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The internationally-renowned composer, singer, director/choreographer Meredith Monk will perform selections from her repertoire and discuss her singular career in an up-close-and-personal setting when La MaMa presents MEREDITH MONK IN CONVERSATION for one-night only on Monday, January 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan, it has been announced by Mia Yoo, artistic director of La Mama. MEREDITH MONK IN CONVERSATION is the 2nd installment in La MaMa's new Monday Night Series of intimate evenings with La MaMa artists on the occasion of the theatre's 50th anniversary season.

After more than 20 years in residence at the Theatre on the 3rd Floor of Canal Place, Southern Rep announces that it will be finding a new home. Due to recent growth within Canal Place, the space will change hands next month, February 2012, and will no longer operate as a live performance venue.

The Equinox Theatre attacks the stage with locally written hilarity on the subject of Communication: Good & Bad, Mass & Social. This sketch comedy features 5 actors with attitude, very little script, and a lot of improvisation.

Maxine Heppner with Across Oceans presents the first reveal of MY HEART IS A SPOON, experimentations through dance-media that look through the lens of Japanese manga aesthetic to riff on the emotional and physical energy of an all too-common state of being: rage. Part of the Rage Project, a month-long series of events examining rage's potential as a creative force in arts and culture, MY HEART IS A SPOON runs January 19-22, 2012 at The Theatre Centre, a Dance Works Co-Works Series event, and in cooperation with the Japan Foundation.

The Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is currently accepting applications for Camp Assistants (paid) and Camp Volunteers (unpaid) for the 2012 Visual and Performing Arts Summer Camps. Downloadable applications are available on the "Getting Involved" page of HCAC's website www.hocoarts.org.

Route 66 will feature members of the cast of ELIZABETH REX, the critically acclaimed hit show now playing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Directed by Associate Artistic Director Erica Weiss, who served as Assistant Director on ELIZABETH REX, Brenda Barrie, Matt Farabee, and Mary Ann Thebus will take the 'stage' at Mrs Murphy's and Sons Irish Bistro for a reading of a new play by Adam Simon.

The Media Theatre will hold its annual fundraising Gala on Saturday evening, February 25 with Broadway's legendary Tony nominee Andrea McArdle performing in concert.

The Wilton Playshop presents LIFE WITH FATHER written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The play, based on Clarence Day's book about his father, will play from February 10th through February 18th.

Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. will open Superior Donuts by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts on Thursday, February 16 at 8 p.m. Performances continue Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 3 PM through March 25. Tickets are $18 on Thursdays and Sundays, $20 on Fridays and $22 on Saturdays. There will be previews on February 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. Tickets for previews will be $5.

On Saturday, January 14 at 2 p.m., the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum will host an artist's opening for "The Colors of Venice &?Burano." The show, which will run through April 11, is a collection of manipulated, layered photographs by Staten Island painter/printmaker Fritz Steven Weiss.

Actors' Shakespeare Project (ASP) continues its 8th season with Euripides' Greek tragedy Medea, directed by David R. Gammons. The play previews on February 8, 9 & 10 and opens Saturday, February 11 at 8pm at the Multicultural Art Center, 41 Second Street in Cambridge.

Northern Stage and Live Theatre in Newcastle Upon Tyne are thrilled to announce that they are joining forces to revive Alan Plater's play CLOSE THE COALHOUSE DOOR as a memorial production following his death in 2010. Directed by Samuel West, the production will open at Northern Stage on Wednesday 18 April, with previews from 13 April and will then tour the UK until June.

The Original Theatre Company is bringing Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning play, Our Country's Good to Rose Theatre Kingston this January. The production tours nationally from January 25th to April 27th, starring Aden Gillett and Philip Whitchurch.

The Broadway Theatre Project will bring in seasoned Broadway professionals to audition high school and college performing arts students for this years summer intensive program.

Directed by Brian Haimbach, You Are Here tells the story of a father and son dealing with growing pains. Guy wants to go away to college and Roger wants life to stay as it is. Their life has not been easy. Roger's developmental disability has kept Guy from having a normal childhood. When they are faced with the most difficult decision of their lives, they must decide what is really important.

Seattle Theatre Group has announced that tickets will go on sale this week for performances by The Fray and the March Fourth Marching Band.

Award winning Caribbean alternative soul singer Nhojj will appear at Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays on January 7, 2012, as part of a celebration honoring the LGBT community. Among the songs he will perform are LGBT favorites 'Adam & Steve' and 'He & Him.'

Gering & Lopez Gallery opens 2012 with a program of exhibitions by gallery artists. January opens with Michael Scott: Black and White Line Paintings 1989-2011. The exhibition features work on a subject that Scott has revisited for several years, exploring nuances and variations on an important theme for this artist.

Music Director George Rothman will lead Riverside Symphony in a program bridging the Renaissance to the present day on Saturday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. The program will open with a rare performance of Vivaldi's Concerto in D for Lute featuring the young Mexican virtuoso Dieter Hennings in his New York concerto debut.

Luna Stage is presenting it's Mainstage Production, REPARATION, a world premiere by Gino DiIorio and directed by Jane Mandel February 17th-March 11th. Previews for the production begin on February 9th.