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Darren Criss Previews GLEE S5 & Recaps S4

Broadway headliner and popular rising TV and film star Darren Criss offers a preview of the new season of FOX's hit musical dramedy series Glee as well as provides a useful recap of the events of the past season in a new promo for the show now available.

Natya Dance Theatre Presents World Premiere, THE SEVENTH LOVE, 11/2

Natya Dance Theatre, Chicago's critically-acclaimed and longest running dance company rooted in the Indian dance-theater technique of Bharata Natyam, returns to the Harris Theater with the World Premiere of The Seventh Love, an exploration of love in eastern teachings based on the life of the god Krishna. The Seventh Love is conceived by Natya Associate Artistic Director Krithika Rajagopalan in collaboration with David Kersnar, a founding member of Chicago's Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre, and is written and directed by Kersnar and choreographed by Natya Founder and Artistic Director Hema Rajagopalan. Natya presents The Seventh Love in one performance only at the Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph Street, Saturday, November 2 at 7:30 pm.

ODC to Premiere LAYLA MEANS NIGHT, 10/30-11/3

ODC Theater is proud to announce the world premiere of Layla Means Night, a provocative new dance theater work by Los Angeles-based company Rosanna Gamson/World Wide. Layla Means Night, loosely based on the frame tale of Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights, occupies the whole of ODC Theater as audiences are invited into performances on all three floors -- in the lobby, the studios, the hallways, as well as the B'Way Theater. Joining Gamson's company of seven dancers and two actors are Iranian-American poet and performer Niloufar Talebi, Bay Area dancers Farima Berenji and Shahrzad Khorsandi, members of ODC's teen company, the Dance Jam, and master Persian musiciansHouman Pourmehdi and Pirayeh Pourafar. With a run of 10 performances, two each night, from Wednesday, October 30 to Sunday, November 3, 2013, Layla Means Night offers audiences an immersive tour through a world of ritual violence and exquisite pleasure.

Kline, Close & BIG CHILL Cast 30 Year Reunion

The pop cultural touchstone represented by 1980s classic THE BIG CHILL was revisted this weekend when the majority of the ensemble for the celebrated comedy/drama joined for a reunion, including stage and screen stars Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Mary Kay Place and more, as well as writer/director Lawrence Kasden.

LOOT & THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP Set for Red Bull Theater's 2013-14 Season

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) will present their Tenth Anniversary Season at Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theater, including Off Broadway revivals of modern classics by the iconoclastic Joe Orton and Charles Ludlam - writing in the tradition of Marlowe and Aristophanes - alongside Revelation Readings of Jacobean gems such as 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and The Roaring Girl, and of rarities like the American Premiere of Nabokov's Tragedy of Mr. Morn, Brecht & Weill's musical Happy End, and Thornton Wilder's Alcestiad, offering something for every lover of classic theater to relish.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to Host Fall Gallery Crawl, 9/27

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces its fall gallery crawl takes place Friday, September 27, from 5:30-10 p.m. The crawl showcases a wide variety of thought-provoking art exhibitions in downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District. Live bands, DJs, dance, comedy, and participatory activities are also part of the complimentary crawl events.

Katayoun Goudarzi and Shujaat Khan to Release SPRING, 10/8

This legacy lies at the heart of Spring (release: October 8, 2013), the latest collaborative work of Katayoun Goudarzi and Grammy Award nominated master North Indian sitar player Shujaat Husain Khan. Though hailing from different cultural backgrounds, they have found the meeting point of Rumi's sounds and sense-for the two entwine, meant to resonate aloud and together-and the musical creativity of the Subcontinent.

SOUND OFF: TALES OF THE CITY 20th Anniversary On DVD

Featuring one of the most compelling casts of characters ever depicted in a miniseries made for TV, by some of the most ideally cast actors ever assembled for an adaptation of any kind, TALES OF THE CITY arrives on DVD just in time for the twentieth anniversary of the controversial cultural touchstone first airing on PBS to jeers, cheers and many, many tears.

Baltimore Shakespeare Factory's Touchstone Players to Present THE TEMPEST, 10/18-19

The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory has announced open enrollment for its fall Touchstone Players production of The Tempest. Students entering grades 3 - 8 can experience what it might be like to travel back in time to the 1600s and be a part of the fun and excitement of Shakespeare's acting company-The King's Men. Participants will hone their acting skills, make friends, build confidence, and develop an appreciation and understanding of Shakespeare's work. Plus, it's a 'malmsey-butt' of fun!

Touchstone Theatre Concludes First Season of Partnerships with Local Businesses

Touchstone Theatre is proud to announce the ending of its first successful year (2012-13) as a recipient of Education Improvement Tax Incentive monies (EITC). In partnership with Air Products, Lafayette Ambassador Bank, Capital Blue Cross, Embassy Bank, PPL and PNC Bank, Touchstone's Young Playwrights and Building Bridges educational programs helped advance literacy and the acquisition of life skills for hundreds of students in the Lehigh Valley.

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