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Porchlight Music Theatre announces the extension of Gypsy, A Musical Fable, through December 29, at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn Street. Porchlight Music Theatre's Gypsy stars E. Faye Butler as "Rose," is directed by Michael Weber, music directed by David Fiorello and choreographed/associate directed by Chris Carter.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley brings an enchanted bestseller to life for the holidays with the regional premiere of Tuck Everlasting. Set in the 1890s, free-spirited Winnie Foster searches for adventure, finding the Tucks, a close-knit family that has discovered the secret to everlasting life. Winnie faces the choice of a lifetime: return to everyday life, or join the Tucks on their infinite, irreversible voyage through time. Directed by TheatreWorks Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley, Tuck Everlasting will be presented November 28 - December 30 at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto.

New York Live Arts presents the New York City premiere of Bill Shannon's Touch Update, a new work exploring contemporary modes of digital versus interpersonal representation and physicality. Touch Update investigates social constructions and specific physical movement patterns that emanate from disabled bodies. Video wearables and installation art animate corporeal abstractions of dance, digital intimacy and human touch.

Francesca Todesco, a longtime member of the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble and Dances by Isadora presents Awakening Rhythms, a program of dances by Isadora Duncan, Anna Sokolow, Catherine Gallant, Jim May, Rae Ballard. Todesco celebrates her 20 year journey in the American Modern Dance Scene with two performances, November 3 & 4, at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street in downtown Manhattan.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Artistic Producer) in celebration of its 50th season, will present Distant Thunder with book by Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Shaun Taylor-Corbett, music and lyrics by Chris Wiseman and Shaun Taylor-Corbett, with additional music and lyrics by Robert Lindsey-Nassif and Michael Moricz, the fourth and final new musical in development included in this year's 'Dare to Be Different' series. Performances are Thursday, December 6 at 3pm & 7pm and Friday, December 7 at 3pm at A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 West 53rd Street - 10th Avenue & 53rd Street).

The G'ma Project honors our diverse elders, cultures and ancestry in the modern world. How do we retain the wisdom and teachings of our past to help create a better future in our quickly changing world? For Che, this project helped refine and guide his journey and purpose of self-cultivation and 'Hong Ik Ingan'-Corean for something akin to 'goodness to all.' Instead of reacting to the ugliness of the world, the G'ma Project works to put energy towards things that truly matter-our relationships and communities.

Nationally-recognized Give A Note Foundation (GAN), newly independent after seven years under the direction of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) today announced that it has appointed accomplished music industry executive Beth Slusher as Chief Executive Officer to lead the organization through its next phase of growth and expansion. GAN also named Juliana Lee as Strategic Development Director to further grow the organization and expand its financial reach.

Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon,LES MISERABLES, will go on sale Friday, Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. for its much-anticipated New Orleans engagement at the Saenger Theatre direct from a celebrated two-and-a-half year Broadway engagement. Presented by the New Orleans Theatre Association, LES MISERABLES is part of the Hancock Whitney Broadway in New Orleans 2018-2019 season.

On Sunday, November 18 at 4 pm, sought-after violinist Rachel Barton Pine takes the stage at Richardson Auditorium to perform Niccolo Paganini's fiendish Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6 with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rossen Milanov. Bookending the violin concerto are Leoš Jana?ek's Sinfonietta and Igor Stravinsky's Divertimento from The Fairy's Kiss. Maestro Milanov hosts Ms. Pine at a pre-concert discussion of the program at 3pm.