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A440 Arts Group announces four major world premieres by American composer Augusta Read Thomas taking place in the upcoming 2012-2013 season, including commissions from the University of Notre Dame, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Praised for her extraordinary compositional versatility, Augusta Read Thomas has been praised as "a prodigious talent" (Russell Platt, The New Yorker) whose music "fairly explodes with an extroverted boldness of utterance audiences and musicians alike find challenging yet immediate. It's music that doesn't sound like anybody else's-music that insists you pay attention." (John von Rhein, The Chicago Tribune)

No Name kicks off their monthly Uptown Cabaret Spotlight series at popular Inwood restaurant The Indian Road Café on Thursday, June 21st @ 8pm with composer, lyricist, playwright (& Inwood resident) Joshua H. Cohen.

Travel back in time -- before the internet, before television, before Americans knew words like OMG and LOL and Kardashian. Join us in this heady era, when queens were queens and radio was king, as the Running With Scissors Radio Players present a hilarious, action-packed double-bill: AN ALIEN HOME COMPANION & THE TITANIC COMEDY HOUR!

TampaWorks is an evening of original short plays set in Tampa Bay. These comedies and dramas which explore everyday life in the Bay area, as well as local history and culture, have been created by members of Stagewrights.

Drama Learning Center's Teen Professional Company, TYA (Teaching Young Actors), presents Les Miserables (School Edition) on select dates from June 15-24 at Drama Learning Center in Columbia.

On Monday, June 11th, popular Binghamton area band Cobblestone Crossing will take the stage for a one night only concert at Chenango River Theatre. It's a great chance to catch one of the area's favorite groups in an acoustically wonderful, intimate setting.

It is a legend born in an Alabama Swap ... a story of conjurers, of mystical places, and large man .... in great need of a good barber. The Wetumpka Depot Players presents this tale of a young man in a land where myths come to life. Wiley and the Hairy Man is based on an Alabama tale of a time when magic and legend was part of life.

Soup Can Theatre is proud to announce its next production: a visceral and physical adaptation of Sophocles' legendary tragedy Antigone that ties ancient Greece and modern-day Toronto together by drawing inspiration from the searing images of the 2010 G20 Summit protests, as well as the worldwide 'Occupy' movement.

Joining the ranks of an already impressive group of Master Artists at this years' Broadway Theatre Project, Debra McWaters - BTP Co-Artistic Director and President, announces that Dancing With The Stars professional Ballroom and Latin dancers Nicholas Kosovich (DWTS seasons 1 and 2) and Elena Grinenko (DWTS seasons 3 and 4) will offer Q&A sessions, as well as, teach Master dance technique classes to young students interested in a career in musical theatre at the Broadway Theatre Project this summer in Tampa , Florida.

Maya Beiser, described by the Boston Globe as having "virtuoso chops, rock-star charisma, and an appetite for pushing her instrument to the edge of avant-garde adventurousness," will give the world premiere of Michael Harrison's Just Ancient Loops with new film by Bill Morrison during the 12-hour Bang on a Can Marathon after 9pm on Sunday, June 17, 2012 at World Financial Center Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street, NYC). A recording of Just Ancient Loops will be released on Cantaloupe Music in fall 2012. The album, entitled Time Loops, also includes Harrison's Hijaz for Maya Beiser and the Young People's Chorus of New York City with Harrison on piano, plus music by Arvo Part and J.S. Bach.

The Hives' highly-anticipated new album Lex Hives is due out next week, and in celebration, the album is streaming in its entirety at The New Yorker as well as on the band's Facebook page. In addition, the band has unveiled two bonus tracks produced and recorded by Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age): 'Insane' is streaming at RollingStone, and 'High School Shuffle' is streaming at RCRDLBL. Both tracks are available on the Deluxe Edition of Lex Hives, which is now available to pre-order on iTunes.

Northwestern University Hosts Incubator for Emerging Songwriters Participants Will Work With Masters Teachers - Craig Carnelia, Andrew Lippa & Lari White.

KEIGWIN + COMPANY (K+C) returns to The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, NYC, for its annual weeklong season including the World Premieres of two new dances on June 12 - 17, 2012.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), the renowned Off-Broadway company known for its productions that integrate able-bodied actors with artists with disabilities, invites you and a guest to MORE OF OUR PARTS - its second annual festival of short plays - featuring world premieres by Neil LaBute (FAT PIG), A.R. Gurney (LOVE LETTERS), Bekah Brunstetter (A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW), Bruce Graham (ANY GIVEN MONDAY), Samuel D. Hunter (A BRIGHT NEW BOISE), and Jeffrey Sweet (THE ACTION AGAINST SOL SCHUMANN) at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street).

Center for Puppetry Arts® is pleased to announce its upcoming 2012-2013 season, a journey filled with classic tales, lovable characters and plenty of adventures and fun for the entire family. Puppet lovers will have numerous opportunities to catch a show as this action-packed new season will feature a total of 665 theatrical performances - an average of almost 13 shows per week! In addition to hosting shows produced by the Center Company, Center for Puppetry Arts is proud to remain a premier destination for touring puppetry groups. This season, the Center will host productions from eight cities across the U.S. as well as an acclaimed production from Perth, Australia.

This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe truly promises to be the greatest show on earth with more artists performing more work, in more venues, than ever before.

Focus Features is donating an original costume from its acclaimed new movie Moonrise Kingdom, directed by Wes Anderson, to Variety the Children's Charity of New York for Variety New York's online auction which begins today via www.charitybuzz.com.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & CHRIS ISAACSON are thrilled to announce that Upright Cabaret's AMERICAN ICON Series ends another stunning season with VIVA LAS VEGAS - a presentation of personality and pop that honors the flashiest performers of all time: ELVIS, CHER & ELTON JOHN!

Alex Ko, who shared the title role of "Billy" in the Billy Elliot the Musical on Broadway will be attending the gala performance of Billy Elliot The Musical to mark seven years and 3,000 performances in the West End. The evening will be a star-studded event with attendance by Elton John, Stephen Daldry, and Laurence Olivier Award winner, Liam Mower, one of the three boys who shared the lead role in the original London cast of Billy Elliot the Musical.

Radial Theater Project presents 99 Layoffs, a new play by Seattle-based playwright Vincent Delaney. The world premiere of 99 Layoffs is a co-production with ACT Theatre's Central Heating Lab, presented August 2-25, 2012 in ACT's Eulalie Scanduzzi Performance Space (the "Lalie").