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In what would have been Patsy Cline's 80th year of life had she not died tragically in a plane crash fifty years ago, CJ Harding will bring the legendary Cline to life on the Palladium's mainstage for two shows: Saturday, March 9 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 10 at 3 p.m.

Forever Flamenco! presents Ecos de Andalucia ("Echoes of Andalusia!") - Dancer/show director Adriana Maresma Fois and flamenco guitarist Juan Antonio Gomez return to Forever Flamenco from from Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia, Spain via the flamenco "hub" of Albuquerque, New Mexico - the two towns between which the couple divides their time. Joining them on stage at the Fountain Theatre is 'formidable cantaor (singer) Antonio de Jerez and bailaores (dancers) Mizuho Sato, recognized for her deep interpretation of the cantes (songs) and assured technique, and Manuel 'de la Cruz' Gutierrez, known for extraordinary footwork and fierce passion.'

The Apothecary Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of the ensemble created play how i learned to become a Superhero, written by Dennis Flanagan, directed by Christopher Klinger.. …Superhero will begin performances on Thursday, April 4 and will celebrate its opening on Sunday, April 7, 2013 (running through April 27) at The Gloria Maddox Theatre at T. Schreiber Studios (151 W. 26th St.). Tickets are $25 and are available on www.apothecarytheatrecompany.org.

Twenty young singers who won regional competitions around the United States will come to New York to sing on the Met stage in the semi-finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The Met Auditions, this year celebrating their 60th anniversary, are a major stepping stone to a career as an opera singer and were crucial in introducing many of today's best-known stars, such as Renee Fleming, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Ramey, Deborah Voigt, and Dolora Zajick.

Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), Houston's leading performing arts presenter, launches its Satellite Series at Space Center Houston in March. Performances will include Blue Lapis Light from Austin on Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23, at 12 and 1:30 p.m. Boomshaka, from Chicago, will take the stage for three performances on Friday, March 29, at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.

BORN YESTERDAY, the classic comedy with political punch, closes Moonlight Stage Productions' 2013 AVO Playhouse Winter Season with performances March 21 - April 7. Tickets are priced from $22-$30 and are on sale now through the VisTix box office by calling (760) 724-2110 or visiting moonlightstage.com.

Kinky Boots creators Harvey Fierstein (book) and Cyndi Lauper (music & lyrics) will sit down with New York Times theater reporter Patrick Healy as part of a New York Times TimesTalks on Monday, March 18th at 6:30 PM E.T. at TheTimesCenter (242 West 41st Street). The pair will discuss their collaborative experience on the hotly anticipated new musical; the evening will also include a performance by Kinky Boots stars Stark Sands and Billy Porter. For those not in the room, the conversation and performances will be streamed lived on the Web at www.Livestream.com/NYTimes.

The first national tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical is coming to the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre April 16 - 21. Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 1 at 10 a.m.

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the world premiere of Gnit by Will Eno, directed by Artistic Director Les Waters. The play will run in the Pamela Brown Auditorium and will begin previews on March 15, open March 17 and run through April 7. Tickets are on sale now to the public and can be purchased at the Actors Theatre Box Office by calling 502-584-1205 or online at ActorsTheatre.org. The 37th Humana Festival of New American Plays is made possible by a generous grant from the Humana Foundation. Gnit is presented as part of the Brown Forman Series, by special arrangement with Signature Theatre and was developed at The Pershing Square Signature Center, with thanks to the J.A.W. Festival, Portland Center Stage. Director is underwritten by Todd P. Lowe and Fran C. Ratterman; Bruce Merrick and Karen McCoy.

The Jewish Museum and the New School for Public Engagement are presenting In Dialogue, a series of performative dialogues between experts in diverse fields in conjunction with the Museum's new exhibition, As it were ... so to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom. Each evening concentrates on a different aspect of 'dialogue,' pairing speakers demonstrating theory and practice. Unlike traditional conversations, the speakers do not engage with one another, each addresses the subject at hand and the audience members directly. The series begins at The Jewis

The company of this year's BROADWAY BACKWARDS will now include five-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell, four-time Tony nominee and five-time Emmy nominee Victor Garber, Tony nominees Malcolm Gets, Chad Kimball and Josh Young, five-time Emmy Award winner Doris Roberts and teenage spoken word sensation Noah St. John.

