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One Village Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, announces the release of Frat Brothers, a coming-of-age drama about creating your own legacy.

The vibrant young Armenian pianist Karine Poghosyan will perform at St. Vartan Cathedral, 630 2nd Ave., New York City this evening, September 25th, at 7:30 p.m., as part of the 2013-14 Concerts @ St.Vartan series. Ms. Poghosyan will also be leading the St. Vartan orchestra in their inaugural appearance. The program will include works by Schubert, Bach, and Liszt.

The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of SARAH FLOOD IN SALEM MASS by Obie Award winner Adriano Shaplin (Pig Iron's Hell Meets Henry Halfway). This radical re-telling of the events leading up to the Salem Witch Trials will be directed by Rebecca Wright featuring members of The Bats. Previews begin tonight, September 24 with opening slated for October 6. The Flea's Producing Director Carol Ostrow says, 'bringing Shaplin's work and his team of collaborators together with The Bats will be one of the most combustible theatrical events of the season.'

Donna McKechnie, beloved Tony-winning original 'Cassie' joins in a celebration of the upcoming fortieth anniversary of the creation ofA Chorus Line at the annual Fire Island Pines Literary and Theater Weekend, a hugely popular event held annually at The Madison Fire Island Pines.

The Lincoln Square Business Improvement District (BID) hosts the 14th annual Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square, New York's largest outdoor holiday festival on Monday, December 2nd from 5:30PM-9:00PM to kick-off the holiday season! This year's highly-anticipated event is expected to attract thousands of people to the Lincoln Square area and light up the entire Upper West Side. There will be over 20 live performance areas, more than 30 restaurants offering tastings and many great performers including Tony Award Winning, renowned Broadway stars, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Bebe Neuwirth headlining the festival. Other performances include: the sultry songstress and rising jazz star Brianna Thomas Quartet, world renowned DJ David Chang, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Indie Flamenco and Folk Rock band City of the Sun,GRAMMY nominated Brooklyn-based children's band The Pop Ups, the talentedLaGuardia High School Show Choir, ice sculpting, Alice Farley Dance Theater, Bond Street Theatre's Shinbone Alley Stilt Band, Asphalt Orchestra, and Jazz at Lincoln Center just to name a few. The Parks Department will run a free trolley up and down Broadway during the event. Winter's Eve will take place rain, snow or shine. For details visit: www.winterseve.org

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center has launched its 2013-14 Season with Tennessee Williams' classic drama A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, directed by Christopher Pazdernik, playing now through September 28, 2013 at the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center, 3801 S. Central Ave. in Cicero. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

The Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its 2014 60th Anniversary New York Season from March 12th through the 30th following two record-shattering Seasons there. The Season celebrates Paul Taylor's masterworks spanning seven decades, from 1954 through today. The repertoire will also feature the New York premiere of American Dreamer and the World premiere of Taylor's 140th as-yet-untitled piece.

SASHA DE SOLA, soloist of the San Francisco Ballet, and TIIT HELIMETS, principal dancer of the San Francisco Ballet, will appear as guest artists in the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet's production of The Nutcracker on December 7 and 8, 2013 at the Riverview Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Producing Artistic Director Michael Menendian and Co-Artistic Director JoAnn Montemurro announce Raven Theatre's 2013/2014 season which includes The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote, Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams, Good Boys and True by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge.

Japan's speediest purveyors of experimental but melodic grindcore Melt-Banana are celebrating the release their 10th album, fetch with the extensive “2 do what 2 fetch” North American tour that starts October 16 in Vancouver and ends November 16 in Oakland. All songs on the new album were composed by Melt-Banana and primarily recorded and mixed at Studio Ghost, Tokyo, Japan (supplemented with field recordings. fetch is being released by A-Zap Records, distributed by Revolver USA October 1. I'm hoping you'd consider advancing their show with a feature, album review or advance blurb.

CATS, basada en poemas de T.S Elliot, es una conjunción de historias que reflejan la sociedad, no sólo de Londres, sino de cualquier parte del mundo. La pregunta es: Entre todos, ¿quién merece ganar el Edén Sideral de los Jélicos?

Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Grudge Match' stars award-winning movie legends Oscar winner Robert De Niro ('Raging Bull,' 'Silver Linings Playbook') and Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone (the 'Rocky' films, 'The Expendables') as old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. Peter Segal ('Get Smart') directs the comedy. Check out the just-released trailer below!

Broadway In Chicago and Producers Steven Van Zandtand Maureen Van Zandt, Marc Brickman, and BASE ENTERTAINMENT, have announced that following a critically acclaimed, sold-out Broadway engagement, ONCE UPON A DREAM STARRING THE RASCALS will debut in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 West Randolph) from Nov. 5 - 10, 2013 for five performances only.

Centaur Theatre Company is proud to open its 45th Season with the world premiere of Steve Galluccio's hotly anticipated new comedy, The St. Leonard Chronicles. The St. Leonard Chronicles is a delicious comedy about a young couple in St. Leonard. There is barely a hint of gilded

The Dallas Opera is privileged to announce an extraordinary and unprecedented experiment in twenty-first century opera: “The Dallas Opera's Global Interactive Simulcast” of acclaimed American composer Tod Machover's DEATH AND THE POWERS, scheduled to take place in Dallas on Sunday, February 16th at 2:00 p.m. Central Time, originating in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and being simulcast to as many as ten locations in Europe and the U.S.

One Village Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brand, announces the release of Frat Brothers, a coming-of-age drama about creating your own legacy.

The hardest working theater troupe in Central Ohio is currently delivering its Stev Guyer-ized version of "Monty Python's Spamalot." The 2005 musical by Eric Idle and John Du Prez was "lovingly ripped off" from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and while audience members will appreciate some uniquely Shadowbox additions and a bit of Central Ohio humor (notably, among others, Gym Ganahl as "Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Show"), Python fans will find this version to be of the goofy, flamboyant, and totally inane flavor expected.

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its film exhibitions for October 2013. Details below!

Gianfranco Rosi's Italian documentary film SACRO GRA -- about the ring road around Rome -- took the top prize for Best Film at the 70th Venice Film Festival, which announced its winners at a ceremony this evening, September 7, 2013. The full list of honorees follows.

The Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLLAW) are resurrecting past champions (and a few new souls) in celebration of The Day of The Dead on Saturday, November 2, 2103 at the historic (and possibly haunted) Logan Square Auditorium, 2539 N. Kedzie Ave. in Chicago.