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  • Mazzu/Siwula/Troja/ Wimberly "D'Istante3" at Spectrum - May 4, 2013
  • The Juilliard Jazz Quartet and Peter and Will Anderson Quintet at Dizzy's Club "Coca-Cola" - April 11, 2013
  • Todd Barkan's Keystone Korner Nights Presents Nicholas Payton, with Lenny White and Vicente Archer, at The Iridium - March 2, 2013
  • Mary Stallings & The Eric Reed Trio at Dizzy's Club "Coca-Cola" - November 28, 2012
  • Wycliffe Gordon and Friends Present "Dreams of New Orleans" at Dizzy's Club "Coca-Cola" - November 3, 2012
  • The Lambs Club Sunday Jazz Brunch Features the Mauricio de Souza Quartet - September 16, 2012
  • Oliver Lake Trio 3 at Jazz Standard - September 15, 2012
  • The Cedar Walton Quartet Celebrates Todd Barkan's Birthday at Dizzy's Club "Coca-Cola" - August 12, 2012
  • The Matt Giella Trio Serenades Kellari Taverna's Sunday Brunch - July 22, 2012

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  • The Drama Desk Presents a Panel and Reception, "The Art of Storytelling", at Sardi's - March 22, 2013
  • Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont Presents Holland Taylor in "Ann" - March 14, 2013
  • Signature Theatre Presents "Old Hats", Starring Bill Irwin and David Shiner, at The Pershing Square Signature Center - March 9, 2013 Matinee
  • The Roundabout Theatre Company Presents "Talley's Folly" at Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/ Roundabout at Laura Pels Theatre - March 8, 2013
  • Women's Project Theater Presents "Jackie" at New York City Center Stage II - March 4, 2013
  • Signature Theatre Presents David Henry Hwang's "The Dance and the Railroad" at The Pershing Square Signature Center - March 1, 2013
  • Manhattan Theatre Club Presents "The Other Place" at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre - February 13, 2013
  • Roundabout Theatre Company Presents "Picnic" by William Inge at the American Airlines Theatre - January 17, 2013
  • Scarlett Johansson in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre - January 13, 2013 Matinee
  • Signature Theatre Presents "The Piano Lesson" by August Wilson at The Pershing Square Signature Center - January 2, 2013
  • Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Presents "Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike" - December 19, 2012
  • Manhattan Theatre Club Presents "Golden Age" at City Center Stage I - December 18, 2012
  • The Public Theater Presents "Giant", Based on the Edna Ferber Novel - December 16, 2012 Matinee
  • Lincoln Center Theater Presents "Golden Boy" at the Belasco Theatre - December 12, 2012
  • Patti LuPone and Debra Winger In "The Anarchist" at the Golden Theatre - December 11, 2012
  • Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes in "Dead Accounts" at The Music Box - December 6, 2012
  • Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale in Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre - December 5, 2012 Matinee
  • "Old Jews Telling Jokes" at Westside Theatre/Downstairs - December 2, 2012 Matinee
  • Signature Theatre Presents "Golden Child" by David Henry Hwang at Pershing Square Signature Center - November 30, 2012

  • Lincoln Center Theater at the Claire Tow Presents "Disgraced" by Ayad Akhtar - November 28, 2012
  • "Scandalous", The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson, at the Neil Simon Theatre - November 20, 2012
  • "Anna Karenina", Directed by Joe Wright, a Focus Features Release, Premieres - November 15, 2012
  • "Annie" at the Palace Theatre - November 14, 2012
  • The Pearl Theatre Company Presents "Figaro", Based on Beaumarchais' "Le Mariage de Figaro" - November 13, 2012
  • "The Heiress", Based on Henry James' "Washington Square", at the Walter Kerr Theatre - November 8, 2012
  • Primary Stages Presents "Him" by Daisy Foote at 59E59 Theaters - October 25, 2012
  • Steppenwolf Theatre Company Presents Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Booth Theatre - October 23, 2012
  • TACT/The Actors Company Theatre Presents "Lovers" by Brian Friel at the Beckett Theatre - October 7, 2012 Matinee
  • Manhattan Theatre Club Presents "An Enemy of the People" at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre - September 30, 2012
  • "Chaplin", The Musical, at Ethel Barrymore Theatre - September 13, 2012
  • Primary Stages Presents "Harrison, TX", Three Plays by Horton Foote, at Primary Stages - September 12, 2012
  • Emerging Artists Theatre Presents "The Sensational Josephine Baker" at the Beckett Theatre - September 2, 2012 Matinee
  • "Bring It On The Musical" at the St. James Theatre - August 25, 2012 Matinee

