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Last week on ARROW, we learned that Oliver's ex-fling and Laurel's sister, Sara, is 1) alive and 2) the Canary, or that masked blonde hero with impressive fighting skills who has been mysteriously showing up everywhere the Arrow goes.

Baritone Christian Gerhaher makes his Symphony Center recital debut with pianist Gerold Huber on Wednesday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m., performing Schubert's Winterreise. This recital opens the 2013/14 Symphony Center Presents Schubert Song series, an exploration of Schubert's most beloved compositions for voice performed by artists renowned for their interpretations of these masterpieces.

On November 14th, Brooklyn-based company Opera on Tap will bring its hit opera SMASHED: The Carrie Nation Story by composer James Barry and librettist Timothy Braun to Freddy's Bar and Backroom in a new fully-immersive production.

Elliot Goldenthal has an impressive stage biography; has created music for the stage, orchestra, ballet, opera, and the big screen. His most recent work can be found in the Julie Taymor directed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which opened November 2 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. I had the opportunity to speak with is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning composer and here's what he had to say about Midsummer, Julie Taymor, and his upcoming work.

This week's episode opens with our heroes, Abbie and Ichabod, in the stands of a baseball game. Strangely normal, right? But we have to say we're digging it. They exchange some cute banter about the point of the sport and the merits of heckling the referee. You know, All-American things like that.

The University Musical Society (UMS) presents two incredible events this December, starting with the beloved community tradition of Handel's Messiah (Saturday-Sunday, December 7-8). December also ushers in the first-ever high definition delayed cinema broadcast from the Royal Shakespeare Company in the Michigan Theater; the company performs Richard II, starring David Tennant and directed by Gregory Doran (Sunday, December 8 and Wednesday, December 11).

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has announced its third annual TASTE, an exclusive evening of fine and rare wines presented by Hart Davis Hart Wine Company and Everest restaurant.

Join your A2SO musicians today, November 1 at 1:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor for a delightful hour-long chamber music recital featuring A2SO's Woodwind Quintet and a variety of beautiful musical selections from around the world. Single tickets are $10 and are available online at a2so.com or at the door. Arrive early to mingle with this wonderful community of likeminded friends and enjoy a complimentary dessert reception at 1:00 p.m.

Celebrating holiday musical traditions in the most festive and non-traditional way has been a year-end hallmark of the 25-year-old Oakland East Bay Symphony and Music Director Michael Morgan since 1992, and this year's edition of Let Us Break Bread Together promises seasonal sizzle Sunday, December 15, at 4 pm at the Paramount Theatre.

Many people are convinced the world is a certain way and see everything from this point of view. However, author Carole Chandler shares her view on the benefits that can come from taking on a new perspective in her book 'I Talk to Strangers: Here, there and everywhere.'

The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera presents its annual holiday concert, Home for the Holidays, on December 21 and 22 at the Tivoli Theatre.

Not since the 1985 movie Perfect, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis, have fitness clubs been exposed to the degree of Memoirs of a Gym Rat: One man's 20-year journey through the bowels of the health club industry, by Max Hawthorne.

Colt Coeur's Play Hotel series presents staged readings of a boy put this girl in a cage with a dog and the dog killed the girl by Clare Barron, directed by Stella Powell-Jones & Umma Lappa Soon by Claire Kiechel, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. Today, October 28th, 6pm (Barron play) & 8pm (Kiechel play). Guests are welcome to attend one or both readings. There will be a reception between readings. Bernie B. Jacobs room 234 W. 44th Street, 11th Floor.

Book it to Leon & Lulu today, October 27 from 11 to 5 p.m. for the fourth-annual, award-winning Books & Authors event. Celebrate the written word and those who put pen to paper with this free event, which benefits the Detroit Free Press' Gift of Reading Program.

This October, Archipelago Books invites you to come out and help them welcome Mircea Cartarescu to NYC as they celebrate the launch of his remarkable Blinding, beautifully translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter.

Join Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra as they return to Ann Arbor's Michigan Theater, tonight, October 19 at 8 p.m. to celebrate autumn with Autumn Cellobration and special guests Julie Albers and Aaron Berofsky.

New York Live Arts, in partnership with Performa for Performa 13, will present the U.S. premiere of French choreographer Jérôme Bel and Zurich-based Theater Hora's critically acclaimed Disabled Theater, November 12 – 16 at 7:30pm and November 17 at 3:00pm.

UUA Bookstore Presents A Good Telling: Bringing Worship to Life with Story by Kristin Maier.

Sunday performances have been added to the BARKING IN ESSEX schedule, with the first one on Sunday 17 November. There will now be a 3pm performance each Sunday through to Sunday 22 December. The new performance schedule from Saturday 9 November will be Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7.30pm, Thursdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm and Sundays at 3.00pm.

River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) continues its 2013 – 2014 ROCO Chamber Series today, October 13 at 4:00 pm with a concert inspired by musical, spiritual and physical connections called Intercontinental Connections.