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A.R.T. American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) will present The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, opening the A.R.T.'s 2011-2 season on August 117 at the Loeb Drama Center. The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, is adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre Murray, and directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus.

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival presents the Juilliard String Quartet on Sunday, August 28 at 3 pm at The Farmers' Museum.

Producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza, in association with Tony Fusco and Larry Feinman, and by special arrangement with/and based on the Vereinigte Buhnen Wien GmbH production, announced that the new musical REBECCA, based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier novel, will open on Broadway Sunday, April 22 at a Shubert theater to be announced. Previews will begin Tuesday, March 27. Sierra Boggess (currently starring in Master Class, The Little Mermaid, Love Never Dies) is in negotiations to play the role of 'I.'

A.R.T. American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) opens its 2011-12 season with The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin. The adaptation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and Obie Award-winning composer Diedre L. Murray, directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus, with choreography by Ronald K. Brown, begins previews on August 17 and opens for the reviewing press on August 31 at 7pm. Performances are at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Tickets for preview performances are currently on sale, remaining tickets for the run go on sale on July 12.

Jazz performer Kurt Elling and the American and Juilliard string quartets are featured in the 13th season of the newly renamed Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.

The Dallas Opera Guild will present the 23rd annual 'Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition,' a showcase for talented young opera singers who either come from Texas or got here 'as fast as they could' on Saturday, May 14, 2011 in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, 2403 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201.

The Harris Theater for Music and Dance is pleased to present one of the world's finest lieder tenors, the "superbly accomplished and deeply affecting" (The New York Times) English tenor Ian Bostridge, performing with the innovative Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy on Friday, May 6, 2011 at 7:30 pm-the only Midwest engagement of the ensemble's 2011 tour.

The Dallas Opera Guild will present the 23rd annual 'Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition,' a showcase for talented young opera singers who either come from Texas or got here 'as fast as they could' on Saturday, May 14, 2011 in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, 2403 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201.

PARADIGM presents a program including World Premieres by Carmen de Lavallade and Gus Solomons, Jr. from April 14 - 16, 2011 at 8pm at Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, at 131 E. 10th Street (at Second Avenue), NYC.

PARADIGM presents a program including World Premieres by Carmen de Lavallade and Gus Solomons, Jr. from April 14 - 16, 2011 at 8pm at Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, at 131 E. 10th Street (at Second Avenue), NYC.

The Harris Theater for Music and Dance is pleased to present one of the world's finest lieder tenors, the "superbly accomplished and deeply affecting" (The New York Times) English tenor Ian Bostridge, performing with the innovative Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy on Friday, May 6, 2011 at 7:30 pm-the only Midwest engagement of the ensemble's 2011 tour.

PARADIGM presents a program including World Premieres by Carmen de Lavallade and Gus Solomons, Jr. from April 14 - 16, 2011 at 8pm at Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, at 131 E. 10th Street (at Second Avenue), NYC.

PARADIGM presents a program including World Premieres by Carmen de Lavallade and Gus Solomons, Jr. from April 14 - 16, 2011 at 8pm at Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, at 131 E. 10th Street (at Second Avenue), NYC.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) announced today that Artistic Director Diane Paulus, Pulitzer prize-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks, and two-time Obie winner Diedre Murray have been chosen by the Gershwin Trusts and the Heyward Trust to re-imagine the Gershwins' seminal American opera Porgy and Bess.

Boston audiences will be in for a tasty treat this summer when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2010 production, a unique two-course evening featuring Leonard Bernstein's bittersweet classic Trouble in Tahiti and Lee Hoiby's delicious Bon Appétit!, starring Tony Award nominee Judy Kaye as Julia Child.

Boston audiences will be in for a tasty treat this summer when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2010 production, a unique two-course evening featuring Leonard Bernstein's bittersweet classic Trouble in Tahiti and Lee Hoiby's delicious Bon Appétit!, starring Tony Award winner Judy Kaye as Julia Child.

Boston audiences will be in for a tasty treat this summer when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2010 production, a unique two-course evening featuring Leonard Bernstein's bittersweet classic Trouble in Tahiti and Lee Hoiby's delicious Bon Appétit!, starring Tony Award nominee Judy Kaye as Julia Child.

Boston audiences will be in for a tasty treat this summer when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2010 production, a unique two-course evening featuring Leonard Bernstein's bittersweet classic Trouble in Tahiti and Lee Hoiby's delicious Bon Appétit!, starring Tony Award winner Judy Kaye as Julia Child.

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) presents the world premiere of the musical Johnny Baseball by Richard Dresser, Robert Reale, and Willy Reale, directed by Diane Paulus. The production begins performances on May 16 and runs through June 27, 2010 at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former 'Borscht Belt' singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s.

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True.

Boston audiences will be in for a tasty treat this summer when Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2010 production, a unique two-course evening featuring Leonard Bernstein's bittersweet classic Trouble in Tahiti and Lee Hoiby's delicious Bon Appétit!, starring Tony Award nominee Judy Kaye as Julia Child.

PARADIGM presents a program including two World Premieres on May 26 and 27, 2010 at 7:30pm at the NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, 111 Second Avenue, Fifth Floor Theater. Tickets are $20 (students $15) and are available by phone at 212-998-1982.

PARADIGM presents a program including two World Premieres on May 26 and 27, 2010 at 7:30pm at the NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, 111 Second Avenue, Fifth Floor Theater. Tickets are $20 (students $15) and are available by phone at 212-998-1982.

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former 'Borscht Belt' singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s.