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Park Avenue Armory announced its first full season of cultural programming, comprising productions of visual art, dance, theater and music that are conceived and performed 'outside the box' of conventional theaters and museums. Dedicated to presenting works that cannot be realized in traditional institutions, Park Avenue Armory's season will include monumental, immersive installations by visual artists Peter Greenaway and Ryoji Ikeda; Tune-In, a contemporary music festival featuring new music ensembles curated by and including eighth blackbird, the New York premier of Inuksuit by John Luther Adams and a new site-specific commission by Sympho; a six-week residency by the Royal Shakespeare Company in a full-scale Shakespearean theater built inside the Drill Hall; and free-form performances by Shen Wei Dance Arts, Streb, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall and array of dramatic period rooms, the Armory's unique spaces enable artists to create-and the public to experience- unconventional work in all genres that could not be realized elsewhere in New York City.

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Speranza Theatre Company invites you to World Premiere of THE AWESOME DANCE by Nick Starr. The production, directed by Malinda Sorci, marks the NY stage debut of Dileep Rao (Inception, Avatar, Drag Me To Hell). Performances run September 2 - 26 at The Cherry Pit is located at 155 Bank Street between West & Washington Streets.

On September 18th and 25th at 8PM Show At Barre proudly presents MELORA HARDIN with special guest BILLY RAY CYRUS. Star of NBC's 'The Office, 'Broadway's 'Chicago' and multiple #1 box-office movie hits, Melora delivers an evocative, intimate, fun evening of music laced with sultry humor; featuring standards, Broadway and original songs. Billy Ray Cyrus joins Melora as her special guest on the September 18th show (other Special Guests announced soon). Under the Musical Direction of Ben Toth. Produced by Shane Scheel.

On September 18th and 25th at 8PM Show At Barre proudly presents MELORA HARDIN with special guest BILLY RAY CYRUS. Star of NBC's 'The Office, 'Broadway's 'Chicago' and multiple #1 box-office movie hits, Melora delivers an evocative, intimate, fun evening of music laced with sultry humor; featuring standards, Broadway and original songs. Billy Ray Cyrus joins Melora as her special guest on the September 18th show (other Special Guests announced soon). Under the Musical Direction of Ben Toth. Produced by Shane Scheel.

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On September 18th and 25th at 9PM Show At Barre proudly presents MELORA HARDIN with special guest BILLY RAY CYRUS.

Goodman Theatre celebrates its 10th season in Chicago's North Loop Theatre District with a fresh take on an enduring masterpiece- Candide, Voltaire's effervescent, picaresque adventure, newly adapted and directed by Chicago's own Mary Zimmerman, the Goodman's Manilow Resident Director. A cast of 19 and an orchestra of 12, under the direction of Music Director Doug Peck, bring to life nearly 30 songs in Leonard Bernstein's glorious score, and recreate Voltaire's satirical story of Candide (Geoff Packard)-a young optimist shipwrecked, soldiered, swindled and separated (repeatedly) from his true love, Cunegonde (Lauren Molina). For this major revival, Zimmerman has tapped her signature design team-Daniel Ostling (Set), Mara Blumenfeld (Costumes), T.J. Gerkens (Lighting) and Richard Woodbury (Sound). Danny Pelzig choreographs the cataclysmic events that ensue.

On September 18th and 25th at 8PM Show At Barre proudly presents MELORA HARDIN with special guest BILLY RAY CYRUS. Star of NBC's 'The Office, 'Broadway's 'Chicago' and multiple #1 box-office movie hits, Melora delivers an evocative, intimate, fun evening of music laced with sultry humor; featuring standards, Broadway and original songs. Billy Ray Cyrus joins Melora as her special guest on the September 18th show (other Special Guests announced soon). Under the Musical Direction of Ben Toth. Produced by Shane Scheel.

Life's quirky situations often provide valuable teaching moments. TheatreWorks/USA brings some of these lessons to the stage in its hilarious hour-long musical revue for children, "Duck For President, Fancy Nancy and Other Story Books," coming to Mercer County Community College's Kelsey Theatre as part of the Kelsey Kids Series on Saturday, Oct. 9 at 2 and 4 p.m. Kelsey Theatre is conveniently located on the college's West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.

