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Join BPA Theatre School students for the 2013 Bainbridge to Broadway Showcase, a high-energy performance celebrating beloved favorites of musical theatre. The extravaganza features Grades K – 8 and opens with juggling by Grades 5 -12.

What are the hidden forces that shape what we eat? How will biotechnology and trade change our food systems in the future? Are genetically modified foods the problem, the solution, or beside the point? Can we 'patent' nature? Bust through common myths and discover the real science and issues beyond the headlines in this groundbreaking conversation with experts from diverse fields. Join plant geneticist Paul Gepts, economic journalist Fred Kaufman, ethicist Paul Root Wolpe, and intellectual property lawyer Rochelle Dreyfuss for an intellectual feast about the future of food.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's 2013 Season is the year Broadway and Hollywood meet with all of the productions at the theatre being hits both on the silver screen and New York stage. Following its 2013 Season-opener, Steel Magnolias, Way Off Broadway will produce the regional theatre premiere of the musical comedy 9 to 5 beginning March 22nd.

The designers Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh are known for their experimental typography and striking visual imagery. Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh, on view at The Jewish Museum from March 15 through August 4, 2013, marks the first exhibition of their newly minted design firm Sagmeister & Walsh.

The Solid Sound 2013 festival lineup is set, and festival organizers will announce confirmed artists and activities in alphabetical order, one letter at time, every 30 minutes beginning today at Noon ET.

The macabre has long held uneasy sway over the human condition. From ghost stories to creation myths, from CSI to Shakespeare, from cable news voyeurism to Edgar Allen Poe, the subjects of death, murder and all things ghastly have fascinated and frightened for centuries. Songs are no exception. From Old World roots to more recent incarnations in America, the murder ballad has traversed, shapeshifted and persevered. Despite our collective desire to be good and virtuous, people do very bad things. And then we sing about them.

Join us In the Room as The Dramatists Guild continues to unveil archived audio featuring some of the most influential and celebrated playwrights, composers and lyricists in American theatre, sharing their insight to craft, process and personal stories behind creating some of their most celebrated work.

Following 2010's West End hit, this exciting, brand new adaptation marks the very first touring production of the play. Over 22 venues across the UK, a dynamic cast of 12 shape Faulks's much loved wartime epic into an intimate story of love and sacrifice, set against the backdrop of the Western Front.

Estraña Theatre Company wants to remind you we are less than two weeks away from our performance of Commencing by Jane Shepard!!

Listening to Illapu's songs is like hearing the whisper of the wind from the Andes. The ensemble, founded in 1971 by four brothers from Antofagasta in northern Chile, became well- known for their cultivated rendering of Andean folklore and Bolivian rhythms, a fusion that later developed into the “Nueva Canción” movement.

Cameron Mackintosh presents a brand new 25th anniversary production of Boublil & Schonberg's legendary musical, LES MISERABLES, with glorious new staging and dazzlingly reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. This new production has been acclaimed by critics, fans and new audiences and is breaking box office records wherever it goes

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, continues its ,2012-2013 season with Marie Jones's Stones in HisPockets, directed by J.R. Sullivan, featuring Brian Vaughn and David Ivers.

Acclaimed singer/songwriter/musician/producer Danny Kravitz and celebrated vocalist Dave Gallagher will be performing their just released recording The Face on national television's WGN America's The MidDay Show, Friday, February 22 at Noon (CST). Written by CGMA Covenant Award-winner Mark Masri and Juno Award-winner Stephan Moccio (Seal, Celine Dion), this hauntingly beautiful ballad.

Live From Lincoln Center's winter and spring broadcast season kicks off with a special concert from Lincoln Center's 2013 American Songbook series celebrating the legendary songwriting duo of John Kander and Fred Ebb. The broadcast, 'RingThem Bells! Rob Fisher Celebrates Kander & Ebb,' is hosted by Audra McDonald and will air on PBS stations on Friday, February 15, 2013, at 9 p.m. (ET) (check local listings).

Singer-comedienne Elizabeth Tryon will debut her first solo comedy and vocal music show in New York City, at the legendary Caroline's on Broadway comedy club in Times Square, NY on February 19, 2013 at 7:00PM, in a one night only performance. In her show, "There's A Phantom in my Opera," a contemporary Victor Borge-style show, written and performed by a singer rather than a pianist, Tryon unites several different styles of music with comedy.

Award winning theatre director Lara Bye, assisted by theatre maker Thando Doni, will direct the prestigious 48th annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, taking place at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town, on Sunday 17th March 2013. The Awards are funded by the Distell Foundation and are an important acknowledgement of South African theatrical excellence, specifically focusing on professional theatre productions staged in the Cape Town Metropole and surrounds, over a period of one calendar year.

25-year-old local entertainer Mark Herman, who is one of the world's busiest concert theatre organists and the American Theatre Organ Society's 2012 Organist of the Year, will perform a solo concert on featuring music from the golden age of movie musicals.

The Lynne Show is about courageously living the life you meant to live and Jay Patterson is a role model for it. Although he says “I can never remember wanting to be anything other than an actor” as a child he suffered from a “horrible stutter” and was afraid to try.

WaterTower Theatre's 2013 Spotlight Gala will be held on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at the Addison Conference Center. The fundraising Gala is chaired by Barbara Daseke. The theme for this year's Gala is Blues in the Night and will feature entertaining blues and jazz music by Denise Lee, Cedric Neal, the Tu-Tones and the Briefcase Blues.

For its most outrageous, brazen between friendship and happiness, the claws come out in comedy of the season, B Street this shocking, riotously funny world premiere comedy. brings together some of Sacramento's most beloved comedic talents.