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Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2011-2012 World Stages series with the Red Star / Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 8pm. Returning to Brooklyn for the first time since 1998, this spectacular company of 70 singers, dancers and musicians has thrilled audiences worldwide for decades with its dazzlingly athletic folk dances and traditional Russian anthems, showcasing the culture and pride of its homeland.

The international clown, circus and theatre communities will come together 7pm, Tuesday, March 13 at the Z Space (formerly Theatre Artaud), 450 Florida St., San Francisco, for an evening of laughter, gags, graceful acrobatics, and uproarious pratfalls, to pay a joyful, loving tribute to one of its own, Peggy Ford, a major figure in the Bay Area and national circus communities, who died in January after several years of illness.

Kim Frankiewicz has been appointed Managing Director of Imagem Music UK, the pop music publishing arm of the Imagem Music Group.

Shakespeare Theatre Company Education has launched a new, community-building initiative to ensure that students in the District of Columbia have access to the arts. The program, titled District Shakespeare, will engage students in D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) serving grades 8-12 to provide a classical theatre experience that encompasses Shakespeare's artistry and relevancy for today's youth. District Shakespeare ambitiously envisions a future where every DCPS student has the opportunity to see an STC production before they graduate high school.

The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to name the 2012 winners of its Vilcek Prizes honoring the contributions of foreign-born artists and scientists in the United States. The Vilcek Prize for the Arts, this year awarded in the field of dance, is presented to Mikhail Baryshnikov, born in Latvia to Russian parents, for his body of distinguished work and his legacy of advancing the field of dance. The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise is given to dancer and choreographer Michel Kouakou, originally of Ivory Coast, for his versatile and globally influenced performances and choreography.

The Electric Light Orchestra Greatest Hits show, performed live by the incredible ELO Experience, is on its way to Swindon.

The Endangered Species Project has announced their first Terence Rattigan play: The Winslow Boy, from 1946, a masterfully-constructed work that is also a totally engaging emotional experience. The play is a fictional version of an actual court case which had occurred three years before Rattigan was born: The Arche-Shee family had sued the British Admiralty for a false accusation of theft lodged against their naval cadet son, leading to a political sensation. Rattigan changed much of the circumstances of the actual case, but in the character of Sir Robert Morton he kept many of the attributes of the barrister who led the original charge, Sir Edward Carson: a thoroughgoing conservative - one of the prosecutors of Oscar Wilde - who, against expectation, agreed to take on the Admiralty.

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, directed by Arin Arbus, is Theatre for a New Audience's fifth and final production of the 2011 - 2012 theatre season. Maggie Siff (Sons of Anarchy and Mad Men) and Andy Grotelueschen (Cymbeline performed by Fiasco Theater) play Kate and Petruchio. Previews begin Sunday, March 18, at 7:00pm, and opens Sunday, April 1, at 3:00pm for a run scheduled through April 21, at The Duke on 42nd Street, a NEW 42ND STREET® project, 229 West 42nd Street.

Megan Hilty, currently staring in the NBC series SMASH, sat down with MyFOX NY to talk about Smash.

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces its 2012 Season, the Twelfth Annual Performance Season from June 21-23, 2012 at New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th Street, NYC. The season will feature the World Premiere of Detour. Tickets are $30 at the door/$24 in advance ($27 at the door/$22 in advance for Live Arts members, students, and seniors) and will be available at www.newyorklivearts.org or by phone at (212) 924-0077.

A Tribe Called Red's upcoming new album will be released on March 27th for free on their website www.atribecalledred.com.

The Cortland Repertory Theatre will present its new murder mystery A WEE BIT OF MURDER for four performances only from March 9th-24th.

On Tuesday, March 13th at 7pm at Marine Park Junior High School (1925 Stuart Street, Brooklyn, NY 11229), the Great White Way's leading arts-education not-for-profit Inside Broadway will premiere a special video documentary, "The Road to Opening Night" which chronicles the school's spring 2011 production of Bye, Bye, Birdie which Inside Broadway helped coordinate and produce at the school last year.

The Brick Theater is pleased to announce the fourth annual Game Play festival, taking place from July 6-28, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York. This year's festival will once again feature cutting-edge works that lie at the intersection of video gaming and performance.

JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY will return to Los Angeles for two nights, Wednesday and Thursday, February 29 & March 1, 2012. The 'extreme open mic' will take place at The Coterie, Hollywood's newest supper club, located at The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa (1755 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood).

Sérénade Française and Klezmer & Gypsy Music are set for free concerts at the Canadian Opera Company on June 5th & 6th, 2012. The performances will be part of the Opera's free concert series.

The hugely popular musical play telling the story of legendary country singer Patsy Cline and her most devoted fan, ALWAYS... PATSY CLINE kicks off Theatre at the Center's 2012 season. Based on a true story of this unparalleled pioneer for female performers and a fan from Houston she befriended in a Texas honky-tonk, the production previews February 23, opens February 26 and runs through April 1.

The XII International Ballet Festival Mariinsky will run from 23 March to 1 April, with artistic direction by Valery Gergiev.

The Husby Performing Arts Center will present SHREK THE MUSICAL from April 9th-11th.

IN THE HEIGHTS is set for the Husby Performing Arts Center as part of their Pavilion Performance Series on March 3rd at 3 & 7p.m.