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Merrimack Hall Performing Arts Center announces MOMENTUM, a performance to benefit Merrimack Hall's free weekly Dance Your Dreams! program for children with special needs.

Otter Nonsense Players, Middlebury College's own comedy improv troupe, makes their Town Hall Theater debut on Friday, March 12 at 8 pm. Rated PG so you can bring the whole family!

The John Richmond Quartet has announced its upcoming New York City gigs for the coming months. The quartet is led by tenor saxophonist John Richmond and features Michael Cochrane on piano, Mike Richmond on bass, and Steve Johns on drums.

This March, experience life from an animal's point of view during an evening with Crittercam inventor Greg Marshall at the Garde Arts Center on March 19 at 7:30 p.m. The event is part of the new 'Faces of Our Planet' series, created by Sea Research Foundation, National Geographic Society and the Garde Arts Center to reveal the mysteries and discoveries of the world's human, animal and geographic faces.

The Play That Changed My Life contributing playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), David Ives (Venus in Fur), Diana Son (Stop Kiss) book editor Ben Hodges and Howard Sherman, Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing will be at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble Wednesday, February 24th at 7:30pm. The Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble is located at 1972 Broadway at 66th Street.

David Mirvish will present Jake Ehrenreich in his unique stage production, A JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN. Described as a 'rock n' roll true story, Holocaust family, Borscht belt comedy musical,' A JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN will play the Panasonic Theatre from April 28 to May 16, 2010.

Kelrik Productions has announced the five productions that will comprise its winter/spring 2010 season. The season will include Seussical, Bye Bye Birdie, Oliver!, Cabaret, and Beauty and the Beast.

Disney's high-flying adventure won't be grounded in March after all, as Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre's Pyramid Players have extended the run of Aladdin Jr. The stage adaptation of the popular Disney movie, which opened the 2010 Live Theatre For Kids series, is now on stage through April 24.

Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, Middlebury College's dynamic big band, under the direction of Dick Forman, comes to Town Hall Theater on Thursday, March 11 at 8 pm for a fabulous swing dance.

MadLab Theatre is celebrating its new performance space with the Kill 'Em With Kindness Comedy Festival. The festival will be the first production at MadLab's new space at 227 North Third Street. This six week festival features a different comedy act each weekend highlighted by the opening act - THE CODY RIVERS SHOW from Washington. Each weekend will bring you anything from sketch comedy to short-form improv, from stand-up to long-form improv. It's a little something for everyone each week.

The Corner Bookstore and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have announced that they will be hosting a reading by Marion Meade, author of Lonelyhearts, The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney on Thursday, March 11th at 6:00 p.m.

The Mad Horse Theatre Company and FinalRune Productions will present a night of BEAN SUPPER and LIVE RADIO DRAMA on Saturday, February 27.

For one weekend only, March 25 - 28, Atlanta Ballet presents the U.S. premiere of James Kudelka's 'Four Seasons' at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, featuring special performances by Atlanta Ballet's artistic director emeritus Robert Barnett and current artistic director John McFall.

The National Theatre of Scotland has announced a new UK and international tour of Gregory Burke's critically acclaimed play, Black Watch. The tour will begin in September.

According to Variety, The Last Goodbye, the rock version of Romeo and Juliet featuring songs by Jeff Buckley, may get its stage debut in the 2010-2011 season.

NAACP Image Award nominee and Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose and bestselling author and actor Hill Harper will host the 41ST NAACP IMAGE AWARDS, broadcast live from Los Angeles' historic Shrine Auditorium, Friday, Feb. 26 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape- delayed) on FOX. Additionally, Jamie Foxx, Lenny Kravitz, Regina King, Taraji P. Henson, Myrlie Evers Williams, Adam Rodriguez, Sherri Shepherd, Mo'Nique, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock, Gabourey Sidibe, Alfre Woodard, Mariah Carey, Mekhi Phifer and Tatyana Ali, among others, are scheduled to appear on the special. Previously announced honorees include Tyler Perry, who will receive the Chairman's Award, and Wyclef Jean, who will receive the Vanguard Award.

This coming June, Broadway veterans Nellie McKay, Alan Cumming, LaKisha Jones, Adam Pascal and Aaron Lazar will be headlining concerts at Feinstein's at Lowes Regency.

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) presents SNAPSHOTS, a series of seven new ten-minute musicals, as part of their Winter 2010 Dark Nights Series at the West End Theatre in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew.

The Agatha Christie classic murder mystery, And Then There Were None, will be read by Westport Country Playhouse actor alumni and audience favorites (pictured at right from top to bottom): Geneva Carr (How The Other Half Loves), Keir Dullea (Butterflies Are Free), Beth Fowler (David Copperfield), Charlotte Moore (The Fatal Weakness), Ciarán O'Reilly (The Streets of New York), Joe Paulik (Old Wicked Songs), Jay O. Sanders, Mark Shanahan (Around the World in 80 Days), Doug Stender (A Marriage Minuet), and Paxton Whitehead (How The Other Half Loves).

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, The Irish Tenors return by popular demand to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Tuesday, Mar. 9 at 8 p.m.