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Opera director David McVicar will return home to Scottish Opera for his first ever staging of Stravinsky's THE RAKE'S PROGRESS, which will play at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow on March 17-25 and at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh on March 27-31.

11th Hour's seventh annual Philly Rocks concert will be Philly Rocks: and Rolls - The Greatest Songs of the 1960's! on Monday Feb. 27th, 2012 at the World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA at 7pm.

The line-up for THE LOOSE CABOOSE SHOW, which will take place at 7:30pm at the Bowery Poetry Club on Feb 24, has been announced.

Player King Productions has announced the Los Angeles premiere of CORONADO by acclaimed mystery writer Dennis Lehane, directed by Drew Shirley, for 12 performances only beginning Sunday, March 4 and running through March 27. Opening night is Monday, March 5 at 8:00, at The Holding Company in Silverlake.

Sydney cabaret star Catherine Alcorn will premiere her hit show THE DIVINE MISS BETTE this March at La Boheme as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Fringe Festival.

The Tampa Repertory Theatre, through TRT2, will present TARTUFFE, Moliere's seventeenth-century satire on hypocrisy from Match 1-16.

Theater Reconstruction Ensemble's world premiere THE THREE SEAGULLS, OR MASHAMASHAMASHA! by Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by John Kurzynowski will run at the HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave) from March 1- March 10, 2012.

The American Premiere of THE CITY CLUB, an original blues and jazz musical about the intoxication of music, opens off-Broadway on April 23 at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Previews will begin April 3.

According to a report on nypost.com, the musical GIANT, which played last month at the Dallas Theater Center, will be heading to the Public Theater in Fall and has potential to transfer to Broadway.

According to a report by Michael Riedel of nypost.com, The Public Theater is already considering a Broadway transfer for the revival of INTO THE WOODS which plays the Delacorte in Central Park this Summer.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre's (MET) Annual RETRO PROM is returning for its eighth year. The Prom, which will feature the musical stylings of The Spin Doctor, dancing, door prizes, a silent auction, prom photos, a cash bar and pizza, will be held on March 10th from 7:00-11:30pm at the William R. Talley Recreation Center (121 N. Bentz St. Frederick).

The Spencer Theatre is hosting the Las Cruces Symphony Chamber Orchestra for a night of classical music on Saturday, March 3rd at 7 p.m.

Director and actor Natalija Nogulich has been named as director for the Chicago premiere of songwriter Spider Saloff's one-woman musical, THE ROAR OF THE BUTTERFLY, to be presented by KMP Artists at Victory Gardens' Richard Christiansen Theater May 2 - 20, 2012. In the tradition of Lilly Tomlin and Tracey Ullman, Saloff portrays eight different characters in this new musical comedy.

Tickets are now on sale for FLIGHT with previews beginning on March 2nd and an opening night on Wednesday, March 7th. The world premiere of FLIGHT by Michel Wallerstein, Off Broadway* at the DR 2 Theatre, 103 East 15th Street - off Union Square, is presented by Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan (Robert Saxner, Producing Artistic Director) in association with Playwrights' Playground NYC.

Career Transition For Dancers is presenting its National Outreach Project, which will be hosted by So You Think You Can Dance, in Salt Lake City on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the Capitol Theatre, 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101 from 12:30-1:30 pm. The free workshop, IT'S ALL PLAN 'A': THE WHOLE ARTIST APPROACH, is for pre-professionals, students, current and former professional dancers, college students, teachers and choreographers.

Today, 22 February 2012, 13 year old Harris Beattie from Aberdeen, Scotland and 9 year old Dayna Dixon from Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne will join the West End cast of Billy Elliot the Musical which celebrates 7 years in at the Victoria Palace Theatre in May. Harris will become the twenty-ninth boy to play the title role in the West End and the 64th boy to play the role worldwide, including Jamie Bell who played Billy Elliot in the award-winning film. He is joined by Dayna who plays Debbie, dance teacher Mrs Wilkinson's daughter.

Cast members from Broadway musicals will host a special Kids Week performance for children who are on winter vacation on Tuesday, February 21st from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at 46th Street and 12th Avenue, Manhattan.

Act II Playhouse announced today that award-winning actor Tony Braithwaite will be the theatre's new Producing Artistic Director, succeeding outgoing Producing Artistic Director Bud Martin at the conclusion of the 2011/12 season.

The award-winning South Whidbey High School Jazz Band will perform a jazz concert tonight at 7:30pm at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.

South Bend Civic Theatre will present the Kids4Kids production THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF FLAT STANLEY, JR on March 23-25 at the Bendix Theatre in Century Center.