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Assassins will be directed at The Milwaukee Rep by Artistic Director Mark Clements. This will be the third musical he has directed since he began his tenure at The Rep following last season's hit Next to Normal and Cabaret from his first season. With the selection of Assassins for the 2012/13 Season, Milwaukee Repertory Theater shows its commitment to continuing to produce full-scale musicals as part of its repertoire. Clements has assembled a top-notch cast for this production featuring many performers with extensive Broadway credits. Assassins runs in the Quadracci Powerhouse from tonight, September 4 - October 7, and opens on Friday, September 7.

Assassins will be directed at The Milwaukee Rep by Artistic Director Mark Clements. This will be the third musical he has directed since he began his tenure at The Rep following last season's hit Next to Normal and Cabaret from his first season. With the selection of Assassins for the 2012/13 Season, Milwaukee Repertory Theater shows its commitment to continuing to produce full-scale musicals as part of its repertoire. Clements has assembled a top-notch cast for this production featuring many performers with extensive Broadway credits. Assassins runs in the Quadracci Powerhouse from September 4 - October 7, and opens on Friday, September 7.

Tickets are currently on sale for UP Comedy Club's Fall roster of headlining talent and holiday shows, including Adam Ferrara, Tommy Davidson, Bobcat Goldthwait, Charlie Murphy, Maria Bamford, Jim Breuer, Jo Koy, Lyndsay Hailey, The Bicycle Men, Robert Klein, Kyle Kinane and 'The Second City's Nut-Cracking Holiday Revue.' Tickets can be purchased by calling 312-662-4562 or visiting UPComedyclub.com. UP Comedy Club is located at 230 W. North Ave, 3rd Floor of Piper's Alley in Chicago.

The Litchfield hills are alive as TriArts Sharon Playhouse continues its 2012 season with the heartwarming family classic, The Sound of Music. Directed and choreographed by Gary John La Rosa, with music direction by Artistic Director Michael Berkeley, The Sound of Music opens tonight, August 9 and runs through August 26, 2012. Tickets ($16-$47) are available by calling 860.364.SHOW (7469) or at www.triarts.net.

The Litchfield hills are alive as TriArts Sharon Playhouse continues its 2012 season with the heartwarming family classic, The Sound of Music. Directed and choreographed by Gary John La Rosa, with music direction by Artistic Director Michael Berkeley, The Sound of Music opens August 9 and runs through August 26, 2012. Tickets ($16-$47) are available by calling 860.364.SHOW (7469) or at www.triarts.net.

Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, and Managing Director, Tristan Wilson, presents Arthur Miller's landmark American drama ALL MY SONS, from tonight, July 19 through August 4

The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company has announced its 18th season. Barbara Brooks, MJTC's producing artistic director stated, "I'm very excited about our upcoming 18th season. 18 is a special number, Chai, in the Jewish tradition, and we're moving into this season with some special firsts: our first summer run and an enlarged season with five shows for the first time."

Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, and Managing Director, Tristan Wilson, presents Arthur Miller's landmark American drama ALL MY SONS, from July 19 through August 4

Playwrights Foundation and Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France/SF is spear-heading a major new international exchange project, Des Voix...Found In Translation, that supports the translation of vanguard French and American Playwrights and promotes their work to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. The San Francisco festival features translations of new plays by three emerging playwrights working in France today. Plays by Marion Aubert (pink picture), Nathalie Fillion (blue picture), and Samuel Gallet (yellow picture) will be performed in English during a Festival, scheduled from today, May 25 through May 27, 2012, in a producing partnership with Z Space, a theater located in San Francisco's vibrant, cutting-edge Mission District and Deborah Taylor/FireMused Productions, LLC.

World-renowned Jazz and Rhythm & Blues Vocalist, Barbara Morrison will present top talent in The 1st Annual Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center Blues Festival to be performed on two stages at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center (BMPAC), 4305 Degnan Boulevard, #101, Los Angeles, CA 90036 tonight, Saturday and Sunday, May 18, 19 and 20, 2012.

