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Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is proud to present the World Premiere of the new play, I Am (Not) My Mother, based on true stories from and about the women of Frederick.

Critics and Patrons have created a rush!! SYLVIA will also play on Saturday July 21@ 8PM and Sunday July 22 @ 3PM as well as the regular times this coming weekend.

KVPAC's Community Theatre Program Offers Up Jane Shepard's Controversial Plays for Women

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Gregg Rolie, best known for his vocals and keyboard work with legendary music groups Santana and Journey, is currently on tour with Ringo Starr's All Star Band.

The cast of Rasaka's production features Chicago actors Mouzam Makkar and Tim Martin. Makkar, a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf, just finished a run in Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play with Grey Ghost Theatre. Recent Chicago credits include The Fever Chart: Four Visions of the Middle East (Eclipse Theatre), 1001 (Collaboraction), Here Where It's Safe (Stage Left Theatre, where she is an Ensemble Member), Twelfth Night (First Folio Theatre), Yoni Ki Baat (Rasaka Theatre), Cut to the Quick: Atom Smashers (the side project), and Seven (Silk Road Theatre). Martin, also a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf, was most recently seen in the touring production of Letters Home with Griffin Theatre. Other recent Chicago credits include Motion (Signal Ensemble), Lighthousekeeping (New Leaf Theatre), and Wreckage(Caffeine Theatre). In February 2013, he will be understudying the Chicago premiere of another Rajiv Joseph play, Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo, at Lookingglass.

The creator of Fringe hits "BRUISER" and "HUFFS" returns with a collection of rude, embarrassing, and hilarious tales, told from the perspective of a loud mouth gal just trying to make her way through the Windy City.

The August broadcasts of The New York Philharmonic This Week - the weekly radio series of concerts and recordings by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by Alec Baldwin - begin with conductor Andrey Boreyko as he launches the Philharmonic's 2012 residency at Colorado's Bravo!

Join us on Sunday, August 19 and Monday, August 20 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre to purchase season tickets with special offers only during this event from our resident companies - Gas South Broadway Series, Jazz Roots - A new Jazz series offered by the Cobb Energy Centre Foundation, The Atlanta Opera and Atlanta Ballet. Additionally arts patrons can "test drive your seats" for the 2012/2013 season!

What if a gay woman, gay man, and straight woman had equal stage time to muse on sex, identity, and dating? Fed up with the predominantly straight-white-male perspectives on life and sex, Veronica Elizabeth, Kenny Neal, and Alyssa Wolff dreamed up the Gay/Straight Alliance: an LGBT-friendly comedy show that breaks down barriers, exposing the fact that basically, we're all awful, regardless of orientation.

The producers of the smash hit musical Dirty Dancing have just announced new casting for the phenomenally successful First Ever National Tour. The new company will have their first performance at Birmingham Hippodrome on Wednesday 4 July (American Independence Day) and will run until Saturday 25 August. Since the UK tour opened in Bristol on 1 September 2011, demand for tickets has been sensational, smashing box office records across the country and playing to packed houses.

Building on the success of her first season, Artistic Director Purni Morell continues the Unicorn's commitment to pushing the boundaries in theatre for audiences aged 2 to 21.

HERE proudly announces its 20th Anniversary Season, spanning September 2012 through June 2013, featuring three world premieres from Resident Artists in the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP); two co-productions delivering hybrid performing arts premieres; the launch of PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre Now, an annual festival; and HERE's yearly CULTUREMART festival which gives audiences a first look at new work from HERE Resident Artists. Works include groundbreaking multidisciplinary productions from HARP Artists, representing the culmination of commissions and developmental residencies of up to three years, as well as presentations by visiting artists, curated by HERE, as part of HERE's various programs including the Dream Music Puppetry Program and much more.

The American Repertory Theater of WNY is proud to present the Young Playwrights Festival at the Buffalo Canalside's Historical Ruins on July 16th-17th & July 23rd-24th, 2-5 pm.

Bay Street Theatre's Patron Party on June 30 was hosted by John and Lindsay Landes at their waterfront home in Sag Harbor.

Kat Edmonson's sophomore album Way Down Low is out now. Self-released on Kat's label Spinnerette Records, the album debuted #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart and has sold over 10k albums in its first two months.

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre in 'The White Doe, or The Piteous Trybulations of the Sufferyng Countess Jenovéfa.' Thirty century-old marionettes star in song-filled 18th-century puppet theater experience.

The Equinox Theatre is excited to host a brand new season of "Don't Close Your Eyes" -- a series of original radio plays performed and recorded live in front of a studio audience, weekends from June 1st-July 28th, at 8 p.m.

WIFF is proud to present an evocative new play written and directed by local playwright and actor Gail Fleming. Outsider, opening July 27 and runs through August 5, 2012, with an art show on July 27.

Summertime brings a sidesplitting spoof to Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre as it presents Nunsense live on stage July 19 through Aug. 26.

EastEnders actress Bumni Mojekwu and Layton Williams, the first black Billy Elliott in the West End musical, are the first major names attached to new British musical A Dream Across The Ocean.