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It's official. According to Deadline Hollywood, Meryl Streep will play Violet Weston and Julia Roberts will play Weston's adult daughter, Barbara, in the film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, August: Osage County, written by Tracy Letts. John Wells directs. August follows the Weston family women as their lives suddenly clash when family troubles arise and foce them to return to the Midwest house they grew up in, as well as the unorthodox woman who raised them. The Weinstein Company's Harvey and Bob Weinstein announced Wednesday that the film that will go into production this fall.

NBC has cast Steven Pasquale in its latest medical drama, 'Do Not Harm,' in which Pasquale will play a neurosurgeon with an alter-ego that makes both his work and his personal lives difficult.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will launch its third annual Lend Us Your Ears play reading series on Monday, March 12 at 7 p.m. with Eve of Ides, a new play by author David Blixt. The series also includes readings of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part Two on July 16 and the provocative comedy Wittenberg by David Davalos on September 24. All readings will be held at 7:00 pm at the Shakespeare Theatre's Main Stage, the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Ave. (at Lancaster Road) in Madison. The Lend Us Your Ears discount subscription series, featuring tickets to all three readings, is $36 for adults and $24 for students. Individual tickets are $15 each for adults and $10 for students. For tickets or more information, call the box office at 973-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ.org.

Spotlighters Theatre announces UNTIL DEATH DO US PART - a Do or Die Mystery Production, Fri & Sat - Feb 17 & 18, 2012 at 8 p.m. Tickets: Adults $20 / Seniors (60+) $18 / Students $16 www.spotlighters.org

Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie present the world premiere of Les cheminiments de l'influence (The Pathways of Influence) in their newly-opened and freshly-renovated home and centre for contemporary dance, The Citadel. Created and performed by co-Artistic Director Laurence Lemieux, this striking solo dance work is a tribute to her father, eminent political scientist and sociologist Vincent Lemieux.

The high emotions and excitement of Broadway returns to the Spencer Theater at 7 p.m. February 23 with the razzle-dazzle musical "Damn Yankees."

In anticipation of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) world premiere production Othello: The Remix at this summer's Globe to Globe Festival for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, CST will host a delegation of leaders from Shakespeare festivals across Europe, February 21-25, 2012. Representatives from Spain, Germany, Romania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and the United Kingdom will join CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson to discuss upcoming projects and the possibility for future cross-cultural collaborations.

POETIC LICENSE, starring Geraint Wyn Davies, opens tonight at 59E59 Theaters. See production photos below!

Plan-B continues 2011/12 season with the world premiere of Debora Threedy's THE THIRD CROSSING. Meet the cast in the video below!

CENTERSTAGE's Cabaret Series will feature a March Madness performance March 15-18. For four performances only, The Head Theater will be jumping with Flamenco music from Ricardo Marlow and guests, and then hit its groove as singer-songwriter Sahffi and her band take the stage with songs of the '70s.

The Schubert Club, Northrop Concerts and Lectures, and Kate Nordstrum Projects will present 'ACCORDO SEASON 3, CONCERT 2: Bacchanalia,' works by Beethoven, Cotton, and Dvorak, with guest artists Edward Arron, cello, and Ian Ding, percussion on Monday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Common Ground Theatre (www.cgtheatre.com) is a performance and teaching space located in west Durham, offering performing arts and educational groups a flexible, well-equipped alternative space. The Theatre provides a convenient venue for Triangle audiences to experience the diversity of our area's arts and educational offerings. All events listed will be held at Common Ground Theatre. The Theatre is hosting the following events in March, 2012:

Through its sixth annual Building Community Day program, The Home Depot® Foundation has awarded $20,000 to the Center for Puppetry Arts. The donation will fund the Center's Field Trip Sponsorship Program, which was created to ensure that children of all economic backgrounds have the opportunity to experience the Center's arts-infused educational programs.

Thanks to a generous and rare grant from the National Endowment of Humanities (NEH), Pacific Symphony is about to dive into a new education initiative-"Dvorak and America"-led by Music Director Carl St.Clair and developed by New York-based author/scholar and Pacific Symphony artistic advisor, Joseph Horowitz.

Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Executive Director) will present Heathens, a new play by Heather Hill, directed by Stefanie Sertich, having its Off-Broadway premiere beginning March 1st and continuing through March 17th only. Opening Night is set for Sunday March 4th (3pm). TNC is located at 155 1st Avenue, between East 9th and East 10th Streets

Labyrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vazquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), the Off-Broadway ensemble theater company, has inducted fourteen new members, Labyrinth's Artistic Directors announced today.

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the line-up of events that comprise the annual College Days Weekend as part of the 36th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. This year, College Days Weekend is slated for March 16 - 18, as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays that runs February 26 -April 1, 2012.

Falcon Theatre will present Troubadour Theater Company's Two Gentlemen of Chicago, directed by Matt Walker, the final production of its 2011-2012 Subscription Season.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Patricia A. Corbett Distinguished Chair of Musical Theatre, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Mainstage Musical Theatre Series continues its 2011-12 season with Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. The award-winning pairing of new and existing fairy-tales with Sondheim's witty music and lyrics runs Feb. 23-26 and March 1-4 in Patricia Corbett Theater in CCM Village. See the production photos below!

Chicago's All Latina Theatre Company is launching a Lakeview venue for live performance, music, galleries, screenings, events/fundraisers, and late-night presentations including varied comedy/improv/cabaret offerings year round in addition to their own programming. The inaugural production that will baptize the old LIVE BAIT THEATER as the ladies' new space - LUNA CENTRAL: An Arts Center for New & Diverse Work - will be the World-Premiere version of their recently work-shopped CROSSED. The workshop version, which played for three weeks at the Viaduct Theatre, launched an ambitious season entirely dedicated to discussing the various immigration, race, and U.S. border-related wars currently unfolding in the United States.