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Festival Stage of Winston-Salem has received a $15,000 grant from the Winston-Salem Foundation's Charles Babcock Jr. Field of Interest Fund to support a market research study. The residential professional theatre company is in its second season performing at Hanesbrands Theatre in downtown Winston-Salem.

Dance writer Nancy Dalva, creator of the video series "Mondays with Merce," and MacArthur-winning choreographer Elizabeth Streb will speak together at Barnard College on Wednesday, February 29th at 7 p.m. in the Held Auditorium at Barnard Hall. The talk, "How to Get From There to Here," is free and open to the public. No reservations are needed.

Noël Coward's outrageous comedy Fallen Angels will bring two desperate housewives, one French lover and unlimited champagne to Asolo Repertory Theatre on March 9. Check out just-released production shots from the show below!

J'Nointed Entertainment and writing/directing/producing team James and Michele Woodson bring you their award-winning inspirational stage play 'Love's Gonna Get You' just in time for Valentine's Day. Performances will be at the Roy Arias Theatres for one weekend only, February 11-12, 2012. Meet the cast of the play in the video below!

Part of SCERA's Theatre for Young Audiences program, 'Tremendously Tall Tales' will reflect the adventures of American icons like Johnny Appleseed, John Henry and Paul Bunyan, but will also add pratfalls, sight gags and hat tricks in the style of vaudeville. The performance, directed by Robinne Booth, is less than an hour long. Check out just-released production shots from the show!

The El Segundo Playhouse continues its inaugural season presenting the WORLD PREMIERE production of Larry Gene's play EMMA from February 2 through February 12, 2012 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm with Sunday matinees at 2pm. Production photos have been released. Production shots have been released and BroadwayWorld brings you a look below.

Yale Repertory Theatre will open the world premiere of GOOD GOODS by Christina Anderson, directed by Tina Landau tonight, February 9. The production began performances on February 3 and runs through February 25 at Yale Repertory Theatre. Check out show highlights below.

As part of MusicalFare Theatre's T3 Series and in connection with MusicalFare's current production of AVENUE Q, MusicalFare will present "Gotta Find My Purpose, Gotta Find Me" on Thursday, February 16 following a performance of AVENUE Q at approximately 9:30 p.m. The event is an informative and spirited talk about young peoples' aspirations and the challenge of starting out in the 'real' world after college, everyone's desire to find a purpose in life, the need to take chances and change and the importance of helping others.

FRIGID New York and A High Frequency Theatre will present Andrew Hall's "'Til Love Do Us Part" February 22 - March 3 at UNDER St. Marks - 94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Avenue A.

Marissa Von Bleicken, one of the contestants from the television series, The Glee Project, will get up close and personal with children and teens who dream of becoming pop stars in a March 24 workshop at Pearl Studios, 500 8th Ave - between 35th & 36th St.

Brit Floyd will bring their "A Foot in the Door" tour to Hershey Theatre on Thursday, March 15 at 8 p.m. This brand new show will celebrate the musical legacy of Pink Floyd.

Geneva-based Foofwa d'Imobilite returns to The Kitchen with the New York premiere of a choreographic comedy, Pina Jackson In Mercemoriam, for one performance only on Sunday, March 11 at 4pm, as part of Thinkswiss: Geneve Meets New York, a citywide festival that explores the remarkable global impact of a singular European city (March 6-12). This special performance is free and open to the public. RSVP is required at samara@thekitchen.org.

The Broadway play Red comes to Berkeley Repertory Theatre in March, staged as a valedictory by Obie Award-winner Les Waters as he departs the Bay Area to take the reins at Actors Theatre of Louisville. John Logan, the Oscar-nominated author of Aviator and Gladiator, won Tony and Drama Desk Awards for this feverish 90-minute drama. Now Waters and two exceptional actors bring this powerful play to local audiences. Red begins previews on the intimate Thrust Stage on March 16, opens March 22, and runs through April 29.

