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Tarragon Theatre presents a remount of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, a huge critical and popular success for the theatre last year. A contemporary mirror for our times, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE previews from tonight, October 7, opens October 14 and runs to November 1 in Tarragon's Mainspace.

Tarragon Theatre announces four out of seven new cast members for its remount of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, a huge critical and popular success for the theatre last year. A contemporary mirror for our times, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE previews from October 7, opens October 14 and runs to November 1 in Tarragon's Mainspace.

No one ever said there was such a thing as eating too much bacon. To prove it, Smithfield kicked off its 2015 sponsorship of the Richard Petty Motorsports' No. 43 race team with driver Aric Almirola by launching the Smithfield Pig Out Chase and teaming up with Major League Eating's Matt Stonie to set the world record for how much bacon is eaten within five minutes 182 slices!

DALLAS, FEBRUARY 9, 2015 – Working to address a long-standing career issue in the opera world, The Dallas Opera is delighted to announce the launch of a unique, new residential program designed to provide training and career support for distinctively talented women conductors. Female conductors age forty and younger, as well as accomplished women singers, opera coaches and accompanists, and instrumentalists with established careers seeking a new career at the podium, are encouraged to apply.

?The Nutcracker ballet, known to millions for Tchaikovsky's lush score, premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1892. A rare chance to see it performed with lavish sets and costumes by the magnificent Bolshoi Ballet arrives just in time for the holiday season.

The Hangar Theatre is delighted to announce its 2015 Mainstage Season.

Pippa White will be performing 'Voices From the Resistance' on 10/27 and 'Voices from Ellis Island: on 10/30 at the United Solo Theatre Festival in New York City. We had the opportunity to interview White before her two shows.

Tarragon Theatre launches its 2014-15 season with an English-language rendition of Florian Borchmeyer's and Thomas Ostermeier's celebrated adaptation and production of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. In what promises to be one of the most exciting events of the theatre season in Toronto, this contemporary mirror for our times opens tonight, September 24 and runs to October 26 in Tarragon's Mainspace.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's (CSO) fourth CSO Resound recording with Music Director Riccardo Muti, Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet, will be released internationally on Tuesday, September 23, the same date that iTunes will begin its exclusive pre-order in the U.S. While scheduled to be released for sale via retail and download outlets in the U.S. on October 14, the CD will be available exclusively in the CSO's Symphony Store, at 220 S. Michigan Ave., at the CSO's Symphony Center home, beginning September 16.

Tarragon Theatre launches its 2014-15 season with an English-language rendition of Florian Borchmeyer's and Thomas Ostermeier's celebrated adaptation and production of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. In what promises to be one of the most exciting events of the theatre season in Toronto, this contemporary mirror for our times previews fromSeptember 16, opens September 24 and runs to October 26 in Tarragon's Mainspace.

Chiquita Mullins Lee's one-man play Pierce to the Soul will be the second offering by A Portable Theatre (APT), a new professional theatre dedicated to touring. Starring Equity actor Alan Bomar Jones, Pierce is the true story of folk artist Elijah Pierce, an Ohio legend. Touring performances begin tonight, April 12.

Chiquita Mullins Lee's one-man play Pierce to the Soul will be the second offering by A Portable Theatre (APT), a new professional theatre dedicated to touring. Starring Equity actor Alan Bomar Jones, Pierce is the true story of folk artist Elijah Pierce, an Ohio legend. Touring performances begin on April 12.

The legend of Lizzie Borden continues as 4.4 million Total Viewers witnessed Saturday's world premiere of the Lifetime Original Movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax (#LizzieBorden), starring Golden Globe(R) and Emmy(R) Award nominee Christina Ricci

The New York Philharmonic, in collaboration with Juilliard, presents a farewell chamber music recital in honor of Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, longtime Juilliard faculty member who is retiring from Juilliard and the New York Philharmonic at the end of the current season. The concert on Sunday, January 19, 2014, at 5:00 p.m. in Alice Tully Hall features Mr. Dicterow with his fellow New York Philharmonic musicians and guests, most of whom also have a strong Juilliard connection, and includes specially selected works by John Corigliano, Korngold, and Dvorak that reflect Mr. Dicterow's career in both New York and Los Angeles.

Starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Christina Ricci (Monster), Golden Globe Nominee Billy Campbell (The Killing) and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Clea DuVall (Argo), the Lifetime Original Movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax premieres January 25, 2014, at 8pm ET/PT. Click below to watch the first trailer!

The Kansas City Ballet's 41st annual production of The Nutcracker, presented at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, featuring the choreography of Todd Bolender, returns for 18 public performances and three matinees for schools.

11th Hour Theatre Company continues its Next Step Concert Series with LIZZIE this weekend, November 23-25 at the Caplan Studio Theatre at the University of the Arts (211 South Broad Street).

The nursery rhyme 'Lizzie Borden took an ax...and gave her mother forty whacks...when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one' has been folklore for generations. But, in fact, it was Lizzie Borden -- one of the most legendary figures in American history - who first whetted the public's voracious interest in scandalous crimes in the 1800s with her own gruesome story involving the brutal murder of her parents. Starring Golden Globe(R) and Emmy(R) Award nominee Christina Ricci (Monster), Golden Globe(R) Nominee Billy Campbell (The Killing) and Screen Actors Guild Award(R) winner Clea DuVall (Argo), the Lifetime Original Movie Lizzie Borden Took An Ax premieres January 25, 2014, at 8pm ET/PT.

11th Hour Theatre Company continues its Next Step Concert Series with LIZZIE on November 23-25 at the Caplan Studio Theatre at the University of the Arts (211 South Broad Street). With music by Steve Cheslik-deMeyer and Alan Steven Hewitt, lyrics by Steve Cheslik-deMeyer and Tim Maner, and book by Tim Maner, Lizzie will be directed by Kate Galvan and feature 11th Hour veteran performers Alex Keiper, Cara Noel Antosca, Rachel Brennan, and Meredith Beck with Jamison Foreman leading the rock bank accompaniment.

Kansas City, Mo. (Oct. 23, 2013) – Tickets for Kansas City Ballet's 41st annual production of The Nutcracker,presented at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, went on sale at 9:00 a.m., October 21. The production, featuring the choreography of Todd Bolender, returns for 18 public performances and three matinees for schools. This two-act ballet continues to delight audiences with its magnificent sets, costumes and special effects. Three casts of Kansas City Ballet dancers and the new KCB II, plus more than 175 local youngsters ages 7 to 22 selected from Kansas City Ballet School, will perform E.T.A. Hoffman's story.

Concerts at Kent Town's Winter and Spring Series 2013 continues at 2pm today 21 August 2013, with Graham Bell, Organist Wesley Church Kent Town and the Adelaide Harmony Choir conducted by Rosemary Nairn, OAM at Wesley Church Kent Town, Cnr. Fullarton Road and Grenfell Street, Kent Town. Tickets at Door $8 includes Afternoon Tea.

Concerts at Kent Town's Winter and Spring Series 2013 continues at 2pm Wednesday 21 August 2013, with Graham Bell, Organist Wesley Church Kent Town and the Adelaide Harmony Choir conducted by Rosemary Nairn, OAM at Wesley Church Kent Town, Cnr. Fullarton Road and Grenfell Street, Kent Town. Tickets at Door $8 includes Afternoon Tea.

August Strindberg Repertory Theatre (www.strindberg.org), which was formed last year to illuminate Strindberg's plays for today's American audiences, will present Strindberg's 'Easter' (Pask, 1901) with an all-black cast, adapted and directed by Robert Greer, from March 8 to 31 at the Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street (East Village). The play has a similar complement of characters to Strindberg's 'Playing With Fire' (Leka med elden, 1893), with which the young company made an auspicious debut last Spring. Cast members from 'Playing With Fire' will be returning to play their corresponding roles in 'Easter.'

South Orange Performing Arts Center has announced it's Fall 2012 line-up, featuring Tony-Winner Norbert Leo Butz on October 13. For more details on the upcoming season, including a complete schedule and ticket information, visit SOPACnow.org, or contact the SOPAC Box Office at 973.313.2787 (ARTS)

South Orange Performing Arts Center has announced it's Fall 2012 line-up, featuring Tony-Winner Norbert Leo Butz on October 13. For more details on the upcoming season, including a complete schedule and ticket information, visit SOPACnow.org, or contact the SOPAC Box Office at 973.313.2787 (ARTS)