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Registration for the spring semester of Italian language classes at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is now open. The 12-week semester begins February 25, with 90-minute classes offered weekdays, weekends and evenings to accommodate most schedules, for students of all levels of proficiency. Weekday classes will be taught by Rose Frisari on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, weekend classes will be taught by Professor Louis Leonini on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and evening classes will be taught by Maria Bonavita on Mondays and Wednesdays. Classes are limited to a maximum of 20 students and minimum of 10. Tuition is $165 for non-members and $150 for museum members and must be paid in advance.

42nd Street Moon presents the Tony Award-winning musical CARNIVAL.

The enchanting Irish musical ensemble Celtic Woman returns to America for an expansive four-month concert tour, beginning on February 21 in Worcester, MA and following on the heels of the group's sold-out Christmas Celebration tour. In addition, Celtic Woman was recently named Billboard Magazine's #1 World Music Artist in their year-end issue. For completed tour schedule and ticket information, visit www.celticwoman.com.

Landmark on Main Street will present The Campbell Brothers on Friday, February 1, 2013 at 8 PM. Landmark thanks our World Beat Series Sponsors New York Community Bank Foundation and our program sponsors Einsidler Management. We also gratefully acknowledges our Season Sponsor Pall Corporation and our Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, Town of North Hempstead, Bank of America, The Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation and Winthrop University Hospital their support of our full season of programming. Tickets and information at the box office phone 516-767-6444 or www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.

Suncoast Hotel & Casino today announced the launch of a new Thursday afternoon entertainment program inside the 500-seat Suncoast Showroom - Suncoast Variety Show - produced by Ed Mathews' Desert Productions.

Shattered Globe Theatre continues its 2012/13 Season with the dark comedy HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Artistic Director Roger Smart, playing January 24 - March 2, 2013 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago. The production features Shattered Globe Ensemble Members Steve Peebles, Linda Reiter, Drew Schad and Ben Werling and SGT Associate Artist Christina Gorman with Cortney McKenna and Karack Osborn. Tickets for HAPPY NOW? are available at www.shatteredglobe.org. The press performance is Sunday, January 27 at 3 pm.

An epic format deserves an epic festival. For two weeks in February, Music Box Theatre screens nine movies - more than a half-ton of celluloid - at the Music Box Theatre 70MM Festival. Highlights include a brand new print of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the return of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. Music Box has spent more than 100 man-hours prepping their 70mm equipment to ensure that even audiences who've seen 70mm before have never seen it with this clarity. Music Box Theatre 70MM Festival runs February 15-28, 2012 at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave. www.musicboxtheatre.com/collections/music-box-theatre-70mm-festival

ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE by Quiara Alegria Hudes, directed by Josh Benjamin runs at Burning Coal Theatre Company's Wait Til You See This! - Second Stage Series January 10 - 20, 2013 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. All tickets $10 and are available at www.burningcoal.org or at the door. Performances are at 7:30 pm Thursdays through Saturdays at 2 pm on Sundays.

All performances of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL (January 15-27, 2013), will now be held in the State Theatre (originally scheduled and ticketed to play the Palace). In addition, the opening night performance on TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 will have a new 8:00 p.m. curtain time. This time change is for opening night ONLY. All other performances will begin at their normally scheduled times. All current ticket holders will receive new tickets by mail prior to their ticketed performance.

The Chicago Sinfonietta recognizes two Chicago-based companies, one for-profit and one non-profit, with its second annual Chairperson's Award for Diversity and Inclusion, honoring their tireless devotion to fostering an environment where innovation through inclusion is of the highest priority. The 2013 recipients are Quarles & Brady, LLP (for-profit) and Silk Road Rising (non-profit). The Awards are presented at the Sinfonietta's annual Arts & Diversity Reception, taking place at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Avenue, Monday, January 21 at 5:30 pm just before the Sinfonietta's Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. concert, also held at Symphony Center.

On the heels of their acclaimed 2012 year-long world tour, Crosby, Stills & Nash will tour again in 2013, beginning with a series of dates in May in the Southeastern United States. The tour begins May 5 at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando, FL, and concludes at the Hard Rock Casino & Resort in Biloxi, MS on May 25. Other highlights include Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL (May 7), the Seminole Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, FL (May 10-11), the Peace Center Concert Hall in Greenville, SC (May 21), and the Performing Arts Center in Montgomery, AL (May 24). CSN official website members will have access to pre-sale tickets before the public on sales begin next week.

Disney's THE LION KING defied industry expectations in a year that many industry experts had predicted would be challenging for theatres. Performing to almost 800,000 people at London's Lyceum Theatre, the show grossed over £38.6M - breaking its own record for the eighth consecutive year and once again setting a new record for highest grossing year in West End theatre history.

The Hartt School Community Division brings Preparacion Fisica dance classes to the Greater-Hartford community in 2013. The classes will be instructed by Eddy Tovar of the Texas Ballet Theatre. Preparacion Fisica is a physical training program designed for the Cuban national Ballet School and used by top ballet performers throughout the world. Classes are for adults and teens age 15 and up. Starting January 25, 2013, classes take place every Friday from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the University of Hartford's Handel Performing Arts Center, 35 Westbourne Parkway, Hartford. Students may register for the full spring semester, purchase a 10-class dance card, or drop in. For more information, contact us at 860.768.6000 or visit the Community Division web site at www.hcd.hartford.edu.

Jerry Blavat, Philadelphia's DJ Godfather of soul, doo-wop and rock and roll, returns to the Kimmel Center with his The Divas of All Time show on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 8 p.m. in Verizon Hall. Joined by an all-star line-up of performers, the 'Geator with the Heater' takes a walk down memory lane to the good ol' days? back to when rock was young and soul was just hitting the scene.

Songwriter Drew Overcash offers concert featuring music from Boys Vs. Girls, Joe and To You With Love Feb. 11 at Joe's Pub.

Connecticut's premier outdoor Shakespeare company announced today that it will present As You Like It, one of Shakespeare's most beloved and pastoral comedies in the summer of 2013. Claire Shannon Kelly, currently the Director of Youth Programming for Shakespeare on the Sound and the director of the company's touring educational program, "Speaking Daggers," will direct. Kelly previously worked at the Ordway Theater, the Guthrie Theater, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and the George Street Playhouse.

The Hamburg Ballet - widely considered to be one of the world's greatest dance companies - will begin its U.S. tour at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on Feb. 1, 2013. The two-performance engagement at Chicago's Harris Theater marks the esteemed classical ballet company's Chicago debut and the Windy City premiere of the ballet's iconic work, "Nijinsky."

The Board of Governors of the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) today announced the appointment of Mark Packer as its new Executive Director in an executive search process guided by Arts Consulting Group. Packer will assume his official duties at SOPAC on March 1, 2013.

Stages of Discovery will sponsor a workshop, on Saturday, February 16, 2013 on Directing. The workshop is for high school students and adults and will begin at 10:00 a.m. and conclude at 3:00 p.m. The workshop will be taught by Leeds Bird, a long-time director at Bay City Players. Leeds has a master's degree in theatre from MSU and is a retired high school theatre teacher. He also has experience as a professional actor and director.

Delta Rae is slated to rock The Eccles Center on Saturday, February 2. This sizzling and stunning, folk-rock sextet, which was recently named one of Forbes "30 Under 30," kicks off their Park City concert at 7:30 p.m.