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Bill Malone, Operator of The Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside invites you to celebrate the lunar new year with THE NEW SHANGHAI CIRCUS, on Sunday, February 10 at 3pm (Doors open at 2pm) at the Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside.

Aurora Theatre assembles the best children's performers in the region, bringing them to Gwinnett County for the series Aurora Children's Playhouse. This winter will feature a great children's musical, a master puppeteer with a classic tale and a bilingual premiere of a beloved Atlanta tradition. During the colder months parents are often looking for exciting indoor activities for the family and Aurora Children's Playhouse provides three amazing performances for families with young children.

The Palace Theatre has announced it is a recipient of a $41,042 grant award from the Samuel P. Hunt Foundation for a new orchestra pit cover. The Hunt Foundation, located in Manchester, NH, was created for general charitable purposes. The latest gift to the Palace Theatre Trust will be used to support the purchase and installation of a new orchestra pit cover that will replace an out-of-date, heavy, wooden pit with limited functions. The replacement pit cover will provide the Palace stage with a safer surface and increased design capabilities.

NVA will present THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, Horton Foote's beautiful American classic about finding your way home, in honor of founding Ensemble member Sandra Ellis-Troy (1942-2010.) NVA is thrilled to have Ellis-Troy's close friend Sylvia M'Lafi Thompson anchoring the cast in the pivotal role of Carrie Watts.

Victory Gardens continues its 2012-13 season with the American Premiere of Disconnect, written by Anupama Chandrasekhar and directed by Ann Filmer. The production runs January 25 - February 24, 2013 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park. The Press Opening is Monday, February 4, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

The Howard County Arts Council, in its 32nd year of service to the public of Howard County, presents the 16th Annual Celebration of the Arts in Howard County on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard Community College (HCC) in Columbia. HCC President Dr. Kathleen Hetherington will serve as Honorary Chair and Richard W. Story, Director of Marketing at JPB Enterprises will emcee the event.

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN), the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, announces its 34th Rolling World Premiere: Octavio Solis' Se Llama Cristina will receive three productions through the Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund in the 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons. Se Llama Cristina will begin its Rolling World Premiere at Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA, January 23 - February 17, 2013), followed by performances at Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX, May 24 - June 22, 2013) and The Theatre @ Boston Court (Pasadena, CA, January 16 - February 23, 2014).

This spring the Frick will present a selection of nineteenth-century French drawings and prints from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Remarkable sheets by Jean-François Millet, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and other masters will be on view in the lower-level galleries and Cabinet. Ranging widely in subject matter and technique and spanning the entire second half of the nineteenth century, the fifty-eight works represent the diverse interests of Realist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist artists in a rapidly changing world.

The University of Akron's Center for Conflict Management and Akron's Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture (CATAC) presents The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts national tour of WARRIORS DON'T CRY, sponsored by AETNA. An adaptation of the award-winning (American Library Association Award, 1995 Nonfiction Book of the Year; Robert F. Kennedy Book Award) memoir of the same name, authored by Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals, this newly produced one-woman performance comes to The Balch Street Theatre, 220 South Balch Street, Akron, OH, 44302 for two public performances on January 17 and 18, 2013 at 7:30pm.

Soldiers' characters are put to the test in Raven Theatre's A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller, directed by Michael Menendian. Opening night is scheduled for Monday, February 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, with a reception following in Raven's lobby. Tickets and information are available at www.raventheatre.com or 773-338-2177.

Austin City Limits (ACL) features acoustic rock duo Rodrigo y Gabriela making their ACL debut in a new episode airing January 12. The Mexican duo are renowned for their super-charged acoustic style of instrumental music and diverse musical background that fuses traditional flamenco music with heavy metal and rock. Rodrigo y Gabriela perform a head-spinning live set, showcasing their fast and rhythmic guitar work, in a full-hour show. The episode airs Saturday, January 12 on PBS (check local listings).

