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'A story ripped from the headlines, a vibrant score, a thrilling new work for the musical stage' - that's Pregnancy Pact, the final work in the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company's 2012 season, and the winner of Weston's 2011 New Musical Award.

The arts are alive on Long Island -- and Arts Alive LI, a new island-wide multi-venue arts festival debuting October 2012, showcases Long Island's world-class arts and culture. Arts Alive LI, presented by the Long Island Arts Alliance (LIAA) and Bethpage Federal Credit Union with additional support from Long Island Community Foundation, will celebrate existing arts and culture events, as well as newly developed events, scheduled to occur during the National Arts and Humanities month of October and share them on the newly designed ArtsAliveLI.org website.

Over the course of its first decade, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts has made substantial contributions not only to its University community, but also to the broader New York cultural landscape. Unique among venues in lower Manhattan, NYU Skirball Center's 860-seat, state-of-the-art theater provides a stage for music, dance, and theater from around the world, with a focus on developing younger audiences for live performance. Its programming also reflects NYU's stature as an international center of scholarship, and as an intellectually rich and diverse environment.

Vassar & New York Stage and Film announced today that Tony nominees Daniel Breaker (Passing Strange; Shrek: The Musical) and Will Swenson (Hair; Priscilla Queen of the Desert) as well as Dee Roscioli (Wicked) and Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot; Passing Strange) will join the 28th Powerhouse Theater season in a workshop of the indie rock musical Murder Ballad by award-winning playwright Julia Jordan (Tatjana in Color; Sarah, Plain and Tall) & Juliana Nash (frontwoman for the indie rock band Talking to Animals), directed by Trip Cullman (Lonely, I'm Not; Assistance; A Small Fire).

Broadway Bootcamp's production of PIPPIN, featuring a cast of over 60, will be on the Manatee Players' stage for four performances. The performance dates and times are: Friday July 27 and Saturday July 28 at 7 pm and Saturday July 28 and Sunday July 29 at 2 pm. Ticket prices are as follows: now through July 26, tickets to the 7 pm performances are $20 for adults and $10 for students. After July 26, the 7 pm performances are $25 for adults and $11 for students. Tickets for the 2 pm performances are $15 for adults and $10 for Students. Tickets are available by calling the box office at 941-748-5875 or online at www.manateeplayers.com. The Manatee Players are located at 102 Old Main Street in downtown Bradenton.

Members of the public will nominate the artists whose work will be considered for GO: a community-curated open studio project, an upcoming exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, by registering online to vote beginning today, and by visiting artist studios during the GO open studio weekend on September 8-9, 2012. 1861 Brooklyn-based artists will open their studio doors in 46 of Brooklyn's 67 neighborhoods, covering Brooklyn's 73 square miles.

Voted the Garden State's favorite opera company by JerseyArts.com's People's Choice Awards, Opera New Jersey celebrates its tenth anniversary by bringing its summer season to Asbury Park's historic Paramount Theatre.

Next Theatre Company announces the first production of its 2012 - 2013 Season, Iphigenia 2.0 by Charles Mee and directed by David Kersnar, at Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes Street. Previews are Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Sept. 7 and Saturday, Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 9 at 2 p.m.

David Mirvish and Nederlander Presentations, Inc. have announced that the National Tour of the new production of four-time Tony Award Nominated Musical JEKYLL & HYDE will play Toronto's Ed Mirvish Theatre (formerly the Canon Theatre) for a one week limited engagement, November 14 - 18, 2012.

The longest running American musical in Broadway history, Chicago, comes to the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre for two weekends. Set for six performances, Chicago will be performed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 from July 20 through July 29, 2012.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Board of Trustees today announced the departure of NJSO President & CEO André Gremillet. Gremillet has been appointed Managing Director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Australia; he will leave the NJSO in September. Gremillet became President & CEO of the NJSO in January 2007.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced the development of The Way of Things by Theresa Rebeck, an adaptation of William Congreve's restoration comedy The Way Of The World, as the eighth play of the 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The Way of Things replaces Ms. Rebeck's previously announced Fool.

South Australia's Slingsby Theatre Company returns to Arts Centre Melbourne from Wednesday 8 to Saturday 11 August with the coming-of-age tale Man Covets Bird. A story about flying the nest, birdsong, and growing up, Man Covets Bird creates an enveloping world of prose, live music, melancholia and sunshine, and is suitable for kids aged 10 and over and adults alike.

MotorCity Casino Hotel will welcome Beauty Buzz 2012 to Sound Board on Sunday, October 7th at 4:00 p.m.

Producers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter have announced that the Off-Broadway hit play Tribes has been extended at The Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street, NYC), by popular demand, through January 6, 2013.

Beginning at 6:15pm today Birmingham Hippodrome will be streaming LIVE from behind the scenes of Dirty Dancing. At 6:15pm we will join the full company on stage as they complete the daily physical warm-up, then from 6.30-6.45pm we get an insight into the intense vocal warm-up before curtain up. This will be a unique and rarely seen opportunity to take a glimpse behind the red curtain and see the day to day workings of a major theatrical production.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org) continues its Thirty-First Season with the August 3rd opening of Following Sarah, by Rich Espey, at Fells Point Corner Theater (www.fpct.org), 251 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, 410-276-7837. Directed by Anne Shoemaker,Following Sarah runs through August 26th, with performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. There will be two Thursday performances on August 9th and August 23rd at 8 pm. Opening weekend all tickets are $10.00, all other performances are $12. Tickets can be purchased on-line at www.fpct.org, or at the door.

NEWSADOOZIES: A Man-Eating Musical, a new musical parody of the cult movie/Broadway musical Newsies, fresh from a packed performance at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, enters its fifth month at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, 307 West 26th Street (west of 8th Ave). Showtimes are: Wednesday, July 18th @ 8PM (paired with Incredibly Extreme and Extremely Incredible) and Wednesday, July 25th @ 8PM (paired with Death Wears Stilettos). Tickets are $5 and can be reserved at http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/view/3015.

Berkshire Theatre Group's Acting Apprentice Company begins performances of Pinocchio at the Neil Ellenoff Stage at The Mount, 2 Plunkett St., Lenox, MA on July 25 at 4pm.

The Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre kicks off its new season in August with the West Coast premiere of Chinglish. David Henry Hwang won three Obies and the Tony Award for Best Play with popular scripts like M. Butterfly and FOB. Now he's back with a canny comedy of cross-cultural errors. Two-time Obie-winner Leigh Silverman returns to the Roda Theatre to stage the play.