Opening its 2010-2011 mainstage season, Oracle proudly announces its production of BLOOD WEDDING by Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata, at Oracle Theatre, 3809 N. Broadway in Chicago. BLOOD WEDDING previews October 8, and runs October 9 through November 20.

You may get a sugar high from Bravo's sweetest new series, 'Top Chef Just Desserts' - a spin-off of the 2010 Primetime Emmy-nominated and James Beard Award-winning 'Top Chef,' premiering Wednesday, September 15 at 11 p.m. ET/PT, and moving into its regular timeslot of 10 p.m. on Wednesday, September 22. These chefs can have their cake and make it too as the main focus of this competition is the Achilles heel of most chefs: desserts. This time the pastry chefs will see if they have what it takes to out flambe, out frost and out fudge the competition. Gail Simmons, a series judge on 'Top Chef' for the past seven seasons, takes on the hosting duties of this highly competitive series showcasing the best of the best in the world of pastry arts. Joining the judges' panel as head judge is Johnny Iuzzini, one of the country's most celebrated and innovative pastry chefs and Executive Pastry Chef at Restaurant Jean Georges. Hubert Keller, critically acclaimed chef as well as guest judge on 'Top Chef' and finalist on 'Top Chef Masters,' and Dannielle Kyrillos, entertaining expert and DailyCandy Editor-at-Large will also serve as regular judges for the series.

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first United States museum exhibition of the late works of American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and the first major Warhol survey in New York since the 1989 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Created amid the frenetic activity of Warhol's celebrity, the nearly fifty paintings on view reveal the artist's vitality, energy, and spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, characterized by a dramatic transformation of his style and the introduction of new techniques.

Avatar Star Makes NY Theater Debut in THE AWESOME DANCE. Previews begins September 2 at The Cherry Pit

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has announced that Zach Braff, Bobby Cannavale, Sutton Foster, and Ari Graynor will co-star in the world premiere comedy TRUST, written by Paul Weitz, directed by Peter DuBois. Mr. Weitz returns to Second Stage Theatre, where his plays Privilege and Show People premiered in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Directed by Peter DuBois, who staged Second Stage's acclaimed production of Becky Shaw, TRUST will begin previews on Friday, July 23 at Second Stage Theatre (305 West 43rd street) and officially open on Thursday, August 12. The production runs through September 5.

Speranza Theatre Company invites you to World Premiere of THE AWESOME DANCE by Nick Starr. The production, directed by Malinda Sorci, marks the NY stage debut of Dileep Rao (Inception, Avatar, Drag Me To Hell). Performances run September 2 - 26 at The Cherry Pit is located at 155 Bank Street between West & Washington Streets.

Avatar Star Makes NY Theater Debut in THE AWESOME DANCE. Previews begins September 2 at The Cherry Pit

The 2010 Emmy Award-winning Bravo has whipped up partnerships with Breyers, Dawn, Extra Dessert Delights Gum and Godiva as official sponsors for the premiere season of 'Top Chef Just Desserts,' the spin-off series of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning show 'Top Chef,' which will debut Wednesday, September 15 at 11 p.m. ET/PT.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the Artistic Direction of Diane Paulus, is pleased to announce further details of its 2010/11 Season, beginning on August 31 with Cabaret, followed by Alice vs. Wonderland, The Blue Flower, R. Buckminster Fuller - The History (and mystery) of the Universe, Ajax, Prometheus Bound, and Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera.

Goodman Theatre celebrates its 10th season in Chicago's North Loop Theatre District with a fresh take on an enduring masterpiece- Candide, Voltaire's effervescent, picaresque adventure, newly adapted and directed by Chicago's own Mary Zimmerman, the Goodman's Manilow Resident Director. A cast of 19 and an orchestra of 12, under the direction of Music Director Doug Peck, bring to life nearly 30 songs in Leonard Bernstein's glorious score, and recreate Voltaire's satirical story of Candide (Geoff Packard)-a young optimist shipwrecked, soldiered, swindled and separated (repeatedly) from his true love, Cunegonde (Lauren Molina). For this major revival, Zimmerman has tapped her signature design team-Daniel Ostling (Set), Mara Blumenfeld (Costumes), T.J. Gerkens (Lighting) and Richard Woodbury (Sound). Danny Pelzig choreographs the cataclysmic events that ensue.