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The stars of tennis – among the biggest names in the sport's history, including four with career Grand Slams – play the first Major of 2015 at the Australian Open

The Traverse announces its Spring season today, presenting the best of world-class theatre and new writing to ring in the New Year. The theatre welcomes back Catherine-Anne Toupin with Right Now as a Traverse Theatre Company production, and hits from the Traverse's 2014 Festival Breakfast Plays The Day the Pope Emptied Croy, Fat Alice and Broth return as part of the ever popular A Play, A Pie and A Pint series taking up residence in Traverse 2.

Today Wells Fargo Center for the Arts announced that leader of the new wave rock group The Pretenders, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Chrissie Hynde will perform a one-night-only concert at the Ruth Finley Person Theater (50 Mark West Springs Road) in Santa Rosa tonight, December 4, 2014 at 8:00 pm coinciding with the release of her critically and commercially hailed new album Stockholm, which debuted in the U.S. Top 40 upon its June release from Will Travel/Caroline Records. Hynde will be performing critically acclaimed songs from her new album such as the single “Dark Sunglasses,” as well as hits from her years with The Pretenders. Tickets for the show go on sale on September 12, 2014 at noon and may be purchased for $59 and $49 online at wellsfargocenterarts.org, by phone at 707.546.3600, and in person at 50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa.

It is all about how an author carefully and purposely beckons each word to each page until those words pull together into a magnificent creation having a life of its own. The book I am reviewing,All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, is one such masterful creation. Don't wait for the paperback, don't wait for the movie, buy the book, now. Buy it as a gift, buy it for yourself, insist that your book club adds it to the list of must reads. Read it when you have the time to savor each and every word that has been so carefully placed. This book puts to shame many of the other books I have read this year. The characters, the story line, the settings, the time periods, the premise and purpose that stand behind the book are knitted together flawlessly, satisfying the reader completely. Every sentence is fraught with beautiful imagery.

Today Wells Fargo Center for the Arts announced that leader of the new wave rock group The Pretenders, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Chrissie Hynde will perform a one-night-only concert at the Ruth Finley Person Theater (50 Mark West Springs Road) in Santa Rosa on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 8:00 pm coinciding with the release of her critically and commercially hailed new album Stockholm, which debuted in the U.S. Top 40 upon its June release from Will Travel/Caroline Records. Hynde will be performing critically acclaimed songs from her new album such as the single “Dark Sunglasses,” as well as hits from her years with The Pretenders. Tickets for the show go on sale on September 12, 2014 at noon and may be purchased for $59 and $49 online at wellsfargocenterarts.org, by phone at 707.546.3600, and in person at 50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa.

CBS Sports presents the US OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS, tennis' final major of the year and the only one played in the United States, for the 47th consecutive year. Live coverage begins on Saturday, August 30 (11:00 AM-6:00 PM, ET) with men's and women's third-round action and concludes with the men's singles championship onMonday, Sept. 8 (5:00 PM, ET). CBS Sports broadcasts over 37 hours of the 2014 US Open live from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.

This past June The Delaware Art Museum was formally sanctioned by the Association of Art Museum Directors, which has asked its members not to lend artwork to Delaware or assist with its exhibitions.

Joe's Pub at the Public has announced its performances, August 5 - 17, 2014. Scroll down for details!

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark producer Michael Cohl revealed that the show will n fact not be opening in Las Vegas. Instead an arena tour is in the works for 'late 2015 or winter 2016.' He told WSJ: "I think Spider-man is a pop culture rock show that was meant to be in arenas." When asked about the recently cancelled Jesus Christ Superstar arena tour, another project with which he was affiliated, Cohl commented: "It was a disaster. Ticket sales were terrible."

BE FESTIVAL, Birmingham's festival celebrating the best of European theatre returns to the city and a new home at Birmingham Repertory Theatre this July. Featuring over twenty electrifying performances from eleven European countries, plus live music, exhibitions, workshops, discussions and delicious food, this vibrant festival puts Birmingham on the map as the theatre capital of Europe from 2 - 12 July 2014.

25 million records sold and 30-plus years into her tenure as Pretenders founder and leader, Chrissie Hynde releases Stockholm, the first ever album under her own name, today, June 10 on Caroline Records in the U.S.

BE FESTIVAL, Birmingham's festival celebrating the best of European theatre returns to the city and a new home at Birmingham Repertory Theatre this July. Featuring over twenty electrifying performances from eleven European countries, plus live music, exhibitions, workshops, discussions and delicious food, this vibrant festival puts Birmingham on the map as the theatre capital of Europe from 2 - 12 July 2014.

NBC Sports Group's French Open coverage continues this weekend with third-round matches Today at Noon ET, and fourth-round coverage Sunday at 1 p.m. ET on NBC.

NBC Sports Group's French Open coverage continues this weekend with third-round matches Saturday at Noon ET, and fourth-round coverage Sunday at 1 p.m. ET on NBC.

NBC presents 27 hours of the 2014 French Open, beginning this Sunday at Noon ET, with live opening-round coverage, culminating with the live Women's Final on June 7 and the live Men's Final on June 8.

Chrissie Hynde will release Stockholm, the first ever album under her own name, June 10 on Caroline Records in the U.S..

Starting today and throughout ESPN's extensive coverage of the two major tennis events in March, for the first time American fans are invited to submit entries in a contest to design the official annual poster representing The Championships, Wimbledon.

ESPN3 and ESPN2 will combine to present live the BNP Paribas Showdown 2014 from Madison Square Garden in New York on Monday, March 3, with two star-studded matches

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, the Broadway spectacular that defied odds and expectations to conquer New York, will play its final performance at the Foxwoods Theatre on January 4, 2014. Since the announcement, there has been speculation as to whether the show, which ran for 3 years on Broadway, will make it to the infamous wall of flops at Joe Allen (326 West 46th Street).

Now according to the Las Vegas Sun, Wynn is making space for the musical at the Encore Theatre. Robin Leach writes: 'I can safely confirm Steve's "very serious interest" in moving the high-flying spectacular to open in his Encore Theater in a year, but nothing is apparently yet signed and sealed. He's prepared to financially back its revamped version, adding incredible, stunning Las Vegas elements to the extravaganza.'