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Auditions for the Conejo Players' production of Twelve Angry Men will begin on Sunday, January 23 and continue through Tuesday, January 25 at 7:30 pm each night. The production will be directed by Deidre Parmenter and produced by Heather Lease & Mike Moffat.

Lucy Black, Timothy Carlton, Simon Chandler, Richard Clifford, Oliver Coopersmith, Niamh Cusack, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Freddie Fox, Jenny Galloway, Patrick Godfrey, Nicholas Jones, Tommy McDonnell, Lucy Robinson, Tristan Shepherd, Richard Teverson, Sarah Waddell, Michael Webber and Tristram Wymark will join the previously announced Anne-Marie Duff in Terence Rattigan's final play, Cause Celebre, opening for previews on 17 March with a press night on 29 March 2011.

Bay Street Theatre continues THE JAM SESSION free concerts every Thursday in February and March from 7-9 pm. Please note there is no concert on Thursday, January 27. THE JAM SESSION plays in the Bay Street Theatre lobby.

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce the five darkly dazzling operas that comprise the company's 2011-12 season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. With opening night on Friday, October 21, 2011, the 55th international season - "Tragic Obsessions" - will showcase compelling works by Donizetti, Janacek, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, and will include an outstanding Dallas opera-in-concert, important debuts and some of the company's most renowned productions. Each opera will feature the superbly talented Dallas Opera Orchestra and Dallas Opera Chorus and will be performed in its original language, with English translations projected above the stage at every performance. Exclusive subscriber extras include "A Cabaret Evening with Patricia Racette" and a fun-filled family concert starring soprano Ava Pine and the Dallas Opera Orchestra.

Hush the Musical Review, a production of the Frizzi & Lazzi Musical Theatre Company, will take part in the Midwinter Madness Festival, presented by John Chatterton. It will play three performances next month at the Payan Theatre in the Times Square Arts Center.

The Pull-Tight Players Theatre of Franklin, Tennessee, will host a talk-back following the Friday, Feb. 4 performance of John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT. Patrons are invited and encouraged to stay to explore DOUBT further with director Heather Bottoms and the cast. This will substitute for the Players' traditional Prelude event Sunday, Jan. 16, which has been cancelled due to unpredictable weather.

INTERVIEWING THE AUDIENCE - a new work by the playwright and filmmaker Zach Helm and created spontaneously each night by Mr. Helm from on stage interviews with willing members of the audience - will begin previews February 3 prior to its official opening night on February 10 as the next production in the Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.) season. Tickets are on sale now to this limited engagement, which runs through February 27.

The Abreact Performance Space presents the controversial La Ronde, by Arthur Schnitzler, directed by Frannie Shepherd-Bates. The show runs from February 4-26, Friday and Saturdays nights with one Sunday matinee. Admission is by donation. Tickets may be reserved by calling 313-285-0217 or at reservations@theabreact.com.