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Timeless vocalist, songwriter, and actor, Paul Anka will play the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on January 9, 2013, and continues to define the term entertainer. A true child star, Paul Anka started his vocal group at the age of 13, and by the age of 17 had garnered five top 20 hits, including "You Are My Destiny," "Crazy Love," "Let The Bells Keep Ringing," "(All of A Sudden) My Heart Sings," and the #1 single "Diana."

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) continues its 2012-2013 Target Storybook Series with The Little Prince on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 2pm. All tickets are $7 and can be purchased by phone at 718-951-4500 (Tues-Sat, 1pm-6pm), or online at www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org. Recommended for ages eight to eighty.

Tickets to the Shaw Festival's season of eleven compelling productions go on sale online, by fax or by mail to the general public on January 9, 2013. Telephone lines open and in person sales begin January 12. Early ordering prices are in effect until the end of the month.

The Recording Academy and TBWAChiatDay have teamed for the sixth year to promote the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards with the ad campaign '#TheWorldIsListening.' The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards (www.grammy.com) will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network (www.cbs.com) from 8 - 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). For updates and breaking news, please visit The Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook.

Z2 Entertainment will present three nights of Lotus to the Boulder Theater on Thursday, April 4th through April 6th, 2013. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, January 11th, 2012 at 10:00 am for $27.50 general admission & $75 for a three day pass.

On the Verge will present Michael Milligan's new play, Mercy Killers, at the Van Fleet Feb. 20th thru March 9th. The Columbus run performed by the author is a part of the ‘Mercy Killers Tour'- a collaboration with Single Payer Action Network. SPAN is organizing performances around Ohio to help raise awareness about the growing dysfunction of the American health care system.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces its benefit gala White Night III on Saturday, February 23, 2013 from 7-10:30pm at Greenhouse, 150 Varick Street, NYC. An exclusive VIP reception will take place from 6-7pm.

A limited number of individual tickets are on sale now for ONE NIGHT for ONE DROP, a global philanthropy event to raise funds and awareness to ensure water is accessible across the globe.

97.3 KBCO & Z2 Entertainment will present Milo Greene at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, March 30th. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 11th for $14.00.

Z2 Entertainment will to present Katchafire at the Fox Theatre on Friday, May 3rd. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, January 11th for $14.00 in advance and $17.00 day of show.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, The Joffrey Ballet heats up the winter season with a mixed repertory program of four sensual, romantic and playful ballets by master choreographers in "American Legends," presented in ten performances only at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, February 13 - 24, 2013.

Beverly, Massachusetts' Caspian has announced a full US headlining tour, beginning on February 16th in Chapel Hill, NC at The Local 506 which will include a stop at San Francisco's annual Noise Pop Festival. The extensive winter tour will showcase Caspian's new album, Waking Season - released this past fall via Triple Crown Records. Beginning on February 16th, Junius (Prosthetic Records) will join Caspian as their main support until March 2nd. Native (Sargent House)will take over the slot of main support until the tour wraps up at Signal Kitchen in Burlington, VT on March 24th.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts and KPMG are will present the North American premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians by Nobel Prize winning author J.M. Coetzee, a co-production with Mopo Cultural Trust and in association with the Baxter Theatre Centre (South Africa). Adapted and directed by Alexandre Marine and produced by Maurice Podbrey, CM, the play premiered to critical and audience acclaim at Cape Town's Baxter Theatre Centre in August 2012, and will be presented at the Segal Theatre from January 27th to February 17th, 2013.

After a premiere concert with the Malmo Symphonic Orchestra in Sweden and an extended Los Angeles workshop production, JUNK: A Rock Opera will play a one-night-only concert at Joe's Pub, January 18 at 11:30pm starring some of Broadway's hottest rockers.

The Windham Theatre Guild will hold their Annual Giant Indoor Tag Sale on Saturday, January 19TH, 2013 from 9am-1pm at the Burton Leavitt Theatre, 779 Main Street, Willimantic. But the Guild needs your help!!

On Tuesday, January 29th, 2013, giving back has never tasted so good!

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Huntington Theatre Company $245,000 so that Huntington Playwriting Fellow Melinda Lopez (Sonia Flew, Becoming Cuba) can join the company's full-time staff as playwright-in-residence. The award is one of 14 residency grants at theatre companies around the US announced this month. Lopez will begin her residency on July 1, 2013.

Grupo Fantasma has been 'praised as one of the most important independent acts in the Latin genre and has continually defied expectations to create one of the most unique musical voices to come out of the United States in the last decade.' In 2011 they garnered further acclaim by winning a Grammy (their second such nomination) for their self-produced release El Existential on Nat Geo Music which the Wall Street Journal called "Latin music both new and traditional…vibrant fusions that transcend easy classification."

On one weekend in March 2013, all four of the "Big Baroque" organizations in Houston - Mercury (formerly Mercury Baroque), Ars Lyrica, Da Camera and Houston Early Music - will have back-to-back early music programs. This "lunar eclipse" of Houston's early music leaders is an opportunity for the early music scene that cannot be passed up. The leaders of Mercury, Ars Lyrica and Houston Early Music have created a special promotion - the Houston Baroque Marathon weekend - and have set the stage for a Houston-based, Texas Early Music Festival in spring 2014.