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After a year-long renovation, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts reopens The Dorrance H. Hamilton Rooftop Garden to the public on September 4, 2012. The state-of-the-art rooftop garden renovation cost $5.7 million, and will be open to the public daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with free public tours available when the garden is not being used for private functions.

The national tour of Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES, the new Broadway revival of Cole Porter's timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, will make its Cleveland premiere October 2 - 14 at PlayhouseSquare as part of the KeyBank Broadway Series. The Cleveland stop will kick off the 25-city national tour.

From the author of "No Country For Old Men," and brought to life by the artists at Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., comes a story juxtaposing hope and despair; life and death. "The Sunset Limited" by Cormac McCarthy begins at Barter Theatre Stage II on September 11.

Planet Ant Theatre is set to shine the spotlight on the colorful and diverse characters of Hamtramck in Hamtown Races opening Friday, September 21 and continuing through Saturday, October 13. Tickets ($20) go on sale Tuesday, September 4th online at www.BrownPaperTickets.com. Reservations are also available by calling (313) 365-4948. A complete performance schedule follows this release.

Fish Out of Water Productions is set to present a Fundraising Gala/Silent Auction and Cabaret next week in support of the American premiere of the original musical by Anna Grace Carter, Rent A White Guy. The gala will also be honoring the King of Queens and theatrical expat Richard Mazda who has been an invaluable support to Fish Out of Water and Rent A White Guy.

The UK Tour of Disney's musical THE LION KING will begin preview performances at The Bristol Hippodrome tonight, in advance of its official opening night on Thursday 6th September. This will mark the first time that Julie Taymor's internationally celebrated production will have toured in the United Kingdom.

The T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research announced today that one of Country Music's most popular groups Little Big Town will perform at its 37th Annual Honors Gala on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at the legendary Ciprianis on 42nd St in New York. With the highly anticipated release of Little Big Town's full-length album, Tornado, hitting the nation on September 11, 2012, the Capitol Records recording artists have found themselves on an impressive road to country music super stardom. Little Big Town includes Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook, a group famous for their four part harmonies.

Laura Carmichael joins Ken Stott, Anna Friel and Samuel West in Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, Uncle Vanya. Adapted by Christopher Hampton, Uncle Vanya uniquely blends sparkling wit and earthy humour to brilliant comic effect. Directed by Lindsay Posner with designs by Christopher Oram, this new production opens at the Vaudeville Theatre on 2 November 2012 with previews from 25 October.

The Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, Indiana, announces a new, more streamlined mobile website.

The Crown Center has announced the following upcoming events.

Korto Momolu, the finalist from Project Runway's fifth season, is poised to unveil her best collection to date on Friday, September 7, 2012, at Helen Mills (139 West 26 Street, NY).

DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions today announced that SHREK THE MUSICAL will end its run at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Sunday 24 February 2013.

Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Neal Street Productions and Kevin McCormick today announced that their production of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will now open at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in June 2013. Previews start on 18 May 2013. The production was originally slated to run at the London Palladium.

After breaking box office records in the three previous engagements, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to the Fox Theatre this holiday season from December 12, 2012 through January 6, 2013. Tickets for the return engagement go on sale Saturday, September 15. Internet sales through metrotix.com will begin at 9 a.m.; the Fox Box Office and MetroTix charge by phone at 314-534-1111 will open at 10 a.m.

Sidney Poitier's 'To Sir, With Love,' the story of an idealistic engineer who takes a teaching job and faces a group of rough and disorderly white high school students from London's East End will air as the culmination of American Graduate Day on Saturday, September 22 at 9 p.m. on Reel 13.

Back by popular demand, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (ASFB) returns to Houston with a new program on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 8 p.m. in Wortham Center's Cullen Theater, presented by Society for the Performing Arts.

Opening September 5 for just four short weeks, Joyce DeWitt, co-star of the ABC hit comedy, "Three's Company," will star in Sam Bobrick's romantic comedy, Remember Me. From 1977 through 1984 - for more than 170 episodes -- miss DeWitt is most widely known to audiences for her role as 'Janet Wood', but she is no stranger to live theater, working both as actress and director in a stage career that spans over forty years. She recently starred in A Scattered, Smothered and Covered Christmas Musical and the Canadian productions of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner With Friends and Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning play The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Other recent stage performances include the North American premiere of the Australian comedy Daylight Savings, the British farce Noises Off, the revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, and the Broadway musical Olympus on My Mind, for which she completed the cast recording - her first record album.

Master puppet and mask maker Ralph Lee presents his Mettawee River Theatre Company in 'Communications from a Cockroach: Archy and the Under Side,' for two weekends, September 7-9 and 14-16, 7:30 PM, in the Outdoor Garden of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, entrance down the path at 111th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

Grammy-winning alternative rock band Deftones have announced the November 13th release of their seventh studio album, entitled KOI NO YOKAN. To support the release they will hit the road on a nationwide headlining tour, with special guest Scars On Broadway, which kicks off October 9th in Ventura, CA and will conclude on the West Coast mid November. Tickets on sale next Friday, September 7 via Ticketmaster.com.

Fall Fashion Week is just around the corner in New York, and this season many furry friends will be joining in on all the fun just outside of Times Square at Ritz Plaza Park at 48th Street and 8th Avenue on Wednesday, September 5 from 6:30-8:30pm. Stonehenge realty pros, well-known for their pet-friendly residential buildings around NYC, have teamed up with high-end, pet apparel line ROYAL ANIMALS/ ROYAL POOCH as well as Unleashed by Petco to bring the puppies to the 'dog'walk before the fashionistas make their way to Lincoln Center.