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Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/27 for Dayton

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/27 for Columbus

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/27 for Cleveland

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce the five darkly dazzling operas that comprise the company's 2011-12 season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. With opening night on Friday, October 21, 2011, the 55th international season - "Tragic Obsessions" - will showcase compelling works by Donizetti, Janacek, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, and will include an outstanding Dallas opera-in-concert, important debuts and some of the company's most renowned productions. Each opera will feature the superbly talented Dallas Opera Orchestra and Dallas Opera Chorus and will be performed in its original language, with English translations projected above the stage at every performance. Exclusive subscriber extras include "A Cabaret Evening with Patricia Racette" and a fun-filled family concert starring soprano Ava Pine and the Dallas Opera Orchestra.

The phenomenal Parsons Dance returns to New Orleans with a program featuring the critically-acclaimed dance/rock opera Remember Me, a collaboration with the Grammy-nominated East Village Opera Company (EVOC), on April 16 at 8pm at the Mahalia Jackson Theater.

FRIGID New York presents A Bricken & Birch production: 'I'm Not Sure I Like the Way You Licked Me!' a solo show written and performed by Bricken Sparacino and directed by Lori Kee.

The Fulton Theatre has announced the casting for its upcoming production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the popular musical by Stephen Sondheim, which will be directed and choreographed by the Fulton's Artistic Director, Marc Robin with music direction by Ray Fellman.

Peter Land, currently appearing in OperaUpClose's acclaimed production of 'Madam?Butterfly (or Bangkok Butterfly)' at London's?Little?Opera House at the King's?Head Theatre, is going solo at the venue for four Sundays of cabaret titled 'NOW?OR?NEVER'

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/20 for Dayton

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/20 for Columbus

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/20 for Cleveland

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/20 for Cincinnati

Manhattan Movement & Arts Center presents a Lar Lubovitch workshop with Attila Csiki from Tuesday, April 5 to Saturday, April 9, 2011, from noon to 1:30pm from Tuesday - Friday and from 1:30 - 3pm on Saturday.

Silver Spring Stage presents Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Andrew S. Greenleaf and produced by Andrea Spitz, the impassioned story of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden love catapults over family rivalry into the poetic realm of romance and tragedy. Romeo and Juliet will perform weekends February 18 to March 12.

Casting has been announced for the Broadway production of The Royal Court Theatre's JERUSALEM, the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning play by Jez Butterworth and starring Tony and Olivier Award-winner Mark Rylance (La Bête, Boeing-Boeing). The production, directed by Ian Rickson, will open on April 21, 2011 at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street). Previews begin April 2. The production will play a limited 16-week engagement.

The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) announces the reunion of their award-winning Children of Eden team with their upcoming production of Galt MacDermot's (HAIR) musical, The Human Comedy. With libretto by William Dumaresq based on the story by William Saroyan, the production will be directed by APAC Artistic Director Tom Wojtunik.

The 27th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event-S.T.A.G.E.-will be dedicated to the memory of musical-comedy star and long-time Event Co-Chair Betty Garrett who died Saturday at the age of 91. ORIGINAL CAST 2, a musical celebration showcasing artists from theatre, television and cabaret performing songs they originated in musical productions, will take place for one-night-only on Saturday, April 2. Garrett, who appeared in 22 previous S.T.A.G.E events, was preparing to perform a number in this year's show from 'Something for the Boys,' in which she appeared on Broadway in 1943 with Ethel Merman. A musical retrospective honoring Garrett is now being planned as part of this year's show.

Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) will launch the world premiere of TWICE TOLD TALES OF THE DECAMERON, a free one-hour touring production scheduled to visit twenty-one neighborhood venues throughout northeast Ohio, to kick off the company's 2011 series of Surround outreach programming. The play, adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron by GLTF Director of Education Daniel Hahn, features a touring company of four actors and is directed by Lisa Ortenzi.

Silver Spring Stage presents Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Andrew S. Greenleaf and produced by Andrea Spitz, the impassioned story of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden love catapults over family rivalry into the poetic realm of romance and tragedy. Romeo and Juliet will perform weekends February 18 to March 12.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/13 for Cleveland