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In celebration of MusicalFare's 20^{th anniversary season, the return of one of the most acclaimed and cherished productions in our history. FALSETTOS is the Tony award winning story of a family that somehow manages to stay together by reinventing itself. The Buffalo News awarded the 1995 production five stars and called it "a delight" and "very funny" and "very moving."}

At HSBC Arena -see website for ticket information.

Throughout her years of writing, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and many honorary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000, and Moral Disorder and Other Stories. Atwood's newest novel, The Year of the Flood is scheduled for release in September 2009.

Her recent work in non-fiction includes, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a timely analysis of the topic of debt as an enduring theme in religion, culture and history.

Atwood has been said to have an uncanny knack for writing books that anticipate the preoccupations of the public. Acclaimed for her talent for portraying both personal problems and those of universal concern, Atwood's work has been published in more than thirty-five languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian.

Margaret Atwood is a Joint Honourary President of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International.

Born in Ottawa, Atwood grew up in northern Ontario and Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.

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At Shea's Performing Arts Center.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is the host of PBS's NOVA scienceNOW, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe. Tyson first appeared on PBS in 2004, hosting a NOVA 4-part mini-series, Origins.

Tyson's professional interests include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. He obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Andes Mountains of Chile.

In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by the President to serve on the Moon, Mars, and Beyond Commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And in 2006, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Advisory Council, which will help guide NASA through its perennial need to fit its ambitious vision into its restricted budget.

In addition to dozens of professional publications, Tyson is a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine under the title Universe. And among Tyson's nine books is his memoir The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, co-written with Donald Goldsmith, Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet, chronicling his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto's planetary status.

Tyson is the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship of the Hayden Planetarium, part of the American Museum of Natural History.

A product of the public school system through high school, Tyson earned his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia. He is the recipient of nine honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal. His contributions to the public appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their official naming of asteroid 13123 Tyson.