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The House Theatre of Chicago has announced the return of THE NUTCRACKER, a re-imagining of the classic E.T.A. Hoffmann story, adapted by House Theatre company members Phillip C. Klapperich and Jake Minton and featuring an original score by company member Kevin O'Donnell.

NETworks Presentations, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions bring the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Billy Elliot the Musical to the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines June 12-17, 2012 as part of the Willis Broadway Series.

Femme Fatale Theater's irreverent and erotic new production of Oscar Wilde's SALOME features an all-male cast, exploring unrequited lust and sexual taboos through a darkly comic queer aesthetic. This wickedly funny tale of sex, death, and head follows Salome, the spoiled step-daughter of Herod, ruler of Judea, and her quest to obtain the affections of a feared prophet by any means necessary, including her infamous Dance of the Seven Veils.

Award winning theatre production company Organised Chaos Productions bring their latest collaboration of the North West's finest new and emerging talent with their second script from their script call last year. You're Never Too Old is a new piece of writing from Steve Wood and will be deftly directed by Laura Vorwerg.

Westport Country Playhouse has released a video, taped in rehearsal, offering a look at the upcoming comic masterpiece, 'Twelfth Night, or What You Will,' by William Shakespeare, on stage October 11 through November 5. The video provides insight on the comedy from Mark Lamos, Westport Country Playhouse artistic director and director of the production, as well as from actors.

In recognition of Adriana Varejão's contributions towards the promotion of Brazilian arts and culture on national and international levels, the artist has been selected by the President of Brazil as the recipient of the 2011 Cultural Merit Order award.

Playhouse South, A Community Theatre announces open auditions for In the Spotlight. Auditions will be held at the Clark Haines Theater, 3700 Far Hills Avenue at 7:00 pm on October 17 & 18, 2011 with call backs on October 19.

MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony® Award Winner for Best Musical, and the show that's currently blowing the roof off Broadway, opens at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, November 15, for a limited engagement!

A matinee brunch series featuring live theater and classic film screenings, short story collection GIRLS IN TROUBLE receives an inspired twist for its launch, and a revival of dark comedy ON THE LINE launch the new season at Canal Park Playhouse, NYC's newest performance venue.

Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel will offer a musical theatre master class on Thursday, November 3rd from 6:30 to 10:30pm at the Davenport Studio in Midtown Manhattan.

This season in Studio 5 at City Center, renowned dancer-turned director Damian Woetzel will offer an intimate look at today's most compelling dance artists and companies, including American Ballet Theatre and Christopher Wheeldon, and Tony Award-winning performer and master teacher Victoria Clark will explore City Center's beloved Encores! series.

A contemporary ballet with a vocal edge, this work explores the emotional blues with sensuous, powerful dancing and sensational singing.

This October Underscore Theatre Company, a new musical theatre company dedicated to exploring the use of music in theatre through original work and re-imagined productions of established plays, has announced the first annual fundraiser performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show' at Chicago's Underground Lounge with a newly orchestrated score.

Trustus Theatre announces, in conjunction with this December's production of the Tony award-winning Broadway hit musical Spring Awakening, The Spring Awakening Poetry Contest. Share your own experiences, your own version of the coming of age experience through poetry. The winning poems will be published and winners will receive tickets to Trustus Theatre's production of this award-winning play.

Kara DioGuardi, Ashley Argota, and Daniel Rodriguez make special appearances, adding their voices to the 2011 Broadway's Carols for a Cure, Vol. 13, the annual holiday music 2-CD set which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

WildWorks and Battersea Arts Centre will present BABEL, a site-specific production of intimate and epic proportions, in a unique collaboration with the Lyric Hammersmith, Young Vic and Theatre Royal Stratford East.

2nd Story Theatre will produce Red, John Logan's award-winning play about abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, from March 2 through April 1.

HOWL! Arts Project & The Actors Fund welcome Manhattan Theatre Club's readings of two new plays - DUTCH MASTERS by Greg Keller and BETHANY by Laura Marks - as part of HOWL! ARTS PROJECT 2011 on Mondays, October 17 and 24, respectively, at 7pm at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks) in Manhattan. These two plays were selected for inclusion in the festival by MTC Artistic Producer, Mandy Greenfield. Proceeds benefit HOWL! HELP, an emergency services assistance and health fund for East Village Artists.

The theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey launches a concert to remember later this month when the North Carolina Symphony, led by Maestro William Henry Curry and joined by renowned pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn, presents works by three of classical music's leading lights.