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Written and directed by COCA alumnus Chris Page, this 40-minute performance uses dance as a vehicle to take audience members through black history -- from slavery to the jazz era, through the civil rights movement, to modern times. Large photographs are projected behind the dancers and create a vivid accompaniment to the modern dance choreography. Continuing the Legacy helps audience members see, hear and feel the journey of African Americans in this country. Performers are members of COCA dance, COCA's student company. Continuing the Legacy is supported by Wells Fargo Advisors. The performance is recommended for children ages 10+ and their parents.

Fortyfivedownstairs announces it's 2013 lineup which includes poetry readings and live music.

The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival has partnered with The Cervantes Institute in celebration of Spanish Supernatural Cinema. The event will begin on January 16, 2013 and run for eight weeks with screenings of films including Jesús Franco's The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) which kicks off the event in what will be a series of fantastic and entertaining gatherings.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery is pleased to present Robin Rhode's first exhibition in New York in more than five years. It is also Rhode's debut solo show at Lehmann Maupin since joining the gallery earlier this year. The artist has taken over both New York galleries to present a two-part exhibition featuring a new series of street-based photographs and an educational wall drawing intervention with Time In, a local outreach program specializing in arts education for underprivileged school children. An artist book entitled Robin Rhode: Paries Pictus Activity Book accompanies the exhibitions. The artist will be present for opening receptions at both galleries on Thursday, 10 January from 6 to 9 PM.

This Saturday, January 12, 2013, will mark the one year anniversary of celebrity magician/illusionist Wayne Alan owning The Historic North Theatre Performing Arts Center. On the 12th, at 8:00 PM Wayne Alan's performance of his show, Magic of the Masters, the World's Most Famous Illusions will mark the occasion. Tickets are available on line at www.TheNorthTheatre.com or by calling the box office at 434-793-SHOW (7469). It has been an extremely busy year that included renovating the complex, including replacing the fallen façade, and reopening last August 25th which was the 65th anniversary of the opening of the theatre in 1947.

The timeless themes in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror novel are explored in the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Off the Hill production of THE TRAVELLING JEKYLL AND HYDE SHOW, by playwright Russell Davis. This inventive and hilarious show will be performed at 18 community centers across the region from Jan. 18 through Feb. 23.

?The Seán Curran Company celebrates its 15th anniversary season with four performances at The Joyce Theater January 29 through February 2, 2013. The nine-member troupe will offer two premieres: Fireweather, with music by Charles Wuorinen, a?The Seán Curran Company celebrates its 15th anniversary season with four performances at The Joyce Theater January 29 through February 2, 2013. The nine-member troupe will offer two premieres: Fireweather, with music by Charles Wuorinen, and Left Exit, to a score by Jerome Begin. Curran and his dancers collaborated on the choreography for both pieces.nd Left Exit, to a score by Jerome Begin. Curran and his dancers collaborated on the choreography for both pieces.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) will present the Soho Rep production of the American premiere of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma's LIFE AND TIMES: Episodes 1-4 beginning on Wednesday, January 16. Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, the epic serial saga LIFE AND TIMES will run through February 2, 2013 at The Public Theater at Astor Place.

Magic Theatre is thrilled to welcome back renowned playwright Octavio Solis for the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Se Llama Cristina, directed by Producing Artistic Director Loretta Greco and running January 23 - February 17. After the Magic Theatre production, the rolling world premiere will continue with productions at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, TX and at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, CA.

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Jetset Getset (JSGS) will return to Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill in Cincinnati for a three-hour concert on January 23. It will be the group's second appearance at Cincinnati's largest country-music nightclub, following their standing room-only album release concert in November. It will also mark the hometown debut of 13-year-old drumming sensation Gillian Bowman, who joined the teenage, Cincinnati-area band in December.

In collaboration with the Manchester School of Art, The Cabaret Voltaire arrives at the King's Head Theatre in a form closer to the one used by the Dadaists of 1916 - a cabaret, with a strong musical accompaniment, poetry and performances new and old.

Award winning Fevered Sleep return to the Young Vic with Above Me The Wide Blue Sky, an installation and performance about our response to the world outside our door, the view from our window, the place where we played as a child.

As part of it's 100th Season, the DuPont Theatre is pleased to present its first Broadway and Beyond production, Mitzi…Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins, for four (4) performances only. It opens on Friday evening, Emmy Award winning and Golden Globe nominated film and television legend Mitzi Gaynor lights up the stage in Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins, an intimate evening of laughs, love and music which critics have called "sensational," "hysterically funny", "enormously entertaining" and "a total star-spangled package of energy and joy."

Richard Pryor Jr., son of the late, comic genius Richard Pryor, comes to The Grove on February 1st and 2nd. Mr. Pryor is a talented singer and actor who re-launched his career in 2006 in New York City as a tribute to his late father. As a small child Richard Jr. introduced his dad's shows and hasn't stopped performing since.

Steps off Broadway Productions, Inc., will be performing the stage production of Shrek the Musical on February 2, 8, 9 at 7:30 PM and February 3, 10 at 2:00 PM. Steps is one of few theaters that were give the rights to perform this show before the full release date in June. Steps off Broadway is the first theater in the Bellingam area to get the rights this production. Directed and choreographed by Bellingham's own, Keith Mottola.

Off-Strip Productions' own intimate, fully staged, innovative rendition of Sondheim's Musical Thriller returns to the stage due to popular demand. Once again combining professional live musicians with a powerhouse local cast, they tell this tragic tale the way it deserves to be told. Don't miss this second and final chance to be among the ghosts of Fleet Street as you witness murder, incest, and cannibalism set to music - an 'in your face' experience you can only get at Las Vegas's premiere indie art house, the Onyx Theatre.

The Blue Mountain Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Carol Heft from January 29 - February 23, 2013. A Window that Shows Me the Moon will include works on paper that include collage, drawing, painting, digital images, and constructions in a variety of materials. Also included will be handmade books by the artist. Ms. Heft's work is inspired by an exploratory approach to materials, and the interchange of two and three dimensional space on flat surfaces.

Kristen Holly Smith and Christina Sajous, who are now starring in the off-Broadway show Forever Dusty, performed for FOXNY yesterday followed by a short interview.

Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) collaborates with Symphony Pro Musica in a concert performance of Prokofiev's Cinderella Suite. The ballet excerpt, choreographed by Clyde Nantais, is part of Symphony Pro Musica's "Musical Matinee: A Family Concert." Performances are at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 26 at Hudson High School and on Sunday, January 27 at Westborough High School. Under the direction of founder and Music Director Mark Churchill, the premier MetroWest community symphony orchestra will present a family-friendly program that also includes Poulenc's The Story of Babar with narration and Saint-Saen's The Elephant and Fossils with student musicians from Hudson and Westborough.