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Dance and party at Bay Street Theatre at the Third Annual MARDI GRAS BALL on Saturday, February 9 at 8 pm. Dance to Joe Lauro's HOODOO LOUNGERS and GENE CASEY & THE LONE SHARKS! Tickets are $15 in advance and can be purchased at the box office or online at www.baystreet.org or $25 at the door. Beads and masks will be available for this special night of fun

The third concert of Accordo's 2012-13 season is a small study of the great influence of Johann Sebastian Bach, featuring works by Mozart, Hindemith and Brahms selected by members of the ensemble.

Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt will be performing at 92Y Tribeca with painter Anna Schuleit, who will use an ipad to create and project images accompanying Tift's performance.

Shakespeare's words come alive again in the reading of Richard II for the 12th Annual Shakespeare and the Law Series. Co-sponsored by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, law firm McCarter & English LLP, the Boston Lawyer's Chapter of the Federalist Society, and Suffolk University, the reading boasts an all-star cast from Boston's legal community, including former federal judge Nancy Gertner as Richard II. A panel discussion on the legal and political consequences of when a king or a president goes too far follows the reading. The participants will discuss the uses and abuses of executive power by Presidents Obama and George H. W. Bush.

Led by CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni, a frothy operetta overture and a regal waltz by Johann Strauss, Jr. share the bill with the lilting suite from Richard Strauss' (no family relation) oh-so-Viennese opera, Der Rosenkavalier. Piano soloist Marc-André Hamelin, hailed as 'one of the most complete musicians of his generation' for his debut concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, adds to your enjoyment with playful works by Mozart and Richard Strauss.

The Brickand Buran Theatre present Adam R. Burnett's theatre work NIGHTMARES: a demonstration of the Sublime. Performances will take place tonight through Saturday, January 2-5 at 8:00 pm, Sunday January 6 at 3:00 pm, and Tuesday-Saturday January 8-12at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $18.

Fall in love with the delightful misadventures of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day with Walnut Street Theatre for Kids. Judith Viorst's popular children's book comes to life with an hour-long musical adaptation of Alexander… performed LIVE at Walnut Street Theatre, February 1 through February 9, 2013.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcome four fins ink with the NY premiere of CITY LOVE SONG: HOME, written and performed by Jack Finnegan, directed Tralen Doler, CITY LOVE SONG: HOME begins performances on Tuesday, January 8 for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 20. Press opening is Friday, January 11 at 8:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday and Saturday at 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM. Performances are at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Tickets are $20 ($14 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.

Japan Society Gallery explores the continuing generative power of Japanese popular culture in Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints (March 9-June 9, 2013), an exhibition juxtaposing contemporary works of art with over 100 historic ukiyo-e woodblock prints drawn from one of the world's great collections of 'pictures of the floating world' at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA).

This spring 2013 season, American Repertory Ballet will present the premiere of Douglas Martin's Rite of Spring, set to Stravinsky's infamous score. At "Behind the Music", an On Pointe Enrichment Series event, ARB Artistic Director Douglas Martin and guest lecturer Maestro Michael Pratt will discuss this ballet's music and history. "Behind the Music" will be held on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 5:15pm at Princeton Ballet School (301 North Harrison Street, above McCaffrey's Supermarket).

Off-Broadway's rap guide to dating, Ingenious Nature, led by Baba Brinkman with turntablism by Jamie Simmonds at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street), is offering a Human Nature Talkback Series with experts from the science community. On Thursday, December 20th, following the 7:30 PM performance, audience members are invited to stay for the post-performance talk back by guest speaker Dr. Jonathan Haidt, a Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, based in the Business and Society Program Area of NYU. Dr. Haidt will be discussing the intuitive foundations of morality - its emotional foundations, cultural variations, and developmental course.

Kara Oates, the Greenwood girl who has gone from the Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre stage to Broadway to perform in two top shows, has now taken to the recording studio.

South Bend Civic opens the 2013 season with a special bonus presentation- Tea at Five by Matthew Lombardo, a one-woman show about the legendary silver screen icon Katharine Hepburn portrayed by SBCT leading lady Mary Ann Moran under the direction of Kevin Dreyer.

Adults will get kids prices through December for Puppetmongers' Cinderella in Muddy York, running at 2pm daily Dec. 28-January 5 (no show Jan. 1) at Theatre Passe Muraille.

They've performed on Broadway and the Today Show as well as in theaters around the nation. The KamiKaze FireFlies are a Los Angeles based tw0-person vaudeville smack-down featuring Rob Williams (formerly of the renowned comedy troupe The Flaming Idiots) and Casey Martin (formerly of the acrobatic show Barely Balanced).

Travel to Sherwood Forest and join Robin and Marian for some swashbuckling funat this special holiday performance of Young Robin Hood followed by set & backstage tours, sword fighting demonstrations, arts activities, photos with the cast, cotton candy & popcorn machines, food from Daily Grill, beverages from Honest Tea, and more fun with Robin's merry band.

CBS placed first in viewers on the night of 'The Voice's' live finale, paced by week-to-week growth by NCIS, NCIS: LOS ANGELES and VEGAS, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Tuesday, Dec. 18.

Jeff Harnar, one of the most celebrated performers of the American Popular Songbook, will return to The Laurie Beechman Theatre in the show 'Does This Song Make Me Look Fat? (Lighter Fare for a Winter Night)' for four shows at 7:00 PM: Monday nights from January 14 to 28 and then Friday, February 8.

On Sunday, January 20, 2013, 2:00 p.m., Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra's Senior Symphony presents Mark Niehausas soloist at its annual Founders Concert, a gala performance featuring the organization's internationally acclaimed flagship ensemble, the Senior Symphony. Under Music Director Margery Deutsch and Associate Conductor Shelby Keith Dixon, the group will perform in Helen Bader Concert Hall, at UWM's Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee. MYSO will also pay tribute to the visionaries who formed and shaped MYSO in its infancy upon which its 57 years of musical excellence is built.