2005 PROGRAM OF ACTION OF IT PROMOTION COUNCIL APPROVED IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, June 22. /ARKA/. The RA Council for IT Promotion has held a
meeting inn Yerevan. The meeting was chaired by Council Chairman, RA
Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. The meeting discussed and generally
approved the Council’s program of action for 2005. Under the program,
as well as simultaneously with preparations for the Tunis IT Summit,
the Council will continue its activities in 2005. The Councils
functions are to reveal and remove obstacles to IT development in
Armenia, promote IT application in various economic sectors, draft
stable legislation, raise public awareness of the IT potential.

The meeting also discussed the execution of instructions issued at the
Council’s previous meeting, a draft of the Council’s activities for
2005, Armenian-English electronic translation system developed by the
ISMA Ltd and other issues. P.T. -0–

RA PREMIER INFORMS SPEAKER OF NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENT OF AUTHORITIES’
POSITION ON ARMENIA-EU RELATIONS

YEREVAN, June 22. /ARKA/. RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan
informed Speaker of the Norwegian Parliament Jorgen Kosmo of the
Armenian authorities’ position on the Armenia-EU relations. Premier
Margaryan pointed out the importance of involving the South Caucasian
countries in the New Neighbourhood program, as well as of the European
Commission’s proposal for the development of relations with Armenia by
means of an individual program approved by the EU Council.

Speaking of regional cooperation, Margaryan stated that Armenia agrees
with the EU’s position that conflicts hinder stable development of the
countries of the region. According to him, Armenia’s position is that
the settlement of conflicts is greatly facilitated by various
cooperation programs implemented by all parties without any
preconditions. The RA Premier added that in the context of its
regional policy Armenia is consistently trying to improve its
relations with all its neighbours, including Turkey, without any
preconditions. In his turn, Speaker Kosmo stressed the importance of
international cooperation in meeting present-day challenges,
particularly international terrorism, organized crime and
corruption. He pointed out that as a country of centuries-old
Christian traditions Armenia can make its worthy contribution to the
development of international cooperation. P.T. -0–

ARMENIAN AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS ARE SATISFIED WITH THE WAY YEAR OF
RUSSIA IS HELD IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, June 22. /ARKA/. The Presidents of Russia and Armenia
Vladimir Putin and Robert Kocharian are satisfied with the way the
Year of Russia in held in Armenia. According to RIA Novosti, during
the meeting of the two Presidents, Kocharian noted that “everything is
just excellent concerning the Year of Russia in Armenia”. In his turn,
Vladimir Putin added that the Year of Russia in Armenia is held quite
well. The Russian leader believes that “the tour of Bolshoy Theatre in
Armenia proved to be a success”. “I am very glad to know that”, said
Putin. He expressed hope that “all the planned events will be held on
a very high level”. The Russian President also said that Russia plans
to open a “large exhibition” in Armenia. ”

According to Kocharian, Russia carries out many events in Armenia, but
most important ones are “those carried out in economic block”.
“Russian Governors are visiting Armenia, contacts with regions are
being established, the Year of Russia in Armenia appears to be very
interesting, including almost all the aspects of bilateral
cooperation”, noted the RA President. L.V.-0–

Tehran Times
June 23 2005

Russia says elections do not change status of Nagorno Karabakh

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia said Wednesday a solution to the dispute over
the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabakh should not depend on
elections held there, and that the presence of Russian observers at
the vote did not imply recognition.

“Moscow considers that the resolution of the conflict should not
depend on the organization of such and such elections in Nagorno
Karabakh,” Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

Officials of the breakaway state have argued that Sunday’s vote, from
which the ruling party emerged victorious, was a step toward
international recognition.

“The Russian citizens who traveled there as observers are in Karabakh
on their own accord and exclusively in a personal role,” the
statement said. The ministry reiterated that Russia “has never
recognized Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state,” and “always
supported the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.”

Azerbaijan considers any vote in the region illegal until hundreds of
thousands of Azeris banished from Karabakh and seven surrounding
regions are allowed to return.

The enclave is widely seen as being propped up by Armenia, which
fought Baku in a war for control over Nagorno Karabakh between 1993
and 1994 that claimed some 25,000 lives and forced another million
residents — mostly Azeris — from their homes.

Armenia is the only country to recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an
independent state.

