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Florida Studio Theatre will celebrate the grand opening of the Gompertz Theatre on November 29, 2012 with The Next Act Gala. The theme of the event is 'Reflecting on Theatre Past and Future' and will celebrate FST's 39 years of contemporary work. Carol M. Poteat - Buchanan and Patricia Courtois, two of FST's longtime supporters, will serve as the co-chairs of the event.

Gypsy, America's most acclaimed musical, will kick off the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company's 25th season, Sept. 27 - Oct. 21, in the SaG?Ji Theatre. Premiering on Broadway in 1959, Gypsy debuted at the end of the golden age of musical comedy, and symbolizes the beginning of true musical theatre, a new era that straddled the lines between comedy and drama. Gypsy follows the life of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee and is full of comedy, honest drama, and vivacious musical numbers with lyrics written by a young Stephen Sondheim.

The National Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will play in Indianapolis as part of the Broadway in Indianapolis 2013-2014 Season.

MNA Productions, Inc. has announced that Tony Lo Bianco will reprise his award-winning role as Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in THE LITTLE FLOWER, which begins performances Off-Broadway on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 (Opening Night) at the Dicapo Opera Theatre (184 East 76th Street between Lexington and 3rd Ave). Written and directed by Mr. Lo Bianco, adapted from the play Hizzoner! by Paul Shyre, THE LITTLE FLOWER will play a special limited-run through Friday, November 2, 2012. Tickets for THE LITTLE FLOWER are $40 - $50 and are on sale now via SmartTix.com (212-868-4444).

Pumpkin Theatre opens our 45th Anniversary Season "A Celebration of Imagination" with HOW I BECAME A PIRATE.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, presents My Baby Just Cares For Me, a special fall benefit concert featuring the married musical theater duo Michael and Angela Ingersoll. The event will take place Monday, October 1 and Tuesday, October 2 at 8:00pm at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd.

Pook's Hill will present SOMETHING WILD…, an evening of three rarely performed short plays by Tennessee Williams: Hello From Bertha, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, and This Property is Condemned. Directed by Ken Schatz and starring Andrus Nichols (Off-Broadway's Saint Joan), performances begin September 14th at The Dorothy Strelsin Theatre at The Abingdon Theater Arts Complex. Opening night is sceduled for Friday, September 21st.

Delta Rae have announced that they've been selected to perform at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday, September 6th. Calling it a 'tribute to the dynamic convention host state,' the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) announced that the band will join the lineup of fellow North Carolina artist, James Taylor for festivities that will precede President Obama's nomination acceptance speech at the Bank of America Stadium.

terraNOVA Collective, now in their 10th year, has announced its season for 2012-2013. Producing Artistic Director, Jennifer Conley Darling says, "This is terraNOVA's biggest and most daring season yet. The line-up of new work by Robert Askins, Adam Szymkowicz and Ken Urban, as well as partnering with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and One-Eighth. From a new comic book superhero story to a steak-eating tyrant to a ghost inhabiting another's body, this season promises to spark imagination and push boundaries!" For more information visit http://www.terranovacollective.org.

When Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the University of Massachusetts Lowell bring Jack Kerouac's only full-length play to the stage for the first time in October, the premiere will be just one of many events focused on the legacy of the Beat Generation icon.

Actress, singer, television host, playwright, songwriter and author Kathie Lee Gifford will host the 20th Broadway on Broadway concert, it was just announced by The Broadway League and the Times Square Alliance.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is extending the run of its critically acclaimed production of Cymbeline, directed by Antoni Cimolino, General Director and Artistic Director designate.

Be the Bard: A Midsummer Night's Dream is making its debut at the Midvale Main Street Theater September 13-22. This well-known Shakespearean comedy portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.

Pacific Symphony's "Festa di Firenze," is described as 'a lavish Opening Night celebration of Italian delights and dazzling piano virtuosity' as the orchestra launches the 2012-13 Hal and Jeannette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical series with "Andre Watts Plays Brahms." Hosted by the Symphony's board of directors and co-chaired by Ruth Ann and John Evans (the same couple who made last year's Opening Night such a success), the black-tie affair takes place Thursday, Sept. 20, with proceeds benefiting the Symphony's artistic and education programs.

Capturing a moment in history the new FREE exhibition in the Tony Gould Gallery, Queensland Performing Arts Centre entitled La Stupenda and Friends looks back at the growth of opera in Brisbane and Dame Joan Sutherland's most acclaimed roles.

3-D Theatricals will present the fourth show of its 2012 season, with the songs of Irving Berlin featured in I LOVE A PIANO, choreography by Kami Seymour, musical direction by Daniel Thomas, and directed by David Lamoureux.

Mannheim Steamroller is bringing its annual holiday concert tour to Hershey Theatre on Monday, December 17 at 8 p.m. PANDORA Jewelry is sponsoring the tour, joining Mannheim Steamroller in presenting the best the holiday has to offer.

Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre launches its 25th Anniversary Season with Brian Friel's THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY with previews set to begin October 3 at the Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street), directed by Ciarán O'Reilly.

Beginning in the late 19th century, a kind of "folk modernism" developed in the Ukraine that combined traditional themes and images with often far-reaching aesthetic innovation, as seen in the work of artists such as Sholem Aleichem, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Marc Chagall or Oleksandra Ekster.

CSI: The Experience at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino stopped by Hard Rock Cafe on the Strip to donate copies of the "CLUB CSI" book series. This donation is in conjunction with both Hard Rock Cafes in Las Vegas' yearlong "Rock the Cause" movement, where each month is dedicated to a specific cause, with August focusing on our future generations.