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Longtime Bristol Township Harry S. Truman High School teacher Lou Volpe is being honored with the first-ever 'MTI Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre Education' by Music Theatre International (MTI), one of the world's largest licensors of Musical Theatre. Mr. Volpe is retiring from teaching after 44 years. The award will be presented by MTI's Senior Operations Officer, John Prignano today, March 9 prior to a performance of Godspell.

Longtime Bristol Township Harry S. Truman High School teacher Lou Volpe is being honored with the first-ever 'MTI Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre Education' by Music Theatre International (MTI), one of the world's largest licensors of Musical Theatre. Mr. Volpe is retiring from teaching after 44 years. The award will be presented by MTI's Senior Operations Officer, John Prignano on Saturday, March 9 prior to a performance of Godspell.

MUSE/IQUE, an innovative cross-genre music organization curated by noted artistic director/conductor Rachael Worby, continues its popular Uncorked Series with 'Powerhouse from the Firehouse: The Legendary Tena Clark Backstage,' including special guests Patti Austin and Mary Wilson, on Monday, March 11, 2013, 7 pm, in an intimate setting on the Pasadena Civic Auditorium stage.

The theatre programme for the Manchester International Festival 2013 has been announced. MIF13 commissions include: The Machine, The Old Woman, Macbeth, The Masque of Anarchy and The Rite of Spring.

Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA - 2013 New Directors/New Films Full Schedule The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the full lineup today for the 42nd edition of New Directors/New Films (March 20 - 31).

From tonight, February 21-March 3, 2013, Houston Ballet presents Stanton Welch's La Bayadere ('The Temple Dancer'), a historic classic staged by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch and set in royal India of the past.

Due to unprecedented demand, Sir David Attenborough is revisiting Australia to again appear live on stage in his not-to-be-missed tour of Sir David Attenborough - A Life on Earth. Following sell out shows in 2012, this living legend will this time be visiting Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne throughout June.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, founder and artistic director of the Baryshnikov Arts Center, critically acclaimed film, television and theater actor and one of the world's greatest ballet dancers, will receive an honorary degree and deliver the main address at Northwestern University's 155th commencement.

From February 21-March 3, 2013, Houston Ballet presents Stanton Welch's La Bayadère ('The Temple Dancer'), a historic classic staged by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch and set in royal India of the past.

From September 20-30, 2012, Houston Ballet presents Women@Art featuring a world premiere by Aszure Barton, the company premiere of Twyla Tharp's The Brahms-Haydn Variations, and the return of Julia Adam's Ketubah, commissioned by Houston Ballet in 2004. Houston Ballet will give six performances of Women@Art at Wortham Theater Center at 510 Texas Avenue in downtown Houston. Tickets start at $19, and may be purchased by calling 713 227 2787 or by visiting www.houstonballet.org.

Fresh from its appearances at the Chicago Dancing Festival on August 25, Houston Ballet opens its 2012-13 season with artistic director Stanton Welch's signature work Madame Butterfly on a program with his one-act ballet Clear, set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) , running tonight, September 6 - 16.

Fresh from its appearances at the Chicago Dancing Festival on August 25, Houston Ballet opens its 2012-13 season with artistic director Stanton Welch's signature work Madame Butterfly on a program with his one-act ballet Clear, set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) , running September 6 - 16.

This season, The Kentucky Center is offering something for everyone. The 2012-2013 Kentucky Center Presents season includes comedy and film, dance and world music, jazz, blues, classical, pop and more, including world renowned classical musicians with the Russian National Orchestra. Joined by world class conductor Patrick Summers and pianist Daniil Trifinov, the Orchestra will present a diverse program including Smetana, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky, and are sure to blow away American audiences.

The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company will present their 11th anniversary season's innovative interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's blockbuster-smash-worldwide-hit JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT from tonight, July 27 through Saturday, August 4h at The Arsenal Center for the Arts.

The F.U.D.G.E. (FRIENDS UNITED DEVELOPING GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT) Theatre Company will present their 11th anniversary season's innovative interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's blockbuster-smash-worldwide-hit JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT from Friday, July 27 through Saturday, August 4h at The Arsenal Center for the Arts.

In a return engagement with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), The Collegiate Chorale will perform 11 concerts in Tel Aviv and Haifa with the IPO under the baton of renowned conductors Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti. They will then travel with the IPO to Austria to make their Salzburg Festival debut, the first performance there by an American choir since the Chicago Symphony Chorus appeared in 1989.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts has announced its 2012-13, 24th Season. Including LE POÈME HARMONIQUE IN "VENEZIA," on opening night, eight intriguing composer portraits, featuring John Cage, Jonathan Harvey, Olga Neuwirth, Sofia Gubaidulina, Enno Poppe, Rebeecca Saunders, Oliver Knussen and Julio Estrada. Bach, Revisted, highlights innovators, baroque and modern alike, featuring Jennifer Koh teaming up with mentor Jaime Laredo, harpsichordist Kristian Bezuidenhout and Ensemble Signal playing Bach, Rebel and Michael Gordon, and pianist Christopher Taylor juxtaposing Bach and Rzewski. The theatre also highlights early music ensembles, its jazz series, community programming, and pop-up concerts. See below for full details.

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts announces its production of Packer Fans from Outer Space this summer, June 8-July 22, in Vogel Hall as part of its Off Broadway series. A preview performance will be held on Thursday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. It is the world's very first (and only) Science Fiction Football Musical Comedy! Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 20 at 12:00 p.m.

CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, former UMass professor and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Sheila Bair, playwright and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, Iran hostage crisis negotiator Ulric Haynes Jr. '52, chemist David K. Lewis '64, New York Public Library President and former Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, acclaimed narrative nonfiction writer John McPhee and hit songwriter Jim Steinman '69 will all receive honorary degrees from Amherst College during its 191st Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 20, at 10 a.m. on the school's main quad. Amherst President Biddy Martin will deliver the address during the May 20 ceremonies, and seven of the eight honored guests will speak to the approximately 443 members of Amherst's Class of 2012, their families and friends and the college and Western Massachusetts communities in a series of conversations that are free and open to the public on Saturday, May 19. The schedule of discussions with the honorary degree recipients is available on the Commencement website, www.amherst.edu/commencement.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's PIPE DREAM will be recorded live at New York City Center's Encores! series this week, and released this Summer on Ghostlight Records. Produced by Rodgers & Hammerstein: AnImagem Company, this preservation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1955 Broadway musical rarity marks the first time an Encores! musical has been recorded live.

Omid Djalili returns to the West End stage to star as Dr Rance in Joe Orton's comedy WHAT THE BUTLER SAW directed by Sean Foley. The new production will open at the Vaudeville Theatre on Wednesday 16 May, following previews from Friday 4 May, for a strictly limited season, ending on Saturday 25 August.

In collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Harris Theater will present the nation's premier ensemble for chamber music in its first-ever Chicago-based performance series.

Cabrillo Music Theatre has announced a new entertainment series that serves as both entertainment and fundraiser for Cabrillo's OUTREACH programs.

In collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Harris Theater will present the nation's premier ensemble for chamber music in its first-ever Chicago-based performance series.

Cabrillo Music Theatre has announced a new entertainment series that serves as both entertainment and fundraiser for Cabrillo's OUTREACH programs.