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Three New York City dance organizations - Country Dance New York, Brooklyn Contra, and Village Contra - and the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS) will present a celebratory weekend of contra dancing and English country dancing to live music on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7, 2015. The weekend marks 100 years of contra and English dancing in New York City as well as the centennial of CDSS promoting traditional dance, music and song.

Celebrate Sibelius' 150th Birthday with the Karelia Suite, a tone poem rich with folk melodies and fond memories of his favorite region of Finland. Valse Triste found a welcome home in the world of ballet theater and has been featured in the soundtracks of many films. You'll hear why soloist Roman Rabinovich won the prestigious Rubinstein Piano Competition with this very concerto, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, one of the best-known piano concertos of the 20th century. The concert concludes with what Maestro Arie Lipsky calls “the Perfect Symphony,” Mendelssohn's “Italian” Symphony No. 4, where every shining note is brilliant and right.

Broadway star and Ephrata Performing Arts Center alum Catherine Walker will debut her new cabaret show, 'You Have to Start Somewhere: Songs From My Bedroom,' at EPAC's Sharadin Bigler Theatre Saturday, November 7, at 8 p.m. Walker will ultimately be performing the cabaret at venues in New York City and other theaters across the country.

Raven Theatre will welcome Elizabeth Clarke, founder and President of the Juvenile Justice Initiative and one of its board members, Khadine Bennett, staff attorney and Legislative Counsel with the ACLU of Illinois, when they visit the theater to lead a discussion of its critically acclaimed DIRECT FROM DEATH ROW THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS following the November 7th performance of the play.

11th Hour Theatre Company's Next Step Concert Series begins with the Terrance McNally/Kander and Ebb TONY winner Kiss of the Spider Woman. This concert performance runs November 7-9 at the Studio Theatre, Hamilton Family Arts Center, Arden Theatre Company, at 62 N. 2nd Street. Tickets cost $11-30 and are available online at www.11thhourtheatrecompany.org or by phone 267-987-9865.

The Warner Stage Company's opens its 2015-16 Main Stage Musical season with a new, lighthearted musical comedy, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, November 7-15, 2015.

Celebrating the Music of Judith Lang Zaimont - A 70th Birthday Concert will be presented on Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 PM at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street in New York, NY.

On November 7, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. Raue Center For The Arts welcomes legendary rock 'n' roll performer Eddie Money. Fans both new and old won't want to miss the opportunity to see this iconic rocker, who has maintained his signature performance style for more than 30 years.

TV One offers romance, laughter and inspiration with the premiere of its new original movie Stock Option on Saturday, Nov. 7 at 8 p.m. ET.

Riverdale Repertory Company kicks off the 2015-2016 season of productions at the Riverdale YM-YWHA with THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND, a dazzling revue of songs by the award-winning Broadway songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Presented by Kids of the Arts, Heart to Heart is a series of charity events by kids for kids. 

The Red House Arts Center in Syracuse, NY enthusiastically presents a 1950s-inspired production of Euripides' Media, translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien and directed by Stephen Svoboda, October 29 to November 7.

A moving and vital adaptation of Kerry Kennedy's book, this chamber production of Ariel Dorfman's play SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER: VOICES FROM BEYOND THE DARK details the true stories of a variety of human rights defenders.

Nevada Ballet Theatre (NBT) is proud to present A Balanchine Celebrationas the Company's opening performance at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts for its 2015-2016 season. Each piece will be accompanied by a full orchestra featuring members of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, under the direction of guest conductor, Leif Bjaland. Performances will take place on Saturday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 8 at 2 p.m. with tickets starting at $29. Tickets can be ordered by calling The Smith Center Box Office at (702) 749-2000 or by visiting www.nevadaballet.org.

Pittsburgh Opera continues its 77th season with a Mozart favorite - COSÌ FAN TUTTE, or the 'School for Lovers.'  'Britain's Favorite Baritone,' Sir Thomas Allen (the real-life inspiration for 'Billy Elliot') not only directs, but plays the cynical philosopher Don Alfonso in this charming production. Combine a cast as talented as they are attractive with Mozart's brilliant score, and you have a sublime opera experience of poignant comedy. Set in the Italian seaside, the story centers around two couples and one wager - will they be faithful? Two young military officers are confident their girlfriends will remain true to them. Don Alfonso believes otherwise, and unleashes an inventive scheme to find out.

The National Arts Club at 15 Gramercy Park South in New York City will present Bentley Meeker's solo show '186,282' from October 26th through November 7th. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Beginning Saturday, November 7th at 7pm/6c, Saturday nights will be more spectacular than ever with TELEMUNDO's new family show QUE NOCHE! CON ANGELICA Y RAUL (“What a Night! with Angelica and Raul”), hosted by TV stars Angelica Vale and Raul Gonzalez.

Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar's edge-of-your-seat Pulitzer Prize- winning play about a successful Muslim-American lawyer whose dinner guests' discussion of race and identity explodes to reveal racial prejudices and personal secrets plays at the Temple of Music and Art from tonight, Oct. 17 through Nov. 7. I. Michael and Beth Kasser are Arizona Theatre Company's 2015-16 Season Sponsors.

Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts (PTPA) is proud to present Long Island singer-songwriter and entertainer, Amber Ferrari as the legendary Janis Joplin in 'Joplin's Pearl,' on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. Ferrari will be joined on stage by special guest guitarist, Randy Jackson of Zebra. Comedian and MC Ike Avelli will open the evening.

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Kill Paris with Special Guests at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, November 7th, 2015. Tickets are on sale now for $20 advanced or $22 day of show.

A talking donkey, a singing ogre, a feisty princess, a sassy cookie, tap dancing rats, and a striking band of  misfit fairytale characters will be working their magic for children of all ages when Reston Community Players opens its 49th season with the Tony Award-winning fairytale adventure Shrek The Musical, tonight, October 16-November 17.

3000 Miles Off-Broadway Productions and City Connection Entertainment present JUST IMAGINE, the life and music of John Lennon starring Tim Piper at the historic El Portal Mainstage Theatre, in the NOHO Arts District, North Hollywood, CA. This special 3 show only engagement will be presented November 7 & 8, 2015.

The Pasadena Symphony continues their newly-expanded 2015-2016 Singpoli Classics Series on Saturday, November 7th with Anne Akiko Meyers performing her poetic and powerful Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Billboard's 2014 Top-Selling Classical Instrumentalist, Meyers' recordings have consistently met with acclaim, with her Four Seasons debuting # 1 on the Classical Billboard charts. Audiences can hear Meyers bring this chart-topping recording to life at Ambassador Auditorium with both matinee and evening performances at 2:00pm and 8:00pm. A Native of Southern California and a former student of the Colburn School of Performing Arts, Meyers returns to her roots for this exclusive Los Angeles performance, further cementing the Pasadena Symphony as the premiere destination for live symphonic music in the Pasadena region.  

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump will return to studio 8H as host for 'Saturday Night Live' on November 7. Trump previously hosted SNL on April 3, 2004.

From traveling across glaciers and mountains to enduring sub-zero temperatures and endless days without daylight, there is no more challenging place to be a veterinarian than Alaska.