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La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts kicks off its 2012-13 Programs for Young Audiencesseries with Magik Theatre's Treasure Island. This 60-minute, exciting musical adventure is recommended for audiences ages 4 and up.Performances are Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Canadian Stage presents Tear the Curtain!, the genre-bending West Coast hit that moves from stage to screen and back again. An Electric Company production in association with Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre Company,Tear the Curtain! is a stylish psychological thriller and a groundbreaking, hybrid stage experience that combines live theatre and film.

On Friday, September 12 at 8:00p.m., there will be an American Sign Language Interpretation of the comedy, 'It Pays to Advertise' produced by the award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company.

Jessica Redish, founding artistic director of The Music Theatre Company (TMTC), Highland Park's Equity theatre, 1850 Green Bay Road, is proud to announce the company's fifth season. The 2012-2013 season features the mainstage production, in spring 2013, of the Tony Award-winning The Pajama Game, directed by Jess McLeod and choreographed by Founding Artistic Director Jessica Redish, three Musicals in Concert and five Artists in Concert. Season subscriptions for the Musicals in Concert series and single tickets for the 2012 - 2013 season are on sale now. To purchase subscriptions, single tickets or for more information call The Music Theatre Company at 847.579.4900 or visit www.themusictheatrecompany.org.

Musical Theatre West's artistic director/producer, Steven Glaudini, has left Musical Theatre West to become the Artistic Director-Designate of Moonlight Stage Productions in the city of Vista effective October 1, 2012 and will assume the title of Artistic Director upon the retirement of Founder/Producing Artistic Director Kathy Brombacher on December 31, 2012.

The Firebugs is a dark comedy by Swiss playwright Max Frisch. Gottlieb Biedermann, a cautious German businessman, discovers that the two men who have entered his home disguised as salesmen are the arsonists who have already burned down much of the town. He and his wife, concerned only with saving themselves and their home, lodge them, feed them a sumptuous dinner, and provide them with all the matches they can possibly use -- all of which serves only to postpone the inevitable holocaust.

Alfred Hitchcock's award-winning The 39 Steps is Broadway's longest-running comedy thriller. Winner of two Tony and Drama Desk Awards and London's Oliver Award for Best New Comedy, The 39 Steps is packed with laughs, thrills and over 150 unique characters-performed by four actors-and it will take the stage at Three Stages for three shows on October 23-24.

White Plains Performing Arts Center will present the New York Regional Premiere of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winning Play by Tracy Letts.

Constructed in 1996 on the campus of The Community School of Naples, the intimate 250-seat G&L Theatre has a professional-quality sound and lighting systems, dressing rooms and costume area. The G&L is unique in its intimacy and that it offers a balcony composed entirely of opera box style seating and terraced seats that wrap around the front of the curved stage.

East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans and producers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced today that tickets for the long-awaited production of MARY POPPINS will go on sale to the public Friday, October 5 at 11 a.m. New Orleans' most eagerly awaited stage production will begin performances at the Mahalia Jackson Theater on December 18 for a limited 6-night engagement through December 23.

Due to demand from audiences, Skylight Music Theatre will extend the upcoming run of THE SOUND OF MUSIC for an additional seven performances through December 31, 2012.

Fans of PBS are in for a special treat when Under the Streetlamp performs an electrifying evening of classics from the American radio songbook at the Merriam Theater on October 24, 2012 at 8 p.m.The new quartet consists of the dreamy voices of four young lead singers, as they embark on national 32-city tour beginning in Sioux City, IA on October 16 and continuing through December 31 in Aurora, IL.

Celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes joins Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a three-year traversal of Beethoven's music for piano and orchestra, including the five numbered concertos and the Choral Fantasy.

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director) will present its 2012-‘13 Revelation Readings beginning Monday, October 22nd, at their new home, the Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street between Bleecker & Hudson Streets.

After two sold out back-to-back Fox Theatre shows last year and on the heels of becoming the most nominated artist in Soul Train Award history, R. Kelly will return to the Fox for "The Single Ladies Tour" on Saturday, November 17 at 8 p.m. with special guest, four-time Grammy nominee, Tamia.

106.7 KBPI & Z2 Entertainment will present Killswitch Engage with Shadows Fall & Acaro at the Fox Theatre on Friday, November 30th. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, October 5th for $20.02 in advance and $25.00 day of show.

A cast of eighteen singing and dancing toys… a loveable Toymaker and his young apprentice… a dastardly team of entrepreneurial villains… and an army of more than one hundred toy soldiers! The Little Orchestra Society presents a rollicking update of Victor Herbert's 1903 holiday extravaganza, BABES IN TOYLAND, Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. James Judd guest conducts the original Herbert score (with some updated lyrics) as vibrant toys come to life to save a run-down toy store from extinction by an evil villain, and to remind us of the true value of friendship, teamwork, helping others, and the power of holiday spirit. The production is directed by John Henry Davis and freshly choreographed by Peggy Hickey. Take a trip to Toyland for the holidays!

Libra Theater Company announces its third season of programming, which will include a second season of the free In the Balance reading series, the world premiere of The Thirteenth Commandment by Joshua H. Cohen, and a new collection of songs by emerging composer/lyricist Will Reynolds (also the co-star of Love Story at Walnut Street Theatre).

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's fifth annual Playwrights Retreat begins today and runs through October 20. This year eight writers from across the country will be in Stratford for the three-week retreat: Meg Braem (Calgary), Matthew Heiti (Sudbury), Daniel Karasik (Toronto), Kevin Loring (Vancouver), Bryden MacDonald (Halifax), Haley McGee (Toronto), Janet Munsil (Victoria) and Elyne Quan (Toronto).