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Florida Grand Opera's 72nd season is marked by the return of company favorites. The company's season opener is none other than Puccini's internationally beloved La boheme, taking place at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from November 17, 2012 to December 2, 2012 and at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale on December 6, 2012 and December 8, 2012.

Steve Truglia, ex Special Forces, record-breaking stuntman, and award-winning magician brings The Card Shark to the theatre at The Mayfair Hotel. Running from 15 December 2012 to 22 March 2013, The Card Shark will bring the audience into the underworld of gamblers and card cheats through the ages. The Card Shark's Artistic Director is Joanie Spina (David Copperfield Show/Ghost the Musical on Broadway).

The Spangles Dance Company will be appearing in the 2012 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Founded by Deb and Ted Spangles, the Spangles Dance Company is an 80's tribute dance company filled with head-turning hotties who are changing the world one body roll at a time. The Spangles Dance Company has appeared on America's Got Talent, where they received a unanimous "YES" from all three judges.

Join Art Gallery Tours New York and visit 7 contemporary art galleries in the newest rapidly-expanding galleries in the Lower East Side. See painting, sculpture, electronic media, and photography in the tour led by Rafael Risemberg, Ph.D.

MAC Award-winning vocal group Marquee Five will play Sondheim Unplugged on Sunday, November 25, hosted by series creator Phil Geoffrey Bond with musical direction by Joshua Stephen Kartes.

Meshing Bollywood's bursting colors and rich style with Artistic Director Kevin Bellie's inventive choreography, Stephen Schwartz's Pippin explodes on the Circle scene in a brand-new light. Pippin has music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson.

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) along with Friends of the Arts will meet with over 25 Toronto City Councillors at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, November 13 to discuss the importance of the arts and their impact on Torontonians.

On November 13 from 2-4:30PM, Ellen's Stardust Diner will host a Miss Subways reunion, the first of its kind in a decade. With the effects of Superstorm Sandy still being felt by so many - including some former Miss Subways themselves - the event will raise funds to purchase MetroCards for those in need. Ellen's Stardust Diner owner and former Miss Subways 1959, Ellen Hart, will match all donations dollar for dollar.

Playwrights Theatre's roundtable reading series FORUM will present "Soundings" at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dreyfuss Theatre, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison. Readings will begin promptly at 7:00pm each evening on December 14-22, 2012, January 3-6, 2013 and March 14-16, 2013.

The Open Fist Theatre Company will present Hughie, by Nobel Prize Winning dramatist Eugene O'Neill, at the Open Fist Theatre (6209 Santa Monica Blvd) in Los Angeles.

CENTERSTAGE is gearing up for its next production, Bus Stop, an American classic by William Inge. A slice of Americana, served up by the imaginative direction of David Schweizer (The Rivals, Snow Falling on Cedars), Bus Stop begins previews on November 21.

Step in to a bright, beautiful world this holiday season, as Sierra Rep presents a beloved family classic, filled with great music, zany characters and a heart-melting story of true love. Rodger and Hammerstein's Cinderella, a musical comedy favorite for generations, plays at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia through December 22.

Vox Fabuli Puppets and Kendra & Michael Hayes are excited to announce the addition of tales from Seattle playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard to the Stories for Bad Children line-up, at West of Lenin (203 N. 36th Street, Seattle) on November 15, 16 & 17 at 8pm.

Studio 11 Films has had a historic year with the launch of The 11Eleven11 Project™, the prestigious groundbreaking and revolutionary filmmaker's program for aspiring and emergent writers, directors and producers. The ambitious and aggressive training program ended its first season by successfully completing the 11 Short Films it promised under at times adverse conditions. But all they will remember is the sweet taste of victory, because all 11 films were shot, edited, and scored, and are now ready for screening at the 3rd Annual Bronze Lens Film Festival in Atlanta, GA.

Hard-hit by Hurricane Sandy, the Pen Parentis Literary Salons are suspended until Wall and Water, the second-floor restaurant in Andaz Wall Street (75 Wall Street) can reopen. Please note that the Tuesday, November 13th, event is canceled.

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 204th season with an all-new production of Broadway's five-time Tony Award-winning family musical, Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN. Directed and choreographed by Marc Robin, this production will feature Philadelphia's very own Jeffrey Coon and Broadway's Jennifer Hope Wills. The cast also includes a live horse that will pull the Wells Fargo Wagon in the first act.

The internationally renowned chef, author and television host Anthony Bourdain brings his GUTS AND GLORY tour to Dayton for one night only, Sunday, November 18 at 7 p.m. at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. Bourdain will spend the evening sharing candid, often hysterical insights about his life's work and travels, including an open question and answer session with the audience. Tickets are on sale now at the Ticket Center Stage Box Office.

The socially conscious new music collective Ensemble Pi will present its 7th Annual Concert for Peace on November 9 and 10 at the cell theatre in New York City. The concert/performance takes its title from Gunter Grass' controversial poem on Israel, Iran and war, "What Must Be Said." Inspired by the courage to talk, Ensemble Pi's program will showcase three composers whose work - or life - addresses some of the "silences" enforced or suggested by governments or the media.

This holiday season, Tennessee Repertory Theatre will once again present the holiday cult classic and Nashville's newest holiday tradition, A Christmas Story, adapted by Phillip Grecian and based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark. A Christmas Story runs December 1 - December 22 at TPAC's Johnson Theater (with preview performances November 29 and 30).

This winter, Barry McCarthy (King Lear, Almeida; The White Guard, National Theatre) will play Father Christmas as the Lyric Hammersmith and Pins and Needles Productions mount the first ever stage adaptation of the festive classic by eminent children's author Raymond Briggs, nearly 40 years after the story was first published.