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As a sequel to her first viral Liza Minnelli video, NEWSical The Musical star Christine Pedi recently released 'Even More Sh*t Liza Minnelli Says.' View it below!

After nearly 40 performances at Carnegie Hall, renowned soprano Renée Fleming curates a four-event Perspectives series, showcasing her multifaceted talents and collaborating with some of her favorite fellow artists beginning on Sunday, January 27 at 8:00 p.m. when she appears in recital in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage with her frequent operatic co-star and close friend mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.

Primary Stages has announced its newest training program, PS[NYC], the Primary Stages Theater Semester in New York. PS[NYC] is designed to fully immerse undergraduate students in theater and the world of creating new plays in New York City. This 14-week program is held at Primary Stages, one of Off-Broadway's leading producers of new works and home of the Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), a multidisciplinary school with departments in playwriting, acting, and directing. PS[NYC] gives students maximum exposure to New York theater and the industry professionals who create it. Students will not only learn what it takes to make great theater, but will sharpen their critical thinking skills as well. Students will be encouraged to identify and nurture their own artistic inner voices, and will leave the program with knowledge, insight, and skills that can only be developed in an environment built on artistic excellence.

After a nationwide search, the board of directors of TheaterWorks is very pleased to announce that it has selected Rob Ruggiero as TheaterWorks' new Producing Artistic Director. Mr. Ruggiero, who has been affiliated with TheaterWorks for 20 years and has served as its Interim Artistic Director since March of 2012, will assume his role as of January 1, 2013. Michael G. Albano, the president of TheaterWorks' board, stated that the search committee had reviewed approximately 130 applications for the position. Although the committee was impressed by these applicants' enthusiasm and variety of experience, Mr. Albano explained that "the committee came to the conclusion that no applicant could match Rob's combination of directorial excellence on a national level, his management and fundraising skills and instincts, his knowledge of the community, and his exciting vision for the theater's future."

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced today that VENICE, a new musical with book by Eric Rosen, music by Matt Sax, lyrics by Matt Sax and Eric Rosen, and additional music by Curtis Moore, has been added to the 2013 spring season at the newly revitalized Public Theater at Astor Place. Directed by Eric Rosen, VENICE will run in The Public's Anspacher Theater beginning on Tuesday, May 28 through Sunday, June 23, with an official press opening on Thursday, June 13. Public Lab Member tickets for VENICE, priced at $12, are on sale now at (212) 539-8650.

Casting for Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables has been announced for the premiere Pittsburgh engagement at the Benedum Center, Tuesday, January 15 through Sunday, January 27, 2013. The all new production of Les Miserables features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS has announced the digital release of the Original London Cast Recording of the acclaimed musical 13 - The Musical on Tuesday, December 18. The show has music and lyrics by Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn, and was produced in London by Jeremy Walker for National Youth Music Theatre. The new recording, produced by Brown and recorded by Robin Sellars, includes two previously unrecorded songs, as well as revised lyrics and musical scoring, and the all-teenage cast that Mark Shenton of The Stage called 'rougher, tougher and more adorable' than the original Broadway company. In addition to the download - which will be available on Tuesday everywhere digital music is sold - physical CDs are available to order now at http://sh-k-boom.com/13MusicalOriginalLondonCast.shtml.

Six time Grammy award winner, Roberta Flack, is coming to the St. George Theatre on Saturday, January 12, 2013 to perform songs from her latest release, Let It Be Roberta, an interpretive album of classic hits from The Beatles.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Dickens on Film, December 19, 2012 through January 3, 2013 in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. Commemorating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens (British, 1812-1870), one of the world's most beloved storytellers, Dickens on Film presents a vivid selection of silent and sound films adapted from his work. Dickens's highly visual narrative style has inspired filmmakers throughout the history of cinema, and many critics and scholars believe the author's use of alternating stories, divided by chapters within a single novel, helped sow the idea of cinematic cross-cutting and the development of editing in film.

