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Texas Performing Arts continues a legacy of presenting world-class performances to the University of Texas at Austin and Central Texas audiences with the unveiling of its most ambitious and diverse season to date. The 2012-2013 season highlights talent from around the world in an eclectic mix of music, theatre, dance, and conversation.

In conjunction with the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Frank Hentschker, Executive Director) announces a day dedicated to the emerging global voices of revolution from Egypt, Georgia, and the United States.

With under a week to go before the 2012 HighTide Festival gets underway, Artistic Director Steven Atkinson has announced full casting for HighTide Festival 2012. Familiar names include Louise Brealey, Brendan Coyle, Russell Floyd, Elizabeth Hopper, Danny Kirrane, Lesley Nicol, Abi Titmuss, Rosie Wyatt, andMatilda Ziegler. Also announced are the guests for the HighMind Talks at the Festival, including Alan Bissett, Will Gompertz, Ben Hammersley, Owen Jones, Juliet Stevenson and Griff Rhys Jones.

According to a report by Variety, BOOK OF MORMON's Josh Gad will likely play Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak alongside Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in the film JOBS, directed by Joshua Michael Stern.

DESSA ROSE, featuring Stacey Cabaj as Ruth, by Lynn Ahrens with music by Stephen Flaherty, will be presented in a co-production with Firehouse Theatre Project and Richmond CenterStage. The show features music direction by Leilani Giles, choreography by Karen Getz and is directed by Richard M. Parison, Jr. It runs May 4 - June 3, 2012, Thurs.-Sat. at 8pm, Wed. May 23 at 2pm, and Sun. May 6, 13, 20, and June 3 at 4pm.

North Carolina Theatre, celebrating 30 seasons as the region's premier non-profit, professional regional theatre, and Broadway Series South, the anchor presenter of First National Touring shows and a producer of Broadway and concerts in the region for more than a decade will build on their partnership to bring a laugh-out-loud Broadway season to the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts for their 2012-2013 season.

In conjunction with the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Frank Hentschker, Executive Director) announces a day dedicated to the emerging global voices of revolution from Egypt, Georgia, and the United States.

Cape Cod Theatre Project has just announced their 2012 Season, which is set to include a new work by Mike Daisey, directed by Jean-Michele Gregory. Additional productions will include: Chrysalis by Joshua Allen, American Hero by Bess Wohl, and The Money Shot by Neil LaBute.

Variety reports that Ashton Kutcher is set to star in an upcoming indie bio-pic JOBS, which will tell the story of the late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. This is the second film announced which will focus on the life of the late CEO who passed away from cancer last October.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Frank Hentschker, Executive Director) has announced the rest of its Spring 2012 season, featuring 11 free events at the Graduate Center, including rarely-seen performances, premiere readings of international playwrights, and day-long symposia on everything from ecologically inspired performance (for Earth Day!) to the Group Theatre to innovative American women producers.

The all-new, live show 'MythBusters: Behind the Myths,' starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters,' makes its debut at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, March 31, 2012 for one performance only. Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 11 and are ONLY available at www.bushnell.org, calling The Bushnell Box Office at (860) 987-5900 or visiting us at 166 Capitol Avenue in Hartford.

Songwriting team Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews have been invited to perform selections from their Richard Rodgers Award winning musical, Witness Uganda at the New York Stock Exchange on March 30th as part of TEDxWallStreet.

Actors Theatre's 2012-13 season brings five plays to Stage West at The Herberger Theater Center beginning with Mike Daisey's controversial The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (Sept. 21-Oct. 7) and ending with the critically acclaimed Good People (May 3-19) by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.

The New-York Historical Society's museum is the oldest in New York City and predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly seventy years.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces that Mike Daisey will appear at the public forum on The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company on Tuesday, March 27th at 7pm.

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Mike Daisey adressed the issue of THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS fabrications on his website. He apologized for going against the rules that he set for himself about staying true to the facts in his work.

The all-new, live show 'MythBusters: Behind the Myths,' starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters,' will debut at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts for one performance only on Sunday, March 25, 2012.