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CBS News legend Mike Wallace, the 60 MINUTES' pit-bull reporter whose probing, brazen style made his name synonymous with the tough interview - a style he practically invented for television more than half a century ago - died last night. He was 93 and passed peacefully surrounded by family members at Waveny Care Center in New Canaan, Conn., where he spent the past few years.

Retro Productions and The Bleecker Company, in association with The Arclight Theatre, present Milan Stitt's drama THE RUNNER STUMBLES, with an Off-Broadway run set to open Thursday, May 3 at The Arclight Theatre (152 West 71st Street). Peter Zinn, who helmed Retro Productions' revivals Michael Frayn's BENEFACTORS and Sally Nemeth's HOLY DAYS, directs.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) will conclude its 33rd season with the World Premiere of the new musical, DOGFIGHT, featuring music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, a book by Peter Duchan and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello. Winner of the prestigious 2011 Richards Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre, DOGFIGHT will be performed at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre (305 West 43rd street) this summer. Exact dates, casting, and complete creative team will be announced shortly. For more information, please visit www.2ST.com.

Dallas-based playwright and 2010 Diaspora Performing Arts Commission recipient Jonathan Norton doesn't invoke the name, image, or presence of Williams in his ground-breaking stage production "My Tidy List of Terrors", based on the Atlanta Child Murders.

He's a new dad but an old hand at Broadway ensemble work as well as principal roles on other stages.

The Guthrie will again host nationally acclaimed humorist, actor and playwright Kevin Kling and his celebrated one-man show Tales from the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log on Monday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Celebrating a lifetime of artistic achievement by one of the world's most important contemporary choreographers, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Legacy Tour comes to Chicago in a co-presentation by The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

The Guthrie will again host nationally acclaimed humorist, actor and playwright Kevin Kling and his celebrated one-man show Tales from the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log on Monday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Celebrating a lifetime of artistic achievement by one of the world's most important contemporary choreographers, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Legacy Tour comes to Chicago in a co-presentation by The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to New York. 'West Side Story' on stage and screen, Darren Criss of 'Glee' in 3D, Amy & Freddy, another 'Evita,' 'Schoolhouse Rock Live!,' Jessie Mueller on Broadway and more....

The innovative and influential Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (a program of New York Live Arts) opens The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago's 2011-12 season with the repertory program 'Body Against Body' Thursday, September 29-Saturday, October 1 at 8 p.m. at The Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.

MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS announces the New York City open-air premiere of John Luther Adams' Inuksuit

Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center?s National Playwrights Conference, today announced the eight directors for plays previously selected for its 47th season.

In a virtual parade of some of contemporary dance's leading choreographic voices, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago presents a tour de force season, beginning in fall 2011 with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, David Gordon's Pick Up Performance Co(s), Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan and, in a co-presentation with the Harris Theater of Music and Dance, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Legacy Tour.

33 students from 22 U.S. colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition.

MILLER THEATRE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS announces the New York City open-air premiere of John Luther Adams' Inuksuit

Richard Bruening, president of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, announced today that Evan Luskin, the Company's general director since 1998, will be retiring on June 30, 2012. Mr. Luskin's retirement will come at the conclusion of the Lyric's first year of residence in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, which will open this fall.

Opera Index presents its 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award to two pioneering Metropolitan Opera artists-tenor George Shirley and posthumously to the late mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett-at its 27th annual black-tie winter gala on Sunday, January 16. The gala begins at 6 p.m. and will be held in the Grand Salon of the Jumeirah Essex House, the luxury hotel on Central Park South, following a reception in the Petit Salon. The awards will be presented by bass-baritone Spiro Malas. Last year's Distinguished Achievement Award recipient was soprano Patrice Munsel.

North/South Consonance, Inc. welcomes the New Year with a special free admission concert scheduled for Tuesday evening January 4, 2011 at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St) -- between Broadway & Columbus) in Manhattan. Admission is free.

Opera Index presents its 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award to two pioneering Metropolitan Opera artists-tenor George Shirley and posthumously to the late mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett-at its 27th annual black-tie winter gala on Sunday, January 16. The gala begins at 6 p.m. and will be held in the Grand Salon of the Jumeirah Essex House, the luxury hotel on Central Park South, following a reception in the Petit Salon. The awards will be presented by bass-baritone Spiro Malas. Last year's Distinguished Achievement Award recipient was soprano Patrice Munsel.

The University of Michigan Wolverines return to the annual Great Lakes Invitational (GLI) tournament in second place in the CCHA following a 5-0 win over Michigan State in the historic Big Chill at the Big House on December 11.

The University of Michigan Wolverines return to the annual Great Lakes Invitational (GLI) tournament in second place in the CCHA following a 5-0 win over Michigan State in the historic Big Chill at the Big House on December 11.

The Cornelia Street Cafe announces their December lineup.

The Cornelia Street Cafe announces their December lineup.

The Cornelia Street Cafe announces their December lineup.