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A Master toy maker has been making beautiful toys and dolls that come to life. His secret ingredient is the magic doll dust that he keeps locked up in his magic trunk. Because they are so special and he is so selfish he refuses to sell them. When the dolls discover that something is missing, that they don't feel complete, they look in the magic trunk and discover a jar full of hearts. They each put one on, feeling the warm glow of love and then spread that love with the toy maker who learns how to 'share' his toys.

The Kennedy Center and Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) celebrate the ever-evolving art of percussive dance with CHRP's JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance on December 7, 2012 at 8 p.m. in the Eisenhower Theater. Curated by CHRP Founder and Artistic Director Lane Alexander, this full-length tap concert will feature a host of extraordinary foot drummers and percussive arts masters from all over the country. The concert will include performances by CHRP's BAM!, Diane 'Lady Di' Walker, Bessie Award-winner Sam Weber, Broadway stars Derick K. Grant and Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards, M.A.D.D. Rhythms and the Greg Spero Trio, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, Michelle Dorrance and Dorrance Dance, Washington D.C.'s Step Afrika!, an excerpt from Rasta Thomas' new show Tap Stars featuring Jason Janas, members of six American youth tap ensembles, and alumni from the 80th Anniversary Jacob's Pillow Tap Program.

The White Plains Performing Arts Center (WPPAC) is proud to announce the cast of THE WHO'S TOMMY. A show for fans of both Classic Rock and Award-winning Musicals! THE WHO'S TOMMY is the original rock opera.

Year round, Playhouse On Park offers gift cards that can be filled with any amount, do not expire, and can be used towards any shows, concerts, or special events at the West Hartford location. With its wide variety of entertainment throughout the year, a playhouse gift card makes the perfect present for even that hard-to-shop-for loved one, whether it's a holiday, birthday, or any other occasion you deem fit.

Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and HERE have announced the full line-up for the inaugural PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now festival, running January 9-18, 2013, in New York City. This two-week Festival, distilling the curatorial visions of artistic directors Kristin Marting (of HERE), Beth Morrison (of BMP), and Kim Whitener (of HERE), features visionary music-theatre and opera-theatre works by pioneering artists from NYC and around the world. PROTOTYPE is unique in providing a permanent theatrical home for the presentation of such quality productions, spotlighting the high-caliber creations of an exciting new generation of composers and collaborators, with a focus on chamber-sized works.

The American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with Poets House, presents Nature and Poetry: A Conversation with E.O. Wilson and Robert Hass on Thursday, December 6, at 7:30 pm. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, author of What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World, engages in conversation with internationally acclaimed entomologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner E.O. Wilson, author of The Social Conquest of Earth. Sharing the stage for the third time in the course of their careers, these two extraordinary thinkers and writers discuss how art and science mix in their respective fields to raise awareness of the world around us. Hass and Wilson examine how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can inspire the conservationist in all of us.

New Year's Eve; a night of reminiscing, revelry, and.murder! This December 31st, 2012 Playhouse on Park hosts 'Murder at the Playhouse Saloon, a murder-mystery, role-playing bash set in the Wild Wild West and no we don't just mean West Hartford!

After a highly successful bout on Broadway, Mike Tyson announced today that he will take his acclaimed one-man show, MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH, on a national tour. Helmed by renowned director Spike Lee and producer James L. Nederlander, the tour is set to begin February 2013. The L.A. premiere will play the legendary Pantages Theatre March 8 - 10, 2013 for three performances only.

A Christmas Carol plays Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Moran Theater for one performance only on Friday, December 21, 2012 at 8:00PM, and great seats are still available! Tickets start at $26.50 (and at $13.25 for children 12 and under). Tickets for A Christmas Carol are available at www.artistseriesjax.org or (904) 442-BWAY (2929). Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more; call (904) 442-2947 or email groupsales@fscj.edu.

