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The Met Reframed, an unprecedented Metropolitan Museum artist residency, breaks new ground as a collaboration between artist and institution. The Met's Limor Tomer, General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, conceived this year-long association as an opportunity to engage the curiosity and talents of the composer, multimedia artist, and writer, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid with the extensive artistic and human resources of the Museum to create both new work and dialogues between artists, scholars, curators, and museum visitors.

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Blue Oyster Cult--unleashed in 1972, the eponymous debut album from America's heaviest psychedelic metal band presaged punk, thrash and hardcore--with the release of Blue Oyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection, a monumental career-spanning BOC library comprised of 16 CDs (the full official canon plus two discs of rarities) and the mythic Some OTHER Enchanted Evening DVD (a blistering concert video from 1978). The highly-collectible boxed set will be available Tuesday, October 30.

For fifteen years Reckless Kelly 'has been doing things their way, bucking the mainstream system and playing by their own rules, straddling the fence between country and rock as if they built it themselves. Throughout the years their old school approach to recording has always adhered to one main objective: make each record better than the last. Their latest effort, 'Good Luck & True Love' is no exception to this rule.'

Charing Cross Theatre has announced its second season, opening with the world premiere of THE MAN ON HER MIND, followed by the Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose production of LA BOHEME, and concluding with the UK premiere of the 1969 Jerry Herman musical DEAR WORLD.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that single tickets for the Starvox Entertainment and Potted Productions' hit off-Broadway show, Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff, will go on sale to the public Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 at 10 a.m. POTTED POTTER will play the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 East Chestnut) beginning Nov. 13, 2012.

John Legend will make his Sarasota premiere, opening the Van Wezel season, Fri. Oct. 19, 2012 @ 8 PM. Powerhouse Anita Baker makes her appearance Sun. Nov. 18, 2012 @ 7 PM. Tickets go ON SALE this Friday, August 17 at 10 AM.

The North Carolina Symphony and WUNC 91.5FM have partnered to present great music for a summer evening all season long. Newly announced this week, the schedule has been extended to run every Monday, now through Sept. 3. Favorite Symphony performances from the past concert season will be broadcast on Monday night, 10:00 p.m. to midnight.

Word Symbol Space, a selection of works by six contemporary artists, will be on view at The Jewish Museum in the final gallery of its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, from August 11 through October 7, 2012. These post-1970 works from the Museum's collection all respond to mid-twentieth-century modernism. Each uses the language of abstraction - areas of pure color, geometric shapes, and gestural brushwork - and adds to it, incorporating words and symbols with specific personal, historical, and cultural meanings. Artists represented include William Anastasi, Ross Bleckner, Dana Frankfort, Alain Kirili, Brigitte NaHoN and Frank Stella. In addition, a related work by Ori Gersht will be on view in the third floor elevator lobby of the Museum.

Theatre Works ihas announced its 30th season. 'We receive incredible support from Woonsocket and our surrounding communities,' says Connie Anderson, TW's Executive Producer. 'We're so happy to present two shows that will be new to many, a cherished classic, and another world premiere.'

Apple junkie Mike Daisey's controversial first-person retelling of stories from the Foxconn factory in China where most of the world's electronic gadgets are produced, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, will open Actors Theatre's 2012-13 season, Sept. 21 to Oct. 7, on Stage West of the Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe.

Four-time Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson has confirmed a series of U.S. tour dates for the months ahead, including multi-night visits to Los Angeles and to San Francisco in September. Each city will feature top-notch musicians joining singer/pianist Allyson -- see below for a breakdown of shows and performers.

The pre-Broadway workshop of, FOUND, arrives at Berkshire Theatre Group's Colonial Theatre September 21 and September 22.

The Bad Theater Fest, 'envisioned and created as a safe and open environment for aspiring artists to present their work,' is currently taking submissions of "anything" until August 31, 2012, midnight. All proposals are accepted through www.badtheaterfest.com. The submission fee is $10 and $5 for students. The Bad Theater Fest will be presented at The Tank,151 w. 46th St. (b/t 6th and 7th Ave) 8th Floor, New York, NY on Oct. 22-24 and 29-31, 2012 starting at 7pm. Tickets to shows will range from $10-$12 and be available for purchase at www.thetanknyc.org or by calling 212-563-6269.

In autumn 2012, Blackeyed Theatre, in association with South Hill Park, brings to the stage an exciting new production of Mother Courage and Her Children, by Bertolt Brecht, in a translation by Lee Hall. This modern reworking will open the Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park on the 26 September and then tour the UK until the 1st December

Rover Dramawerks is pleased to present the hilarious comedy The Girls in 509 by Howard Teichmann at the Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano. Performances are August 23 - September 15, with shows on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., with an additional matinee performance on Saturday, September 1 at 2:00 p.m.

Presented in Association with Elephant Stages, RECLINING NUDE ON LA CIENEGA, written by and starring Jann Karam, coming to Elephant Stages - Lillian Theatre beginning September 1st, 2012.

The Edinburgh International Culture Summit begins today - with nations from every corner of the world meeting at the Scottish Parliament for an historic debate on how culture can bring countries closer together.

Following the success of his first Festival in 2010, Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan has again hit a top note with the 2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival blitzing the previous Festival's box office record by more than 25 per cent.

B. Someday Productions will present the world premiere of a new play for the Philly Fringe Festival.

Columbus Symphony Associate Conductor Peter Stafford Wilson has been appointed Principal Conductor with the Tulsa Ballet for the 2012-13 season. He will be leading the organization's productions of Ben Stevenson's Dracula and Val Caniparoli's Lady of the Camellias, as well as holiday performances of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.