Twelve distinguished dance figures join the Dance Heritage Coalition's list of "America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures." These new honorees were nominated by a national survey and vote in 2012 and were confirmed by the Dance Heritage Coalition (DHC) Board of Directors. The 12 figures are celebrated online along with the initial list of 100 in an Online Exhibition of Dance Treasures, through a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Over the last 40 years, one of the most significant developments in the study of 19th-century European paintings has been a growing appreciation of the importance of plein-air (outdoor) oil sketches to the Realist and Impressionist landscape aesthetic. In 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired from New York connoisseur Wheelock Whitney a comprehensive survey of sketches painted between 1785 and 1850 by many of the most notable artists of the French school who worked in this medium. The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850 will be held on the tenth anniversary of this major acquisition.

The past two seasons, productions from the National Theatre of Scotland (Black Watch and Long Gone Lonesome) have played to sold-out audiences. The company returns with an evening of anarchic theatre, live music, and strange goings-on in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, January 16-19 at Palm Door (401-A Sabine Street).

Skylight Music Theatre kicks off 2013 with a delightfully wonky show, HERE'S A HOWDY DO: THE MISCHIEVOUS WORLD OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN. Written and directed by Dale Gutzman, this no holds barred look at Gilbert and Sullivan plays December 31 through January 13 in the Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center (158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee WI).

The American Museum of Natural History celebrates its 34th annual Kwanzaa celebration with Kwanzaa 2012: First Fruits of the Harvest. The event celebrates the rich traditions of Kwanzaa and honors the holiday's seven guiding principles. The festival will include a special interview about Karamu (African Feast) with pioneering restaurateur B. Smith, family-friendly hands-on activities, and an international marketplace. Restoration Dance Theatre Company and Balance Dance Theatre, led by acclaimed choreographer Obediah Wright, will perform in an exciting program that also includes newcomers Soul Steps and Underground System Afrobeat. A special screening of The Black Candle, narrated by world-renowned poet Maya Angelou, closes the day. The film is a landmark documentary that uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to explore and celebrate the African-American experience.

Opera San Jose continues its 29th season with Giuseppe Verdi's powerful drama, Il trovatore. Set in 15th-century Spain, Verdi's classic has it all: vengeance, war, jealousy, and passion, with an emotional, heart-stopping score. Il trovatore will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Eight performances are scheduled from February 9 through 24 at the California Theatre, 345 South First Street in downtown San Jose. Tickets are on sale at the Opera San Jose Box Office, by phone at (408) 437-4450 or online at www.operasj.org. Il trovatore is made possible, in part, by a Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of San Jose. Il trovatore, with libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, is a mesmerizing story of romance, obsession, and retribution. Verdi mixes together personal vendetta, a doomed love triangle and one gypsy's lifelong obsession for revenge, creating a compelling and dramatic love story. Based on the play El Trovador (The Troubadour) by Spanish playwright Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, this powerful opera score features breathtakingly beautiful arias and one of the most famous choral melodies ever written, the "Anvil Chorus."

Barter Theatre welcomes Amanda Leslie as its new director of marketing. Barter administrators say Leslie's previous experience as managing director for North Carolina Stage Company in Asheville, NC, will bring new fresh ideas and great skills to the region.

Brown Paper Tickets is offering 100,000 Artist Tickets adorned with original artworks donated by nationally-recognized artists, for a 25-cent gift to a community rebounding from tragedy. The fundraiser has the potential to collect $25,000 while bringing international exposure to the artists through events produced in 27 countries using Brown Paper Tickets.

The funniest musical comedy to hit the Melbourne stage in decades, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, is now in its final three weeks as it must close on January 6, 2013.

The first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is coming to the Palace Theatre in Cleveland, from January 15-27, 2013 as part of the KeyBank Broadway Series at PlayhouseSquare.

Music Director George Rothman will lead Riverside Symphony in the second concert of the orchestra's 32nd season on Saturday evening, February 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. This fascinating program for string orchestra, harp and keyboards, will feature violinist Arnaud Sussmann performing Poul Ruder's first violin concerto-recorded by Riverside Symphony to international acclaim in 1995-as well as "Winter" from the The Four Seasons, the iconic work that inspired Ruders' hauntingly beautiful composition. Early Danish master Carl Nielsen is represented his first mature opus, a disarming, seldom-played gem, and Tchaikovsky's widely beloved Romantic showpiece (with a nod to Mozart) brings the program to a rousing finish.