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The flight of love is often a turbulent one, fraught equally with soaring heights and precipitous lows. In Love Leaves, author Adham Khattaby takes readers on one such flight, sharing intimate and emotionally charged glimpses of the romantic love he had with his love mate through the collection of short love letters.

TEMP Art Space has announced Everything Is TEMP, an exhibition curated by Alex Ahn and Ari Lipkis featuring work by nine emerging artists who explore the fleeting nature of digital art. The idea ultimately reflects the inherent ephemerality of technology and life. Artists include Tyler Healy, Jack Kalish, Rune Madsen, Marisa Prefer, Byron Peter, Matthew Ostrowski, Ryan Raffa, Borna Sammak, and Timo Toots.

Common to African, American Indian and native folklores, The House of Bug Representatives and Bug Immigration Reform by author Heather Bankrupt unveils characters and plot that came from the desire to use animals to entertain and teach life lessons. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell inspired the overlay of immigration (a current political issue) on the story. The other narrative objectives of this book are to highlight general education sciences: biological, environmental, and behavioral (especially political science and economics), and to provide a “safe” anecdote that will inspire engaging and inclusive dialogue on immigration reform.

The Porters of Hellsgate presents Orwellian, a one-man show starring Larry Cedar, produced in association with The Orwell Estate, at Hollywood Fringe 2013, running tonight, June 15-30.

George Orwell's 1984, a novel set in a “fictitious world gripped in the vise of constant war and a society held captive by the ever watchful gaze of a shadowy totalitarian dictator known as 'Big Brother'” has seen a large increase in sales following the NSA surveillance scandal.

Tonight, Thursday, June 13 (7 + 9 pm) at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, choreographer Rebecca Lazier and indie-classical ensemble Newspeak present the first US performances of Coming Together/Attica, a site-specific setting of Frederic Rzewski's iconic minimalist scores written following the 1971 prison riots in upstate New York. Lazier's dancers are Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener (formerly of Merce Cunningham Dance Company); Asli Bulbul, most recently from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Jennifer Lafferty, who is featured in the work of Beth Gill and Yasuko Yokoshi; Pierre Guilbault; and Christopher Ralph.

TEMP Art Space has announced Everything Is TEMP, an exhibition curated by Alex Ahn and Ari Lipkis featuring work by nine emerging artists who explore the fleeting nature of digital art. The idea ultimately reflects the inherent ephemerality of technology and life. Artists include Tyler Healy, Jack Kalish, Rune Madsen, Marisa Prefer, Byron Peter, Matthew Ostrowski, Ryan Raffa, Borna Sammak, and Timo Toots.

The Porters of Hellsgate presents Orwellian, a one-man show starring Larry Cedar, produced in association with The Orwell Estate, at Hollywood Fringe 2013, running June 15-30.

On Thursday, June 13 (7 + 9 pm) at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, choreographer Rebecca Lazier and indie-classical ensemble Newspeak present the first US performances of Coming Together/Attica, a site-specific setting of Frederic Rzewski's iconic minimalist scores written following the 1971 prison riots in upstate New York. Lazier's dancers are Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener (formerly of Merce Cunningham Dance Company); Asli Bulbul, most recently from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Jennifer Lafferty, who is featured in the work of Beth Gill and Yasuko Yokoshi; Pierre Guilbault; and Christopher Ralph.

On Thursday, June 13 (7 + 9 pm) at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, choreographer Rebecca Lazier and indie-classical ensemble Newspeak present the first US performances of Coming Together/Attica, a site-specific setting of Frederic Rzewski's iconic minimalist scores written following the 1971 prison riots in upstate New York. Lazier's dancers are Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener (formerly of Merce Cunningham Dance Company); Asli Bulbul, most recently from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; Jennifer Lafferty, who is featured in the work of Beth Gill and Yasuko Yokoshi; Pierre Guilbault; and Christopher Ralph.

Raleigh Little Theatre (RLT) today announced its 2013-2014 season, which will include two area premieres, revive the popular City Series of contemporary theatre, and celebrate 30 years of a holiday classic in Cinderella.

Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse, Giles Croft, has today revealed plans for the fiftieth anniversary of its iconic building, which was opened by Lord Snowdon on 11 December 1963 under the leadership of John Neville, Frank Dunlop and Peter Ustinov. Reflecting the rich array of work produced there over the last half century, this year's programme contains the wide range of ambitious and high quality drama that has established The Playhouse as one of the leading regional theatres in the UK.

Shake & stir theatre co's Matilda Award winning production of Animal Farm returns to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) for a limited season in 2013, as part of the company's five month national tour.

Artistic Director of Nottingham Playhouse, Giles Croft, has today revealed plans for the fiftieth anniversary of its iconic building, which was opened by Lord Snowdon on 11 December 1963 under the leadership of John Neville, Frank Dunlop and Peter Ustinov. Reflecting the rich array of work produced there over the last half century, this year's programme contains the wide range of ambitious and high quality drama that has established The Playhouse as one of the leading regional theatres in the UK.

Causey Contemporary will feature a selection of Behbahani's large-scale mixed media paintings from her My Faantazee series at their DUMBO location, marking the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Her recent body of paintings, created in her Brooklyn studio, five years after relocating to the United States from Iran, were completed with an anticipated freedom from the feeling that 'you had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized' (George Orwell, 1984). However, in My Faantazee, Behbahani found that the 'essence of being watched is universally infused.'

On Tuesday, February 26, the debut recording of David T. Little's 'sharp, elegantly bristling' opera-theatre piece, Soldier Songs (2006), which recently completed a wildly successful NYC premiere run on the inaugural PROTOTYPE festival, is released on audio CD from Innova Recordings, produced by Lawson White. The recording receives its digital release on iTunes and Amazon today, February 5, 2013.