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New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel today announced the company's 2010-2011 season, which spotlights American composers and 20th-century works within a mix of world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season will also feature the launch of a concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers of this season's operas. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the recent renovation of the company's home, the David H. Koch Theater, the concert series expands the repertoire and programming of City Opera and casts new light on the season's productions.

The 2010-2011 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center will offer its first time ever Cyber Monday event on Monday, November 29, 2010.

New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), which has supported the advancement of women in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, will present their 30th annual Muse Awards at a gala luncheon to be held Wednesday, December 8th at the New York Hilton.

One of the most beloved and enduring characters in the history of American popular culture is aiming to finally make her way to the Broadway stage. Hazel - the saucy maid whose wry attitude, infallible wisdom and heart of gold has captured the hearts of millions for more than 60 years - will be in the spotlight again in an exciting new Broadway musical with music by composer Ron Abel and lyrics by Chuck Steffan. The veteran duo has acquired the rights to Hazel from the estate of creator Ted Key and are hoping to bring the show to the Great White Way in 2011.

New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel today announced the company's 2010-2011 season, which spotlights American composers and 20th-century works within a mix of world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season will also feature the launch of a concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers of this season's operas. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the recent renovation of the company's home, the David H. Koch Theater, the concert series expands the repertoire and programming of City Opera and casts new light on the season's productions.

New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel today announced the company's 2010-2011 season, which spotlights American composers and 20th-century works within a mix of world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season will also feature the launch of a concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers of this season's operas. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the recent renovation of the company's home, the David H. Koch Theater, the concert series expands the repertoire and programming of City Opera and casts new light on the season's productions.

Holiday on Ice UK launched a spectacular new show, "ENERGIA", in the Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum in London.

New York City Center's seventh annual Fall for Dance Festival, running September 28 - October 9, will showcase 20 national and international companies and choreographers. With ticket prices remaining at $10 for all seats, a night of dance is more affordable than a night at the movies. The festival will include world and U.S. premieres, and will feature several companies making their first U.S. appearances.

Toga! Toga! Toga! Put on your favorite college t-shirt and join Victoria Theatre Association for the 2010 Michelob Ultra Cool Films Series presentation of, Animal House. Directed by John Landis and considered number one on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies, Animal House comes to the historic Victoria Theatre in Dayton for three performances from August 6 -August 8.

Toga! Toga! Toga! Put on your favorite college t-shirt and join Victoria Theatre Association for the 2010 Michelob Ultra Cool Films Series presentation of, Animal House. Directed by John Landis and considered number one on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies, Animal House comes to the historic Victoria Theatre in Dayton for three performances from August 6 -August 8.

Toga! Toga! Toga! Put on your favorite college t-shirt and join Victoria Theatre Association for the 2010 Michelob Ultra Cool Films Series presentation of, Animal House. Directed by John Landis and considered number one on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies, Animal House comes to the historic Victoria Theatre in Dayton for three performances from August 6 -August 8.

New York City Center's seventh annual Fall for Dance Festival, running September 28 - October 9, will showcase 20 national and international companies and choreographers. With ticket prices remaining at $10 for all seats, a night of dance is more affordable than a night at the movies. The festival will include world and U.S. premieres, and will feature several companies making their first U.S. appearances.

New York City Opera's VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab, a free annual festival that showcases new American opera, will be featured this Sunday, July 25 at 2pm in an exclusive webcast on Cued Up on Q2 on Classical 105.9 WQXR's twenty four-hour contemporary classical music stream, Q2.

New York City Opera's VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab, a free annual festival that showcases new American opera, will be featured this Sunday, July 25 at 2pm in an exclusive webcast on Cued Up on Q2 on Classical 105.9 WQXR's twenty four-hour contemporary classical music stream, Q2.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) closes AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the NY premiere production of Ayn Rand's IDEAL, directed by Jenny Beth Snyder.

Holiday on Ice brings a spectacular new show, 'ENERGIA', to the UK in 2011, premiering at the Birmingham LG Arena on 7 & 8 January, followed by Brighton Centre (11-30 January), Peterborough Exec (3-6 February), Cardiff International Arena (8-13 February) and Exeter Westpoint (18-27 February).

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) closes AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the NY premiere production of Ayn Rand's IDEAL, directed by Jenny Beth Snyder.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) closes AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the NY premiere production of Ayn Rand's IDEAL, directed by Jenny Beth Snyder.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) closes AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the NY premiere production of Ayn Rand's IDEAL, directed by Jenny Beth Snyder.

Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center announces the eighth season of this international dance series. Seven companies representing the United States, Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, and Cuba, will participate in 32 performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Ahmanson Theatre, in a season that is the largest and most culturally diverse in the history of the series.

New York City Center's 2010-2011 Encores! season will open with the 1956 Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Bells Are Ringing, November 18 - 21, 2010. The season will continue with Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars, February 3 - 6, 2011, followed by Frank Loesser's and George Abbott's Where's Charley?, March 17 - 20.

On Thursday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., the Yale School of Music continues its third annual Yale in New York series with Voices of American Music. The works of some of America's most important composers will be heard in a rare program that joins music with audio and video interviews from the archives of the Oral History of American Music (OHAM) project at Yale. Founded by Vivian Perlis, one of the foremost historians of American music, OHAM is dedicated to collecting and preserving audio and video memoirs of notable figures in American music.

Donna Murphy, star of the upcoming production of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE at City Center, recently sat down with the New York Daily News to discuss her feeling on the production and her upcoming Disney film.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce its production of The Old Settler by John Henry Redwood, directed by Ron OJ Parson.

New York City Opera will celebrate the opening of its 2010 Spring Season on Thursday, March 18, with a gala performance of Emmanuel Chabrier's glittering, comic L'Étoile, followed by a grand evening on the Promenade of the David H. Koch Theater and dancing to waltzes played by the New York City Opera Orchestra.