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"Art Gallery Tours New York' announces a Chelsea art gallery walking tour. The tour will take place on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 1:00 PM and will meet at 526 W. 26th St. (10th & 11th Ave.), West Chelsea Arts Building. The tour will cost $20.

NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Ownes will appear at Dizzy's Coca Cola from January 3-8th, 2012, and will perform music from his newest album, The Monk Project. On January 5th, 2012 NEA Jazz Master and recipient of the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy discusses his career, the NEA, and his just released tribute to Monk CD -- Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project. After the discussion, Jimmy will also be available for questions and to sign copies of his new CD.

After the success of last season's inaugural Festival, Red Bull Theater's Short New Plays Festival returns in 2012. Six short plays will be selected from an open-submission process and presented in staged readings with two short plays by commissioned writers (John Guare and one other TBA). Plays will be selected based on relevance to Red Bull Theater's mission, incorporation of stated theme and excellence of the work. Directors for the plays are Ken Rus Schmoll and Anne Kaufmann.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org) announces its monthly public meeting to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17, at Fells Point Corner Theatre. After the meeting, at 8:30 p.m., there will be a staged reading of three ten-minute plays by Susan Middaugh, directed by Micah Chalmer. The readings of Just a Bus Driver, Wronged and Just Another Face in the Crowd will be followed by a discussion of the scripts with the playwright, director and actors. The event is free, and the general public is encouraged to attend.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org) kicks off the New Year, and our 31st Season with a public play-reading marathon to take place on Saturday, 14 January at The Strand Theater, 1823 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, (443) 874-4917, www.strand-theater.org. Beginning at 11:00 a.m. plays to be read are The Milwood Elementary School PTA by Sharon Goldner, directed by Steve Goldklang, followed at 1:00 p.m. by Shana Unsettled by Ronda Cooperstein, directed by Terry Moritz, and at 3:00 p.m. by Following Sarah by Rich Espey, directed by Josh Shoemaker. After each reading there will be a discussion of the script with the playwright, director and actors. The event is free, and the general public is encouraged to attend.

Six years and 400 productions later Cheryl King has created a home for the solo artist, the Off-Off-Broadway playwright and four Festivals (Left Out, Women At Work, Beyond the Pale, Mama Drama). This season, in addition to producing 38 shows, she is directing five productions and starring in the highly acclaimed "GRAPEFRUIT".

Let's read some poems, hear some poems, and act within some poems. Charles Bernstein and Paolo Javier read from their past and recent work on January 7th, 2012.

The NewFilmmakers NY Series will take place on January 4th and screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. Tickets for the whole evening at NewFilmmakers NY are only $6 and are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

From the minds and talents of the award-winning Grey Seal Puppets comes this hilarious reimagining of Andersen's family classic. Recasting "The Emperor's New Clothes" using animal characters, kids ages 4 and older will love the story of a vain ruler who learns that there is more to life than what you wear. The production runs Jan. 14-15 at Children's Theatre at ImaginOn.

What better way to begin the New Year than with the wildly popular comedy, Defending the Caveman written by Rob Becker? The place to be in the New Year is Bridgeport's Downtown Cabaret Theatre where audiences will have every reason to laugh at themselves about all the different ways men and women fight, laugh and love. Couples throughout America and around the world are enamored of Caveman, described as an hilariously insightful play about the ways men and women relate and always has both sexes roaring with laughter and recognition as well as serving as a peacemaker in the ongoing misunderstandings between men and women.

Following the side-splitting debut of their brand new show In The Middle Of No One at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival earlier this year and hot on the heels of sell out runs at Soho Theatre and The Edinburgh Festival and a UK tour, The Pajama Men make their West End debut this Winter. Their unique brand of comedy which requires no more than their pajamas and an endless assembly of voices has consistently wowed audiences and critics wherever The Pajama Men have played over the past few years and has built up an ever growing army of enthusiastic fans.

The Beijing Playhouse is beginning bi-weekly Drama Club Workshops on the first and third Thursday of every month from 6:30-8 p.m. Every workshop will involve learning and practicing skills related to theater with a skilled and of course very friendly instructor. You will meet other people with similar interests and have fun being creative while honing your skills and talents in a relaxed and sociable environment. The club workshops are open to absolutely everyone, with only one prerequisite-you must have an interest in theater or drama!

South Bend Civic Theatre opens its 2012 season on a high note with the Midwest premiere of Blue, directed by special guest Ron OJ Parson, running January 20th - February 6th. Written by Charles Randolph-Wright with original music by Grammy winner Nona Hendryx, Blue tells the story of the well-to-do Clark family in all their dysfunctional glory. A clan whose success is built on a thriving funeral home business, the Clark family is a bundle of contradictions: diligent hard-working Samuel maintaining the family business; his mother Tillie, as downhome and brutally honest as they come; his sons, Sam and Reuben, trying to find their own way out of the mess; and ruling the roost is his wife Peggy, whose aspirations for class and style push the family bonds to the breaking point. Her only refuge in the turmoil is the music of her idol Blue Williams, who haunts the play with his voice and presence, turning music into memory and who holds the key to the problems of the family.

Stephen Costello returns to the fabled London venue for his company role debut as Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata. His five appearances (Jan 2-20) come in a revival of Richard Eyre's celebrated staging, with Maurizio Benini on the podium. For the first three performances, Costello's Violetta is Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho; for the final pair, he is rejoined by Anna Netrebko, with whom he recently made waves in the Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of Anna Bolena.

Touring internationally, critically acclaimed Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada tackles a tough subject in its Toronto debut. GHOSTS OF VIOLENCE is a contemporary full-length production following four young couples caught in a web of romance, fear and aggression. A recent sell-out in Vancouver, the ballet is on a cross-country tour, and is "…gorgeously choreographed and evocatively staged." Vancouver Sun

Las Jornadas de Paz y Dignidad se celebran para elevar una voz heredada de nuestros ancestros expresada en las profecias que nos hablan del tiempo de la unión, la paz y la dignidad de los pueblos.

First Draft at Charter Theater - a nonprofit organization devoted to developing theater audiences alongside new plays; supporting local artists; and partnering with theaters looking to produce new work - announced today that it will present two readings this month of the new comedy, "The Bison Beast of Dubois," by DC-based playwright Mario Baldessari, who is First Draft's Playwright-in-Residence for the 2011-2012 season.

Featured as part of the Best of Fringe Uptown 2011, Living With Henry is a new musical drama that explores the fear, complications and realities of living with HIV/AIDS today. Though it is no longer a death sentence, the once carefree Michael must learn to come to terms with living with his chronic condition to gain a much deeper understanding of self and the complex world around him.