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The Mama Foundation for the Arts presents ALIVE!, a celebration of a generation in song, featuring a full company of performers who are age 55 and over.

Female duos are the stuff of theatrical comedy.

MULTISTAGES has announced the new musical by award-winning Anita Velez-Mitchell, platinum-winning composers Dean Landon and Anika Paris, TEMPLE OF THE SOULS, with musical direction by Bruce Baumer and directed by Artistic Director Lorca Peress. TEMPLE OF THE SOULS will play a limited engagement at Theater for the New City - Johnson Theater (155 First Avenue, btw 9th/10th, NYC). Performances begin Tuesday, September 16 and continue through Sunday, September 28. Opening Night is Thursday, September 18 (8 p.m.).

With Sexy Laundry opening tonight, the entire cast roster for the theatre's biggest season is almost complete. Nearly 300 Minnesota artists - including actors, directors, designers and technical operators - will mount 18 productions on two stages. The season lineup confirms Park Square's commitment to the work of women writers like Amy Herzog, Michele Riml and Alice Walker. The casting emphasizes Park Square as a home for local artists of color, from returning favorites like James A. Williams, T. Mychael Rambo and Regina Williams to dozens of debuts like Dominique Wooten, Kurt Kwan and Sarah Ochs.

MULTISTAGES is pleased to announce the new musical by award-winning Anita Velez-Mitchell, platinum-winning composers Dean Landon and Anika Paris, TEMPLE OF THE SOULS, with musical direction by Bruce Baumer and directed by Artistic Director Lorca Peress. TEMPLE OF THE SOULS will play a limited engagement at Theater for the New City - Johnson Theater (155 First Avenue, btw 9th/10th, NYC). Performances begin Tuesday, September 16 and continue through Sunday, September 28. Opening Night is Thursday, September 18 (8 p.m.).

The Adrienne Arsht Center, Broadway Across America and Bank of America present I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE, running September 30 - October 5, 2014. I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE is the brand-new hit stage show adapted from the most beloved program in television history. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast onstage below!

It is still the word and this September, The University of South Carolina Beaufort's Center for the Arts is bringing Grease to the main stage

CHICAGO (September 3, 2014) – Ashley Wheater, Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet, is pleased to announce the addition of three dancers to the Joffrey's international roster for the 2014-2015 season: Artur Babajanyan (Armenia), Edson Barbosa (Brazil) and Brooke Linford, a former Joffrey Academy of Dance Trainee (Alpine, Utah). The three new dancers officially began rehearsing with the company July 21.

It is still the word and this September, The University of South Carolina Beaufort's Center for the Arts is bringing Grease to the main stage

Single tickets go on sale at the Sarasota Opera Box Office (61 N. Pineapple Avenue) Today, September 2nd for Sarasota Opera's 2014-2015 Fall and Winter Season, one of the grandest seasons in the company's history. Box office hours are Mondaythrough Friday, 10am - 4pm, and is located at 61 N. Pineapple Avenue in the Pavilion Building at the Sarasota Opera House. Visitwww.sarasotaopera.org for more information.

Broadway's backstage comedy It's Only A Play, by four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, will play a limited 18-week engagement at Broadway'sGerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street) with previews beginning tonight, August 28, 2014 and an opening night set for Thursday, October 9, 2014.

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Single tickets go on sale at the Sarasota Opera Box Office (61 N. Pineapple Avenue) Tuesday, September 2nd for Sarasota Opera's 2014-2015 Fall and Winter Season, one of the grandest seasons in the company's history. Box office hours are Mondaythrough Friday, 10am – 4pm, and is located at 61 N. Pineapple Avenue in the Pavilion Building at the Sarasota Opera House. Visitwww.sarasotaopera.org for more information.

The Texas Talent Musicians Association (TTMA), producers of the 34th Annual Tejano Music Awards (TMA's), have announced Saturday, September 20, 2014 as the official date for this year's awards show. This will mark its 34th year as the only major and longest-running event to recognize the Tejano music genre.

Scotiabank BuskerFest in support of Epilepsy Toronto kicked off today at noon throughout Toronto's Downtown Yonge Neighbourhood for four wild days of fun for all ages - rain or shine!

'Boxeo Telemundo Ford,' the longest-running boxing program on US Spanish-language television, became the most watched boxing program on television regardless of language during its 2014 summer season with an average of 566,000 total viewers for a +65% growth versus last year, according to Nielsen. 'Boxeo Telemundo Ford' kicked-off its 2014 summer season with the fight between Jonathan 'Pitbull' Vidal of Puerto Rico and Mexico's Juan 'Loquito' Kantún which became the #1 boxing telecast on television for the week of July 14 and ranked as the program's most-watched telecast in history with 641,000 total viewers. The fight called by René Giraldo and Jessi Losada averaged 294,000 adults 18-49, the best delivery in the demo in six years. The momentum continued as the subsequent three telecasts of the season all ranked within the top five 'Boxeo Telemundo Ford' programs in history among total viewers, including 577,000 total viewers delivered on July 25 for the fight between David 'Severo' Carmona y Ricardo 'El Meserito' Rodríguez; 529,000 total viewers on August 1 for the fight between Daniel 'El Alacrán' Lozano and Antonio Tostado, and finally 516,000 total viewers on August 8 for the fight between Edgar 'Nene' Ortega and Daniel Rosario.

NightBlue Performing Arts Company, in partnership with ArtoCarpus, proudly presents the Chicago Premiere of 'Clemente: The Legend of 21' opening tonight, August 22 at Stage773, 1225 W. Belmont.

mun2, the modern general entertainment cable channel for Latinos, for the first time will simulcast live the 2014 edition of Premios Tu Mundo (Your World Awards), the star-studded award show that celebrates U.S. Latino pop culture

Toronto's Downtown Yonge Neighbourhood will welcome even more amazing entertainment - and a healthy dose of silliness - as Epilepsy Toronto, in partnership with the Downtown Yonge BIA, announces more new and returning acts at its signature fundraising event, Scotiabank BuskerFest. The 15th edition of Toronto's international street performers festival runs today, August 21 to Sunday, August 24 throughout the Yonge Street corridor, from Queen to College Streets (which will be closed to traffic) and surrounding areas (including Trinity Square Park, Yonge-Dundas Square and Gould Street).

The Mama Foundation for the Arts presents ALIVE!, a celebration of a generation in song, featuring a full company of performers who are age 55 and over. Conceived and written by Vy Higginsen and Ken Wydro (the creators of MAMA, I WANT TO SING), and directed by Mr. Wydro, ALIVE! returns to The Dempsey Theater in Harlem (127 W. 127 St.) this Fall - performing Saturday matinees on October 4th and 18th, November 1st, 15th and 22nd at 2 PM. ALIVE! will be profiled by Lesley Stahl in an upcoming "60 Minutes" news story that will air later this year (Ms. Stahl previously profiled The Mama Foundation's Gospel for Teens program in a 2012 Emmy Award-winning feature). Tickets to ALIVE! are $35 and are available by calling the Mama Foundation for the Arts at 212-280-1045, or online at mamafoundation.org (or through SmartTix.com).