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Less Than Rent Theatre presents the world premiere of James Presson's FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS - a new play which blends the artificially comical world of a sitcom with the soul of Henrik Ibsen's classic HEDDA GABLER. Previews of FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS begin December 2 prior to an official press opening of December 4 at Walkerspace (46 Walker Street) in Manhattan.

The New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA) launches its 2011-2012 season of dance with six exhilarating companies featuring some of the most significant and distinctive choreography today, including three New Orleans debuts and a world premiere. Single tickets for the 2011-2012 season go on sale Tuesday, September 6. Ticket prices range from $20-$125. Season ticket buyers save up to 20 percent off the single ticket price by purchasing a season ticket package.

The New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA) is pleased to announce that its 2011-2012 season of dance will open with the world-renowned Mark Morris Dance Group at the Mahalia Jackson Theater on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM.

SPELLING BEE is the hilarious interactive musical comedy that chronicles the experience of six adolescent overachievers vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award-winning creative team has crafted the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place on earth where they can both stand out and fit in. Featuring Latté Da favorite Tod Petersen as Vice Principal Douglas Panch.

Hailing from Atlanta, GA, rapper Matthew Morris aka 'MattyB' launches his newly branded empire called MattyBRaps. Though beginning his music career just last year at the ripe age of 7, he has managed to capture the hearts of millions. The YouTube sensation has accumulated over 75 million views and 315,000 subscribers in just over a year and an additional 200,000 combined followers on Facebook and Twitter. His music videos and songs have been played and seen in countries the world over and featured on television and, radio shows, Websites, blogs and surely brought smiles to young children and adults alike. Endorsed by mega-blogger Perez Hilton, MattyB has performed on the Wendy Williams Show, Turner Field (Home of the Atlanta Braves), and celebrity birthday parties and traveled to Los Angeles and New York for work. This past Labor Day weekend, MattyB was invited to perform at Atlanta Motor Speedway for a Nascar event. Without a hint of nervousness and full of confidence, MattyB stole the show and captivated the thousands in attendance. Though MattyB's schedule is ramping up, team MattyB is careful to balance writing and recording time with homework and baseball practice.

Untitled Theater Company No. 61 presents PANGS OF THE MESSIAH by Motti Lerner. The year is 2014, and Israel is on the verge of signing a peace accord; in the West Bank settlements that Israel may soon abandon, no one is celebrating. Lerner's tense drama focuses on the Head of the Council of Settlements and his family as they struggle to retain the life they have built in anticipation of the coming of the Messiah. The play provides a rare window into the lives and psyches of the settlers from an insider's perspective. It is a family drama with broad political implications.

In their lengthy tradition of launching and introducing Bozeman to inventive new ideas such as BROAD COMEDY, EQUINOX COMEDY DEATH MATCH, The One-Act Festival and DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES RADIO PLAYS, the Equinox Theatre proudly brings you this locally written puppet show for adults.

The New York Philharmonic Ensembles, composed of Musicians from the Orchestra, will give its second performance of the 2011-12 season on Sunday, November 20, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall, in a program featuring Jonathan Pieslak's Gray Fractures, Janá?ek's Mládí (Youth), and Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 2. The musicians on the program will be flutist Sandra Church; oboist Sherry Sylar; clarinetist Pascual Martinez Forteza; bass clarinetist Amy Zoloto (guest artist); bassoonist Kim Laskowski; horn player R. Allen Spanjer; violinist Lisa Kim; violist Rebecca Young; cellists Eric Bartlett, Maria Kitsopoulos, Sumire Kudo, Ru-Pei Yeh, and Wei Yu; and pianist William Wolfram (guest artist).

The Legacy Project will be hosting a luncheon at Chicago's Palmer House Hilton on October 25th to commemorate GLBT History Month and launch the one-year drive to the permanent exhibit's installation which will take place on October 11, 2012, 'National Coming-Out Day.'

Set in Sunnyside, Queens, on that day in 1965 when Pope Paul VI visited New York, John Guare's early, breakthrough play features mockingly observed nuns, a lethal (but farcical) political bombing, a G.I. earmarked for Vietnam and, as a protagonist, a zookeeper who dreams in vain of making it big in Hollywood as a songwriter. As if that weren't enough countercultural loopiness, the zoo keeper, Artie Shaughnessy, has a wife named Bananas who really is bananas and destined for the institution that provides the play's title.

La Jolla Playhouse announces its first production of the 2012/13 season: the world-premiere musical HANDS ON A HARDBODY, written by Pulitzer Prize winner and La Jolla Playhouse 2011 Gala Honoree Doug Wright (I AM MY OWN WIFE), Amanda Green (BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL) and Trey Anastasio of the popular band Phish, with direction by Neil Pepe (SPEED-THE-PLOW) and choreography by Benjamin Millepied ('Black Swan'), running April 27 - June 10, 2012 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre.

Halloween is coming! Do you have your costume yet? If not, here are some options just for you!

Don't miss five-time Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter October 15 at DUPAC! By combining folk, country, acoustic, rock and blues, Carpenter has proven herself to be an artist for whom the conventional boundaries of the music business disappear; she has always professed a love for all kinds of music, and those influences come together in songs that speak to the most personal of life's details as well as to the most universal.

This Holiday Season, TheatreWorks New Milford will debut Noël Coward's classic comedy of manners, PRESENT LAUGHTER.

Elvis Lives is an unforgettable multi-media and live musical journey across Elvis' life. His iconic style, embraced by many of today's artists, continues to intrigue audiences of all generations. Featuring finalists from Elvis Presley Enterprises' worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, as well as a tribute to Ann-Margret, audiences 'Can't Help Falling In Love' with this phenomenal theatrical concert experience.

Join Shattered Globe Theatre Company as we kick off our 20th Anniversary Season with a staged reading of one of our greatest hits: JUDGMENT AT NUREMBURG, directed by the original director, Lou Contey.

The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance announces upcoming auditions in Sacramento.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival continues to produce quality award-winning work both on and off the stage. This October, the International Festivals and Events Association (IFEA) paid tribute to the Utah Shakespeare Festival's marketing and publications at the 56th Annual Convention and Expo in Fort Worth, Texas. The Festival earned two awards in the prestigious IFEA/Haas & Wilkerson Pinnacle Awards competition. The Festival earned bronze awards for the best event program and for the best promotional brochure.

Rural Mississippi just after World War II is a changing place where blacks have been leaving and going north in droves. Not 'Prince' Albert - he likes it here. A poor sharecropper, but a strong man and a gifted farmer, he is proud of his leadership and standing. And when he finds out that his wife is pregnant, he decides to fulfill a dream -- to fix up and put fresh white paint on his shabby little tenant house. That simple wish turns his world upside down. Many people, not only the whites, don't want him to do it. Passions erupt, and resentment and fear gather like a dark summer storm, shattering family and community.

THE BREAKFAST SHOW is a live talk show for kids, featuring dancing, sing-a-long songs, pies in the face and endless cereal for all. The ringmaster of the show is Adam-O (Adam Shenkman), with a bounce in his step and in his spit curl, titular mascot of most popular sugary cereal in the Milky Way. Every month, he's got a new mission, whether it's making a movie about his life, winning a stand up comedy contest or defeating the dastardly David Lunch.