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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.

Oriental DreamWorks, one of the largest international investment projects in China, today officially announced the establishment of its headquarters in Shanghai Xuhui.

The ladies of Trudy's hair salon share small town gossip and bond beyond their differences. When tragedy hits home, the women rely on life-long friendships to see them through. Described as 'by turns hilarious and poignant, Steel Magnolias shows the enduring bonds of a remarkable group of women.'

The Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bart's continues on Sunday, September 2 at 11 am with a service featuring Bob Chilcott's A Little Jazz Mass.

Rockwell: Table & Stage continues their "BROADWAY BARRE" monthly event where LA's vibrant musical theater community comes together to enjoy each other's company as well as perform familiar showtunes. Guided by the skilled hands of musicdirector, Christopher Lloyd Bratten, and hosted by Broadway's talented and funny Kate Pazakis this night is sure to be a fun and entertaining evening for every musical theater lover in LA. For the month of August, the event will include special guest co-host Barrett Foa (Broadway's Avenue Q and CBS's "NCIS:LA"). The evening is produced by Rockwell: Table & Stage Artistic Director Shane Scheel and Program Manager Ben Caron.

Featuring an extraordinarily life-like humanoid robot, Seinendan Theatre Company (Japan) brings their breathtaking and intimate performance Sayonara: Android-Human Theatre to Melbourne on 24 and 25 August. Robot Geminoid F stars alongside Canadian actress Bryerly Long in a performance that asks the question, "What does life and death mean to humans and robots?"

Lovlee Carroll and Matt O'Neill will headline DOMA Theatre Company's upcoming production of Xanadu, the roller-skating musical phenomenon about following one's dreams and believing in magic.

Caffeine Theatre announces that it will close it doors after eight seasons. The storefront theatre closes after producing nineteen shows, including four world premieres, eleven Chicago premieres, two remounts at Theater on the Lake, and garnering nine Joseph Jefferson Award nominations.

Due to the weather, today's Fridays by the Fountain outdoor summer concert has been RESCHEDULED to Friday, August 17, during lunchtime from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Jon R. Hunt Plaza in front of the Morris Performing Arts Center.

Seattle Center Festal: Indigenous Cultures Day, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 18, at Seattle Center Armory/Center House and Mural Amphitheatre, explores the cultural roots and contemporary influences of all Indigenous people through dance, music, art, film, food, and children's activities.

Kef theatrical productions presents the New York premiere of Steven Strafford's METHTACULAR!, directed by kef theatrical productions' Artistic Director Adam Fitzgerald, with music Supervision and Arrangements by Grammy and two-time Emmy Award winner John McDaniel. Preview performances of METHTACULAR! begin Off-Broadway on August 30th prior to an official press opening of Sunday, September 2nd at the Playroom Theatre (151 West 46th Street) in Manhattan.