nd season with an American classic, The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney. Performances are October 19-November 11, 2012 at St. Bonaventure, 1625 W. Diversey, Chicago.

Porchlight Music Theatre, currently presenting the Chicago premiere of A Class Act at Theater Wit through October 7, has announced that Carrie Kaufman has been named its new general manager. Kaufman, previously the publisher and editor of PerformInk, begins at Porchlight Tuesday, Sept. 18.

The Waukesha Civic Theatre presents What?s So Funny? from October 19th to 20th.

The Hunter College Art Galleries are will present CONCEPTUAL ABSTRACTION, on view from October 5 - November 10, 2012. The exhibition offers a revealing cross-section through abstract painting of the last two decades.

Hennepin Theatre Trust today announced a new season of Broadway Confidential, the Monday night series of behind-the-scenes talks by theatre experts delving into the background of musicals coming to the Orpheum and Pantages Theatre during the 2012/13 Broadway Season.

The NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG opens its 2012-2013 season amidst election fever with a semi-staged political musical theater satire, MR. GERSHWIN GOES TO WASHINGTON, on Saturday, October 20 at 8:00PM at Merkin Concert Hall.

Chicago Slam Works (CSW) has announced its 2012-13 season packed with innovative collaborations and dynamic performances at a new location, Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St. The season, directed by Artistic Director J.W. Basilo, features poets and storytellers facing off in 'Two Sides', October 10, 17 and 24, 2012, deceased poets challenging the living in 'Dead or Alive' December 5, 12 and 19, 2012, dancers and poets collaborate for 'In Motion', March 13, 20 and 27, 2013 and the season concludes when top German poets join Chicago poets in 'In Any Tongue', August 2 and 3, 2013. All performances are at 7:30 p.m. at the Raven Theatre. Tickets are $14 and free parking is available. For tickets or information visit www.chicagoslamworks.com or call 847-556-8679.

Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company comes to Three Stages with "Dynasties & Beyond." Elegant, sensual, and captivating, the company melds ancient Chinese forms with modern dance in an artistic and inventive marriage of styles. "In the first six spellbinding minutes, Lily Cai served notice to her audience that they were in for an evening that would be not only exotic, but brilliantly theatrical… ?a terrific show" (Sacramento Bee). This performance is supported, ?in part, by an award from the ?National Endowment for the Arts.

Landmark on Main Street will open its 2012-13 Season with Comedian Sandra Bernhard performing her new show "I Love Being Me, Don't You?" Landmark thanks our Program Sponsors St. Francis Hospital - Emergency Medicine Department and Glen Grayson, Hoffman Grayson Architects LLP. Landmark also gratefully acknowledges our Season Sponsor Pall Corporation and our Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, Town of North Hempstead, Bank of America, The Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation and Winthrop University Hospital for their support of our full season of programming.

The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter, an annual favorite visited by millions of children and adults, returns to the American Museum of Natural History on October 6. Celebrating its 15th year at the Museum, this popular winter attraction transforms the iciest day into a summer escape, inviting visitors to mingle with up to 500 fluttering, iridescent butterflies among blooming tropical flowers and lush green vegetation in 80-degree temperatures. The Butterfly Conservatory is on view through May 27, 2013.

The Broadway Green Alliance (BGA) is sponsoring a textile drive for the theater industry and its fans tonight, September 19th from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm in Duffy Square at 46th Street and Broadway (just south of the TKTS booth). Collection drive efforts in the fall of 2011 garnered 1750 pounds of materials, donated by casts & crews of 20 shows, half a dozen costume shops and theatre-related businesses, as well as theater patrons on their way to the Wednesday matinees.

Wagner College Theatre kicks off the 2012-13 Main Stage season with "Putting It Together," a Stephen Sondheim revue, which opens on Wednesday, Oct. 3 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 14. The show marks the WCT's return to its home stage in the newly renovated Main Hall after a year away at Snug Harbor.

For the second time, St. Ann's Warehouse (Artistic Director, Susan Feldman; Executive Director, Andrew D. Hamingson) will activate an industrial warehouse on the Brooklyn Waterfront.

Rare Terra Theatre celebrates the Chicago premiere of Wrong Mountain at The Second Stage. 3408 North Sheffield, September 13 - October 14. The production, written by award-winning playwright David Hirson (La Bete), is directed by Rare Terra's Artistic Director Ian Streicher. Regular performance dates and times are Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. Ticket prices range from $18 - $28 and can be purchased at 773/ 305-5643 or at www.rareterratheatre.com or at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/269078

For the holiday season, 42nd Street Moon unwraps the timeless Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart masterpiece, PAL JOEY.

Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain will be taking the stage at San Jose Rep next month. The thought-provoking, one-act play presents an imagined debate between two colossal, charismatic thinkers of the modern age: legendary psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, and young professor and author, C.S. Lewis. Directed by Stephen Wrentmore, Freud's Last Session is a co-production with the Arizona Theatre Company.

The new season presented by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College includes Michael Feinstein, Bill Cosby, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Vienna Boys Choir, Donnie McClurkin in concert, Peking Acrobats and a World Music Weekend featuring Inti-Illimani and Escalandrum.

Gottfried Helnwein and The Dreaming Child offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the creation of The Child Dreams, an opera designed by world-famous Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein for the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv in 2010. The Child Dreams is based on the play written by Israel's most famous and celebrated playwright, Hanoch Levin, who died in 1999. The libretto portrays the hopes and dreams of children in search of freedom and peace. Helnwein was chosen as production designer because the themes of childhood are a motif through much of his work and because of his LA Opera production ofDer RosenCavalier, which was brought to the Israeli Opera in 2005.

Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents “The Children's Hour' by Lillian Hellman. The production runs from Sept. 26-30 and Oct. 3-7, in the Emerson Studio Theatre, 130 Edgar Road. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m., except Sundays, which presents 2 p.m. matinees only. Admission is $12 for the general public and $6 for senior adults and students. For ticket reservations, call the Fine Arts Hotline at 968-7128.

Showcasing and celebrating the very best of Flamenco, THE 6TH ANNUAL TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FLAMENCO FESTIVAL brings internationally acclaimed and Canadian artists together for a week of workshops, classes, artist talks, films and live performances.