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Home Care Assistance, North America's leading provider of in-home care for seniors and the publisher of the award-winning healthy longevity book series, is proud to announce the release of Mind Over Gray Matter: An Innovative Approach to Dementia Care. Nearly half of individuals aged 85 and over are living with dementia. As lifespans continue to increase, finding a cure for dementia will be the most significant global health challenge of the 21st century.

There aren't that many honest plays about theatre. Whatever goes on behind the curtains, backstage, in a rehearsal room, at an audition - is usually a hush-hush no-go zone. We have seen hundreds of carefully edited versions of that on TV thanks to the tear jerking X Factor and the like, but do we know what an actor feels going into that room to face their fears, what the director is really looking for when casting for a play?

Friends Always Creating Theatre, a not-for-profit Theatre Company founded by Jack Dyville and David Gillam Fuller is presenting the 4th annual Gaylicious Play Festival. For the first time this will be presented at the historic Stonewall today, November 18 at 3:00 pm, Monday, November 19 at 7:30 pm, Today, November 25 at 3:00 pm, Monday, November 26 at 7:30 pm.

Friends Always Creating Theatre, a not-for-profit Theatre Company founded by Jack Dyville and David Gillam Fuller is presenting the 4th annual Gaylicious Play Festival. For the first time this will be presented at the historic Stonewall Sunday, November 18 at 3:00 pm, Monday, November 19 at 7:30 pm, Sunday, November 25 at 3:00 pm, Monday, November 26 at 7:30 pm.

Hip-Hopia is back and as fly as ever when P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical returns to open Imagination Stage's 2012-2013 season. P.Nokio, written by hip-hop theatre artist and playwright Psalmayene 24 and called "inspired and quirky" by The Washington Post, updates the classic Pinocchio story with a new beat for today's audiences. Made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, this Helen Hayes Recommended musical enjoyed its world premiere at Imagination Stage this past February and a successful tour to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in March.

Hip-Hopia is back and as fly as ever when P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical returns to open Imagination Stage's 2012-2013 season. P.Nokio, written by hip-hop theatre artist and playwright Psalmayene 24, updates the classic Pinocchio story with a new beat for today's audiences. Made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, this Helen Hayes Recommended musical enjoyed its world premiere at Imagination Stage this past February and a successful tour to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in March. Get a preview of the show's repeat engagement in the photos below!

Friends Always Creating Theatre, a not-for-profit Theatre Company founded by Jack Dyville and David Gillam Fuller announce the transfer of Mr. Dyville & John Stutte's Children's musical A MERMAID'S TALE to the TRIAD THEATRE, 158 W. 72md Street, OPENING SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 for an Open-End Run, playing Saturdays @ 3:00pm.

Hip-Hopia is back and as fly as ever when P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical returns to open Imagination Stage's 2012-2013 season. P.Nokio, written by hip-hop theatre artist and playwright Psalmayene 24 and called "inspired and quirky" by The Washington Post, updates the classic Pinocchio story with a new beat for today's audiences. Made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, this Helen Hayes Recommended musical enjoyed its world premiere at Imagination Stage this past February and a successful tour to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in March.

The new play (un)missed connections by Mark-Eugene Garcia will be performed as part of the 2012 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, for 5 performances, from tonight, June 6th to the 24th at the Bleecker Street Theatre.

The new play (un)missed connections by Mark-Eugene Garcia will be performed as part of the 2012 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, for 5 performances, from June 6th to the 24th at the Bleecker Street Theatre.

From June 8 to September 12, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960.

DanceWorks Chicago (DWC) welcomes new dancers to the company to start its 5th anniversary season which will feature new work and civic collaborations.

SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS: 2011-2012 The information below is subject to change.

In 1992, Deborah Masters was awarded the MTA Arts for Transit Commission for the Ocean Parkway Viaduct station (then the D-Line, now the Q-Line).

Virginia Opera announces a change in the cast for its upcoming production of Wagner's The Valkyrie. Due to health issues, Bryan Glenn Davis has withdrawn from his contract to sing the role of Wotan.