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  • Martha Graham Dance Company: Phaedra, The Show (Achilles Heels) - February 28, 2013
  • Martha Graham Dance Company: Cave of the Heart, From the Grammar of Dreams, Lamentation Variations, Variations of Angels, Diversion of Angels - February 27, 2013
  • Martha Graham Dance Company: Fall and Recovery Benefit Program - February 26, 2013
  • Martha Graham Dance Company: Cave of the Heart, Errand, Night Journey - February 22, 2013
  • New York City Center Presents Pacific Northwest Ballet in Romeo et Juliette - February 15, 2013
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Streams, The Evolution of a Secured Feminine, Urban Folk Dance, Another Night, Minus 16 - December 22, 2012
  • Donetsk Ballet Company & L'Ecole de la Dance School of the Mt. Laurel Ballet Company Present "The Nutcracker" in Southern New Jersey - December 14, 2012
  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: From Before, Strange Humors, Petite Mort, Grace - December 13, 2012
  • "Jump for Joy!", a Gala Benefit for Career Transition for Dancers 27th Anniversary Jubilee at New York City Center - November 5, 2012
  • Henning Rubsam's Sensedance Presents "obsession/calm" and "Brahms Dances", Two Premieres, at Peridance Center - October 27, 2012
  • American Ballet Theatre: Drink To Me Only with Thine Eyes, Symphony #9, Rodeo - October 20, 2012 Matinee
  • American Ballet Theatre: Drink To Me Only with Thine Eyes, The Leaves are Fading: Second Pas de Deux, Stars and Stripes: Pas de Deux, Symphony #9 - October 19, 2012
  • Stars of the 21st Century International Ballet Gala at the David H. Koch Theater - October 18, 2012
  • American Ballet Theatre: Drink To Me Only with Thine Eyes, The Moor's Pavane, In the Upper Room - October 17, 2012
  • New York City Ballet: Apollo, Agon, Rubies - October 14, 2012 Matinee
  • Fall for Dance: Shen Wei Dance Arts, LDP-Laboratory Dance Project, Circa, Maria Pages Compania - October 13, 2012
  • New York City Ballet: Danses Concertantes, The Cage, Andantino, Symphony in C - October 13, 2012 Matinee
  • New York City Ballet: Two Hearts, Year of the Rabbit, Les Carillons - October 5, 2012
  • Fall for Dance: Shantala Shivalingappa, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Jodi Melnick, Ka Leo O Laka I Ka Hikina O Ka Lā - October 4, 2012
  • Fall for Dance: Ballet West, Tu Dance, Moiseyev Dance Company, Nan Jombang - October 2, 2012
  • Fall for Dance: Juilliard Dance, American Ballet Theatre, The Hong Kong Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company - September 30, 2012
  • Fall for Dance: Jared Grimes, Fang-Yi Sheu & Artists, Nederlands Dans Theater, BalletBoyz - September 28, 2012
  • Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet at City Center Studio 5 - September 21, 2012
  • American Ballet Theatre: Le Corsaire 2012 - July 7, 2012 Matinee

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  • A Discussion with David LaMarche Conductor, American Ballet Theatre, at Cooper's Tavern - April 7, 2013
  • An Interview with Janet Eilber, Artistic Director, Martha Graham Center, at Seven Bar and Grill - November 15, 2012
  • Radio City Stage Door Tour - September 29, 2012

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  • New York City Opera Returns to City Center, Presenting Rossini's "Moses In Egypt" - April 16, 2013
  • China Arts and Entertainment Group Presents the China Gansu Dance Theater in "Silk Road" at Koch Theater - March 2, 2013
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  • Yale School of Music and Yale in New York Present Chamber Music for Mozart's Birthday at Weill Recital Hall - January 27, 2013
  • New York Festival of Song Presents a Concert about "Women" at Merkin Concert Hall - December 4, 2012
  • Midamerica Productions Presents Judy Huang, Pianist, at Weill Recital Hall - December 2, 2012
  • Ballet Hispanico at the Apollo, with Live Music by the Paquito D'Rivera Ensemble - December 1, 2012
  • The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with Louis Langree Conducting and Joshua Bell on Violin at Avery Fisher Hall - August 18, 2012
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  • Donetsk Ballet Company & L'Ecole de la Dance School of the Mt. Laurel Ballet Company Present "The Nutcracker" in Southern New Jersey - December 14, 2012
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