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Creative Alliance and Coppin State University, CSU Sharing the Stage: Creating Community Through Dance, present Buster, Baby and Hawk: Masters of Maryland Tap Sat Mar 10, 7:30pm at James Weldon Johnson Auditorium, Coppin University 2500 W. North Ave.

Tablet Magazine and 92YTribeca present Don't Cry for Me, Ahasuerus, a Broadway-cabaret Purim shpiel. Starring Jackie Hoffman as Esther, the beautiful Jewish girl who becomes queen, and Seth Rudetsky as Haman, the Jew-hating royal adviser. Written by and featuring Rachel Shukert, author of the hit Jewish-holiday Broadway spoofs Everything's Coming Up Moses (for Passover) and Eight Days More (for Hanukkah). Also featuring Dan Fishback and Billy Zavelson. Directed by Michael Schiralli. Music direction by Bobby Peaco. Produced by Jesse Oxfeld for Tablet Magazine, the online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. Wed, Mar 7, 7:30pm, $20 in adv/$25 at the door

Texas Performing Arts welcomes Angélique Kidjo to Bass Concert Hall on Thursday, March 8.

As part of Performance Network's mission to promote new plays and the works of local playwrights, the theatre will premiere Joseph Zettelmaier's "Dead Man's Shoes," a darkly comedic Western tale of friendship and vengeance. This co-production, which is currently running at the Williamston Theatre in mid-Michigan, comes to Ann Arbor on March 8 and runs through April 8, 2012. It is directed by Performance Network Artistic Director, David Wolber and features Aral Gribble ("Man of La Mancha," "The Home Team"), Paul Hopper ("Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol"), Maggie Meyer and Drew Parker ("Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh").

Reuters reports that the Actors' Equity Association has given its approval for a proposed merger between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. According to Reuters, Actors' Equity made the approval official on Tuesday.

Birders take note: The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (WICA) in Langley will present an evening of BirdNote stories centered around Whidbey Islanders who care about wild birds and their fragile habitats. Enjoy an evening of BirdNote radio stories augmented with photography, jazz, art-inspired by the birds and the people and places of Whidbey. This evening will feature Bird Note Executive Producer Chris Peterson and Producer John Kessler (host of KPLU's All Blues), music by Trio Nouveau, Kate Wright, and David Licastro with photography by Craig Johnson.

East West Players (EWP), the nation's largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work and the longest-running professional theatre of color in the country, continues its 46h Anniversary season. Themed Languages of Love, the third production of the season carries on with the Mainland Premiere of THREE YEAR SWIM CLUB by Lee Tonouchi. This production is directed and choreographed by Keo Woolford and produced in association with Honolulu Theatre for Youth. The cast of the production features Jared Asato, Kelsey Chock, Aaron Ikeda, John Galmiche, Kaliko Kauahi, Blake Kushi, Mapuana Makia, and Chris Takemoto-Gentile.

A Class Act NY, Manhattan's premier award-winning acting studio for kids and teens welcomed stage and screen star, Jackie Hoffman for a one-day comedy workshop on February 18. Check out the photos of the workshop below!

The 2011-2012 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center continues with Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve performing the Northern American premieres of "Les Sylphides" and "Spectre de la Rose" choreographed by acclaimed New York City Ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, widely known for his work in last year's award-winning film Black Swan.

Long Wharf Theatre is uniting with the Public Theater in New York to produce February House, a new musical featuring the music of up-and-comer Gabriel Kahane. The musical will bow on Stage II February 15 through March 18. The press opening is Wednesday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $45-$65.

The Butterfly Club announces its March and April lineups.

Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, the world's longest running musical revue, is proud to present a sign language interpreted performance for the hearing impaired on Sunday, April 15 at 5 p.m. Tickets for this special performance range in price from $25 - $130 and are available now at beachblanketbabylon.com, by phone at (415) 421-4222 or at the Beach Blanket Babylon Box Office (678 Green Street). Tickets may also be purchased by fax at (415) 421-4817. TTY users may call the California Relay System at (800) 735-2929. Tickets are being held for hearing impaired audience members. To ensure optimal seating locations for viewing of both the interpreters and the stage, ticket buyers should indicate that they or members of their party will be using this service at the time of ticket purchase.

Hummingbird Coffee has donated $10,000 to The Court Theatre through sales of a special coffee blend created especially as part of the Re:Start project. The boutique roaster, who constructed a cafe in the central city in late October, is selling the "Re:Start" blend through cafes and supermarkets throughout the country, with 30c from each pack sold donated towards The Court's fundraising efforts. To date, over 30,000 units have been sold nationwide.

Today marks the global release of The Juilliard Sessions, a partnership between EMI Classics and The Juilliard School that aims to present to the world some of classical music's most promising young stars in a series of digital EP albums. The three inaugural recordings are by recent Juilliard alumni Paul Appleby (tenor) and Sean Lee (violin), as well as pianist Conrad Tao, who is a Pre-College alumnus currently at Columbia University studying in the combined bachelor-master degree program with Juilliard. They will be released by EMI Classics, available now exclusively on iTunes (www.itunes.com).

Las Vegas-based Irish rock band Wild Celts will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a free show and special contests. The "Rock Your Kilt" contest and the "Leprechaun Star Search" will feature cash prizes of $100 for first place, $50 for second place and $25 for third place. Both contests are open to men and women 21 and older.

Staunton's American Shakespeare Center (ASC) will bring its brisk and authentic stagings of "The Winter's Tale" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the Alden on Saturday, April 7. Tickets are $30/$20 McLean tax district residents.

For one night only, Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years comes to The Grove on March 9th. An emotionally powerful and intimate musical is a contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. It's the story of two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

Due to popular demand, Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Les Miserables will return to Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre for a spectacular two-week engagement, June 27-July 7, 2012.

The Imaginary Theatre Company, the young audiences touring ensemble of The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, supported by a $25,000 grant from Brown Shoe Company and a $25,000 grant from the Monsanto Fund, will present Puss in Boots on Saturday, March 17, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Heagney Theatre on the campus of Nerinx Hall High School, 530 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves. Tickets are $6. Check out the production photos below!

Genesis Ensemble, a Chicago theater and performance company, has taken over three empty storefronts in Jefferson Park to lead the curious on an interactive tour of art and performance inspired by Maira Kalman's idiosyncratic book The Principles of Uncertainty. And the resulting jaunt - a tour of whimsy and wonder - suggests what might happen if we all took life a bit slower and relished in the particulars of the world around us.