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Interstate 73, Page 73 Productions' writers group supporting early-career playwrights, where selected playwrights meet biweekly to share new pages with their peers and Page 73's Executive and Associate Directors, will welcome Stephen Brown, Meghan Deans, Peter Gil-Sheridan, David Jenkins, Kait Kerrigan, EM Lewis and Caroline V. McGraw (who was also selected as the 2013 P73 Playwriting Fellow) into the group this year.

Quest Theatre Ensemble presents the world premiere musical, The People's Passion Play, which chronicles the creation of the universe and key Biblical events through the Passion and Resurrection. The musical is written by award-winning, Chicago-based Playwright/Director/Puppeteer Andrew Park with original music by Scott Lamps. Performances run Feb. 22 through March 31st at the Blue Theater located at 1609 West Gregory (one block south of Bryn Mawr and Ashland). The production is suitable for all audiences of all ages and is free to the public. Donations are encouraged. For reservations and more information visit www.questensemble.com, email reservations@questensemble.org or call 312-458-0895.

The LA Turkish Film Festival has announced that Yilmaz Erdogan's THE BUTTERFLY'S DREAM will be the festival's opening night film. The North American premiere will take place on February 28th at 7:00pm at Hollywood's Egyptian Theater, with a red carpet reception beginning at 5:30pm. The LA Turkish Film Festival will run through March 3rd, with additional titles to be announced shortly.

Following their successful engagements last year, The Temptations - Otis Williams, Bruce Williamson, Terry Weeks, Ron Tyson and Joe Herndon - will bring classic Motown back to The Orleans Showroom March 16 and 17.

Queensryche first burst onto the music scene in 1982 with the release of their self-titled 4 song EP 'Queensryche'. They very quickly gained international recognition and performed to sold out audiences around the world. With the follow up first full length album 'The Warning' in 1984, and the ground breaking 1986 release of 'Rage For Order', Queensryche continued to prove their worldwide dominance as one of the most respected and creative bands of the 80's.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents August by Denmark's "TEATRET" theater company.Directed by Larz Knutzon and winner of the 2007 Best Show Reumert Award (Denmark's foremost recognition in the performing arts). August will run February 23 at 7:30 p.m. and February 24 at 2:00 p.m. as part of Nordic Cool 2013. August is a wordless comedy about the basic human condition. Press opening night is February 23, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.

The Board of Directors of About Face Theatre Company has announced that Executive Director Jason Held will be stepping down at the end January to pursue a position with Playworks Chicago. Held, who has served since 2010, will remain with the company on the Board of Directors. The AFT Board has named Jonathan (Jonny) Stacks Interim Executive Director as it launches a search for a new Executive Director.

Karen Mason (Wonderland, Mamma Mia!) and her new show Unfinished Business will kick off The CAP21 Theatre Company's 20th Anniversary Season this Monday (Feb. 4). Following the show, CAP21 and Karen Mason have invited all ticket holders to an Opening Night Post-Show Reception being held at CAP21.

Staff Conductor Jere Flint will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in "Charlotte and the Music-Maker" with the Platypus Theatre Company on Sunday, February 17, 2013, at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. This family-friendly concert will expose young audiences to the variety of sounds and instruments within the orchestra.

oming to the Capitol Center for the Arts on Thursday, March 14, at 7:30pm. WPMS: THE MUSICAL is Louise Roche's follow-up fun, fabulous and everything female Girls Night Musical experience.

The Guthrie today announced that actors Greta Oglesby and Sally Wingert will cohost BEHOLD: A Gala Performance. A star-studded performance featuring actors, composers and writers with ties to the Guthrie's past and future, BEHOLD will be held on June 22, 2013, on the Wurtele Thrust Stage and is a part of the Guthrie's 50th season weekend celebration (June 22-23, 2013).

Walnut Street Theatre continues its landmark 204th season with the Philadelphia premiere of Broadway's sensational new play GOOD PEOPLE. Directed by Walnut's Artistic Producing Director Bernard Havard, this smart, funny production begins previews on March 12th, opens on March 20th and runs through April 28th on the Walnut's Mainstage.

Jamie and Jason Poole, Wild Dreams Stables and Carol Hayden, event organizer, invite you to be part of a global movement to RISE up and break the chain of domestic abuse. This event is to help raise money for The Women's Center in Waukesha and will be held on Thursday, February 14 at the Wild Dreams Stables on S58 W29914 Holiday Rd. in Mukwonago, WI. The stables will be available for an open house from 10:00 am-7:00 pm along with food provided by Mustang Shelly's Roadhouse.

Two distinguished women have been elected as new members of the Board of Directors of the New York Philharmonic. Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Whoopi Goldberg was elected in January 2013, and Pamela Thomas-Graham - Head of Talent, Branding, and Communications at Credit Suisse, the Philharmonic's Global Sponsor, and a member of the bank's executive board - was elected in October 2012.

The Stand Up for a Cure 2013 Concert Series announced today that comedy icon Jerry Seinfeld will be joined by guests Colin Quinn and TV anchor Rosanna Scotto to kick off the new season, with a show at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on April 17th. The show will partner with The American Diabetes Association to benefit research into juvenile diabetes.

Anyone who has ever been involved in community theater will identify very strongly with the maxim "If anything can go wrong - it will." That's exactly what happens in the hilarious comedy Play On! which will be presented by the Middlebury Community Players at Town Hall Theater on February 14-17.

Fifty-four years after its Broadway premiere, the Huntington Theatre Company presents A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark family classic about deferred dreams. Liesl Tommy (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Ruined - IRNE Award for Best Director and Production) returns to the Huntington to helm the production that features Leroy McClain (the title role in Hamlet at California Shakespeare Theater) as Walter Lee Younger and Kimberly Scott (Molly Cunningham in Joe Turner's Come and Gone - Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations) as matriarch Lena Younger.

In 2013, the world celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of German Romantic composer Richard Wagner. His legacy of lush, dramatic operas and penchant for speaking his mind about topics ranging from music to politics and society has left a lasting impact on classical music and culture. Among his greatest contributions to the Western music canon is his four-cycle opera Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the Nibelung").

The Jewish Museum presents a night of comedy and music in Pretty Good Friends with Eugene Mirman on Thursday, February 21 from 8pm to 11pm. This entertaining evening, part of The Wind Up, a series of after-hours events with art, music, performance, drinks, and socializing, features stand-up comics Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry and Wyatt Cenac; indie rock musician Eleanor Friedberger; and more. Attendees will also be able to take a special tongue-in-cheek guided tour of the Museum's permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. Complimentary snacks will be served, and there will be an open bar featuring beer and wine. Beers courtesy of Shmaltz Brewing Company.

Performances begin today for the MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) New York premiere production of Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really, directed by David Cromer (the Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award-winning director of hits Our Town, Adding Machine and Tribes). The production, which marks Colaizzo's New York playwriting debut, plays at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC) through March 10, 2013. An official opening is set for Tuesday, February 19th at 7:00 p.m. As announced on January 29th, the world premiere of Really Really, which opened in February 2012 at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in D.C., has been nominated for 'The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical' at this year's Helen Hayes Awards. As previously noted, MCC's New York premiere of Really Really marks a brand new production of the play directed by Cromer.