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AVENUE Q is the smash-hit Broadway musical about real life in New York City, as told by a cast of people and puppets through a hilariously irreverent, Tony-winning book and score. Audiences and critics raved about AVENUE Q when it last played Omaha in 2009, so Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America are bringing the three-time Tony Award winning musical back to the Orpheum for one performance only, Wednesday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m.

The Jewish Museum will present Picturing Vishniac: Re-examining the Photography of Roman Vishniac on Thursday, March 10 at 6:30 pm. Roman Vishniac's photographs are the most widely recognized and reproduced images of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. His photographs shape our memory of that vanished world, yet only a few hundred of his images - a very small fraction of his life's work - have ever been printed or published. In her lecture, Maya Benton, Adjunct Curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP), will discuss the recent donation of Vishniac's entire estate to the ICP, and the creation of the Vishniac archive. The presentation will include never-before-seen moving film footage; images of Zionist agrarian training camps in Holland before World War II and Displaced Persons camps in Berlin following the war; photos from 1940s America documenting the work of Jewish social service organizations; and a large selection of contact sheets, negatives, and work from Central and Eastern Europe.

Recognizing the increasing consciousness about green sustainability and its effects within the music industry, The Recording Academy and Waste Management - the 'official recycling partner' of The Academy and 53rd GRAMMY Awards - are partnering to present Show Me The Green Light: A Conversation About Greening The Music Industry, a discussion focusing on the incorporation of a reduce, reuse and recycle philosophy and its emerging presence in an ever-changing industrial climate. To be held on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011, 10:30 a.m.- noon at theConga Room at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, the guest panel will feature a diverse array of eco-conscious individuals in their respective fields, including Sony Electronics Director of Mobile Music Mike Kahn; Vans Warped Tour creator/founder Kevin Lyman; Senior Group Manager of The Clorox Company Drew McGowan; House of Marley Entrepreneur and son of Bob Marley Rohan Marley; and Senior Director of Digital Business Support for Universal Music Group Kathleen Strouse. Other featured guests include CEO/Co-Founder of Opportunity Green Karen Solomon and New House LLC Sustainable Strategist Lewis Perkins, with Waste Management's Director of Customer Alliances and Solutions Wanda Williams moderating.

CATS, the show that revolutionized musical theater is returning to the Orpheum Theatre (1192 Market Street) for a limited two week engagement, May 5 through 15 as a special attraction on the 2010-2011 Best of Broadway series under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays. Tickets on sale February 11!

The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival is casting actors and interns for its 2011 summer season, featuring Tartuffe by Moliere (performing outdoors June 3-19) and King Lear by Williams Shakespeare (performing indoors August 3-14). Each summer The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival presents free performances and educational workshops to more than 7,000 residents and visitors.

HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES by Alan Ayckbourn opens at The Winthrop Playhouse, this Friday, February 11th at 8pm. The story revolves around a trio of couples linked through their husbands' common workplace. One of the husbands is carrying on a clandestine affair with the wife of his boss. In an attempt to cover-up their indiscretions from their suspicious spouses, the secret lovers use the unwitting third couple for their respective alibis. What follows is a hilarious mixture of miscommunications, misunderstandings, and misadventures culminating in a riotous dinner scene involving two different dinner parties at two different locations on two different nights but occurring simultaneously.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center as part of the M&I Bank Broadway Across America - Fox Cities Series. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this elaborate theatrical production will come to life onstage at March 29 - April 3, 2011. For information on the production, visit BeautyAndTheBeastOnTour.com.

Dreams come true... Cirque Dreams Illumination and The Artist Series have teamed up to make 4 aspiring local performers' dreams come true. On Saturday, January 29th, contestants auditioned to 'Run Away with Cirque Dreams' during an open casting call at the Avenues Mall. The judges were impressed by the diversity and talent at the audition and have selected an extraordinary team of 4 local friends to appear in CIrque Dreams Illumination when it performs at Times Union Center's Moran Theater February 15-20, 2011. The winners will showcase their percussion team named 'RAD' which is comprised of Jacksonville residents Michael Patterson, Andrew Nixon, Matthew Remson and Reggie Bailey.

