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Dallas — UPDATE APRIL 25, 2012: The giveaway below is over and the winners have been contacted. Check your email if you played.

For today's giveaway, we have several pairs of tickets to Mark Ravenhill's play pool (no water), having an area premiere by Sundown Collaborative Theatre at the Art Six Coffeehouse in Denton. The production runs April 26-May 6, and these tickets would be good for any performance, subject to availability.

The story involves an internationally successful artist who invites her less-fortunate friends to her luxurious home with its monstrous outdoor pool. Reliving older and happier times, they go skinny dipping and the first to dive in is their host… but the pool is empty and she is left in a coma. As the story unfolds, the jealousy of the friends becomes more prevalent, and when the host recovers, everyone’s motives are questioned.

To win, email tickets@theaterjones.com, and put POOL NO WATER in the subject line. In the body of email, put your name, address, phone number and best email contact.

You have until 11 p.m. Tuesday, Aril 24 to submit an email. We'll notify the winners Wednesday morning.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Portraits Ballet Festival, second weekend at Texas Ballet Theater; Annie, Jr. at Casa Mañana Children's Theatre; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; American Idiot at AT&T Performing Arts Center; Kristin Chenoweth at AT&T Performing Arts Center; Memphis at Dallas Summer Musicals; Idina Menzel at Music Hall at Fair Park; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE APRIL 23, 2012: The giveaway below is over and the winners have been contacted. Check your email if you played.

For today's giveaway, we have a pair of tickets to the Modern Family panel discussion at the AT&T Performing Arts Center's Winspear Opera House on Tuesday, April 24 at 8 p.m., presented in the Brinker International Forum series. The event focuses on the Emmy-winning ABC sitcom Modern Family, and features three of its actors: Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, as well as co-creator and executive producer Steve Levitan.

To win, email tickets@theaterjones.com, and put MODERN FAMILY in the subject line. In the body of email, put your name, address, phone number and best email contact.

You have until 6 p.m. Sunday, April 22 to submit an email. We'll notify the winner Monday morning.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: pool (no water) at Sundown Collaborative Theatre; Annie, Jr. at Casa Mañana Children's Theatre; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; American Idiot at AT&T Performing Arts Center; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE APRIL 20, 2012: The giveaway below is over and the winners have been contacted. Check your email if you played.

For today's giveaway, we have tickets to the regional premiere of Geoffrey Naufft's Tony-nominated play Next Fall, preented by Dallas Theater Center at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The show runs April 20 through May 6. The play is directed by Kevin Moriarty, and features Terry Martin (of WaterTower Theatre), DTC company members Steven Walters and Lee Trull, and former DTC resident company member Candy Buckley.

If you win, you'll receive a voucher good for any performance for the remainder of the run (subject to availability).

Here's a description of the show:

How do you profoundly love someone you profoudly disagree with? Next Fall is the story of Adam and Luke, a most unlikely couple. Luke's a devout Christian; Adam's a fervent atheist. When an accident changes everything, Adam must turn to Luke's conservative family and friends for support...and a search for answers. The New York Times says this 2010 Broadway hit and Tony Award-nominee for Best Play, "embodies something theatergoers have been sorely missing, perhaps without knowing it, for years. A smart, sensitive, immensely appealing and utterly contemporary comedy."

To win, email tickets@theaterjones.com, and put NEXT FALL in the subject line. In the body of email, put your name, address, phone number and best email contact.

You have until 11:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19 to submit an email. We'll notify the winners Friday morning and get a ticket voucher in the mail to you asap.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles at Dallas Summer Musicals; the Modern Family Panel at AT&T Performing Arts Center; pool (no water) at Sundown Collaborative Theatre; Annie, Jr. at Casa Mañana Children's Theatre; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; American Idiot at AT&T Performing Arts Center; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE APRIL 19, 2012: The giveaway below is over and the winners have been contacted. Check your email if you played.

For today's giveaway, we have several pairs of tickets to see Texas Ballet Theater's Portraits Ballet Festival at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The festival features six short ballets, three on the first weekend (April 20-22) and three more on the second (April 27-29).

• In the first weekend, it's George Balanchine’s Apollo, Ben Stevenson’s Bartok Concerto and the world premiere Carl Coomer’s Evolving,
• Weekend two features Ben Stevenson’s Image, based on the troubled life of Marilyn Monroe; Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena; and the world premiere of Peter Zwiefel’s The Finding.