Turkish Press
June 22 2005

Press Scan:
MILLIYET

MUSEUM CRISIS WITH NORWAY

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul strongly criticized the
Norwegian government when he learned that a special part will be
allocated for the Armenians in the Genocide Museum to be opened in
(Norwegian capital of) Oslo. Being warned by Turkish FM Gul and
Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ali Tuygan during his visit to
(Turkish capital of) Ankara, Norwegian State Secretary Kim Traavik
said, ”the museum is being opened by initiatives of a private
foundation, not with state incentive. So, as the government, we have
nothing to do.”

EurasiaNet Organization
June 22 2005

UNITED STATES ADOPTS CAUTIOUS STANCE ON ARMENIA’S DEMOCRATIZATION

Emil Danielyan 6/22/05

The United States has stepped up efforts to promote democratization
in former Soviet states in recent years. Accordingly, opposition
leaders in Armenia are hopeful of receiving Washington’s support for
a renewed push to force President Robert Kocharian’s administration
from power in Yerevan. But US officials seem anxious to squelch such
expectations, insisting that they harbor no regime-change ambitions
for Armenia.

During a visit to Georgia in mid May, US President George W. Bush
offered effusive praise for the Rose Revolution led by Georgian
President Mikheil Saakashvili. [For background see the Eurasia
Insight archive]. Some politicians and pundits in neighboring Armenia
interpreted Bush’s statements as a thinly veiled call for
democratically oriented regime change throughout the Caucasus. Media
outlets in Yerevan have since speculated on who might be Washington’s
preferred successor to Kocharian. [For additional information see the
Eurasia Insight archive].

Members of the Bush administration now adamantly deny they want
political turnover in Yerevan. “We are not in the revolution
business,” a senior Bush administration official said in an
interview. The official went on to downplay Washington’s role in the
recent revolutionary trend, saying the United States was “not
responsible” for the successful popular uprisings in Georgia, Ukraine
and Kyrgyzstan. The official noted that the United States had
maintained good relations with the toppled leaders of the three
ex-Soviet states, Georgia’s Eduard Shevardnadze, Ukraine’s Leonid
Kuchma and Kyrgyzstan’s Askar Akayev. “We didn’t do anything to
trigger those events,” he said.

The senior administration official indicated that recent statements
made by President Bush should not be interpreted as a call for street
protests, or other anti-government action that undermines stability
in the region. “The [Armenian] opposition should not launch a
dangerous revolution or seek to humiliate the [Kocharian] regime,”
the senior administration official said, adding that Washington now
favors an “evolutionary process” of democratization.

Officials at the State Department made a similar point, saying that
the United States supports only the use of “legal means” in any
effort to bring about political change. US enthusiasm for regime
change seems to have cooled markedly since the May 13 violence in
Andijan, Uzbekistan. [For background see the Eurasia Insight
archive].

Armenia’s leading opposition parties have never recognized the
legitimacy of Kocharian’s disputed re-election in 2003, and they have
maintained a boycott of the country’s parliament. [For background see
the Eurasia Insight archive]. Apparently encouraged by Bush
administration rhetoric, opposition leaders have sent signals about
organizing another round of mass rallies aimed at forcing Kocharian
to step down. The first opposition protest effort stalled in 2004 in
the face of stiff governmental resistance. [For background see the
Eurasia Insight archive].

Of late, opposition rhetoric has taken on a more aggressive tone.
Embracing a pro-Western foreign policy agenda, some opposition
politicians have gone as far as to call for Armenia’s withdrawal from
the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty, and the country’s
accession to NATO. Russia and Armenia have traditionally enjoyed a
special strategic relationship. [For additional information see the
Eurasia Insight archive].

Aram Sarkisian, the outspoken leader of Armenia’s most radical
opposition party called Hanrapetutiun (Republic), traveled to
Washington in early June for meetings with White House and State
Department officials. He said the trip reinforced his resolve to
carry out a “revolution.” Sarkisian and other top opposition leaders
feel that they can count on Washington’s support in their
revolutionary endeavors.

“That is a dangerous and false assumption,” countered a State
Department official. He and other American officials indicated that
the US government does not regard regime change as a necessary
condition for Armenia’s democratization.

