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Keegan Theatre's current production of August: Osage County, playing to sold-out houses and critical acclaim, has been extended through September 8, 2012.

YES vocalist and songwriter Jon Anderson will be performing a series of concerts in South America this September 2012.

For the L.A.-based IAMA THEATRE COMPANY's first season under the leadership of Artistic Director Becca Wolff and Managing Director Mira Greene, IAMA brings works by young playwrights Dan LeFranc, Louise Munson and Christian Durso to Los Angeles audiences for the first time. World premieres of Durso's SHINER - named to The Tracking Board's YOUNG AND HUNGRY LIST 2012 - and Munson's DO LIKE THE KIDS DO, mark the maturation of two fresh voices in American theater. LeFranc's 60 MILES TO SILVERLAKE, winner of the 2010 New York Times award for Outstanding Play is an overdue homecoming for this SoCal native and his first L.A. production. With this season, IAMA continues its quest to shift the nerve center of young American theatre to L.A.

The NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK (NNPN),the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, has selected Sacramento's CAPITAL STAGE for associate membership. This action makes the seven-year old professional theatre company the first in the Capitol region to become affiliated with the highly regarding NNPN.

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) has announced its 2012-13 schedule of major events. From September through May, CCM will present a series of 50 performances spanning the spectrum of the performing and media arts.

Grammy nominated artist Matisyahu has announced that he will be embarking on a headlining nationwide college tour this fall during the months of October and November.

Z2 Entertainment will present Juno What?! w/ Ill-Mannered at the Fox Theatre on Thursday, September 27th. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 24th for $10.00 in advance and $12.00 day of show.

Producers Terry Schnuck, James & Catherine Berges, Crystal Beuerlein and Michael F. Neidorff today announced that they will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Falling, the new play by Deanna Jent, that will begin an open-ended run Thursday September 27th at the Minetta Lane Theater (18 Minetta Lane, one block south of West 3rd Street, just off of Sixth Avenue). Opening Night is set for Monday October 15th (7PM).

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces the full cast for Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, directed by Artistic Director BJ Jones. The comedy will play at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd in Skokie, from November 2-December 9, 2012. The Press Opening is Friday, November 9, at 7:30 pm.

Celebrating 40 years, the internationally acclaimed MUMMENSCHANZ 'is poised to bedazzle a whole new generation of audiences this fall and winter' when the legendary mask theater company returns to North America with a special full-length program, from November 2012 to March 2013. The U.S. and Canada performances are part of a larger calendar of worldwide jubilee events for the 40th anniversary to mark the beloved company's four-decade legacy of bringing its uniquely imaginative and ground breaking art form to international stages. As a centerpiece to the U.S. run, MUMMENSCHANZ will present a special limited holiday engagement for four weeks at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, from December 11, 2012 through January 6, 2013.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is extending the submission deadline for the 2012TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series to August 23 (for musicals without a producer) and August 30 (with a producer attached). Two to three musicals will be chosen and read on Mondays in December at a theater to be confirmed. Submission guidelines are available at www.truonline.org/Musicals12guidelines.htm.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Creative Chair for Jazz and musical icon Herbie Hancock and a host of his friends return to the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, August 29, for a one-of-a-kind show that has become Hancock's signature at the Bowl.

"Elephant Room" will come to the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre where it opens on Sunday, August 26, 2012, at 6:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, and the show that's currently blowing the roof off Broadway, opens at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on November 6 for a limited engagement.

A new musical comedy is coming to Stoneham Theatre, Lumberjacks in Love. The Boston premiere of Lumberjacks in Love is from the creators of Stoneham Theatre's Season 7 favorite, Guys on Ice.

Ballet Hispanico, recognized as the preeminent Latino dance institution in the United States, announces the first performance of the Fall 2012 Season for BHdos, the company's pre-professional troupe. On September 2, 2012 at 2:00 pm, the company will perform at Central Park's Charles A. Dana Discover Center. The performance is the closing event of the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. The event is free and information can be found at http://support.centralparknyc.org/site/Calendar/1221481553?view=Detail&id=117125.

The Boston Comedy Arts Festival is set to run September 4-9 at ImprovBoston and the Brattle Theatre.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced that Karen Allen will star in the American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, translated and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, which begins performances Wednesday, October 10 and opens Thursday, October 25 at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

ACME, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, will give the first performance of the complete string quartets of Steve Reich together on the same concert on Tuesday, September 11 at 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) at Le Poisson Rouge(158 Bleecker Street).

On Stage at Kingsborough has announced its October presentations of internationally-renowned artists in exclusive Brooklyn engagements.