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While performing arts centers around the country struggle to stage high-budget standard productions, American Opera Projects (AOP), the Brooklyn-based company 'known for bringing cutting-edge vocal productions to the masses' (New York), and Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum co-present three stream-lined music-theatre works featuring celebrated composers Arvo P?rt and Tarik O'Regan.

After an absence of more than 15 years, maestro Seiji Ozawa returns to the Met to conduct six performances of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, from November 21 to December 13, 2008.

Flux Theatre Ensemble concludes its 2008 Season of Transformation with the world premiere of Johnna Adams' epic Angel Eaters Trilogy. The Trilogy follows three generations of a family cursed with the gift of raising people from the dead. The three plays of the Trilogy, Angel Eaters, Rattlers, and 8 Little Antichrists, will run in rep beginning November 3 at The Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher Street. The production will run through November 22. On Saturdays, intrepid audiences will be able to catch all three shows in chronological order.

The producers of The Legend of Pearl Hart, the new musical about the life and exploits of Pearl Taylor Hart have added a performance on Tuesday, June 20th at 7:30pm

Michael Shane Ellis and Dax Valdes have joined the cast of The Legend of Pearl Hart, which will be presented from June 9th through 24th Off-Broadway

The new musical The Legend of Pearl Hart will run Off-Broadway from June 9th through 24th

The 2005 New York International Fringe Festival will play host to hundreds of shows; here is an (almost) alphabetical preview of 23 of them

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