According to Cory Welt, a Caucasus and Central Asia analyst at the
Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, such
statements can be taken at face value. “From all indications that I
have seen, Armenia is definitely not a target [for the Bush
administration],” he said. “They tolerate the current regime in
Yerevan.”

Kocharian’s government drew praise from two US senators who visited
Yerevan recently. Sen. Charles Hagel, a Nebraska Republican,
professed to be “very impressed with the democratic reforms and
economic development that have taken place in Armenia.” Earlier, Sen.
Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, downplayed Armenia’s troubled
history of tainted elections. [For background see the Eurasia Insight
archive]. “Elections alone don’t make democracy,” he told Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty on May 31.

Coleman’s remarks seemed at odds with the strong US criticism of the
last Armenian presidential election in 2003. The State Department
said at the time that Armenian authorities “missed an important
opportunity to advance democratization.”

The apparent contradiction between Bush’s pro-democracy rhetoric and
statements by other US officials makes it difficult to predict how
Washington might react if the next round of Armenian national
elections, due to occur in 2007, are plagued by irregularities. “I
don’t think the United States knows exactly what it wants right now,
and that’s part of the problem,” said Welt, the political analyst.

Editor’s Note: Emil Danielyan is a Yerevan-based journalist and
political analyst.

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PRESS RELEASE
June 23, 2005

NEW JERSEY COMMISSION ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION INTRODUCES NEW ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE CURRICULUM

The State of New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education announced on
June 20, 2005, the introduction of a new human rights and genocide
curriculum focusing on the Armenian Genocide. The curriculum represents
a new threshold in public education on the Armenian Genocide – making NJ
the first state in the country to recommend comprehensive courses on the
subject to teachers in public and private schools.

Holocaust and genocide education has received strong support from both
legislators and educators in the state. As such, the NJ Commission on
Holocaust Education developed one of the earliest models for teaching
the Armenian Genocide and this year, on the occasion of the 90th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, adopted the outstanding new
resource book entitled “Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: the
Genocide of the Armenians” developed by Facing History and Ourselves
Foundation (FHAO) of Brookline, Massachusetts, as its new curriculum.
Additionally, the Commission developed a special teacher’s guide for the
FHAO resource book, which it is distributing to educators statewide.

Executive Director of the Commission, Dr. Paul Winkler, who announced
the new curriculum at a press conference in the State House, thanked the
Armenian National Institute (ANI) for its cooperation in developing the
NJ teacher’s guide and for originally alerting the Commission of the new
advances in teaching about the Armenian Genocide. Dr. Winkler also
recognized the Armenian Assembly of America for bringing this initiative
to the attention of then NJ Governor James McGreevy two years ago.

The Commission on Holocaust Education is an official body of the state
of New Jersey, which was established in 1982 under Governor Tom Kean as
the Council on Holocaust Education. Later, Governor McGreevy, as a
state Assemblyman, voted to make the council a permanent commission and
introduced the original mandate legislation. In 1991 Governor James
Florio signed the legislation establishing the Commission and in 1994,
Governor Christine Todd Whitman enacted the law mandating the teaching
of the Holocaust and genocide. Current acting Governor and President of
the Senate Richard J. Codey has been a strong advocate of Holocaust and
genocide education.

Prior to the announcement on the new curriculum, the General Assembly
passed a resolution commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide. The resolution was cosponsored by Assemblywoman Joan Voss and
Assemblyman Robert Gordon. Introducing the resolution, Assemblywoman
Voss, a former history teacher, spoke about the importance of
remembrance and education. “The world closed its eyes to the Armenian
Genocide,” Voss said. “It is frightening how similar the Holocaust was
to the Armenian Genocide.”

Assemblyman Gordon, in his remarks on the floor noted that “the emotion
runs strong in the Armenian community for their losses in the Armenian
Genocide.” They were joined by colleagues who made additional floor
statements. Assemblyman William Payne, also an educator, invoked the
memory of Reverend Martin Luther King in defending human rights.
Assemblyman Bill Baroni spoke of the challenges Armenia continues to
face in its relations with modern-day Turkey.