Steve Alpert and Ken Greiner in association with Slant Theatre Project present the world-premiere of THE STEADFAST, Mat Smart's gripping new play that looks at eight U.S. soldiers across the sweep of American history - from the Revolutionary War to the War in Afghanistan - and the common thread that connects them across continents and centuries. THE STEADFAST is inspired by Mr. Alpert's Legacy painting. Preview performances of THE STEADFAST begin January 20 prior to an official press opening of January 23 at TBG Theatre (312 West 36th Street) in Manhattan. Slant Theatre Project's co-founder Wes Grantom will direct.

Cirque du Soleil is back in Miami with its astonishing and visually stunning production TOTEM, opening tonight under the trademark blue-and-yellow big top at Sun Life Stadium for a limited engagement through February 24, 2013. Tonight's show marks the 1,000th performance of TOTEM since its World Premiere in April 2010 in Montreal, Canada. In over two years and a half, more than 2 million people in 14 cities in Canada, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States have been mesmerized by the TOTEM experience that The San Francisco Chronicle described as "whimsically seductive and the most enjoyable show to come along from Cirque du Soleil in quite awhile", and The Toronto Star proclaimed as "spectacular, artful. Breathtaking and deliciously ironic".

Quebec native Isabelle Demers kicks off The Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Recital Series on Saturday, January 19 at 3 p.m. in Verizon Hall. Revered by both critics and audiences alike for her virtuosic capabilities on the organ, Demers studied with Paul Jacobs at Julliard and is an internationally renowned talent recognized in organ competitions held in the United States, Europe and Canada. Prior to the afternoon performance, all ticket holders are welcome to attend a pre-concert lecture with Michael Barone, host of American Public Media's PIPEDREAMS, and Isabelle Demers at 2:15 pm in Verizon Hall.

This Too Shall Suck, a one-man "traumedy", written and performed by comedian Matt Graham ("Late Night with Conan O'Brien", "Saturday Night Live"), and presented by Lean Horse Productions, is extending its run by popular demand at The Huron Club in the SoHo Playhouse to Thursday, May 2, 2013. This Too Shall Suck began performances on October 25, 2o12 after an acclaimed run during the New York International Fringe Festival and the FringeNYC Encore Series in 2012.

Playwrights Theatre's Creative Arts Academy summer camp for kids and summer theatre program for teens will begin on July 8, 2013, and run through August 30, 2013, in two-week sessions. For more information and to register, visit www.ptnj.org or call 973-514-1787 X21.

Theatre 167 will present the Manhattan Premiere of THE JACKSON HEIGHTS TRILOGY, a rotating repertory of three plays about the Queens, New York neighborhood famous for being the world's most diverse community. Created by 18 playwrights and starring a company of 37 actors playing 93 multicultural roles, the plays were conceived and will be directed by Ari Laura Kreith. The trilogy will inaugurate the newly renovated 777 Theatre, located at 777 8th Avenue at 47th Street beginning February 8th. While each of the plays has been presented individually in Queens to critical acclaim, this is the first time any of these plays will be seen in Manhattan and the first time they are being presented together in repertory, where audiences can see them individually or all in one day.

Warsaw's award-winning Szymanowski Quartet returns to Segerstrom Center with acclaimed pianist Adam Golka on Wednesday, February 6 with a unique program that will feature works by Johannes Brahms and three influential Polish composers: Karol Szymanowski, Gra?yna Bacewicz and Waclaw of Szamotuly.

Previews begin on Thursday, January 10th for the World Premiere of Michael Puzzo's Spirits of Exit Eleven at The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street, NYC). Presented by Justin Reinsilber and directed by Frank Licato, this new American play is directed by Frank Licato and opens on January 17th at 8pm. The production runs through February 2nd. Tickets are $19.25 (which includes a $1.25 restoration charge) and can be purchased online at www.telecharge.com, by phone at 212-239-6200 / 800-432-7250 or in person at Theatre Row Box Office.

GERING & LóPEZ GALLERY will present JOAN SNYDER, Symphony, an exhibition of works on paper from 1968 -1976 and recent paintings. This will be the artist's first exhibition with the gallery.