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Brooklyn-born playwright Lynn Nottage will deliver the annual 'Starting from Paumanok' lecture on American literature and culture, which will be held on February 24 at 6:30 p.m. at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts. The event is free and open to the public.

Beginning January 28th, O'Connell & Company Productions has been entertaing Buffalo audiences with their production of The Wiz. The Tony Award winning musical version of Frank L. Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', tells the story from a modern perspective with a book by William F. Brown and music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre will be performing Broke-ology February 19th through March 21 as a part of the Sprint Copaken Stage Series. Written by Nathan Louis Jackson and directed by Kyle Hatley, this family drama will feature Shamika Cotton, Larry Powell, and Postel Pringle.

Beginning February 5th, Cleveland Public Theatre will be presenting G.S., written by Jonathan Wilhelm and directed by Jenna Messina. In G.S., Gertrude Stein finds herself sharing a flat in Paris with George Sand, along with their respective lovers, Alice B. Toklas and Alfred de Musset.

Vermont Theatre Company will bring Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced and immediately controversial play, 'Waiting for Godot,' to the Hooker Dunham theatre on Main Street in Brattleboro. The play opened on January 29, with remaining performances on February 5th-6th at 7:30 pm, and February 7th at 3:00pm.

The Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine will be performing two classic children's tales to life in the upcoming months: Cinderella and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Beginning March 20th, Maine State Ballet will be performing A Midsummer Night's Dream, originally choreographed by George Balanchine in 1962. With incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn, the performance incorporates Shakespeare's classic story of fairies and magic with enchanting dancing appropriate for the whole family.

New Yorkers and tourists alike are well aware of the recent pedestrian and vehicular traffic pattern changes Mayor Bloomberg instituted last year. Considered one of the most drastic civic experiments in decades, the city closed off two sections of Broadway to New York City drivers in Times Square and Herald Squares in an effort to reduce congestion in these pedestrian-heavy intersections, largely due to the presence of the Broadway Theatre houses drawing in hundreds of thousands each night. The aim of the project was to improve flow of traffic along Seventh Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, making the trip down Seventh Avenue, from 59th to 23rd Street, up to 17 percent faster than before.

As problems for residents of Haiti continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth has expressed interest in adopting one of the many children who have been affected by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Adopted as a child herself, Chenoweth took to the toptic on her Twitter.

LaMaMa, E.T.C. presents Alfred Preisser and Randy Weiner's CALIGULA MAXIMUS, a project with Hammerstein & Weiner, LLC, Christopher McElroen, Alfred Preisser and Kingsize, USA, at La MaMa's newly renamed Ellen Stewart Theatre. Performances for CALIGULA MAXIMUS at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, 74A E. 4th St. begin on March 11 and run through April 4.

The Hartt School presents An Evening of Concerto Winners on Friday, February 5, at 7:30 PM in Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford campus. This wonderful event features the four Paranov Concerto Competition winners from the 2009-2010 season. Two of the competition winners will perform with The Hartt Wind Ensemble, led by Glen Adsit, and two will perform with the Hartt Symphony Orchestra, led by special guest conductor Edward Cumming, Music Director of The Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Admission is free.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre will present William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, February 25 - March 7 in the Nafe Katter Theatre on the Storrs campus. Evening performances start at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Matinee performances start at 2 p.m. For additional information, call 860-486-4226 or visit www.crt.uconn.edu.

Winter Jam NYC snow preparations kicked off on Thursday when the snow guns began the blizzard in Central Park. The white-out runs throughout the week as the weather allows-temperatures 32°F or below-to create a blanket of two feet for Winter Jam NYC 2010 Saturday, February 6th. Enter at 72nd Street and head south toward Sheep Meadow to join in the festivities.

Having performed in over 15 countries with a combined audience of over three million, TAO takes the stage at Mesa Arts Center Friday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ikeda Theater. Tickets are $18-$38 and are available through the Mesa Arts Center Box Office at mesaartscenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Opera New Jersey and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) announce that mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves has withdrawn from her Carmen engagements due to a direct order from her doctor to rest her vocal cords for six to eight weeks.

The Vagabond Theatre Ensemble presents Hangman School for Girls in association with Fullstop Collective. The show will feature Nick Afka, Louiza Collins, Lucy Gillespie, Sarah Ann Masse, Lillian Meredith, and Briel Pomerantz. The production will play at Manhattan Theatre Source (177 MacDougal Street), March 10-27, Thursday through Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm with additional performances on Monday, March 22 at 8pm and Saturday, March 27 at 2pm. Advance tickets ($15) are available by calling 1-866-811-411 or online at www.theatermania.com. $20 tickets will also be available for purchase at the door.

In partnership with Great Lakes Theater Festival, the PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department is hosting the Cleveland Branch Finals of the annual English-Speaking Union's (ESU) National Shakespeare Competition on Saturday, February 27. Students from 38 Northeast Ohio schools are participating. Cuyahoga County Public Library Executive Director Sari Feldman will deliver the event's keynote address at 9:00 a.m.

The Building Stage, a Chicago theater company noted for its unique retellings and adaptations of various media to the stage presents their newest and largest endeavor to date: The Ring Cycle. The Ring Cycle is a non-operatic theatrical re-imagining of the famous Richard Wagner opera cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung. Utilizing original music, circus arts and puppetry in conjunction with the libretti, this epic project will synthesize 16 hours of opera into a six-hour theater piece co-directed by The Building Stage Artistic Director Blake Montgomery and Associate Artistic Director Joanie Schultz. The six-hour production includes two short intermissions and a dinner break. Ticket buyers are invited to pack a picnic or purchase snacks, meals and drinks at the theater. The dinner available for pre-purchase is a $10 boxed sandwich dinner from the popular family-owned Bari Foods (vegetarian options available). Patrons will be greeted with a complimentary cup of hot coffee or cocoa upon entrance and during the dinner break everyone is invited to picnic on the stage with their meal or snacks.

The Omaha Theater Ballet will present its final production, The Rainforest, on The Rose Theater's main stage February 11th-21st. Audiences will be both entertained and inspired by this original ballet choreographed by the Ballet's Artistic Director Robin Welch.

Open Fist Theatre Company presents Stage Door, by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber from January 22nd to March 13th. Directed by Barbara Schofield, performances will take place on Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, and Sundays at 2PM. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors. To buyu tickets, call (323) 882-6912, or visit http://www.eventbrite.com/org/11574458?s.