FLASHDANCE, the pop culture phenomenon and runaway international success, is now live on stage! It all started with a dream. To be bigger. To burn brighter. To dance harder. Now is the time to live the dream all over again. Based on the movie that defined a generation, FLASHDANCE - The Musical tells the unforgettable story of Alex, a working-class girl from Pittsburgh striving to make her dreams of becoming a professional dancer a reality.

Horse Trade Theater Group (Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director, Erez Ziv, Executive Director) and Less Than Rent Theatre will present the World Premiere of WORDS, RAZORS, AND THE WOUNDED HEART by James Presson. The production will be directed by Jake Ahlquist (Fringe Excellence Award Winner '10) and star Sean Patrick Monahan (Charles Busch's Time Square Angel) and Emma March Barash (Stop the Virgins at St. Anne's Warehouse). The show will also feature Dean Acree (New York Dream at The Pearl), Cory Asinofsky (Puppet Hamlet), Amanda Brooklyn (HBO's Girls), Ben Diserens (the upcoming Wolf of Wall Street), Patrick Dooley, Jenna Grossano, Jackie Hansen, Jacob Presson, Tom Sanchez (Independents), and RJ Vaillancourt (Healthy Start by Gilad Cohen). Designs will feature sets by Grace Laubacher (Convergence at soloNOVA), lights by Gary Slootskiy (Independents), and costumes by Samantha Jacobsen.

The London production of Once will open at the Phoenix Theatre on 9 April, with previews from 16 March 2013 and is currently booking to 30 November 2013.

Currently in its 23rd season, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra (ACO) proudly announces the release of the orchestra's first ever CD on the Artek label under the baton of Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Stewart Robertson. In a nod to the orchestra's core repertory of late 18th and 19th century works, the recording comprises works by Robert Schumann, considered one of, if not the, greatest composers of the Romantic era. The CD opens with the lyrical gem, Hermann and Dorothea Op 136, based on Goethe's epic poem about the fate of two young lovers, followed by the Overture Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52 (second version without trombones), a symphony in all but name. The last work on the recording is the composer's sole violin concerto, the Violin Concerto in D minor, Woo1, written for the 19th century violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, and performed on the recording by the distinguished violinist Elmar Oliveira.

The Academy of The Company Theatre (ACT) presents Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr., on March 15, 16 and 17 at The Company Theatre Centre for the Arts, 30 Accord Park Drive, Norwell, MA, directed by Zoe Bradford and Jordie Saucerman, with choreography by Sally Ashton Forest and assistant direction/choreography by Corinne Mason.

Clawhammer banjo player, composer and singer ABIGAIL WASHBURN will debut POST-AMERICAN GIRL at Joe's Pub at The Public March 28 - 30 as part of NEW YORK VOICES, the popular commission series designed to help musicians make the leap from songwriting and performance to theatrical production. Washburn's new stage piece is about an American girl coming-of-age in a swiftly changing global order. It features folk arts of China and Appalachia in shadow puppetry, sacred harp song, traditional music as well as new compositions. Tickets go on-sale today, February 28 at http://www.joespub.com/.

Street, a new video by artist James Nares, will have its New York premiere as the centerpiece of an exhibition by the same name at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 5 through May 27, 2013. A recent acquisition of the Museum, the mesmerizing 61-minute high-definition video-which was shot on the streets of Manhattan over the course of a week in September 2011-will be shown continuously on a large screen in the central gallery of the Museum's Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries. The exhibition Street will also include 60 works of art-selected by the artist from the Met's encyclopedic collections-that situate his video in relation to earlier works that capture the spirit of the street.

Dane Cook has been tapped to voice the lead character Dusty, a plane with high hopes in "Disney's Planes." Inspired by the world of "Cars" and directed by Disneytoon Studios veteran and aviation enthusiast Klay Hall ("King of the Hill," "The Simpsons"), "Disney's Planes" is an action-packed 3D animated comedy adventure about Dusty's dream of competing as a high-flying air racer-and his decidedly unfortunate fear of heights. The film takes off in theaters in 3D on Aug. 9, 2013.

Country music superstars Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Taylor Swift and chart-topping R&B artist Ne-Yo are the first performers to be added to the all-star lineup scheduled to perform at the ACM PRESENTS: TIM McGRAW'S SUPERSTAR SUMMER NIGHT, taping Monday, April 8 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The special will be broadcast at a later date on the CBS Television Network.