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Lakeshore Records will release Rod Abernethy's new album, entitled The Upward Turn digitally on January 29, 2013. Abernethy has earned numerous awards for his video game work on such titles as RAGE, Dead Space, The Hobbit, TERA an Dead Head Fred.

MadLab will present FFN's Date Night, true life tales of love re-told as only FFN can do it-- through improv in a not so true way-- at 8:00, February 1st- February 16th, Fridays and Saturdays, opening Thursday January 31st at MadLab Theatre and Gallery, 227 N. 3rd St., Columbus. Tickets cost $10, $8 Students/Seniors, $6 Members. Call 614-221-5418 or visit http://www.madlab.net/MadLab/Buy_Tickets.html

Zoé Dance (Somerville) presents 'Past is Prelude' Friday March 1 (at 8:00PM), Saturday March 2 (at 7:00PM + 9:00PM) and Sunday March 3 (at 6:00PM + 8:00PM) in the Julie Ince Thompson Theatre at the Dance Complex, 536 Mass. Ave., Central Square, Cambridge, MA. $17 General Admission, $15 BDA Members/Students/Seniors. Special $2 off discount when you present a receipt from a participating restaurant (listed on the website) www.zoedance.org Performers: Yuka Takahashi, Wayne Ong, Naoko Brown and Lonnie Stanton. Lighting - Stephen Petrilli, Choreography/Video Design - Callie Chapman

Baton Rouge, LA was the next stop for American Idol auditions on tonight's episode. The people of the bayou showed up in the thousands for their chance to be crowned the next American Idol.

Tonight on American Idol, the judges rolled into Charolette, North Carolina in hopes to find the next big talent. The episode kicked off with footage of the long speculated feud between Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj. As everyone knows however, the show must go on and that it did.

Jazzart Dance Theatre introduces a wave of rising new talent in Destination ...Lerato, which will be presented at Artscape Theatre from 8 to 10 February.

With the release of its first collection of recordings as a digital album, The Voice Project has begun making the audio recordings available of its "Cover Chain" video episodes, recorded over the last three years in support of music-based peace efforts in Eastern and Central Africa.

Lindsay Posner directs Rebecca Lenkiewicz' new stage adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw at the Almeida Theatre which runs until 16 March 2013, with press night on 24 January. The cast comprises Caroline Bartleet (a woman), Laurence Belcher (Miles), Eoin Geoghegan (a man), Gemma Jones (Mrs. Grose), Anna Madeley (The Governess), Orlando Wells (Sackville) and Isabella Blake, Emilia Jones and Lucy Morton who will alternate the role of Flora. The Turn of the Screw is sponsored by Pinsent Masons LLP.

After a successful 2012 premiere, Kingdom Undone, the new play with a compelling twist on the last days of Jesus and Judas, returns to the Southern Theater March 15 - 30. Critics praised the show as "Remarkably intelligent... a first rate production" - John Olive, How Was the Show; "a labor of love by artists who really know what they're doing" - Matthew Everett, Twin Cities Daily Planet; and "[having] the potential to become an estimable piece in the passion literature" - Graydon Royce, Star Tribune.

Nick and The Ovorols debut studio LP Telegraph Taboo is out today - an album that finds the Chicago-based foursome injecting deep soul, spirited guitar-driven rock and even a bit of psychedelia into their heavy bedrock of electrified blues.

Marilu Henner attended FREUD'S LAST SESSION at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica this past Sunday, January 20th. Afterwards, she stopped backstage to see her "Taxi" co-star, Judd Hirsch, who has been earning rave reviews for his dazzling turn as Sigmund Freud. New York's long-running hit play by Mark St. Germain opened in L.A. on January 16th starring Hirsch and Tom Cavanagh under the direction of Tyler Marchant, who helmed the original New York production. Presented by The Broad Stage & Carolyn Rossi Copeland, Robert Stillman and Jack Thomas, FREUD'S LAST SESSION is set to play a strictly limited engagement through February 10th.

London UK Records is proud to present the Australian premiere of The Saints of British Rock at the 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival.

JOHN PUTCH'S follow up film to ROUTE 30, entitled ROUTE 30, TOO! will have a special event screening on April 4TH 2013 at the ALAMO DRAFT HOUSE in Winchester, VA.

You don't have to travel all the way to NYC in order to hear songs from theatre, jazz, Great American and International Song Books and classical stages performed by award-winning singers & instrumentalists. At Classic Quiche in Teaneck, NJ on the last Friday of each month, through November, Broadway Concerts Direct presents top performers in a cozy, intimate salon type setting, with an eclectic mix of musical styles and delicious food. -- All in one evening! "Imported" by Broadway Concerts Direct producer, John Hiller, BCD is hoping to turn this into an ongoing Salon series of musical treasures.

New Jersey Nights takes you on a musical journey celebrating the greatest hits of the internationally successful American rock and pop band The Four Seasons, who shot to worldwide fame in the mid 1960s. The incredibly popular group fronted by Frankie Valli even enjoyed the accolade of most popular rock band before The Beatles burst on to the music scene.

The Bonstelle Theatre presents the beautiful, timely and highly entertaining The Arabian Nights by Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman. Zimmerman adapts the influential collection of Persian, Indian and Arabic tales, The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night, into a resonating stage play. Her play tells the age-old story of a young maiden who must captivate her husband with spellbinding narratives each night to postpone her impending demise at his hands.

Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation's Art Gallery celebrates our country's African-American heritage and civil rights history with the work of painter Bruce Johnson and members of the Ebony Stitchers Quilt Guild. An artist reception will be held February 7, 2013, between 4:00 and 7:00 pm at NWUUC.

Chief Executive Stuart Griffiths said: “Matthew Bourne's work is always warmly received here in Birmingham and this year is certainly no exception. A new production is very exciting and this is reflected in the phenomenal demand for tickets that we have seen over the past few months.

Fourteen-year-old American trumpeter, Natalie Dungey, came to international attention through her performance of the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto at the National Trumpet Competition that grew popular on YouTube when she was only 10. Since then she has been a featured soloist with Christopher O'Riley on NPR's From The Top (show #202) and performed the world premiere of "Calling The Cavalry" by Hollywood film composer Mateo Messina, written specifically for her.

New York City is glimmering on opening night of Bing Ringling's first produced play (and the 844th he's written). With a star producer behind him and his loving girlfriend in the show, Bing's big dreams and hard work have finally landed him on the Great White Way. But when the show is a flop, his producer backs out and his girlfriend leaves him, and even the interest of the world's biggest movie star can't bring the production back from its early grave. Holding the jagged pieces of his life's work in his hands, Bing embarks on phantasmagoric odyssey to the people and places that shaped him, trying to salvage his reputation in a system that has a mind of its own.