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The Jewish Museum presents Pictures Party on Thursday, July 18 from 8pm to 11pm. Partygoers will dance to music from punk to pop at a 1980s-inspired night with the post-punk band People at Parties and a DJ set by Tanlines. This entertaining evening is part of The Wind Up, a popular series of after-hours events with art, music, performance, drinks, and socializing , and is inspired by the Museum's current exhibition, Jack Goldstein × 10,000. Attendees will also enjoy guided tours of Jack Goldstein × 10,000 at 8:30pm and 9:30pm; interactive art making; refreshing summer treats; and an open bar with beer and wine. Beer courtesy of Shmaltz Brewing Company.

On Sunday, July 21, 2013, Olney Theatre Center will host "School of Style-nomics," a back-to-school fashion fundraiser. The event starts at 2:00pm and will feature the newest fashions from local clothing and accessory boutiques, special performances from the students at Studio of Ballet Arts in Sandy Spring, great raffle prizes, ice cream, and fun crafts. All proceeds with benefit arts and education at Olney Theatre Center.

America's longest-running touring company National Players present Shakespeare's hilarious comedy The Comedy of Errors July 18 through 21 at 8:00 pm on The Root Family Stage at Olney Theatre Center. These performances are part of Olney Theatre Center's annual Free Summer Shakespeare program.

This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye, a milkman, trying to keep his family's traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters.

Everett High School has presented a lesbian character contemplating suicide, a male student dropping his pants, and a female student speaking the word "sex" as part of its theater productions. But Drama classes have been "eliminated for the next school year, and the school's drama teacher has been reassigned to teach eighth-grade science."

Unbound Productions Co-Artistic Directors Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G. Rack have announced a special WICKED LIT installation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart which will be staged exclusively at LA Mart in conjunction with ScareLA,during the first annual Los Angeles Halloween Convention (August 10-11, 2013). The limited-seating eight-performance run will be staged throughout one of the vacant floors of the 14-story warehouse style building, and feature the full array of theatrical effects and creative artistry that fans of WICKED LIT have come to expect.

As part of the 2013 Summer Movie Series, CAPA will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the historic Ohio Theatre with free, guided tours on Saturday, July 20; Saturday, August 3; and Saturday, August 17; at 4 pm each day.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please take out your iPads. You don't have one? Borrow one. Quickly, please. Now, welcome to the screen world of DOT DOT DOT, a dance in the form of an app starring Tom Gold, who appears, multiplies and disappears with the tap of your finger. In other words, Tom, as choreographer and dancer, is at your command.

This summer get ready to have your perception challenged, your mind mystified and your funny bone tickled. Gordon Edmund presents his Hypno-Magic Show GORDON EDMUND: OUT OF HIS MIND & INTO YOURS Fridays at 9pm, July 12- August 2, 2013, at the Skokie Gorilla Tango Theatre (7924 Lincoln Ave. Skokie, IL 60077). Tickets are $25; to purchase tickets call (847) 677-7761 or visit www.gorillatango.com.

Four short plays based around the theme of Boom and all set at the St. James Tavern, A Tale Oft Told by Christopher Lockheardt, Boom by Doug Powhida, This is Boombastia by Chris Morris, and We Read Together by Scott Tobin

The moving story of Connecticut native and NYC jazz man, the late Thomas Chapin, will begin to unfold for documentary film cameras starting July 8 at a Hartford, CT concert, which will feature musicians who knew him and played with him during his short but remarkable 20-year musical career.

From harmonizing starlets to the real deal professionals, this night of a cappella showcases the full range of talent from the middle school to collegiate level. On Saturday, July 13 at 8:00pm, Duke University's award-winning, all male a cappella group The Pitchforks take the stage with special guests, The Hamptones - the WHBPAC's very own a cappella group for teens.

Chicagoans can experience the rare privilege of seeing Helen Mirren's acclaimed West End performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Audience, bowing today, July 3 at the Music Box Theatre.

On August 3, 2013, Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts, an outdoor celebration of site-specific performance and installation art, will fill the courtyards, sidewalks, storefronts and gardens in and around Artist Village Detroit (17340 Lahser, Detroit, MI 48219) with engaging site-specific work from 2:00-9:00 p.m. Sidewalk celebrates the architecture, culture and artistry of Detroit places through site-specific performance and installation.

The 2013 UNITY Festival is proud to announce that hip-hop artist SCRATCH, of The Roots, will join an already stacked FREE show headlined by hip-hop legend Talib Kweli at Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS) on Saturday, July 20. The 5th annual UNITY Festival will run July 18-21 throughout Toronto spotlighting the best acts and youth performers in hip-hop.

On June 21st, at the fifth annual Cultural Access Network Awards, four organizations and one individual were honored for their leadership, innovation and commitment to increasing access to the arts for people with disabilities. Attended by over 100 community leaders and artists, the Awards are offered annually by the Cultural Access Network Project, (CAN) cosponsored by the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State; for the fourth year in a row, the event was held at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey.

Mention Jane Austen or period drama and many will think of lavish costumes adorned with frills, National Trust properties and sedate Sunday evening telly. It is a claim met with some scepticism then, when theatre company Box Tale Soup say they can conjure up the world of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey with just two performers, a vintage trunk and a troupe of puppets. However, after the first few minutes of this unique adaptation any scepticism quickly disappears as Noel Byrne and Antonia Christophers deliver a breath-taking version of this classic novel.

The Randall L. Jones Theatre, known for its stunning architecture, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. Completed in 1989, the building has become one of the symbols of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, having housed over 100 various musicals, classic dramas and hilarious comedies. As a special event this season in the Randall Theatre, an actor to audience talkback will follow each showing of Twelve Angry Men, beginning on Monday, July 1 replacing the intermission.

When do you or your children have the opportunity to get up close and personal with exotic animals like the African Spotted Leopard, the European Eagle Owl, or the American Alligator? On Tuesday, July 9th at 10:30am, Wild World of Animals' traveling wildlife show will bring the animals to you in a fast paced, entertaining and educational program on the HARMAN Stage. Tickets are just $10 and can be purchased online at www.SCAlive.org. The show is made possible through the generous support of our Arts Education Presenting Sponsors F. D. Rich, Trump Parc Stamford, Purdue Pharma and RFR Realty and through a grant from the Vince and Linda McMahon Family Foundation.

GREASE is still the word - due to an unprecedented demand for tickets, more performances are being released for sale on 15 July in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.