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After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2010, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to New Orleans at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, May 8 - June 2. Tickets for the return engagement go on sale Friday, March 8 at 11 a.m.

Country comedian Bill Engvall will bring his trademark blue collar comedy back to the Treasure Island Theatre March 8 at 9 p.m.

The Second Annual Cabin Fever Festival returns to Lee and the Spectrum Playhouse this February.

The Sundance Institute Theatre Program has begun the 2013 Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation. The 13th annual writing colony at the 20,000-acre working cattle ranch outside of Sheridan, Wyo. takes place through February 22 and provides a supportive environment for artists to create new work and receive guidance and reactions to it at an early stage. Under the supervision of Philip Himberg, Artistic Director of the Theatre Program, and Producing Director Christopher Hibma, the Playwrights Retreat is made possible through the generosity of Ucross Foundation.

Grammy winning folk icons the Indigo Girls will be performing at the Byham Theater on Sunday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m. with supporting act The Shadowboxers, a young 5-piece band originally from Atlanta. This will be the first time ever the group will have a full band tour and a chance for fans to hear their music performed in an all-new way. The group will be performing songs from their new recordBeauty Queen Sister as well as their classics for one night only.

At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra (OSO) will present the 16th Annual David Daniels Young Artists Concert, which will feature the winners of the Oakland University Concerto Competition. The competition is open to all OU music majors.

Seattle Opera continues its 2012/13 season next month with 10 performances of one of the most popular operas ever composed. At turns joyful and heartbreaking, Puccini's La Boheme tells an unforgettable story of impoverished young people who are rich in friendship, love, and passion. La Boheme returns to Seattle Opera on February 23, running for 10 performances through March 10.

The Michigan AIDS Coalition (MAC) today announced Terry Ryan as its newly appointed CEO. Ryan, the former director of grants and special projects for the organization, was chosen in December to succeed former CEO Helen Hicks.

The Nora Theatre Company has announced the complete cast for its March 2013 production of the World Premiere of Alan Brody's Operation Epsilon to be directed by Andy Sandberg.

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University (CJS), in cooperation with EarShot, the National Orchestra Composition Discovery Network, will present the second Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI) Readings in 2013. Three orchestras – the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (April 23 & 24), ACO (June 3 & 4), and La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (September 19 & 20) – will workshop, rehearse, and give public readings of new works for symphony orchestra written by seventeen jazz composers.

Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood New Jersey presents Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures and Into the Wild, animal expert Jack Hanna is known as America's favorite zookeeper. Jungle Jack's live show features many of his favorite animal friends, as well as fascinating and humorous stories and footage from his adventures. Don't miss this exciting show on Saturday October 5th, Tickets for this show goes on sale Friday February 8th at 11AM secure your tickets by visiting www.ticketmaster.com or by calling the box office at 201 227 1030.

The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel will welcome Tony Award-Winner John Lloyd Young for his Cafe Carlyle debut where he will perform his program "My Turn." Mr. Young opens at the Cafe Carlyle on February 12th and will play through February 23rd where he will be joined by GLEE music producer Tommy Faragher as his music director with a seven piece band including Mr. Faragher on piano/keyboards, John Putnam on guitar, Paul Socolow on bass, Eric Kalb on drums, Goke Erem on violin, Eddy Malave on viola, and Leigh Stuart on Cello.

On Saturday, March 2nd at 3pm, join us in the stunningly beautiful sanctuary of the Saint Charles Borromeo Church in Brooklyn Heights for a narrated chronology of the German Heroic Tenor, as seen through the voice of Heldentenor, Marc Deaton, with Pianist Michael Fennelly. This history includes scenes and arias by: Handel, Mozart, Weber, Wagner, Strauss and Korngold.

The Collegiate Chorale announces the New York Premieres of two works by major composers: Symphony No. 7 'Toltec' by Philip Glass and Oceana by Osvaldo Golijov, featuring international jazz vocalist Biella Da Costa and the American Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, NYC. The Collegiate Chorale's Music Director James Bagwell will conduct. Tickets are $20-115 and are available at www.carnegiehall.org.

The 2013/14 season will begin with Dial M for Murder, a thrilling murder mystery filled with suspense, jealousy, blackmail and backstabbers. We continue with Annie, the Tony Award-winning musical celebrating America's favorite comic-strip orphan - just in time for the holidays! Next up is A Chorus Line, the poignant and inspiring Tony Award-winning hit musical that follows the audition process of theatre "gypsies" as they try to land a job in a Broadway show. Then join us for Other Desert Cities, the Tony-nominated new drama that follows a young novelist as she returns home to Palm Springs for the holidays and threatens to expose family secrets. Our incredible season ends with the beloved Tony Award-winning phenomenon The King and I, sure to leave you whistling a happy tune!

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) proudly announces the launch of AVTiki, an innovative online sales channel that will give theater patrons the ability to purchase tickets without leaving Facebook. The theater company becomes the very first in New York to offer ticket sales - with the added option to make additional reservations for friends - through this unique distribution channel for social ticketing.

'Not as Cute as Picture', a GLAAD-Media Award Nominee for Outstanding Theater: Washinton DC, played to sold out houses, January 11-12 of this year and returns to The Duplex (61 Christopher St., NYC - at 7th Ave.) for four additional performances on Feb. 8 & 22 and March 8 & 22 - all performances are at 9:30 pm.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Jenn Thompson, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company 'dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit,' and named '2012 Company of the Year' by Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal, announces the cast and creative team for Happy Birthday by Anita Loos, the final production of the company's 20th Anniversary Season. Directed by TACT Co-Artistic Director Scott Alan Evans, performances begin at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street - between 9th & 10th Avenues) on Tuesday, March 12th, 2013. Opening night is set for Thursday, March 21st at 7:30pm. Performances will continue through April 13th, 2013.

Renowned conductor Lorin Maazel will make a rare appearance at the Metropolitan Opera-conducting his first Verdi opera with the company-when he leads a revival of Don Carlo, opening February 22. Ramon Vargas sings his first Met performances of the title role, opposite Barbara Frittoli, also in her house role debut, as the tragic Elisabeth de Valois. Reprising their roles from previous Met seasons are Anna Smirnova as the mysterious Princess Eboli; Dmitri Hvorostovsky as the revolutionary Rodrigo, Count of Posa; Ferruccio Furlanetto as the tormented King Philip II; and Eric Halfvarson as the Grand Inquisitor. This season's performances are the first revival of Nicholas Hytner's production, which opened to critical acclaim in the Met's 2010-11 season.

"When the world that once had color fades to white and gray and black…" sings Diana, a wife and mother, learning to live with her bipolar disorder. How does a "normal" suburban family cope with the stress, the treatment, the future? "Next to Normal"-winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama-is one family's story of how to survive when the world seems to be crumbling.