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The Skivvies just played the Highline Ballroom on Monday, January 28, featuring special guests Alice Ripley, Wesley Taylor, Adam Kantor, Leigh Ann Larkin, Joseph Morales, Mitchell Jarvis, and more. The Skivvies are award-winning singer-actors Lauren Molina (Sweeney Todd, Rock of Ages, Marry Me A Little) and Nick Cearley (All Shook Up)

American Idol continued holding auditions tonight in San Antonio. From the previews shown last week, it seemed like the next American Idol would come from this city.

Following on the heels of Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company's (EESDC) 30th anniversary year where its production Aguas/Waters was named one of the top five dance shows of 2012 by NOW Magazine, the early months of 2013 are full of excitement and possibility for Esmeralda and the company, which brings the finest flamenco and Spanish Classical Dance to Toronto stages.

Broadway stars Joy Lynn Jacobs (The Music Man/ Marie Christine) and Destan Owens (Rent/Chicago)will be performing I Hear a Symphony- Motown's Greatest Hits at Bentley University!

Older & Reckless, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre's celebrated series curated by Artistic Director Claudia Moore, continues its 2012/13 season with 2 SOLOS | A DUET | AN ENSEMBLE featuring ten dance artists from around the globe in works by Canadian choreographers Peter Bingham, Denise Fujiwara, Peter Chin and Nancy Latoszewski (Greyeyes). Edition #28 of Older and Reckless runs March 8 to 10 at Dancemakers Centre for Creation.

This week's THEATER TALK focuses on both the new PBS documentary Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy and the 100th Anniversary of the Actors' Equity Association. Guests are filmmaker Michael Kantor, producer of the PBS film, followed by Nicholas Wyman, President of Actors' Equity, and Robert Simonson, author of Performance of the Century: 100 Years of Actors' Equity Association and the Rise of Professional American Theater, which chronicles the powerful union's history.

Mr. Leon Bates- one of America's leading Pianists, along with Broadway stars Teri Dale Hansen (The Boys From Syracuse/Show Boat) and Destan Owens (Rent/Chicago) will be performing with the Jackson Symphony under the baton of Maestro Jordan Tang in Fascinating Gershwin!

What has happened to social media and the way we communicate? The parody 'Chats' is here to answer that very question.

Three-time Emmy Award© winner Charles "Roc" Dutton brings his critically acclaimed, autobiographical, one-man stage play From Jail to Yale: Serving Time on Stage to Chicago for the first time for two performances only, at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Performance Hall at the University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th Street, Wednesday and Thursday, February 20 and 21, at 7:30 p.m. The show tells the story of Dutton's journey from prison in Baltimore to the Yale University Drama School to theatrical and television success. Best known for his role in the 1990s television series Roc, Dutton is also a highly accomplished stage and film actor and a director-having originated roles in multiple plays by August Wilson and, most recently, directed and starred in the 2012 film The Obama Effect and the upcoming movie Must Be the Music.

From the producers of Ruddigore and The Pirates of Penzance comes another topsy-turvy Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado.

Lifeline Theatre's KidSeries presents The Emperor's New Threads: A Fashion Statement, a children's musical based on the folktale The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen. The production is adapted and directed by Lifeline Theatre ensemble member Frances Limoncelli (three-time Non-Equity Jeff Award-winning adaptor), with music and lyrics by George Howe. The Emperor is beloved as a chic trendsetter, but his ridiculous fashion tax is bankrupting the country.

Joe's Pub at The Public has a long tradition of welcoming rising vocalists and songwriters from all over the world. Amy Winehouse and Adele are just two of the artists who made their remarkable US debuts on the Joe's Pub stage. In March, three artists who have already enjoyed success across Europe will make their mark in the US at Joe's Pub. The Hamburg-based duo BOY will combine the art school elegance of Phoenix and the emotional depth of Bon Iver on March 1; Norwegian one-man wunderkind BERNHOFT will bring his funky acoustic jams and loop pedal on March 9; and budding songwriter LUCY ROSE'S stripped-down and painfully unadorned vocals will warm hearts on March 18. Tickets for all three shows are on sale now at http://www.joespub.com/.

?The BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop announces its Winter Smoker, a semi-annual showcase for new songs from Workshop writers. The event will be held in the 30th Floor Media Room of BMI's New York office at 7 World Trade Center/250 Greenwich Street on Thursday, January 31 at 5:00PM and is open to members of the entertainment industry as well as Workshop members. Reservations are a must: Ssantana@bmi.com or 212 220-3177. Running time is 70 minutes.

The comedy runs February 7 - February 23, 2013 and will be presented at the Stone Cottage Theatre, 15650 Addison Road, Addison TX, 75001. Tickets and more information can be found at www.MBSProductions.net. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 PM. There will be a Saturday matinee on February 16th at 2PM. Ticket prices $18-$27. On Valentine's Day join us for our annual Chocolate & Roses fundraiser show: All audience members receive a rose, a box of chocolates and a free ticket to an upcoming MBS Productions show.

On the 203rd anniversary of Lincoln's birth, the Metropolitan Museum presents a special performance of "Lincoln Seen and Heard," a program that has been performed at the White House, Ford's Theatre, the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton Presidential Libraries, and other venues.

This past weekend Anne Hathaway won Best Supporting Actress at the SAG Awards. She is now reminding the people in charge of the Academy Awards why she should win their prize for Best Supporting Actress.

Gene & Shelley Enlow Recital Hall at Kean University (Enlow Hall) opens its 2013 spring concert season with Ahn Trio and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in "Temptation of the Muses", a concert of original song and dance. This one-night-only concert will be performed in Enlow Hall on Saturday, February 23rd at 7:30pm.

In Two Trains Running, an optimistic ex-con enters the insular confines of Memphis Lee's diner and awakens a cast of older and skeptical characters to the possibilities of a new era. Set in the turbulence of 1969, a time much like today, Two Trains Running is one of the most humorous and politically potent of Wilson's 20th Century Cycle plays.

The James Downing Theatre will present as their second show of the 2012-13 season "Little Women the musical."

On behalf of Ballet in Cinema, from Emerging Pictures, you are invited to attend the HD performance of "An Evening with Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot" from the Nederlands Dans Theater this Sunday, February 3rd, at 11:00 a.m. at BIG Cinemas Manhattan Theater, 239 East 59th Street. The performance runs 134 minutes, including intermissions. Please RSVP no later than noon this Friday, February 1st, to RLForsythe@RLForsythe.com. If you have already rsvp'd, there is no need to do so again. Production/press notes are attached. Original invitation copy follows.