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The Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) is currently accepting submissions for its 11th annual season to be held at HERE (here.org) in SoHo, NYC February 25-March 17, 2013.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre & Children's Theatre has launched www.famousinfrederick.com. The new site will include a collection of photographs of Way Off Broadway performers, associates, and guests as they travel the globe. Some on national tours, others simply visiting fun locations while on vacation. Making all of these people Famous in Frederick is their official "Famous in Frederick" branded shirt.

The prominent and provocative racial justice scholar Cornel West is a well-known intellectual, but less well known is his love of Chekhov, the writings of Stella Adler and the theater. Dr. West values arts education for disadvantaged youth and is an aficionado of legendary acting teacher Stella Adler. As part of the Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, Dr. West will participate in a panel discussion about the relationship between access to arts education and economic and social justice. The panel will follow a performance of Julius Caesar by students of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting's Outreach Division.

JM&A Productions has announced the Premiere of 'Celebrating His Birthday, a Tribute To Frank Sinatra' on Saturday December 15th. The show will have one performance only at 8:00 p.m. debuting at Iguana NYC, 240 West 54rd Street Saturday December 15th. The audience will be taken on a musical celebration Frank Sinatra's music.

Beginning September 21, Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights returns for 25 nights. This year, once guests step inside Halloween Horror Nights, they 'will not be able to escape the horror that awaits them, including terrifying haunted houses featuring some of the biggest names in pop culture - like AMC's 'The Walking Dead' and Silent Hill. And, with a completely reinvented street experience, scarecators will seek them out no matter where they turn.'

On Friday, September 7 at 11 a.m., more than 80 shows and events that are part of the 2012-13 PlayhouseSquare season, including Broadway, dance, concerts, comedy and family shows, will go on sale to the public. Tickets may be purchased at the PlayhouseSquare Ticket Office (1519 Euclid Ave.), by phone at 216-241-6000 or online at playhousesquare.org/onsale, also available on mobile devices.

Luna Stage opens its 20th anniversary season with the New Jersey premiere of Vita and Virginia, an intimate two-character play by Eileen Atkins, adapted from correspondence between friends, lovers and confidants, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Gary Clark Jr. will release his long-anticipated full-length debut album for Warner Bros. Records on October 23rd. The album, for which the title and track-listing will be announced soon, was produced by Gary Clark Jr. and Mike Elizondo, who is known for his work with Mastodon, Fiona Apple, Dr. Dre, and many others.

The Aurora City Council voted last night to award the Aurora Civic Center Authority (ACCA) an 18-month agreement to provide programming and venue management services for the new RiverEdge Music Garden and John C. Dunham Pavilion, a premier regional festival park currently under construction in downtown Aurora along the banks of the Fox River.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW starts the season with THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE - George Bernard Shaw's famous comedy set against the unlikely backdrop of the American Revolution, using fictional and historical characters - on Monday, September 24 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan. David Staller produces and directs.

The award-winning artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, Daniel Evans, will be recognised for his role as a champion of the arts in Sheffield, after being nominated for an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University.

World-famous tap dancer, choreographer and actor Savion Glover is stomping his way to center stage of the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County for his debut performance on Saturday April 6, 2013 at 8 p.m.

Death and the Maiden, Ariel Dorfman's political drama, opens the Matrix Theatre Company's 2012-2013 Season.

FLAMENCO FESTIVAL MIAMI returns for a sixth glorious season of world-class flamenco dance and music with Spain's massively popular BALLET FLAMENCO DE ANDALUCÍA, coming to Miami for the first time, direct from the land where flamenco was born.

Guest vocalists Dominique Labelle (soprano), Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano), Adam Diegel (tenor), and David Pittsinger (bass-baritone) join the Columbus Symphony, Columbus Symphony Chorus, and Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni for a one-night-only season opening performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the world renowned Ode to Joy. The evening's program will also include Handel's grand ode for the coronation of England's King George II and a gentle motet by Mozart.

The Macomb Center for the Performing Arts has announced that Burton Cummings, former lead singer/songwriter of The Guess Who, will make a rare Michigan performance, opening the Macomb Center's new season, on Saturday, October 6 at 8 p.m.

Doone Records has announced the release of Real Life is Meeting, the debut solo album by John Galgano.

Two-time Emmy award winner, Louie Anderson, brings his "Big Baby Boomer" show to the State Theatre on Saturday, September 29 at 7PM.

THE CIVILIANS (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the New York-based investigative theater company, announces that JJ Lind has been named as its Executive Director, replacing outgoing Managing Director Marion Young. Ms. Young, who has overseen the organization for 4 years, is departing for Philadelphia where she will serve as Executive Director of Art-Reach starting September 4, 2012.

The Community Theatre of Little Rock will present its Fall Production of '12 Angry Men". Show dates are September 21st, 22nd, 28th, 29th, October 5th, and 6th at 7:30 pm and September 23rd, 30th, and October 7th at 2pm to be held at the PUBLIC Theatre, located at 616 Center Street, next to Horn's Men's Store in downtown Little Rock.