This first giveaway is for Friday night, April 20 at 8 p.m. We'll have more giveaways next week for Friday, April 27.

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put PORTRAITS APOLLO in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body.

You have until 11 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, to enter. We'll notify the winners Thursday morning.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles at Dallas Summer Musicals; the Modern Family Panel at AT&T Performing Arts Center; pool (no water) at Sundown Collaborative Theatre; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; American Idiot at AT&T Performing Arts Center; and more

Dallas — Teatro Dallas is hosting a book signing party with Mexican-American playwright Carlos Morton, in collaboration with the Mexican American Studies minor at the University of North Texas, as well as  at UNT Department of Dance and Theatre and the Center for Mexican American Studies at University of Texas at Arlington.

The free event is 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 17 and features food, drink and a conversation with Morton at Teatro Dallas, 1331 Record Crossing Road, Dallas. Click here for a map.

Teatro Dallas presented Morton's play Johnny Tenorio in 1986. This talk is in his "Historia Chicana Plática" series.

Carlos Morton has written hundreds of plays. His work has been staged by San Francisco Mime Troupe, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center Theatre, La Compañía Nacional de México, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and the Arizona Theatre Company. He has also written for Columbia Pictures Television, Fox Television as well as three radio plays in Spanish for the SRE (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) and the IMER (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio) in Mexico City. Among other plays, he is the author of The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales and Other Plays (1983) and new version of Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays (1992) both published by Arte Público Press; and Rancho Hollywood y otras obras del teatro chicano (1999, Arte Público Press & Ediciones El Milagro). Born in Chicago, Morton is the former Director of the Center for Chicano Studies and Professor of Dramatic Arts at Univeristy of California-Santa Barbara, where he teaches classes in playwriting, U.S. Latino Theatre, and Latin American Theatre.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 16, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have a pair of tickets to see Betty Buckley perform her acclaimed show "Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The show runs Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday (April 18, 19 and 21), and these tickets are for the Thursday night show, at 7:30 p.m.

Buckley, a Tony-winner for Cats, performs show tunes originally written for men, from musicals like The Pajama Game, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd and West Side Story.

You can read Mark Lowry's story in DFW.com/Star-Telegram about it here, and look for more coming up on TheaterJones.

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put AH MEN in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body.

This giveaway goes through the weekend. You have until 6 p.m. Sunday, April 15, to enter. We'll notify the winner Monday morning.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; pool (no water) at Sundown Collaborative Theatre; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 12, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have two pairs of tickets to see DanceBrazil in a show presented by TITAS, at the Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The group is here Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14, and we have one pair of tickets for each night.

Here's a description, and here's our interview with founder and artistic director Jelon Vieira.

Powerful, physical and exciting, DanceBrazil has dazzled audiences around the world for more than 30 years. Whether on the street or in the most prestigious theater, the dancers and musicians of DanceBrazil never fail to enthrall audiences with their unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, contemporary dance and Capoeira, the traditional martial arts/dance form. In2008, director Jolon Viera was honored with a National Heritage Fellowship for his work with the company. We’ll present DanceBrazil in the intimate Wyly Theater—surrounding you with the passion and excitement that permeates every performance.

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put CAPOEIRA in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body. Also indicate if you'd rather see it on Friday or Saturday.

You have until 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 to enter. We'll notify the winners Wednesday afternoon.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Betty Buckley's Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; and more.

Dallas — Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has launched what he's calling the "Business/Arts Initiative." The project's goal is to encourage people in the business community to support the arts. 

"I have tapped several top business executives to join this initiative and substantially boost business support for the arts—in financial terms as well as participation," says Mayor Rawlings. 

Mayor Rawlings is working with Councilmember and Chair of the City's Arts, Culture and Libraries Committee Ann Margolin and Business Council for the Arts CEO Katherine Wagner.  They have assembled an Arts Action Team, which is made up of around 15 business owners who are long time supporters of the arts. The plan is for the team members to reach out to their colleagues and encourage them to join them in supporting local arts organizations. 

"Team members will not advocate for one arts organization over another, but instead help us make the greater case for these partnerships and provide a path forward," says Rawlings. 

