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One of Spain's greatest Flamenco artists, Soledad Barrio, will perform with Noche Flamenca in McCarter Theatre Center at 91 University Place in Princeton on Jan. 28 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15-$54. For more information and to purchase tickets, please call (609) 258-2787 or visit mccarter.org.

McCarter Theatre will kick off its season with a community-wide Block Party on August 24 from 5 to 9 pm at 91 University Place in Princeton. Dancing under the stars with members of Fred Astaire Dance Studio to live music of the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra, featuring the finest high school and college jazz musicians in the Greater Philadelphia and New Jersey regions will accompany activities for kids like spin art, face painting and JaZams fun. For more information, please call (609) 258-2787 or visit mccarter.org.

Princeton Ballet School (PBS), the official school of American Repertory Ballet (ARB), will present An Evening of Dance on July 29 at 6:30pm in McCarter Theatre Center at 91 University Place in Princeton. The performance celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the PBS international Summer Intensive program and will include student choreography orchestrated by Katie Glasner and new choreography by Mary Barton and Janell Byrne. The performance will also feature an excerpt from the classical ballet, Don Quixote as restaged by Maria Youskevitch and work by ARB Director Douglas Martin.

Princeton University will abandon plans to locate a proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood at the Dinky Station,  after failing to gain the approval of the Township and Borough at a joint meeting Monday night. Princeton University Vice-President Bob Durkee said that instead, the university will begin working on designs for the arts complex in locations that would not need zoning approval.

cCarter Theatre welcomes all children, ages 5 to 13, to sign ups for A Christmas Carol auditions on Wednesday, September 15 from 3pm to 6pm.  Sign-ups will be held in the McCarter Theatre Lobby, located at 91 University Place in Princeton (www.mccarter.org).

At the sign-ups, children will be screened, measured and given appointments for the actual auditions, which will be held on Saturday, September 25.  No auditions will be given without an appointment.