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The Music Theatre Company, Highland Park's Equity theatre, is announces its spring production of Pippin by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson, directed and choreographed by Founding Artistic Director Jessica Redish. The production will run March 22 - May 6, 2012 at The Music Theatre Company located in the Karger Center in Highland Park.

Playwrights Horizons just announced complete casting for the New York premiere of THE BIG MEAL, a new play by Dan LeFranc (Sixty Miles to Silver Lake at P73/Soho Rep, In the Labyrinth at Soho Rep). Directed by the Obie Award-winning "white-hot young director" (The New York Times) Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation and Kin at PH, Seminar on Broadway, Tigers Be Still, The Aliens, The Coward), the production will begin previews Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 PM with an Opening Night set for Wednesday, March 21 at 7PM. The limited engagement will play through Sunday, April 8 at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street).

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present Jeffrey Tambor's Performing Your Life on Saturday, March 24, at 8 p.m.

New York City Opera announces that VOX, the company's workshop for new American operas, will be presented in conjunction with OPERA America's New Works Forum for New York City Opera's 2012-13 season. Composers are invited to submit works-in-progress or completed, previously unproduced works to this year's showcase, which will have a public performance on November 8 (eligibility requirements are listed below, with further details still to be announced). Since 1999, composers Mark Adamo, Charles Wuorinen, Richard Danielpour, John Zorn, and Stephen Schwartz are among those who have had pieces presented in VOX that have gone on to redefine the American opera genre. VOX, described by the New York Times as an "invaluable showcase," gives American composers and audiences the opportunity to hear professional performances of excerpts of new operatic works, unstaged and read by members of the New York City Opera orchestra and soloists. As the only program in the country that gives composers the opportunity to hear their new works and works-in-progress with full instrumental ensembles and professional soloists, VOX continues to be a vital part of the fabric of American opera.

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's 43rd Annual Awards Show will take place on Monday, March 19, 2012 at A Noise Within in Pasadena. The show will feature performances from previously-announced hosts Jason Graae (recipient of the 2007 Joel Hirschhorn Award for outstanding achievement in musical theatre) and Lesli Margherita (nominee for Kiss Me, Kate). In addition, the Awards show will feature the Los Angeles premiere performance of My Husband, by Paul Rudnick, a short play added to the New York production of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays. Also, Yvette Tucker and Salvatore Vasallo will perform an excerpt from "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," from On Your Toes, choreographed by this year's Hirschhorn Award recipient, Lee Martino.

Nearly 100 of Orange County's prominent business, civic and society leaders are bringing their singing and dancing talents to the stage for CHOC Follies XV, "Christina and the Crystal Ball, a Cinderella Story for the Social Net Set," an original musical comedy benefiting CHOC Children's. This year's production, sponsored by XCARET Family Foundation, is a hilarious spoof on the classic fairy tale with a modern online twist. The show will run from Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31 at the Robert B. Moore Theatre in Costa Mesa, Calif.

The National Endowment for the Arts has put the spotlight on Sierra Repertory Theatre. One of the few rural arts organizations to receive such national attention from the NEA, SRT was featured on the organization's online blog last month, press notes state.

San Jose Repertory Theatre received a total of 22 nominations in the large theatre category (venues over 300 seats) from the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle (SFBATCC) for outstanding productions during 2011. San Jose Rep Artistic Director Rick Lombardo received three best director nominations for his work on the world premiere of Love in American Times, the theatrical classic The Dresser and the musical Spring Awakening.

After living aboard the International Space Station for more than five months, NASA astronaut Ron Garan will relive his spaceflight experience for the public, friends and family at several events in the New York City area.

The Open Book, Marvin Kaye Co-founder and Artistic Director announces that 'BOB, Blessed Be The Dysfunction That Binds' written and performed by Anne Pasquale and directed by Mary Ann Hay, has been invited to perform at the 2012 WHEN WORLD'S COLLIDE Conference at Columbia Theachers College, 525 W 120th Street on Friday, March 23rd at 7:00 pm. Regularly scheduled performances continue Sunday, March 11th at 2 pm and Sunday, March 18th at 2 pm. All tickets are $18.00 and can be purchased on-line at www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 864-4444. The 78th Street Theatre Lab now know as the The Soter/Lee Black Box is located at 236 West 78th Street, just east of Broadway.

SHREK THE MUSICAL is taking ogre Toronto! Dancap Productions presents SHREK THE MUSICAL with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, running March 20-April 1 only at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.

Five acts from the 1970s will come together one night only to create an old-school disco party. The Legends of Disco LIVE at the Hammerstein Ballroom-NYC will showcase LIVE performances from five legendary disco hit makers: CHIC starring Nile Rodgers, The Trammps featuring Earl Young, Tavares, France Joli, and Harold Melvin's Blue Notes, with MCs Deney Terrio from Dance Fever and Joe Causi from CBS-FM.

For the tenth anniversary production of The Sarah Play, Round House Theatre is proud to present a stage adaptation of Lois Lowry's novel The Giver by Eric Coble. Directed by Bethesda Chevy Chase High School student Jessie Klueter, The Giver runs at Round House Theatre Silver Spring from March 23 - April 1, 2012.

A modern take on The Odyssey comes to Round House Theatre next in the world premiere of Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus by Jason Gray Platt. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Blake Robison, Crown of Shadows is onstage at Round House Theatre Bethesda from April 11 thru May 6, 2012.

Enter a fanciful world of giant creatures, storytelling, magic and illusion when Me and My Shadow comes to Adelaide from 17 - 21 April in the Space Theatre.

Anna Kustera Presents Safe Return Doubtful March 10 - April 21. Opening reception, Saturday, March 10th, 6-8pm.

This spring, Underscore Theatre Company, Chicago's new musical theatre company, announces the world premiere performance of "Liberal Arts: The Musical!" at The Second Stage.

LOST highlights some of the contemporary transformations of the 'photograph'. For this exhibition four artists compiled a series of images gleaned or collected from the vast anonymous pool found on the internet, in magazines, advertisements, or other public sources and represent them as valid artifacts. These images were 'magically' found, lost and found again…

Joe's Pub presents LYSISTRATA JONES REUNION CONCERT April 9 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm. $15 Advance / $18 Door.

Simon Taylor loves psychology. His enthusiasm for the human mind turns into a comedy show about morality, happiness, language and love in his new show, 10 Things I Know About You