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Four-time Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson has confirmed a series of U.S. tour dates for the months ahead, including multi-night visits to Los Angeles and to San Francisco in September. Each city will feature top-notch musicians joining singer/pianist Allyson -- see below for a breakdown of shows and performers.

The pre-Broadway workshop of, FOUND, arrives at Berkshire Theatre Group's Colonial Theatre September 21 and September 22.

The Bad Theater Fest, 'envisioned and created as a safe and open environment for aspiring artists to present their work,' is currently taking submissions of "anything" until August 31, 2012, midnight. All proposals are accepted through www.badtheaterfest.com. The submission fee is $10 and $5 for students. The Bad Theater Fest will be presented at The Tank,151 w. 46th St. (b/t 6th and 7th Ave) 8th Floor, New York, NY on Oct. 22-24 and 29-31, 2012 starting at 7pm. Tickets to shows will range from $10-$12 and be available for purchase at www.thetanknyc.org or by calling 212-563-6269.

In autumn 2012, Blackeyed Theatre, in association with South Hill Park, brings to the stage an exciting new production of Mother Courage and Her Children, by Bertolt Brecht, in a translation by Lee Hall. This modern reworking will open the Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park on the 26 September and then tour the UK until the 1st December

Rover Dramawerks is pleased to present the hilarious comedy The Girls in 509 by Howard Teichmann at the Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano. Performances are August 23 - September 15, with shows on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., with an additional matinee performance on Saturday, September 1 at 2:00 p.m.

Presented in Association with Elephant Stages, RECLINING NUDE ON LA CIENEGA, written by and starring Jann Karam, coming to Elephant Stages - Lillian Theatre beginning September 1st, 2012.

The Edinburgh International Culture Summit begins today - with nations from every corner of the world meeting at the Scottish Parliament for an historic debate on how culture can bring countries closer together.

Following the success of his first Festival in 2010, Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan has again hit a top note with the 2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival blitzing the previous Festival's box office record by more than 25 per cent.

B. Someday Productions will present the world premiere of a new play for the Philly Fringe Festival.

Columbus Symphony Associate Conductor Peter Stafford Wilson has been appointed Principal Conductor with the Tulsa Ballet for the 2012-13 season. He will be leading the organization's productions of Ben Stevenson's Dracula and Val Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias, as well as holiday performances of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.

This fall the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene will revive "The Golden Land," for five weeks, from Sunday October 28 to December 2, with an opening on Sunday November 4 at 6pm. Created by Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld, and directed by Bryna Wasserman, "The Golden Land" uses period music and other source material to create 'a richly textured evocation of New York as it absorbed wave upon wave of Jewish immigrants from the 1880's into the 1910s, and again, in a second starkly different phase immediately before and after World War II.'

Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Donald Wilson will preside over the formal signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Edinburgh International Festival and the Abu Dhabi Music Arts Foundation during this year's Festival.

Omaha Community Playhouse Artistic Director Carl Beck and Associate Artistic Director Susan Baer Collins have announced they will retire at the end of the 2013-2014 season.

Additional seats have been released for the August 14 and 15 performances of Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour™ at STAPLES Center. Los Angeles is the tour's last North American stop before beginning the European leg in London on October 12, 2012. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1?800?745?3000. Ticket prices start at $50.

Only two weekends remain to experience Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine at Grove Theatre Center in Burbank. The show runs through Saturday, August 18, 2012.

Leddy Center School for the Performing Arts announces that registration is going on now for fall classes and private lessons beginning the week of September 10. For information on instructors, how to set up your lessons, and to register online, please visit www.leddycenter.org.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

Barbara Ligeti, by special arrangement with The Private Theatre (John Gould Rubin, Artistic Director) and Sacred Monsters, presents the world premiere of a new solo show, Turning Page, written and performed by Angelica Page (Gore Vidal's The Best Man) with direction by Tony Award® nominee Wilson Milam (The Lieutenant of Inishmore). Performances begin Thursday, October 11, 2012 for a limited engagement through Sunday, October 28, 2012 at The Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street).

Dream Out Loud Productions presents Alan Bowne's searing drama Beirut in the same downtown neighborhood that serves as the setting of the play. Performances run September 13 through 29, 2012 at Under St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place, between First Ave. and Ave. A).

AIDS Walk Los Angeles is the world's first fundraising event of its kind, and the event continues to keep the public engaged in the HIV/AIDS crisis. Last year, a passionate crowd of 30,000 walkers and 2,500 volunteers raised $3 million for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and advocacy programs. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $72 million to fight the disease in Los Angeles County.