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For the St. Olaf Choir and Conductor Anton Armstrong, national tours are a long- standing winter tradition, and early 2013 they will present 11 concerts on the West Coast starting at Seattle's Benaroya Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 30, followed by three concerts in Oregon, five in California and two in Arizona … concluding in Tucson on Monday, Feb. 11. The tour also includes performances closer to home: Sioux Falls, S.D., Saturday, Jan. 26; Mason City, Iowa, Sunday, Jan. 27; and Stillwater, Minn., Saturday, Feb. 16.

MARVELL REP presents SECRETS, The Untold Story of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung, an original play written & directed by Ken Wydro, at TBG Theatre, February 11-March 10. SECRETS has Set Design by Zhanna Gurvich, Lighting Design by Nicholas Houfek & Costume Design by Jennifer Raskopf. Assistant to the Director is Rebekah Hughston.

Bill Maher, the brilliant political commentator who set the boundaries of where funny political talk can go on American television now stretches those limits in an evening of hard-hitting, side-splitting stand up humor on Sunday, April 28, 7:00 p.m., at the DuPont Theatre in Wilmington.

Gregory Doran's production of ANJIN: THE SHOGUN & THE ENGLISH SAMURAI, written by Mike Poulton with Sho Kawai, will play eleven performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre from 31 January to 9 February, with the press night on Thursday 31 January.

Chicago Children's Theatre (CCT) skips a few grades following its recent smash hit, Harold and the Purple Crayon, with a new production of Bud, Not Buddy, January 12-February 24, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. Press opening is Friday, January 18 at 7 p.m. Single tickets start at $20, and are on sale now. To purchase, visit chicagochildrenstheatre.org or call (872) 222-9555. For group rates, visit GroupTix.net or call (773) 327-3778.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting will premiere a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic The Seagull, the forerunner of modern character-driven dramas with interwoven storylines such as Downton Abbey and Mad Men. Celebrated director John Gould Rubin (LAByrinth Theater Company) brings a realistic, deconstructed and more accessible version of the play to the stage with a new translation by Royston Coppenger.

When you take the sounds of Dave Matthews, combine them with the versatility of Johnny Reznick and add in a bit of Bryan Adams you have one of the country's hottest pop acts, Jerad Finck who will be on tour with dada for their 20th anniversary nationwide beginning on January 23rd at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California and covering 35 cities across the U.S.ending on March 2nd. The coast-to-coast tour is a celebration of his newesWhen you take the sounds of Dave Matthews, combine them with the versatility of Johnny Reznick and add in a bit of Bryan Adams you have one of the country's hottest pop acts, Jerad Finck who will be on tour with dada for their 20th anniversary nationwide beginning on January 23rd at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California and covering 35 cities across the U.S.ending on March 2nd. The coast-to-coast tour is a celebration of his newest single "Beautiful" which he recorded with guitar virtuoso "Johnny A" at Highlands Castle in Lake George, NY.t single "Beautiful" which he recorded with guitar virtuoso "Johnny A" at Highlands Castle in Lake George, NY.

The Valley Mansion, 594 Cranbrook Road, Hunt Valley, MD will be hosting a Murder Mystery Dinner Party entitled 'Mystery at Mardi Gras' on Saturday, February 16, 2013.

These awards, now in their twelfth year, have been designed to honor individuals in the arts who have revealed and transformed our creative world. By instigating and enduring change the have deepened the definition of their field and paved the way for others.

You don't have to go far to experience the ambience of New York City's iconic Birdland Jazz Club, when Live at Birdland, featuring the Birdland Big Band directed by Tommy Igoe, appears in Jorgensen's award-winning Cabaret on Thursday, January 31, at 7:30 p.m. The audience will be transported back to a time when a number of illustrious jazz musicians, including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, and Lester Young, to name just a few, made Birdland their New York home.

The national tour of GREEN DAY'S AMERICAN IDIOT is coming to the Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, PA from February 19-24, 2013.

Sonoma State University Departments of Music and Theatre Arts & Dance presents 'Island Passions: Two One-Act Operas,' a double bill of comedy and tragedy. Joseph Haydn's 'The Deserted Island (L' Isola Disabitata),' features sublime music and arias as it follows the romantic, comic adventures of two sisters abandoned on a Caribbean island. 'Riders to the Sea' features passionate, atmospheric music by Ralph Vaughan Williams evoking a windswept ocean as it tells the tale of two sisters and their mother trying to save the last of six sons from his fate on the sea.

CYNTHIA-REEVES is pleased to announce the Columbus Museum's recent acquisition of twelve panels from Dawn Black's Conceal Project - the artist's magnum opus from the last several years. The acquisition comes out of Black's current exhibition, also entitled The Conceal Project, on view through February 24 at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia.

The Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation is thrilled to announce the NY premiere of the critically-acclaimed production of MIDSUMMER [A PLAY WITH SONGS], written and directed by David Greig, with songs by Gordon McIntyre, from the Traverse Theatre in Scotland. MIDSUMMER comes to NY as the 2012 co-winner of the Best of Edinburgh Award given annually by the Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation. (This year, the award is shared with Mies Julie, currently running at St. Ann's Warehouse).

Brooklyn-based Super Wings NY is set to be featured on Bobby Dean's Not My Mama's Meals on the Cooking Channel, Wednesday, January 16th, at 9:00 pm EDT. In the episode, Super Wing's CEO Colette Cyrus-Burnett whips up a batch of her world famous Bajan Merry Mango wing sauce. Bobby, the son of Paula Deen, and Colette work side-by-side simmering traditional Caribbean ingredients, including mango, to create the delicious sauce.

Four-time Emmy Award Winner & Tony Award Nominee Valerie Harper was hospitalized last week, interrupting rehearsals for the national tour of LOOPED. She is currently being treated in Manhattan and is expected to make a full recovery within weeks.

Orphaned and vulnerable early in life, Elizabeth Bathory rose to become one of the most powerful women in Europe. However, she was not left untouched by her struggle and, possibly insane, she is reputed to have tortured and murdered over 600 women.

Oyster Mill Playhouse is pleased to announce Funny Money, the first show of the 2013 season. Funny Money is a farce by Ray Cooney, who also wrote Oyster Mill Playhouse favorites, It Runs In The Family and Out Of Order.

Jamie Lidell is sharing "Why_ya_why," a new song from his highly-anticipated self-titled album, out February 19 on Warp Records.

Greenlist Productions presents Ryan Raftery's return to the Laurie Beechman Theatre for his fifth solo show, "Ryan Raftery is Black and Better Than Ever: A Caucasian Celebration of the African-American Songbook" on Sunday, March 3rd at 9:30pm.