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Peak Performances will present the world premiere of LeeSaar the Company's FAME at Montclair State University's Alexander Kasser Theater from March 29 to April 1.

Peak Performances will present the world premiere of LeeSaar the Company's FAME at Montclair State University's Alexander Kasser Theater from March 29 to April 1.

A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but the avant-garde is flourishing in the Garden State this spring, with Peak Performances once again confirming its singular status as the presenter of some of the most challenging and original performing artists from the US and abroad.

January 2012 will kick off the momentous 80th Anniversary of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, a National Historic Landmark, National Medal of Arts honoree, and America’s longest-running international dance festival.

A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but the avant-garde is flourishing in the Garden State this spring, with Peak Performances once again confirming its singular status as the presenter of some of the most challenging and original performing artists from the US and abroad.

Seven years ago, an unsuspecting New Jersey township, population 37,569, became the epicenter of the international avant-garde. The culprit is named Peak Performances. Refusing to rent celebrities or Hollywood names to sweeten the lure, Peak chose not to blink and to go hardcore. Peak Performances continues its radical mission this coming season when it brings some of the world's most original and challenging artists from across the globe to brighten the stage of Montclair State University's Alexander Kasser Theater, located at 1 Normal Avenue. Jedediah Wheeler is Peak's Artistic Director.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 34th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Sunday, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 34th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Sunday, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue.

Nonstop theater, a costume competition and ballroom dancing will bewitch the East Village in Theater for the New City's 34th annual Village Halloween Costume Ball on Sunday, October 31 at TNC, 155 First Avenue.

It may be set in 1950, but it could just as easily have been ripped from this morning's TMZ.com - Portland Center Stage brings Billy Wilder's glittering Hollywood train wreck of a tale to the main stage with Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Boulevard previews on Tuesday September 14th, with press night on Friday, September 17th, running through October, 2010. Tickets start at $43, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets are $20. Show times are 7:30 pm Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:00 pm Sunday matinee and alternating Saturday 2:00 pm and Sunday 7:30 pm performances. See the show calendar http://www.pcs.org/sunset/ for the complete performance schedule.

It may be set in 1950, but it could just as easily have been ripped from this morning's TMZ.com - Portland Center Stage brings Billy Wilder's glittering Hollywood train wreck of a tale to the main stage with Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Boulevard previews on Tuesday September 14th, with press night on Friday, September 17th, running through October, 2010. Tickets start at $43, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets are $20. Show times are 7:30 pm Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:00 pm Sunday matinee and alternating Saturday 2:00 pm and Sunday 7:30 pm performances. See the show calendar http://www.pcs.org/sunset/ for the complete performance schedule.

It may be set in 1950, but it could just as easily have been ripped from this morning's TMZ.com - Portland Center Stage brings Billy Wilder's glittering Hollywood train wreck of a tale to the main stage with Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard. Sunset Boulevard previews on Tuesday September 14th, with press night on Friday, September 17th, running through October, 2010. Tickets start at $43, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets are $20. Show times are 7:30 pm Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:00 pm Sunday matinee and alternating Saturday 2:00 pm and Sunday 7:30 pm performances. See the show calendar http://www.pcs.org/sunset/ for the complete performance schedule.

Producers of The Miracle Worker announced today that the show will close on April 4, 2010 at a complete loss of the show's full $2.6 million capitalization.

Producers of The Miracle Worker announced today that the show will close on April 4, 2010 at a complete loss of the show's full $2.6 million capitalization.

Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Matthew Modine (the film Short Cuts, 'And the Band Played On') and Jennifer Morrison (Fox series 'House'), both now making their Broadway debuts in THE MIRACLE WORKER, sit down with WOR Radio's Joan Hamburg live from Water's Edge Restaurant tomorrow, Friday, March 26 at 12:06p. Tune in to WOR Radio at 710 AM.

Golden Globe Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Matthew Modine (the film Short Cuts, 'And the Band Played On'), now making his Broadway debut in THE MIRACLE WORKER, will visit the WNBC 'LX New York' studio live TODAY, Thursday, March 25 in the 5:00p half hour.

Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), now making her Broadway debut as Helen Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited FOX 5's 'Good Day New York' live this morning.

Television and film star Jennifer Morrison ('Dr. Allison Cameron' on Fox series 'House,' feature film Star Trek), now making her Broadway debut as Kate Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited host Wendy Williams on the set of her nationally syndicated daytime talk show 'The Wendy Williams Show' last week.

Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), now making her Broadway debut as Helen Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited ABC's 'The Rachael Ray Show' and NBC's 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' this week.

Star of Broadway's 'The Miracle Worker' Matthew Modine appeared on 'Fox and Friends' live this morning, Tuesday, March 9, to discuss his Broadway debut and the production which also stars Alison Pill and Abigail Breslin.