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The Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation (AFHDC) today launched a market study to determine the interests of performing and visual artists and others associated with the arts, entertainment and creative industries in affordable housing in Rahway, NJ. In an event at the new Hamilton Stage, the AFHDC began a four-week initiative to survey artists from metropolitan New York to Trenton, NJ. Survey results will help shape the Rahway Residence for the Arts, a 69-unit affordable housing project the AFHDC will develop in the Rahway Arts District (RAD).

Swedish collective The Amazing will kick off a nationwide tour with Tame Impala this fall; please see below for complete list of dates. This marks The Amazing's first ever tour stateside and follows the release of their long awaited album Gentle Stream, out October 23 on Partisan Records. Inspired by the music of 60s and 70s Laurel Canyon community, Q Magazine calls Gentle Stream, "A gorgeously understated blend of gentle psychedelic pop, tranquil folk rock and gently stoned prog." See below for full tracklist.

You can now stream Teengirl Fantasy's sophomore LP, Tracer, on NPR's First Listen. Teengirl Fantasy will also be celebrating their album release with a boat cruise show in NYC on August 23. Joining them for the show will be Kelela, Lemonade, MikeQ, and Massacooramaan. You can buy tickets for it here. A special limited one-time pressing of a lenticular version of the LP is available only as a pre-order here.

Due to popular demand, the Amoralists will bring their celebrated play The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side back Off Broadway for a one-week-only, strictly limited engagement of seven performances.

For the sixth consecutive year, the Philharmonic and its Global Sponsor, Credit Suisse - whose partnership began at the start of the 2007 season - will offer a Free Dress Rehearsal of the Opening Night concert Wednesday, September 19, 2012, at 9:45 a.m.

A parody of Shakespeare's plays in first on tap as Actors' Theatre of Columbus unveils The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) on Thursday, August 16 at the Columbus Commons.

The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning New York-based theater company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy #S17 on September 17 at Joe's Pub.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that Obie Award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter will join the American Voices New Play Institute (AVNPI) as a yearlong resident playwright in 2013.

Disappearing Acts (ACT II) brings together the work of seven artists who have discovered a sculptural flavor within the painterly or the painterly within the sculptural.

The Dramatists Guild of America will feature archived audio footage of legendary playwright Edward Albee discussing the writing process of world-renowned works Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Delicate Balance and The Zoo Story as part of the Guild's ongoing series, In The Room.

Beginning August 15th, The Harbor Stage Company launches the third and final chapter of its critically acclaimed inaugural season with David Rabe's tragic farce Sticks and Bones. The production marks the Cape Cod premiere of the much lauded, rarely produced play, a searing dark comedy whose Broadway production earned the 1972 Tony Award for Best Play. The New York Times calls the play "a poet's vision of the disaster of moral bankruptcy."

The Dramatists Guild of America will feature archived audio footage of legendary playwright Edward Albee discussing the writing process of world-renowned works Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Delicate Balance and The Zoo Story as part of the Guild's ongoing series, In The Room.

The world premiere production of Robin Hood: Occupy Sherwood - the tale of the original caped crusader and his band of 'merry men' sticking it to the one-percenters is coming to the JBK Theatre at Frederick Community College (7932 Opossumtown Pike, Frederick) from August 10th through the 18th.

Three new artist added to the SummerStage line-up.

Lovers & Executioners is an adaptation of a 17th century commedia dell'arte-inspired comedy originally written by Antoine Jacob de Montfleury. It follows the exploits of Julie, left on a desert island three years previously by her husband, Bernard. She escapes death and returns, disguised as a man, to seek revenge on Bernard and to learn why he betrayed her.

Totem Pole Playhouse, in its 62nd year history, has always had the mission to bring Broadway quality theatre to the South Central Pennsylvania region. To this end, many of the actors and designers are drawn from talent pools in larger cities like New York and Washington, DC. But the big cities by no means have a monopoly on talent, and Artistic Director Ray Ficca is always eager to mix local actors into a season's line up.

American icon Arthur Miller (The Price) takes on Ibsen's classic conundrum, pitting brother against brother and a community against itself. Just in time for election season comes this riveting saga that asks, does the good of some outweigh the good of the majority?

Taking a detour from his main job as lead guitarist for Journey, the multi-talented Neal Schon has put the finishing touches on his latest solo album, The Calling - released by Frontiers Records in the UK on Monday 22nd October.

Gerard MCcarthy & Oliver Wilson join Robert Bathurst in Theatre Royal Brighton's Production of Blue/Orange.

In the video below, Ghost stars Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman put their talents together creating an acoustic version of the show's hit number 'Here Right Now.' Check out the acoustic version below!