In order to make the process as streamlined as possible, arts organizations are being asked to submit "business engagement" packages. These packages can include anything from group tickets to full sponsorships. Wagner says around 80 of the roughly 130 arts organizations in Dallas have already submitted package proposals at the $10,000, $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000 levels through the Business Council for the Arts' website.

"Mayor Rawlings understands that for our city's arts institutions to survive and thrive, there must be strong relationships between our city's business community and the arts," says AT&T Performing Arts Center Acting President and CEO Doug Curtis. "The Initiative has the opportunity to reach a diverse and wide range of arts groups with much needed support. We hope this becomes a model for arts support around the country."

Wagner says the initiative is also good for participating businesses who are interested in getting their name out to arts patrons. 

According to the most recent NEA survey on arts patrons, around 76 percent of the people who go to the theater, classical or jazz concerts and museums have a graduate degree. They also tend to have a fair amount of disposable income. At the same time, the study found that in "2008, Americans from 18 to 24 years old showed the greatest gains of any age group in pursuing at least one type of arts activity—the reading of literature." 

"If a company is thinking about becoming an arts supporter, this is a really easy doorway," says Wagner. "Everyone is all in one place. The information we will provide about the engagement packages is really comprehensive and direct." 

Mayor Rawlings says that a stronger partnership between the business and the arts worlds will benefit the city as a whole.

"I strongly believe that the arts enhance a city's quality of life, economic growth and business development. Art inspires, brings a wide range of people together and bridges divides."

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 12, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have lots of tickets to the NT Live screening of National Theatre of London's production of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. You can watch the video trailer below.

These are for the showings at the Angelika Film Centers in Dallas and Plano, presented in conjunction with By Experience HD.

The showings are 7 p.m. April 11 and 2 p.m. April 14 at the Angelika Film Center Dallas; and 2 p.m. April 15 and 7 p.m. April 17 at the Angelika Film Center Plano.

To win a pair, email tickets@theaterjones.com with STOOPS in the subject line. Include your name and number. Also, include which location and day you'd like to attend. We have five pairs of tickets to each of the Angelika locations.

Your four choices of time, date and location are:

• 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 at Angelika Film Center Dallas
• 2 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at Angelika Film Center Dallas
• 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15 at Angelika Film Center Plano
• 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 17 at Angelika Film Center Plano

Tickets are normally $20.

You have until noon Tuesday, April 10 to submit an email. We'll notify the winners Tuesday afternoon.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; Betty Buckley's Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 9, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have several pairs of tickets to the tour of La Cage aux Folles, the Tony-winning Broadway musical by Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein. It is based on the French play of the same name (it became a film, too), which was also the inspiration for the 1996 movie The Birdcage.

In this tour, which is presented by Dallas Summer Musicals and runs from April 10 to April 22, the famously tan George Hamilton and Broadway staple Christopher Sieber star. These tickets are for opening night, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 10.  

Here's a description of the show:

Winner of three 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, this hilarious new production was the biggest hit of the 2010 Broadway season, leaving audiences in stitches night after night. La Cage, starring George Hamilton and Christopher Sieber, tells the story of Georges, owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancee's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly. La Cage is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together….stay fabulous…and above all else, stay true to themselves.

To win, email tickets@theaterjones.com, and put LA CAGE AUX FOLLES in the subject line. In the body of email, put your name, address, phone number and best email contact.

You have until 7 p.m. Sunday, April 8 to submit an email. We'll notify the winners Monday morning.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; Betty Buckley's Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 6, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have two pairs of tickets to Fruit Fly, the one-man show written by and starring Emmy-winning actor Leslie Jordan (best known as Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace). The show runs April 9-11 at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, and these tickets are for Monday, April 9 at 8 p.m.

Here's a description of the show:

FRUIT FLY is Mr. Jordan’s latest and all new one man autobiographical stage work dealing with the age old question...Do gay men eventually become their mothers. Mr. Jordan travels back in time using show-and-tell to take the audience on a ride of a lifetime. Childhood recollections combine with perilous teenage shenanigans. From the day a teenage Leslie sits down with his caring but clueless mother to inform her that he has decided to forego college to become a female impersonator, all the way to an Alaskan cruise with 2000 gay men on which a 53-year-old Mr. Jordan witnesses his aging mother’s astounding metamorphosis, Mr. Jordan is in his element. His storytelling skill abounds and will make for an evening of fun and thought-provoking theater.  

