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Rising Stars series, this year featuring six concerts in the fall of 2011 and spring of 2012, bringing the brightest stars of the next generation of professional classical musiciansto Ravinia. All concerts take place in the festival's most intimate performance space, the indoor 450-seat Bennett Gordon Hall, which continues to showcase successful recitals and chamber music concerts during the summer. This season's series features pianist Giles Vonsattel (Oct. 1, 2011); violinist Bella Hristova (Oct. 15, 2011); the Linden String Quartet (Nov. 5, 2011); pianist Daria Rabotkina (Nov. 19, 2011); Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute (April 7, 2012); and vocal ensemble Calmus (April 28, 2012).

The Skirball Cultural Center presents the West Coast debut of Water, a visually stunning work by celebrated interdisciplinary choreographer/dancers Eiko & Koma, on Friday, September 9, and Sunday, September 11. Co-commissioned by the Lincoln Center for the Arts and the Skirball, the work is inspired by mourning rituals from around the globe. It will be mounted at the Skirball to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Admission to the performances is free.

On September 1st at 8pm, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe will honor Mr. John Leguizamo with a lifetime achievement award.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery presents More Than Everything on view 15 September - 29 October, 2011 at 201 Chrystie Street.

The Music Theatre Company will present The 48 Hour Musicals: Bizarre Book Titles, four fifteen-minute musicals written and rehearsed in 48 hours. The musicals are by Will Buck, Matt Boresi, Emma Caywood, Jess Godwin Keith Harrison and Peter Hillard and will be directed by Alan Paul with Music Direction by Kory Danielson and Choreography by Katie Spelman & Zach Zube.

Deep Dish Theater Company invites you to join a lively, informal discussion of Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts, Monday, September 12, at 7 p.m. at Flyleaf Books.

Square Peg Concerts is proud to present Tim Minchin at the Boulder Theater on Sunday, October 9th, 2011. Tickets go on sale Friday August 19th for $25.00 Reserved and $30.00 Gold Circle. Tickets will increase by $3.00 the day of the show.

The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC), 2011 IT Award Nominee for last season's The Human Comedy, announces their 11th Season featuring Ashlin Halfnight's A Hard Wall at High Speed and the musical The Secret Garden. Reflecting on the past ten years and with an eagerness for the upcoming year, Artistic Director Tom Wojtunik says, 'I am thrilled that in our 11th Season APAC will be producing primarily new work, as we begin to move away from our acclaimed revival productions into an arena of premieres and workshops.'

The Tony winning Best Musical City of Angels by Cy Coleman makes a rare appearance at the opening of Hillbarn Theatre's 71st Season in Foster City September 1st through 25th. Friday, September 2, opening night, will feature a Gala champagne reception provided by Chef Bill Chow after the show. For tickets or information, call 650.349.6411 or visit www.HillbarnTheatre.org.

FUNNY GIRL, the 1964 musical that helped raise Barbra Streisand to stardom, will receive a revival next spring starring 'Six Feet Under' star Lauren Ambrose in Streisand's original role of Fanny Brice.

Barbra Streisand has told USA Today that the plans for a film adaptation of GYPSY are still intact.

One of the most stunning theatrical spectacles of all time, Miss Saigon, makes its Music Circus premiere August 23-28. From the creators of Les Misérables, the classic Puccini opera Madame Butterfly is brought into modern times to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War. The 10th longest-running show on Broadway, Miss Saigon will mesmerize audiences with its tale of doomed romance and ultimate sacrifice.

10+Seattle in partnership with Boundless Events, City of Seattle, Compassionate Action Network, and Seattle Center present 10+Seattle - A 9/11 Day of Reflection at Seattle Center. The event will take place Sunday, Sept. 11; 5 a.m. - 8 a.m., quiet reflection 8 a.m. - 10 a.m., open community interaction

Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/actress Melissa Manchester, whose hit versions of such songs as 'Midnight Blue' and 'Don't Cry Out Loud' have ensured her place in pop music history, performs a concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 21, at Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu.

When asked about the responses he gets from 'Potter' fans, he said, 'When I got to the airport in Japan at 13, there were 5,000 people screaming and waiting at arrivals... If I walk down the street there, there is just this kind of snowballing of people. I bumped into this girl in the corridor and said, ‘Oh, I'm sorry.' And boom! [She] just fainted immediately.'

The nominees for the 2011 International Bluegrass Music Awards (IBMA) have been announced. Sam Rush will host the awards ceremony, to be held on Thursday, September 29 at 7:30pm at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Glenn Close will be at the Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of Rodrigo Garcia's ALBERT NOBBS at Roy Thomson Hall, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

As A Christmas Story, The Musical! prepares to launch a five-city national tour for the 2011 holiday season, the show's producers, including Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie in the original 1983 film, take their search for talented children to the internet. Young performers can now submit their audition by visiting www.achristmasstorythemusical.com/casting and following three simple steps:

Christchurch's iconic comedy show SCARED SCRIPTLESS will move to a new venue at Heaton Intermediate Normal School Auditorium where New Zealand's longest-running improvised comedy show will be staged until The Court Theatre's new venue in Addington, 'The Shed' opens at the end of the year.

Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin and opera superstar Nathan Gunn combine their vocal talents to create a unique and powerful evening at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, in the pavilion. Featured in People magazine's 2008 list of 'The Sexiest Men Alive,' baritone Gunn has performed in opera houses around the world and last appeared at Ravinia in the festival's production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Tony and Emmy award-winner Patinkin has appeared in the Broadway productions of Evita, Sunday in the Park with George, The Wild Party, The Winter's Tale and The Knife, as well as in CBS's Chicago Hope and Criminal Minds. They will be joined by pianists Julie Gunn and Paul Ford.