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Kicking off a week-long celebration of the Summer Blockbuster Movie season, MTV today announced a full week line-up of exclusive clips and interviews with the biggest names in Hollywood from some of the Summer's most anticipated films during its third annual "MTV Sneak Peek Week."

New York City Opera Announces 2013-14 Season.

The Surfing Heritage & Culture Center today announced that The Surf Riders of Hawaii, a truly unique and exclusive historical piece of surf history, will be one of the hallmark items in the Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction, May 11, 2013 at the OC Fair & Events Center in Costa Mesa, California. Presented by Quiksilver Waterman Collection, the 'California Gold' themed auction will feature historical surfboards and memorabilia with California flair from the 1920s through the 1990s. The auction will also include a live online option for those rare book and surfing enthusiasts who want to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity from anywhere in the world.

After memorable conversations with such fascinating guests as the New Yorker's JOHN LAHR (September 17), Hunter College's IRENE DASH (October 22), the McCarter Theatre's NAGLE JACKSON (November 19), Columbia University's JAMES SHAPIRO (December 17), and The Lion King's JULIE TAYMOR (January 28), The Shakespeare Guild now looks forward to evenings in Manhattan's National Arts Club that will focus on three engaging authors: PAUL DICKSON, THOMAS KEITH, and SUSANNAH CARSON. These events will be followed in May by a fourth gathering that will take us to another venerable institution, The Players, and place the spotlight on EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER, a celebrity portrait painter who has been compared to the legendary John Singer Sargent.

Chevrolet hits the slope with 'Mountain Movers' TV Series Set to Premiere on National Geographic, going behind the scenes of perilous work building action sports venues.

Aaron Copland once characterized "The Rite of Spring" as the foremost orchestral achievement of the 20th century, and The New York Times proclaimed the significance of the work to be "to the 20th century as Beethoven's Ninth is to the 19th." With the arrival of the centennial of Stravinsky's iconic masterwork, a reverberation of celebration can be heard around the symphonic world-and Pacific Symphony is no exception, offering a variety of activities throughout the rest of the 2012-13 season. In conceiving "The Rite of Spring," Stravinsky broke all the rules and defied convention, and it is very much in this spirit that the Symphony approaches its celebration.

The 2013 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, today announced the participants of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards Program, sponsored by CHANEL. Twelve contemporary artists will donate their artwork to be presented to the filmmakers whose films are selected by the TFF jury as winners in their respective categories.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 20th anniversary season with J.M. Barrie's stirring, lyrical tale about the tricks of time, loss of innocence and eternal youth. "Mary Rose" opens tonight, October 31, 2012, with a limited run through November 18 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA) on the campus of HCC.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 20th anniversary season with J.M. Barrie's stirring, lyrical tale about the tricks of time, loss of innocence and eternal youth. "Mary Rose" opens October 31, 2012, with a limited run through November 18 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA) on the campus of HCC.

In a partnership that will make history buffs and steak lovers alike take note, the cable network HISTORY and Morton's The Steakhouse announce a special power dining experience today in honor of the upcoming television series on HISTORY, THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA. The series chronicles how five American visionaries - Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford - created the very concept of the American Dream, transformed the U.S. into a global superpower in a span of just 50 years, and affected the lives of every person in the world. Allowing diners to experience a menu fit for these magnates and how they may have celebrated their momentous successes, Morton's will offer The Men Who Built America pre-fixe menu in all 63 of its U.S. locations. The menu will be available as of Friday October 12, 2012 and will run nightly for the next six weeks. THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA premieres Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 9pm on HISTORY.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced today the eight musicals selected to be part of the 24th Annual Festival of New Musicals at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

This season, patrons will once again be treated to outstanding live theatre at Open Stage of Harrisburg's Angino Family Theatre directed by Founder and Executive Artistic Director Donald Alsedek. The season kicks off in October with Peter Morgan's FROST/NIXON, apropos for this election year. The season continues with a new holiday offering great for the whole family, Truman Capote's A CHRISTMAS MEMORY, a world premiere adapted for Open Stage by Harrisburg's own Jim Woland. Next is JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE, the 1910's installment of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle of plays that chronicles the black experience in America. Closing the season is Sarah Ruhl's sweet and sexy comedy, IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play, which is sure to tantalize the patrons of the intimate playhouse on the street leveled of the Walnut Street Garage.