Black Ensemble Theater announces the extension of its production The Jackie Wilson Story, written, produced and directed by Black Ensemble Theater Founder and CEO Jackie Taylor. All cast members are continuing in their roles, including Kelvin Roston Jr., Dawn Bless, RaShawn Thompson, Melanie McCullough, Trinity Murdock, Carrie, Lawrence Williams, Lyle Miller, Rueben Echols and Robin Beamen. The Jackie Wilson Story launched Black Ensemble Theater's 2011-2012 Legendary Season of Rhythm & Blues and has been extended through March 18, 2012.

Black Ensemble Theater, under the direction of founder & CEO Jackie Taylor, will host a special one night-only Valentine's Day event featuring some of the most famous love songs of all time performed by Black Ensemble performers Rick Stone, Dawn Bless, RaShawn Thompson, Lyle Miller, Melanie McCullough, David Simmons, Theo Huff, Katrina Miller, Lawrence Williams, Rueben Echoles, Carrie Abernathy, Stori Johnson and Daryl Brooks. The one-night only cabaret is February 14, 2012 at 7:30pm at the Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark Street.

An intense and captivating look at architecture, grief, and Israeli culture and history, Carey Perloff's "Higher," challenges audiences to look at their lives and consider why they do what they do. Produced by American Conservatory Theatre, the play - both dramatic and comedic - shows now through February 19 at The Theater at Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco. The change in venue for this particular show brings audiences closer to the action. Although the play's fantastic script certainly makes it worthy of playing at the larger A.C.T. Theater, the smaller seating area does nothing to diminish the quality of the show. If anything, it makes viewers feel like they are a part of the story, like they have a stake in what happens.

The Merced Playhouse production of "The King and I" leaves audiences whistling plenty of happy tunes. The tunes come easily enough after a pleasant evening of some of Rogers and Hammerstein's most well-known songs.

A small piece of the national tour of "West Side Story" remains in Sacramento these next two months, but it's not what you might think. And while many anticipate the arrival of the hit musical "Wicked," they can get their Wicked kicks at California Musical Theater's Cosmopolitan Cabaret, but with more humor than magic. Songs from these and many more shows are part of a Broadway revue in downtown Sacramento playing through March 18. But this isn't your typical revue. This revue has four fantastic actors constantly changing from excessive costume to excessive costume as they take on some of the most well know Broadway tunes with a revised, "forbidden" twist. The tunes are there, but the cleverly reinvented lyrics of "Forbidden Broadway" make fun of everything musical theater.

Not quite as memorable as some of its Gilbert and Sullivan counterparts, but just as enjoyable, the Lamplighters' production of "The Gondoliers" features a lush orchestra, strong vocals and a silly story of mistaken identities that serves as a satire of the class distinctions and royalty of Gilbert and Sullivan's time. The simple plot of the operetta/musical (sung in English) follows two gondoliers in Venice who are told by Don Alhambra del Bolero, an Inquisitor of Spain, that one of them is the king of the fictional land, Barataria. Marco and Giuseppe, both newlyweds, are even more surprised to learn that whomever happens to be the king was married in infancy to Casilda, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro. The news takes them away from their wives, Tessa and Gianetta, to their kingdom, where they immediately begin implementing an all-are-equal structure matching their Republican, anti-monarchy values. Meanwhile, Casilda has her own secret hopes for romance, but not with either of the gondoliers.

The national tour of "West Side Story," which visits Broadway Sacramento at the Community Center now through January 29, updates a classic, not with modern reinventions and sets, but with a somewhat darker take on the musical's Romeo and Juliet story, as well as with new Spanish dialogue added for a more authentic and balanced feel. But much of the production stays true to tradition, magically recreating Jerome Robbin's original choreography and paying tribute to all the original Leonard Bernstein songs, including "Something's Coming," "Tonight," "One Hand, One Heart," "I Feel Pretty" and "Somewhere." The cast, too, sticks to the show's roots while providing outstanding vocal performance, and James Youmans' basic sets keep the production simple.