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The Music Institute of Chicago Chorale, conducted by Daniel Wallenberg, announces its 31st season of three concerts, along with its 2017-18 season auditions.

Premier Concerts and DPS Shows will welcome to the Warner Theatre Garrison Keillor and special guests Robin and Linda Williams on November 30 at 8 pm.

Ojai Art Center's production of 'Animal Crackers' features impeccable performances by Sean Mason (Groucho), Daniel Mitchell (Chico) and Anna Kotula (Harpo) as the Marx Brothers. Directed by John Medeiros.

According to Deadline, Peter Baldwin passed away this past weekend. The announcement was made by his children, Eleonora Baldwin and Drew Baldwin on their respective Facebook pages. Baldwin passed was at his Pebble Beach, California home at the time of his passing at the age 86.

Jeffrey Kahane will return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17, from the piano; conduct Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, with cellist Alisa Weilerstein as soloist; and conduct Haydn's Symphony No. 98, from the fortepiano, Thursday, January 4, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, January 5 at 11:00 a.m.; Saturday, January 6 at 8:00 p.m.; and Tuesday, January 9 at 7:30 p.m.

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) and Artistic Advisor Ben Folds welcome multi Grammy and Tony -nominated vocalist and composer Sara Bareilles and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and singer Caroline Shaw for a one-night-only performance as part of its DECLASSIFIED: BEN FOLDS PRESENTS series on Friday, January 12, 2018, at 9 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Edwin Outwater conducts.

Following spectacular fall programming like the triple-header of Mozart's Requiem this weekend and a very special Jazz @ The Jacobs series kickoff on Nov. 25, The First Lady of Song: An Ella Fitzgerald Tribute, the San Diego Symphony is set to deliver a particularly memorable holiday season with special festive concerts throughout December and into the new year. There's no doubt that music plays a big part in making it feel like the holidays, and these concerts will make a trip to the Symphony one of your favorite holiday traditions if it isn't one already:

The Warner Theatre is once again kicking off the holiday season by inviting the community to enjoy two films on our big screen for our 5th Annual Holiday Movie Event on Saturday, November 25. Free popcorn will be provided for both films, compliments of Elevator Service Company.

Premier Concerts and DPS Shows will welcome to the Warner Theatre Garrison Keillor and special guests Robin and Linda Williams on Thursday, November 30 at 8 pm. Three old friends from the earliest days of A Prairie Home Companion join together for an evening of harmony and humor, and Mr. Keillor will speak of the beauty of being 75.

Make-Believe Association, led by Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, will launch its career as an independent Chicago-based production company by inaugurating a new holiday tradition: a starry free reading of Thornton Wilder's one-act masterpiece, The Long Christmas Dinner.

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's classic love story, with a cast of 20, period costuming, sword fights, and scenic design by a Tony Award winner, will be directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Mark Lamos at Westport Country Playhouse, from October 31 through November 19. This is the first time the beloved play has been produced in the history of the Playhouse's 87 seasons.

PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY first evening concert of the 2017-18 season will feature preeminent musicians Kajsa William-Olsson, Elizabeth Mann, Donna Weng and the ARK trio (soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson, pianist Reiko Uchida) in exclusive preview preformances - anticipating their upcoming appearances on the world's most prestigious stages. The November 27th concert program taking place at 7:30 pm at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center will present works by master composers of the 20th century - Czech composer Bohuslav Jan Martin? and Russian composer Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev as well as new classical works by American contemporary composer Michael Ching.

In a remarkable find, a previously unknown composition by Kurt Weill was recently discovered in a Berlin archive. The three-page manuscript in the composer's hand bears the peculiar title 'Lied vom wei en K se' ('Song of the White Cheese,' lyric by G nther Weisenborn).

The Warner Theatre will welcome country music star Scotty McCreery to the Main Stage on Thursday, March 15 at 8 pm. Tickets go on sale to Warner Members on November 7 at 10 am and to the General Public November 10 at 10 am.

The Warner Stage Company will present the murderously funny thriller THE GAME'S AFOOT (or HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS) in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre December 9-17. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set in William Gillette's Connecticut castle which won the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Play.

Back in 1931, when the firm Kaufman, Ryskind, Gershwin & Gershwin had the novel idea to infuse that stodgy old music/theatre entertainment, the Broadway operetta, with the jauntiness of showtune and a chaotic mixture of comedic highbrow and lowbrow to tell the tale of an unqualified, but charismatic American politician who rides a wave of popular support for his questionable platform to the United States presidency, musical comedies typically employed a bit more on-stage and front-of-stage talent than audiences are accustomed to seeing nowadays.

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's classic love story, with a cast of 20, period costuming, sword fights, and scenic design by a Tony Award winner, will be directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Mark Lamos at Westport Country Playhouse, from October 31 through November 19. This is the first time the beloved play has been produced in the history of the Playhouse's 87 seasons.

The Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Segerstrom Center for the Arts will co-present Tod Browning's 1931 film classic DRACULA starring Bela Lugosi with original music by Philip Glass performed live by the legendary composer at the piano, the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet, with Michael Riesman directing from the keyboard.

VITCH, a groundbreaking documentary film about resilience and moral ambiguity during one of the most brutal epochs in recent human history is being released for review in time for the 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, which marks the beginning of the Holocaust and is observed on November 9 and 10.

Actors Co-0p Theatre Company (Ovation Award-Winner 2014 Best Intimate Theatre Musical for 110 in the Shade) presents the second show in its 26th Season, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's beloved comedy classic THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER.

Since 2006, film historian and archivist Rick Prelinger has presented twenty participatory urban-history events to enthusiastic audiences in San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland, and at festivals throughout the world. For the first time, he is bringing his LostLandscapes project to New York City.

James Bond is Back in Action! The Warner Theatre will show the quintessential James Bond film, GOLDFINGER on our big screen Today, October 21 at 8 pm. Tickets are $5. Arrive early and have fun!

Today we celebrate the birth of one of the stage's greatest legends, Angela Lansbury!

James Bond is Back in Action! The Warner Theatre will show the quintessential James Bond film, GOLDFINGER on our big screen Saturday, October 21 at 8 pm. Tickets are $5. Arrive early and have fun! Lobby opens at 7 pm. Don't miss the Aston Martin convertibles, the 1967 Aston Martin DB6 and the vintage Rolls Royce parked in front of the Warner, the Gold Take-a-Chance penny raffle in the lobby for a chance to win Gold prizes and the Martini Bar!