Mint Theater's first-ever New York revival of Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse will extend its run to October 21st at their home (311 West 43rd Street).

Mint Theater's (Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director) first-ever New York revival of Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse opens Monday, September 10th and will run to October 14th at their home (311 West 43rd Street).

North Coast Repertory Theatre presents a San Diego premiere of The Underpants, adapted by Steve Martin and written by Carl Sternheim. The show begins previews tonight, September 5th through 7th and continues September 8 through 30, 2012.

North Coast Repertory Theatre presents a San Diego premiere of The Underpants, adapted by Steve Martin and written by Carl Sternheim. The show begins previews September 5-7 and continues September 8 through October 7, 2012.

Five powerful productions have been scheduled for Center Theatre Group's 2013 season at the Mark Taper Forum, it was announced today by CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie.

This season, patrons will once again be treated to outstanding live theatre at Open Stage of Harrisburg's Angino Family Theatre directed by Founder and Executive Artistic Director Donald Alsedek. The season kicks off in October with Peter Morgan's FROST/NIXON, apropos for this election year. The season continues with a new holiday offering great for the whole family, Truman Capote's A CHRISTMAS MEMORY, a world premiere adapted for Open Stage by Harrisburg's own Jim Woland. Next is JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE, the 1910's installment of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle of plays that chronicles the black experience in America. Closing the season is Sarah Ruhl's sweet and sexy comedy, IN THE NEXT ROOM or the vibrator play, which is sure to tantalize the patrons of the intimate playhouse on the street leveled of the Walnut Street Garage.

NOVA will look at the crisis in crime science, making the ultimate viking weapon, Easter Island, a new Mars Quest and the original computer in the 2012 Fall Line-Up on PBS. The episodes kick off with 'Secrets of the Viking Super Sword' on Wednesday, October 10 at 9:00/8:00c.

Artistic Director Robert Lyons previously announced casting for two shows in the 19th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival. Ice Factory 2012 takes place at the New Ohio Theatre's new West Village space at 154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets in New York City.

Mint Theater (Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director) today announced the cast for the first-ever New York revival of Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse. The Mint production will run from August 18th to October 14th at their home (311 West 43rd Street). Opening Night is set for Monday, September 10th.

Artistic Director Robert Lyons announced today casting for two shows in the 19th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival. Ice Factory 2012 takes place at the New Ohio Theatre's new West Village space at 154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets in New York City. Jessica Dickey (Wit on Broadway, The Amish Project) and Liz Wisan (Other Desert Cities) will star in the New York Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's Miss Lilly Gets Boned along with Brian Belcinski (My Base and Scurvy Heart), Adam Blodgett (The Cotillion), Sanam Erfani (Cats Don't Grin), Aaron McDaniel (Aquila's Macbeth), David Rosenblatt (The Play About My Dad) and Chris Thorn (Guthrie's Henry V).

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced today the eight musicals selected to be part of the 24th Annual Festival of New Musicals at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

Artistic Director Robert Lyons presents the 19th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival. Ice Factory 2012 begins the festival's next exciting era at its new West Village space, the New Ohio Theatre, located at 154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets. Ice Factory 2012 will feature two World Premieres, two New York Premieres and one Manhattan Premiere over six weeks, running from today, June 27 - August 4, 2012.

Stern Grove Festival, the longest running admission-free outdoor music festival in the country, celebrates its 75th anniversary season today, June 24 - August 26, 2012.