To win, email tickets@theaterjones.com, and put FRUIT FLY in the subject line. In the body of email, put your name, address, phone number and best email contact.

You have until 11:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5 to submit an email. We'll notify the winners Friday morning.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; Betty Buckley's Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; Emanuel Ax at Cliburn Concerts; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 6, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have a pair of tickets to The Cat and the Canary at ICT Mainstage in Irving. The show closes this weekend, and these tickets are for Friday, April 6 at 8 p.m. Here's our review.

To win, email tickets@theaterjones.com, and put CANARY in the subject line. In the body of email, put your name, address, phone number and best email contact.

You have until 11:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5 to submit an email. We'll notify the winner Friday morning.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 6, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have more pairs of tickets to the regional premiere of Kim Rosenstock's comedy Tigers Be Still at Dallas Theater Center. The show is currently running through May 13 in the Studio Theatre on the sixth floor of the Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, and is receiving positive reviews.

If you win, you'll receive a voucher good for any performance for the remainder of the run (subject to availability).

Here's a description of the show:

The quirky-charming-funny Tigers Be Still puts the fun in dysfunction with endearingly neurotic characters, pop-culture hijinks (Top Gun, anyone?) and, yes, an escaped carnivorous cat. Directed by Hal Brooks.

To win, email tickets@theaterjones.com, and put TWO TIGERS in the subject line. In the body of email, put your name, address, phone number and best email contact.

You have until 11:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5 to submit an email. We'll notify the winners Friday morning and get a ticket voucher in the mail to you asap.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Leslie Jordan in Fruit Fly at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas; La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; and more.

Dallas — Andrea Bocelli, the Italian tenor who became a superstar opera singer, will come to Dallas on his newest tour. He'll perform November 30, 2012, at the American Airlines Center. The U.S. tour begins a few days before, in San Jose, Calif.

Tickets go on sale today, April 2, through Ticketmaster. They range from $78.50 to $353.50.

For more on Bocelli, you can read his biography, which includes Grammys and roles on many world opera stages, here.

Also, keep watching TheaterJones, because beginning in June we'll be giving away tickets to the concert.

Addison — UPDATE: APRIL 4, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have several pairs of tickets Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County, having its area premiere at Addison's WaterTower Theatre. The play, directed by René Moreno, stars Pam Dougherty as the drug-addled matriarch of a large dysfunctional family in Oklahoma.

The show officially opens tonight, April 2, and runs through April 22. We have tickets for the performances this week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (Aug. 4-6).

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put OSAGE in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body. Also indicate if you'd rather go on Wednesday (April 4 at 7:30 p.m.), Thursday (April 5 at 7:30 p.m.) or Friday (April 6, at 8 p.m.).

You have until 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 to enter. We'll notify the winners beginning Tuesday afternoon.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Leslie Jordan in Fruit Fly at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; more tickets to Tigers Be Still at Dallas Theater Center; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; and more.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 2, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have one pair of tickets to Vanessa Williams, in the entertainment portion of the Dallas Summer Musicals Curtain Call Gala. The event is Saturday, March 31, and the concert begins around 8:30 p.m. at the Music Hall at Fair Park. It doesn't include the dinner before, but does include dancing, party and dessert after the concert. The event is black tie, but business casual is fine.

Williams is a singer and actress who has been on Broadway (Into the Woods) and is currently in ABC's Desperate Housewives.

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put VANESSA in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body.

You have until 5 p.m. Friday, March 30 to enter. We'll notify the winner right after that.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Mary Poppins at Bass Hall (for the second week, on April 3); August: Osage County at WaterTower Theatre; Leslie Jordan in Fruit Fly at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; more tickets to Tigers Be Still at Dallas Theater Center; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; and more.

Fort Worth — UPDATE: APRIL 2, 2012: The contest below is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have two pairs of tickets to the tour of the musical Mary Poppins at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. The tour has already started (here's our review), and plays through April 8. These tickets are for the Tuesday, April 3 performance that begins at 7:30 p.m.

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body.