The Opera Orchestra of New York announced today that Dr. Agnes Varis will subsidize 500 premium seats at Avery Fisher Hall for the company's opera-in-concert performance of Meyerbeer's L'Africaine conducted by Music Director Eve Queler on March 2, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. The subsidized seats in the orchestra and first tier sections, ranging in price from $145 to $110, will be available for $20 each through an online drawing, which may be entered at the Opera Orchestra of New York's website, www.operaorchestrany.org.

Famed neurologist and writer Dr. Oliver Sacks attended the Irish Repertory Theatre's acclaimed revival of Brian Friel's MOLLY SWEENEY. Dr. Sacks is the author of 'To See or Not to See,' which inspired Mr. Friel to write his three-character play about a blind woman who undergoes an operation to try to restore her sight. He is also the author of 'Awakenings' and 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.'

The cast and creative team of Shear Madness arrived in Sarasota this week to begin rehearsals at Florida Studio Theatre. Shear Madness opens February 23 for a limited two-week engagement. The production returns to the Gompertz stage after it ran for nine sold-out weeks last season.

Jefferson Performing Arts Society (JPAS) is honored to host the 2011 Louisiana American Association of Community Theatres Fest (AACT/Fest) Friday-Saturday, February 18-19, 2011 at the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave in Westwego, Louisiana. The two-day festival will showcase seven short performances from theatre groups throughout the state of Louisiana. The showcase is also an adjudicated competition where the winning two presentations will have the opportunity to compete regionally and nationally. Tickets to the performance sessions held February 18 and 19 at 2PM each day for the general public is $15 per session and will be sold at the door February 18-19, 2011 at the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre. Performance sessions consist of 3-4 60minute performances with adjudication/judges feedback immediately following. Day passes and full festival passes that include workshops and more are $35-65 and will be sold at the the theatre starting at 8AM on February 18 & 19. For full schedule of events, visit www.jpas.org and click on 'AACT Fest' under the 'Education & Outreach' menu. Join us for great performances from some outstanding community theatres throughout the state!

'Glee' - 'American Idol' - 'Dancing with the Stars' - Fans of this genre of entertainment now have a local competition to rally behind: St. Louis Teen Talent Showcase. The Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation (Fox PACF) is proud to bring the St. Louis area a contest that will culminate with a FREE Broadway-style production at The Fabulous Fox Theatre on Friday, May 6th. Tickets will be available at no charge at The Fox box office and online beginning April 4th.

Houston's Main Street Theater's April lineup includes THIS, a performance of adults only, running April 7-24, 2011, and BUNNICULA, for children first grade and older, April 16-May 14, 2011.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) will present CURTAINS, a clever 'whodunit' musical comedy guaranteed to knock ‘em dead, March 29 - April 10 at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Based on the book by Rupert Holmes, this Broadway gem features the razzle-dazzle musical style of celebrated songwriting duo John Kander and Fred Ebb, the same pair behind hits like Cabaret and Chicago.

One of Shaw's most wicked of one-act comedies, the story follows two couples. Each pair has decided to take a trip away from their mate to go around the world to reawaken their romance when they reunite. On the journey, each meets the partner of the other couple with surprising results.

After winning the ‘Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year' Award in 1999, Zoe Rahman has quickly established herself as one of the brightest stars on the contemporary jazz scene. Her second album, Melting Pot, was nominated in 2006 for the Mercury Music Prize and more recently she achieved an achingly beautiful fusion of jazz, classical and Bengali music in her highly-acclaimed album Where Rivers Meet, which featured arrangements of Nobel prize-winner Rabindranath Tagore's music. The programme for this tour features pieces from Where Rivers Meet as well as from Zoe's outstanding live album, and debuts some new material written specially for the tour.