The American Repertory Theater announced today the details for the A.R.T.'s third annual Valentine's Gala to be held at The Hotel Revere, 200 Stuart Street, Boston.

Tabu, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino's stylish boutique nightclub will welcome Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, reality star of MTV's "Jersey Shore" and "Snooki & JWoww," when she hosts Patrick Hyland's official post-fight party Saturday, Dec. 8.

OUT LOUD is Ars Nova's FREE play-reading series dedicated to developing new work by emerging playwrights.

Romero Britto, the internationally renowned Brazilian artist, will unveil his portrait of the author of The Racing Heart and philanthropist, Ava Roosevelt, during a private reception on Saturday, December 15th, 2012. The reception, hosted by Mrs. Roosevelt in her Palm Beach residence, will also serve as a 'friend-raiser' for the Education Technology & Performance Foundation (www.ETPFoundation.com), a newly founded charitable trust on which Ava serves as a member of the Advisory Board. Founded in 2012, ETP Foundation advocates the use of effective technology in education, raising funds and increasing philanthropic support for education, technology and performance in schools.

After a highly successful bout on Broadway, Mike Tyson announced today that he will take his acclaimed one-man show, 'MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH,' on a national tour. Helmed by renowned director Spike Lee and producer James L. Nederlander, the tour is set to begin February 2013, with a special One Night Only performance at the Historic Paramount Theatre, March 14, 2013.

About the show: Matchmaker Matchmaker I'm Willing to Settle! invites you to join "Nikki" as she plunges into the matrix of the world wide web to emerge as a guru of Internet Dating in this new original musical. Throw in accidental pornography, impromptu 24 hour trips to Europe, a video chat romance and you've got an honest, heartbreakingly uplifting story that will delight the single, the not, those wishing they were single again…and everyone in between!

First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83) presents the acclaimed play UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL, directed by Jeff Award nominee Alison C. Vesely, previewing March 27, opening March 30 and running through April 28, 2013. The production stars Kristine Thatcher, a member of the 2001 Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble, where her play Voice of Good Hope premiered and was nominated for the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work in 2000. Thatcher most recently appeared as Terri in Jeffrey Sweet's new play Immoral Imperatives. Prior to that, she appeared in First Folio Theatre's production of Macbeth. Other credits include "Hannah Jarvis" in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Goodman Theatre, "Candida" in George Bernard Shaw's Candida at Writers' Theatre, and "Regan" in King Lear and "Kate" in Taming of the Shrew at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum is offering special guided Historic Holiday House Tours beginning December 4th through December 30th with regular museum admission. These house tours will feature rare audio clips from Louis's personal recordings of himself and family celebrations at home including an at-home reading of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, A Visit from St. Nicholas.' The tours will also feature seasonal recordings including: 'Zat You Santa Claus" and Louis listening to Nat King Cole sing 'All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" with an impromptu duet by Louis himself.

Samuel French Inc. today announced that Bruce Lazarus has joined the company as Executive Director. Lazarus will oversee company strategy, marketing and business affairs.

This December, the Met will present an all-new holiday presentation: an abridged, English-language version of Rossini's classic comedy The Barber of Seville. Bartlett Sher returns to direct this adaptation of his hit 2006 production, which will have a running time of approximately two hours. Yves Abel conducts a cast led by Isabel Leonard as the feisty heroine Rosina, Alek Shrader as the handsome Count Almaviva, Rodion Pogossov as the local jack-of-all-trades Figaro, John Del Carlo as the wicked Dr. Bartolo, and Jordan Bisch as the music teacher Don Basilio. The new English-language libretto is by J. D. McClatchy, the American poet who also provided the translation for the Met's holiday production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. In keeping with the Met's recent tradition of family-oriented holiday programming, The Barber of Seville will feature sharply discounted tickets and a special weekday matinee performance.

Comedian Michael Malone beat out more than 800 comics from around the world to take home the top prize from the 33rd Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition.