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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, celebrating its roots in the film and television recording industry, presents LACO @ the Movies: Buster Keaton's The General, featuring Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal (House of Cards) conducting the world premiere of his score for the 1926 silent classic spotlighting the absurdity of war on Saturday, November 11, 2017, 8 pm, at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, in downtown Los Angeles. Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, LACO was founded in 1968 as an artistic outlet for the recording industry's most gifted musicians. The Orchestra, regarded as one of the world's premier chamber orchestras as well as a pacesetter in presenting wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissions, performs live to The General for this entertaining evening. Considered among the greatest films ever made, the historical parody was adapted from The Great Locomotive Chase and is set during the Civil War. The Theatre at Ace Hotel was built in 1927, just a year after The General was made.

Now through 4 November 2017, HeadFirst Productions presents a new multi-arts festival at The Pleasance Theatre, titled A Festival of Sex, Love and Death.

Dueling Pianos returns to the historic Capitol Center for the Arts in Downtown Concord on Saturday, November 25 at 8PM. Tickets are $19-23, plus any applicable fees for phone/Internet sales.

Fashionistas and arts lovers alike will flock to one of the most captivating fetes this fall, FIRST SIGHT FASHION SHOW AND LUNCHEON, NorthPark Center Presenting Sponsor.

Dark Star Orchestra (DSO) returns to the historic Capitol Center for the Arts in Downtown Concord on Tuesday, November 21 at 7PM. Tickets start at $32, plus any applicable fees for phone/Internet sales.

Broadway/TV star Adam Trent will be bringing his signature brand of magic and illusion to the Capitol Center for the Arts (Concord, NH) on Thursday, November 16 at 7:30PM in a 90-minute stage spectacle. Produced by the creative team behind The Illusionists, the world's best-selling touring magic show, THE ILLUSIONISTS PRESENT THE MAGIC OF ADAM TRENT is an immersive entertainment extravaganza of magic, comedy and music designed to entertain the entire family.

From October 28 through 31, LA Opera presents a special Halloween treat for cinephiles and opera lovers alike: a screening of Jean Cocteau's ravishingly beautiful 1946 cinematic masterpiece La Belle et la B te ('Beauty and the Beast'), with an enchanting Philip Glass score performed live by the Philip Glass Ensemble and four vocal soloists at the spectacular Theatre at Ace Hotel.

First performed in London in 1989 at the Piccadilly Theatre (with stars including the inimitable Brian Blessed), the musical version of Metropolis (by Joe Brooks and Dusty Hughes) has been revived for a short Off West End run at Ye Olde Rose and Crown in Walthamstow.

Having recently retired from his regular classroom assignments, Ackerman has turned his focus to impacting a wider, global audience of both aspiring and already-working writers with the revised and updated just-published 15th Anniversary Edition of his heralded book Write Screenplays That Sell - the Ackerman Way, from Tallfellow Press.

The New York Philharmonic's Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Leif Ove Andsnes will both launch their 2017-18 Philharmonic residencies in a Scandinavian-themed program led by Paavo Jarvi.

Puddles Pity Party will appear at the Capitol Center for the Arts (Concord, NH) on Sunday, November 12 at 7:30PM.

The Ziegfeld Club, Inc., one of New York City's first performing arts charities to benefit women, has announced that Lucile Lortel Award-Nominee Shaina Taub (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812) has been named the recipient of the third annual Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award (BBZA).

Popovich Comedy Pet Theater will appear at the Capitol Center for the Arts (Concord, NH) on Friday, November 10 at 6 PM.

Philadelphia's Tiny Dynamite will present the American premiere of Radley's imaginative work, part of their trademark A Play, A Pie, and A Pint series, from December 6-17, 2017 at Headhouse Cafe (122 Lombard Street, Philadelphia).

Three old friends from the earliest days of "A Prairie Home Companion" join together for an evening of harmony and humor -- and Garrison Keillor will speak of the beauty of being 75 - at the Capitol Center for the Arts (Concord, NH) today, October 6, 2017 at 8PM.

Having recently retired from his regular classroom assignments, Ackerman has turned his focus to impacting a wider, global audience of both aspiring and already-working writers with the revised and updated just-published 15th Anniversary Edition of his heralded book Write Screenplays That Sell - the Ackerman Way, from Tallfellow Press.

GOBSMACKED!, the a cappella and beatbox musical, will appear at the Capitol Center for the Arts (Concord, NH) on November 14 as part of a 120-stop North American tour. This performance is the second of several free William H. Giles Concert Series performances during the CCA's 2017-18 season.

Velocity's #1 series BITCHIN' RIDES is returning for an all new season of exceptionally built and designed vehicles from self-made fabricator Dave Kindig and his celebrated custom car fabrication shop Kindig It Design.

British a cappella ensemble The King's Singers are coming to the Capitol Center on Saturday, November 4 as part of their North American tour.

Velocity's #1 series BITCHIN' RIDES is returning for an all new season of exceptionally built and designed vehicles from self-made fabricator Dave Kindig and his celebrated custom car fabrication shop Kindig It Design.

Superficially, Wolfgang Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (or DIE ZAUBERFLOTE for you purists) and David Hertzberg's THE WAKE WORLD couldn't seem less alike and, taken together, they stretch the definition of what makes an opera. Yet, as part of Opera Philadelphia's daring new O17 opera festival, they have a surprising amount in common including spectacular scores that demand to be heard again and again.

HeadFirst Productions presents a new multi-arts festival at The Pleasance Theatre, titled A Festival of Sex, Love and Death. The festival brings five events from eight companies, including three double bills, to Islington for ten days this autumn.

Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native will be the Capitol Center for the Arts' Spotlight Cafe (Concord, NH) today, September 23, 2017 at 8PM.

Australian musician / actor Colin Hay, who performed in the 1980s as lead vocalist of the band Men at Work and later as a solo artist, is coming to the Capitol Center for the Arts on Saturday, October 14 at 8PM. The show is being presented in conjunction with Meadowbrook Productions.