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KVPAC's Encore Players presents The Foreigner this month, an award-winning two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue and directed by Morgan Midkiff. It is both scrupulously clever and outrageously funny.

KVPAC's Encore Players presents The Foreigner this month, an award-winning two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue and directed by Morgan Midkiff. It is both scrupulously clever and outrageously funny.

Asia Society, PEN World Voices Festival and Performance Space 122 present the New York City premiere of 33 RPM and a Few Seconds, a brave new work by Lebanese theater artists Rabih Mroue and Lina Saneh, as part of the 10th Annual PEN World Voices Festival. A multi-media theater performance devoid of actors, 33 RPM and a Few Seconds reconstructs the final moments of a life after the suicide of a young Lebanese man.

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The Music Academy of the West will inaugurate an unprecedented partnership with the world-renowned New York Philharmonic and present a new production of Georges Bizet's popular opera Carmen in honor of Marilyn Horne's 80th birthday as part of the Academy's 67th annual Summer Festival. The Music Academy will present some 200 events over the course of its coming season, which begins June 16 and concludes August 9.

Asia Society, PEN World Voices Festival and Performance Space 122 present the New York City premiere of 33 RPM and a Few Seconds, a brave new work by Lebanese theater artists Rabih Mroue and Lina Saneh, as part of the 10th Annual PEN World Voices Festival. A multi-media theater performance devoid of actors, 33 RPM and a Few Seconds reconstructs the final moments of a life after the suicide of a young Lebanese man.

On the Amazon side, John Green's THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, soon coming to the big screen, came out on top yet again, with the Little Golden Book of Disney's FROZEN coming in second, and Veronica Roth's DIVERGENT rounding out the top three, with the complete series boxed set in fourth.

Red Hen Press is pleased to announce the winners of its 2013 awards series. The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, theRHP Short Story Award, and the RHP Poetry Award are given each year for, respectively, an unpublished original poetry collection, short story, and individual poem. Together with the A Room of Her Own Foundation, Red Hen Press also awards the To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize to a female author of an unpublished original poetry collection. Last year, Red Hen Press and The Los Angeles Review held the first annual Wild Light Poetry Contest for an original poem. All winners receive publication and an honorarium.

What if there were a happy pill that could take away all the stresses and strains of life? That's the premise of Rx, the latest play from Kate Fodor (100 Saints You Should Know). Deftly balancing sardonic shots at Big Pharma with a tender love story between a clinical researcher and a patient taking part in a drug trial, Rx is 'a winning combination of light satire and romance.' (NY Times)

What if there were a happy pill that could take away all the stresses and strains of life? That's the premise of Rx, the latest play from Kate Fodor (100 Saints You Should Know). Deftly balancing sardonic shots at Big Pharma with a tender love story between a clinical researcher and a patient taking part in a drug trial, Rx is 'a winning combination of light satire and romance.' (NY Times)

Silver Spring Stage presents The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, directed by Craig Mummey and produced by Pauline Griller-Mitchell and Amy Sullivan, an engrossing and provocative drama that centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. With dark echoes of the Grimm tales, this is an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of art. The Pillowman will perform weekends November 1 to 23.

Turner Sports will officially launch Kia NBA Tip-Off '13, the opening week of the 2013-14 NBA regular season, with three consecutive nights of doubleheader coverage across TNT and NBA TV.

Part of the world class 20th Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, for one evening only, Dance Innovators in Performance features a critical mass of exciting artists who have been dancing everywhere but in the mainstream. The evening features all-star SFDI faculty John Jasperse, Sara Shelton Mann, Chris Aiken, Heidi Henderson, Stephanie Skura, Shelley Senter, Michael Schumacher, Karen Nelson, Louis Gervais, Jill Sigman, Salt Horse, Tonya Lockyer, John Dixon, Andrew Wass, Eric Nordstrom and Michal Lahav at Broadway Performance Hall.

Seven innovators on the all-star faculty of the 20th Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation have seven minutes each to speak to what they are most passionate about and what currently drives their research and practice. Immediately following the lighting talks, the community gets a chance to join in on the conversation.

Velocity celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Seattle Festival of Improvisation (SFDI) with an all-star faculty line-up, performances by world-class innovators, and daily community events. One of the world's leading festivals of dance and improvisation, SFDI brings together renowned dance artists and teachers to perform, collaborate and share their creative processes. SFDI is a week of intensives, classes, jams, somatic workshops, performances and discussions focused on fostering the study, practice and appreciation of dance improvisation.

Seven innovators on the all-star faculty of the 20th Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation have seven minutes each to speak to what they are most passionate about and what currently drives their research and practice. Immediately following the lighting talks, the community gets a chance to join in on the conversation.

Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and HERE have announced programming for the second annual PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, running January 8-18, 2014.

It happens (almost) every day: a Hollywood power player plucks a young actor from obscurity, sets the publicity machine ablaze, and rakes in the box office profits. Suddenly, they're everywhere: photographs of friendly lunches manipulated into evidence of sexually charged trysts, every move documented and analyzed, their glamorous jet set relationships with co-stars beginning and ending as quickly as the weekly tabloids go to print.