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Canadian Stage continues its 15.16 season this month with a series of boundary-stretching dance-theatre performances at the Bluma Appel Theatre including a pair of returning audience favourites and a newly commissioned North American premiere.

Canadian Stage continues its 15.16 season this February with a series of boundary-stretching dance-theatre performances at the Bluma Appel Theatre including a pair of returning audience favourites and a newly commissioned North American premiere.

The 50th season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series and the sixth season of its White Light Festival commence on October 14 with tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis in the first of three highly-anticipated Schubert song recitals.

The 50th season of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series and the sixth season of its White Light Festival commence on October 14 with tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis in the first of three highly-anticipated Schubert song recitals.

BrightSide Theatre, Naperville's only professional theatre performing in the historic downtown district, begins its 4th season with Joe Landry's adaptation of the holiday classic tale It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Directed by BrightSide Theatre Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and playing November 28-December 14, 2014 at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth Avenue in Naperville. Tickets are on sale now at www.brightsidetheatre.com, or by calling 630-637-SHOW(7469). The press performance is Today, November 28 at 8pm.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. 'The Grinch' opens, Fox Valley bookends Christmas, new shows 'A Christmas Memory' and 'Christmas On The Air,' 'It's A Wonderful Life' times three, plus 'Nutcracker,' 'Nut Cracking,' 'Mary Poppins' and the latest on 'Peter Pan Live!'

BrightSide Theatre, Naperville's only professional theatre performing in the historic downtown district, begins its 4th season with Joe Landry's adaptation of the holiday classic tale It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Directed by BrightSide Theatre Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and playing November 28-December 14, 2014 at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth Avenue in Naperville. Tickets are on sale now at www.brightsidetheatre.com, or by calling 630-637-SHOW(7469). The press performance is Friday, November 28 at 8pm.

DanceWorks, Toronto's longest-running contemporary dance series now in its 37th season, proudly presents the Toronto premiere of New Animal, a ferocious multi-media work created with and specifically for Vancouver's 605 Collective by acclaimed choreographer Dana Gingras that runs for 2 nights only - Friday, November 15 & Saturday, November 16 at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre.

DanceWorks, Toronto's longest-running contemporary dance series, proudly presents the Toronto premiere of 7th Sense, from Vancouver's acclaimed Wen Wei Dance, choreographed by Artistic Director Wen Wei Wang, for two nights only - tonight, March 1 to Saturday, March 2 - at Fleck Dance Theatre, part of Harbourfront Centre's NextSteps.

DanceWorks, Toronto's longest-running contemporary dance series, proudly presents the Toronto premiere of 7th Sense, from Vancouver's acclaimed Wen Wei Dance, choreographed by Artistic Director Wen Wei Wang, for two nights only - Friday, March 1 to Saturday, March 2 - at Fleck Dance Theatre, part of Harbourfront Centre's NextSteps.