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The upcoming 28th annual The Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival will present movies from around the world, opening with BODY AND SOUL: An American Bridge, focusing on the early performance history and cross-cultural impact of the jazz standard by Jewish composer Johnny Green.

St phane Den ve will conduct the New York Philharmonic in an all-Prokofiev program featuring the Violin Concerto No. 1, with James Ehnes as soloist; selections from Romeo and Juliet; and The Love for Three Oranges Suite, Thursday, January 25, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, January 26 at 2:00 p.m.; and Saturday, January 27 at 8:00 p.m.

The Nash welcomes the new year hosting a wide array of jazz artists and events. Highlights include the great vibraphonist Warren Wolf on Jan 17, a new 'pro-jam session' with Lewis Nash on Jan 24 and a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement with a new Jazz Meets Poetry event on Jan. 19.

For the first time ever, The Gateway brings your favorite holiday movie to life in A Christmas Story, The Musical at Patchogue Theatre, tonight, December 15, through December 27 - the best new holiday musical that is sure to become a classic!

Syracuse's Central New York Playhouse latest show is 1940's Radio Hour, written by Walton Jones and featuring various hit songs of the 1940s. Directed by Patricia Catchouny with musical direction by Abel Searor, 1940's Radio Hour transports us to December 1942 the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on New York City radio station WOV.

MET audience is served up holiday magic with the live radio play version of the Capra classic 'It's a Wonderful Life' December 7-17th, 2017 Join in the festive fun as a real life radio audience as this favorite American classic is performed with energetic authenticity.

OBERON, the American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T.) second stage and club-theater venue on the fringe of Harvard Square, announces events to be presented at OBERON during December 2017 and January 2018 - including Live @ OBERON, OBERON Presents, Glowberon, and usual suspects.

Tickets are now on sale for THE COVER OF LIFE, opening March 8, 2018 at the Gene Frankel Theater, 24 Bond Street, NY.

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For the first time ever, The Gateway brings your favorite holiday movie to life in A Christmas Story, The Musical at Patchogue Theatre, December 15 - 27 - the best new holiday musical that is sure to become a classic!

Remember the classic 1983 film in which little Ralphie Parker (Griffin Sanford) in a small town in Indiana in 1940 wants a BB gun and formulates an elaborate plan to get one from Santa Claus? 'You'll shoot your eye out!' everyone complains. The movie contains one of the funniest scenes on film where little Flick (Jude Gomez) gets his tongue frozen on the school flag pole. Now in a rare production of the adapted movie script by Philip Grecian, A Christmas Story is live onstage with a bevy of kids, 14 in fact, and a whole lot of quaint antics, meticulously directed by artistic director Christian Lebano, at SMP through December 31.

Denton Community Theatre presents their holiday show, A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian, based upon the motion picture A Christmas Story -1983 Turner Entertainmet Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark.

American Stage continues its 2017-18 Season 'WE THE PEOPLE' with the original romantic comedy, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare and directed by Benjamin T. Ismail.

American Stage continues its 2017-18 Season 'WE THE PEOPLE' with the original romantic comedy, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare and directed by Benjamin T. Ismail.

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will present Glory Denied, the story of an American family during the turbulent Vietnam War era, on Monday, November 6 and Thursday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum Hangar at Hobby Airport.

The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles announced today that four special exhibitions - Juncture I, Expressions of Identity: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Identity Tapestry: Mary Corey March and JUNCTURE II - will honor the Museum's 40th Anniversary from October 2017 January 2018.

What happens when four show-stopping divas share one stage? On October 27 and 28 at 7:30 PM, the Utah Symphony and guest conductor Jack Everly are joined by four larger-than-life Broadway leading ladies!

Actress Lois Smith will appear in person to discuss MARJORIE PRIME and her earlier film work at the Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue in Santa Monica, October 20-22, 2017.

Director Michael Michetti is the man of the hour. He has directed some of LA's most compelling productions and, for the past fifteen years, helped The Theatre @ Boston Court become one of the premier theatres for new and innovative work. He currently has a trio of shows on his directing calendar that all explore important and relevant issues to today's audience, regardless of when they were written.

A free exhibition, 'The currency of communism' will be on view 19 October 2017 - 18 March 2018 in Room 69a at the British Museum.

Actress Lois Smith will appear in person to discuss MARJORIE PRIME and her earlier film work at the Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue in Santa Monica, October 20-22, 2017.

Ghostlight Records has released a special digital only reissue of Cole Porter's You Never Know - the 2001 World Premiere Cast Recording - today, Friday, October 6.

'The themes in this play, as in all in the Cycle, are universal. Unfortunately some of those themes and challenges are still relevant today. It is imperative that as a cast we explore and examine these themes before we even begin to tackle the language. Fortunately enough August Wilson's language succinct and inspiring. His characters are so clearly and powerfully structured that the journey for a cast to 'know' and 'find' these people. They are richly drawn,' Hemphill concluded.

After celebrating its record-breaking 85th Anniversary Season, Jacob's Pillow announces new, expanded fall, winter, and spring programming as a main component of Vision '22, a strategic approach to the Pillow's transformation into a year-round center for dance research and development and a civic partner in our region.

In honor of Jackie Chan's epic return to the big screen on Friday, October 13th in STXfilms' THE FOREIGNER, Beyond Fest have partnered with STXfilms, a division of STX Entertainment, and SR Media, to present a very special triple bill featuring an uber-rare, in-person Q&A with the legend himself, the Cannonball, Jackie Chan.