World-renowned Jazz and Rhythm & Blues Vocalist, Barbara Morrison will present top talent in The 1st Annual Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center Blues Festival to be performed on two stages at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center (BMPAC), 4305 Degnan Boulevard, #101, Los Angeles, CA 90036 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 18, 19 and 20, 2012.

The Old Globe's 2012-13 Season will feature the World Premieres of two new musicals: Allegiance - A New American Musical by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak. The season also includes George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in celebration of the classic play's 100th anniversary and the World Premiere of a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and Kirsten Brandt. Two recent Broadway hits will make their San Diego debuts at the Globe: David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People and Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities. Rounding out the season are the West Coast Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's Be a Good Little Widow and the Southern California Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size.

Playwrights Foundation and Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France/SF is spear-heading a major new international exchange project, Des Voix...Found In Translation, that supports the translation of vanguard French and American playwrights and promotes their work to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. The San Francisco festival will feature translations of new plays by three emerging playwrights working in France today. Plays by Marion Aubert (pink picture), Nathalie Fillion (blue picture), and Samuel Gallet (yellow picture) will be performed in English during a Festival, scheduled from May 25-27, 2012, in a producing partnership with Z Space, a theater located in San Francisco's vibrant, cutting-edge Mission District and Deborah Taylor/FireMused Productions, LLC.

The 2012-2013 season features six productions opening with Catch Me If You Can, a splashy new musical inspired by the blockbuster DreamWorks film that recounts the true story of a teenager who runs away from home with nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of dollars in forged checks, October 23 - 28, 2012. Prepare to take flight in an all new production of Peter Pan filled with timeless magical moments and a captivating hook, December 4-9, 2012. The legend you thought you knew, is now the adventure you never dreamed possible. Tony Award nominee Cathy Rigby carries off the flights, fights and acrobatics that will leave you mesmerized.

Berkshire Theatre Group and Artistic Director/CEO, Kate Maguire have just announced programming for Summer 2012. BTG's Summer of 2012 boasts a full assortment of theatrical productions, concerts, comedy, Friday Series play readings, Musical Mondays, Made in the Berkshires and more.

Two-time Tony Award nominated costume designer Carrie Robbins, and scenic, lighting, costume designer and educator Lloyd Burlingame are among the 2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, May 4, at 6:30pm, at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Ms. Robbins was selected to receive the 2012 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Mr. Burlingame will receive the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design.

A complete recap of all of the HBO/Cinemax 2012 programming highlights for the coming year has been released by the networks.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 27 - January 1, 2012. Cirque Dreams, an American theatrical production company, brings its critically acclaimed entertainment brand to Fort Lauderdale for 8 holiday performances presented by Broadway Across America.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 27 - January 1, 2012. Cirque Dreams, an American theatrical production company, brings its critically acclaimed entertainment brand to Fort Lauderdale for 8 holiday performances presented by Broadway Across America.

'CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE' A DELICIOUS CONFECTION OF CHARM, SPARKLE AND TALENT BY THE SLEIGHLOAD LIGHTS UP THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DECEMBER 27 - JANUARY 1, 2012 CREATED AND DIRECTED BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR NEIL GOLDBERG TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 27 - January 1, 2012. Cirque Dreams, an American theatrical production company, brings its critically acclaimed entertainment brand to Fort Lauderdale for 8 holiday performances presented by Broadway Across America.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 27 - January 1, 2012. Cirque Dreams, an American theatrical production company, brings its critically acclaimed entertainment brand to Fort Lauderdale for 8 holiday performances presented by Broadway Across America.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 13 - 18, 2011. Cirque Dreams, an American theatrical production company, brings its critically acclaimed entertainment brand to Providence for eight glorious holiday performances presented by PPAC.

Cirque Dreams Holidaze lights up the 2011 holiday season when it returns to the Fox Theatre, after performing to sold out crowds in 2009, to transform the stage yet again into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief on Tuesday, December 13 through Sunday, December 18.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the 2011 holiday season when it transforms the stage at the DuPont Theatre into a wonderland of fantasy and disbelief, December 6-11, 2011