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Surfside Players is seeking a new director for the eleventh annual production of the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. The musical tribute to sci-fi and horror B-movies will be screened, with shadow cast, on October 19 - 27 (Friday and Saturday for two weekends).

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts regrets to announce that Anita Baker's previously scheduled performance as part of the Fall 2012 season in Reynolds Hall on November 29, 2012 has been cancelled.

The Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) announces its 2012 - 2013 season which will include a wide variety of exciting theatrical styles investigating a polarized society. For detailed information and tickets call the box office at 860-486-2113 or visit www.crt.uconn.edu.

SculptureCenter has announced the first LIC Block Party, presented with the Purves Street Block Association. The LIC Block Party features artist-led activity tents, a stage with live music and interactive performances, and a community-built, large-scale temporary sculpture. Within SculptureCenter's expansive galleries, guests will find the Artist Market with a selection of the best affordable and functional art and objects, and a family-friendly food court with food by local restaurants.

On Tuesday, August 21, families will once again experience Kids' Night on Broadway (KNOB) with the musical THE LION KING at The Fabulous Fox. Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation (FPACF) presents this evening of interactive events which begins at 6pm with African drumming and dance by Afriky Lolo's young dancer group Yele and a Craft Alliance activity tent in Strauss Park. Events move to The Fox lobby across the street at 6:30pm where kids will be able to create their own African storybook and headdress, watch a mini-musical about what it takes to put on a Broadway show and learn about area performing arts classes. A Q&A with cast and crew from The Lion King will take place in the theatre after the performance.

Celebrating 80 Years, The Bergen County Players (BCP) presents The Music Man, a musical comedy and treasured piece of theater by Meredith Willson. Under the direction of Larry Landsman, The Music Man will be performed at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell from September 8th through October 6th, 2012. Shows will be on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets can be purchased online at www.bcplayers.org, by calling 201-261-4200 or by visiting the box office at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell during regular box office hours.

This year marks the 40th anniversary for Alan Ayckbourn's first big hit, Absurd Person Singular.

QUEERING HISTORY, a new play by Maggie Keenan-Bolger, will be presented as a reading on Sunday, August 19th at 8PM to benefit Green Chimneys NYC, an organization fostering LGBT homeless kids who have been ejected from their homes for their sexual orientation.

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers were once again recognized for their excellence in Nashville, TN with the 2012 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards (IBMA) nomination for Entertainer of the Year. This marks the group's second nomination in this category. In 2011, Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers were awarded the prestigious Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 22nd Annual IBMA Awards at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium.

After filling its new studios on Center Street with sold-out summer camps for local teens, Berkeley Repertory Theatre proudly announces that this extra classroom space also means more activities for students of all ages during the School of Theatre's fall session. Now, in addition to its extensive outreach to local schools, Berkeley Rep offers classes with professional teaching artists at its home on Addison Street in downtown Berkeley, at its campus on Harrison Street in West Berkeley, and at its new 13,000-square-foot facility on Center Street, which features the Osher Studio and two adjoining classrooms.

This fall, Andrew Samonsky returns to Broadway in the new musical SCANDALOUS: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson.

World-renowned tenor Plácido Domingo joins Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the first time in concert together for an unforgettable evening of arias and songs on Sunday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m. The two longtime friends will announce the varied program from the stage, which will include popular classical, pop, Broadway and Latin American song selections.

This comprehensive tour will focus on the distinctive history and contemporary Jewish community of Washington Heights.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) presents Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon and directed by Steven Woolf. This intriguing and semi-autobiographical play will be performed on the Browning Mainstage of the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, 130 Edgar Road (on the campus of Webster University), Webster Groves, September 5-30, 2012.

On Monday and Tuesday, September 10 and 11, 8pm,, Roulette presents the continuation of Spellbeamed, by composer, multi-instrumentalist and electric harp pioneer Zeena Parkins that premiered at The Kitchen in December, 2011.

Individual tickets go on sale Monday, August 20, at 10 am, for CENTERSTAGE's landmark 50th Anniversary Season. The first fully programmed by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, the season features a collection of plays that entertain with both humor and heart-from family loyalty and the struggle for the greater good in An Enemy of the People to the idealism of searching for the American dream in Bus Stop.

As reported this morning, lauded composer Alan Menken revealed at Disney's 'Destination D' event that the musical adaptation of ALADDIN is 'coming to Broadway.' View the announcement below!

AntiMatter Collective will present Adam Scott Mazer's (Death Valley) post-apocalyptic sci-fi tragicomedy, MOTHERBOARD, September 28-October 14 at The Secret Theatre (44 02 23rd Street, Long Island City).

Arizona Theatre Company (ATC) has named Michael Mejias as its 2012 National Latino Playwriting Award winner for "Ghetto Babylon." Mejias will receive $1,000 and a public reading in February 2013 during ATC's new play reading series, Cafe Bohemia under the direction of Marc David Pinate.

Performing live in one spectacular concert, Jim Brickman On A Winter's Night, presented by WLDB B93.3 arrives in Milwaukee at the Marcus Center's Uihlein Hall on Thursday, December 27th at 7:30pm.