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FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, will close its Fall 2012 season with the return of the club's founder MICHAEL FEINSTEIN and two-time Tony Award winning Broadway and TV star CHRISTINE EBERSOLE from December 23 through New Year's Eve. Their duet show will feature classic standards and Broadway hits, in addition to rarities from the Great American Songbook. Feinstein will perform selections from The Gershwins and Me, his new CD and book from Simon & Schuster, currently on the Los Angeles Times Best-seller list. Feinstein's longtime Musical Director John Oddo will lead the all-star band. All shows take place at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

A Is For Alpine, the debut album from the lauded Australian outfit Alpine, will be released stateside May 21 on Votiv. The new release follows Alpine's 2010 Zurich EP which earned critical praise with The Guardian describing the group as "hands down the best Aussie band we've heard all year."

On Thursday, December 20 at 8pm, the Warner Theatre welcomes North America's finest brass quintet, Empire Brass presenting The Sounds of Christmas. This seasonal concert will feature Elisabeth von Trapp, granddaughter of the legendary Maria & Baron von Trapp, whose story inspired The Sound of Music.

As a historic performing arts organization in PBC, the Lake Worth Playhouse transforms its 1920s theatre into a historic Speakeasy for just one night of fun and festive impropriety!

Acclaimed Nashville-based singer-songwriter Holly Williams is ready to take to The Highway in support of her self-released third studio album due February 5 on her own imprint, Georgiana Records. Kicking off the first leg of her U.S. tour at New York's Joe's Pub on January 24, Williams will also play Hotel Café in Los Angeles on February 6 and the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville on February 12.

Page 73 Productions will present a reading of the new hip hop musical comedy DUNKFEST '88 with book, beats, and rhymes by Matt Schatz and directed by Wendy C. Goldberg. The reading will be Tuesday, December 11 at 7:30pm at 311 West 43rd Street, 8th floor (MTC's Creative Center). The reading is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Email info@page73.org to inquire about availability, seating is limited.

The Bixby Knolls are set to release their full-length debut, Near & Undear, on December 11th. On it the L.A.-based foursome offer up 11 tracks that blur the lines between indie rock, psychedelia, post-punk, pop and even soulful R&B. At times spastic, surreal and schizophrenic, this is guitar-driven rock'n'roll delivered with conviction, swagger and, above all, attitude.

Carolines on Broadway, America's Premier Comedy Nightclub, is inviting revelers to laugh in the New Year in the heart of Times Square when it presents its annual New Year's Eve Spectacular on Monday, December 31, with two big shows at 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., 1626 Broadway, between 49th and 50th Streets, New York City.

FUCT is a twisted, no-rules adult variety group that challenges what audiences find taboo or offensive. Their show is a circus of humor, suffering, and social commentary that incorporates music and dance, nudity and pain, misdirection and audience participation.

What better way to warm up those chilly bones and celebrate the holiday season than with a warm cup of mulled cider, a good book, and four Naked Girls reading to you? Well you could have just that at the next Naked Girls Reading Solstice. Naked Girls Reading is a performance of Burlesque ladies who love to read stories of Scrooges, Pumpkin Kings, and Reindeer that led the way. These beauties will bring their sexily intelligent skills to the DC Arts Center on 12/21/12 at 7:30pm

Notes for Notes and Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee officially celebrate the Grand Opening of Nashville, Tennessee's second MusicBox Studio. "MusicBox Studio 93" is a professional-grade recording studio environment that offers a place for youth to learn about playing and producing music with the help of musician-mentors

Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 25th Anniversary Season with Grammy-nominee Phil Coulter in THE SONGS I LOVE SO WELL opening on Thursday, December 6 on The Irish Repertory Theatre's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage (132 West 22nd Street). THE SONGS I LOVE SO WELL celebrates acclaimed Irish musician Phil Coulter's storied career. With his warm Irish brogue as well as his familiar contemporary keyboard style, Coulter presents some of his best loved, and most personal compositions and folk songs, including 'Gold and Silver Days,' 'The Man from God Knows Where,' 'Scorn Not His Simplicity,' and 'The Town I Loved So Well,' about his childhood in Derry, Northern Ireland.

Chariots of Fire is taking bookings at the Gielgud Theatre until 2 February 2013.

Vagabond Players begins 2013 with an thrilling rendition of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, directed by Eric Stein; running January 4 through February 3.

The TV spot was just released for Forever Dusty the musical which is currently playing at New World Stages.

Prospect Theater Company will present a staged reading of Rob Urbinati's original play Death By Design, a witty and wonderfully mysterious whodunit inspired by Noel Coward and Agatha Christie, on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 2:15pm.

After wowing audiences in Cavan and Leitrim in Autumn 2011, this funny and insightful play is finishing a countrywide tour with two final performances at Roscommon Arst Centre on Friday 14th & Saturday 15th December at 8pm.

Robert Petkoff is joining Broadway & film star Robby Benson and Tony nominee Josh Young in the upcoming special invitational presentation of selections from the original new musical AMAZING GRACE, with music & lyrics by Christopher Smithand book by Mr. Smith & Arthur Giron, December 11th and 12th at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater. AMAZING GRACE has been in development over the past four years and the musical had a record-breaking run at Goodpeed's Norma Terris Theatre last summer. Under the direction of Gabriel Barre, the cast will also feature Whitney Bashor (The Fantasticks, Happy Days), Chris Hoch (Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot), Quentin Earl Darrington (Ragtime, Memphis), and Harriett D. Foy (Mamma Mia!, Once on This Island).

Opening the exciting 2013 season is a national tour regional premiere of The Great American Trailer Park Musical, performing from February 13 through 17. "South Park" meets "Desperate Housewives" in this big hearted musical with a cheeky script and infectious music. White trash has never been so entertaining! This production is appropriate for adult audiences.

A Christmas Carol at the Red Door Theater Company will run through December 16th on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are selling out fast. Prices are $10 for Kids, students and seniors and $15 for adults.