You have until 6 p.m. Sunday, April 1 to enter. We'll notify the winners Monday morning.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: August: Osage County at WaterTower Theatre; Leslie Jordan in Fruit Fly at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; more tickets to Tigers Be Still at Dallas Theater Center; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; and more.

Local theater critic and arts advocate Alexandra Bonifield, who created the blog CriticalRant, has been entered into the 2012 Great Arts Blogger Challenge, created by the classical music site Spring for Music. From the initial entries, she has made it past the first round of voting and into the top 16.

We encourage you to vote for her, and vote often. She's the only Texas entry, in a field that is refreshingly spread out across the country. You can vote for her blog once a day. Next the field will be pared down to eight blogs, and then four. The winner will receive $2,500.

Bonifield is one of North Texas' most vital writers on the arts. And yes, we admit a bias: she contributes to TheaterJones, too.

You can see her blog here, and read the essay that got her into the competition here.

And here's more on how to vote.

Dallas — UPDATE: APRIL 2, 2012: The contest below for is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have two pairs of tickets to see Anoushka Shankar, daughter of famed sitarist Ravi Shankar, and an accomplished musician and composer herself. The concert, presented by TITAS, is at the Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. These tickets are for 8 p.m. Sunday, April 1.

Here's a description (and there's a video below):

Hailed by the Japan Times as "a new breed of super-musician, classically trained in two traditions," renowned sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar fuses Indian music with a variety of genres, including electronic, jazz, flamenco and Western classical music. The daughter of legendary Ravi Shankar, Anoushka made her performance debut at age 13 in New Delhi. Since the release of her first album, she has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and was featured as one of 20 Asian heroes by the Asia edition of Time Magazine. Anoushka has collaborated with superstar artists, including Lenny Kravitz, Peter Gabriel, Herbie Hancock, Elton John, Madonna, Nina Simone, Sting, James Taylor and Norah Jones. In the intimate Wyly Theatre, Anoushka will showcase music from her latest album, Traveller—a stunning fusion of flamenco and Indian musical styles.

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put SITAR in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body.

You have until 1 p.m. Friday, March 30 to enter. We'll notify the winners Friday afternoon.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Mary Poppins at Bass Hall (for the second week, on April 3); August: Osage County at WaterTower Theatre; Leslie Jordan in Fruit Fly at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; more tickets to Tigers Be Still at Dallas Theater Center; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; and more.

Addison — UPDATE: MARCH 29, 2012: The contest below for FORTUNE is over. The winners have been notified, so check your email if you entered.

For today's giveaway, we have several pairs of tickets to Fortune at MBS Productions, which runs through April 15 at the Stone Cottage at the Addison Theatre Centre. We have tickets for Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30. Here's the description:

Roger is the estranged father to Winston. Due to the requirements in a will left by Roger's ex-wife who was Winston's mother they are required to spend 7 days locked up in a house in order to inherit the fortune left by her. If either one of them step a foot outside the house that person forfeits their part of the inheritance to the other. As cabin fever sets in and greed augments, family skeletons come tumbling out. Will either man be able to put up with the other before the 7 days are up? Will they survive? This world premiere black comedy explores the underside of familial bonds. It is written by the same award-winning playwright who penned Sex & War, and Homeland Insecurity, or how I learned to love the Patriot Act. The play stars Dylan Peck as Winston, Mark-Brian Sonna as Roger and is directed by Charles Ballinger

To be eligible to win, email tickets@theaterjones.com and put FORTUNE in the subject line. Put your name, address, phone number and best email contact in the body. Also, indicate if you'd rather go on Thursday or Friday, March 29 or 30.

You have until 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 to enter. We'll notify the winners Thursday morning.

TheaterJones staffers and contributors, and their family members, are ineligible to play.

◊ Other giveaways coming up include: Anoushka Shankar, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; August: Osage County at WaterTower Theatre; Mary Poppins at Bass Hall (for the second week, on April 3); Leslie Jordan in Fruit Fly at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas; She Stoops to Conquer in the NT Live series at the Angelika Film Centers of Dallas and Plano; DanceBrazil, presented by TITAS at the Wyly Theatre; more tickets to Tigers Be Still at Dallas Theater Center; Next Fall at Dallas Theater Center; La Cage aux Folles at Dallas Summer Musicals; and more.