Former New Jersey Assembly Speaker Chuck Haytaian was also on hand as a
special guest for the bill’s passage. He was recognized in the Assembly
by the current speaker, Albio Sires, and given the floor after a
standing ovation by former colleagues from both sides of the aisle. He
spoke movingly of the losses in his family during the Armenian Genocide
and of the importance of continuing to stand witness to the memory of
the victims and the survivors. He was joined in the gallery by other
guests from the Armenian-American community, clergy, and students from
the Hovnanian School in New Milford, New Jersey.

The bill’s passage was followed by a press conference. Voss told members
of the media that New Jersey is one of the few states that has mandated
teaching on human rights and genocide and commended the Commission for
its leadership role. ANI Director Dr. Rouben Adalian, for his part,
thanked all the educators and curriculum developers of the New Jersey
Commission including Helen Simpkins, Vernoy Paolini, Gary Kulhanjian,
and Dr. Joan Rivitz, for their commitment to human rights education, and
Dr. Mary Johnson of FHAO who coordinated with the Commission. FHAO was
represented at the press conference by Shannon Planck.

The Armenian National Institute is a Washington-based organization
dedicated to the study, research, and affirmation of the Armenian
Genocide.

Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
June 22 2005

ARMENIA: GOLD WORKERS CAVE IN

Bizarre twist in labour dispute at gold mining company leaves
management calling all the shots.

By Susanna Petrosian in Sotk

An unprecedented walk out by Armenian gold workers ended in failure
when management fired the strikers then hired them back under the
same conditions they were protesting.

Almost 500 workers from the Ararat Gold Recovery Company’s Sotk mine
went on strike May 11 to demand a better working environment and
improved safety procedures following the deaths of two people at
another AGRC mine in April.

`The conditions we work under are worse than those of prisoners of
war,’ said Armen Saakian, chairman of the union representing AGRC’s
staff. `We work 12 hours a day at a height of 2,370 metres, we have
no canteen, drinking water or other basic infrastructure. The miners
work to put bread on the table, just to be able to get up and go to
work the next day.’

Five days after the strike began, however, they were locked out by
management and fired. They have now all been rehired – minus the 80
strike leaders.

Demands including the abolition of three-month contracts, talks on a
collective pay agreement and improved conditions in the workplace
still haven’t been met. Management has, however, agreed to review
salaries, which have suffered because of the fall in strength of the
dollar.

AGRC director Vardan Vardanian said working conditions at Sotk were
no worse than at comparable businesses in Armenia. He said the
strikers were fired because they were absent from work without good
reason.

`When workers make demands which are not related to the company’s
work, there can be only one reaction – the course we took,’ he told
IWPR.

`The workers simply do not know the law. We haven’t done anything
illegal …Now they are all working normally. They realise this is
not the way to behave.’

Stepan Barseghian, the governor of Gegarkunik district, where the
mine is located, also considers the dispute over, saying that `thanks
to the talks, we have managed to reinstate people in their jobs’.

The workers, however, remain deeply unhappy, saying they were in
effect given no option but to sign new contracts under the old
working conditions, while the strike leaders have not been rehired.

`The leadership is just as intransigent as it always was, which shows
the indifference of our government,’ Armen Sahakian told IWPR. `No
one gives a damn about us.’

Another worker, who asked to remain anonymous, complained that the
Sotk gold workers feel `abandoned in their own country to the mercy
of fate’ and were angry that the government did not step in to help.

Even though the right to strike is enshrined in the Armenian
constitution, the government has stayed firmly out of the dispute.
`We have no official information about conditions at the Sotk mine.
We get everything from you journalists,’ said the press secretary for
the ministry of labour and social issues Hasmik Khachatrian.

At the ministry of trade and economic development, officials who
asked not to be named, told IWPR that it was not up to ministry to
get involved in the dispute, since AGRC is a private company owned by
India’s Sterlite Industries Limited.

This attitude has angered trade unionists like Anastas Pahlevanian
who said the union is prepared to take the case of the 80 fired
workers to the European Court of Human Rights.

`AGRC’s leadership wants to break people and it is only too happy to
take advantage of the government’s indifference,’ said Pahlevanian.

Fellow union leader Yevgeny Kozhemyakin told IWPR that the
extraordinary events in Sotk are best explained by Armenia’s high
unemployment rate, which gives management power over workers who are
unlikely to find another job.

AGRC is also facing controversy on other fronts – particularly for
its environmental record.

It was criticised for a plan to move its Ararat gold enrichment plant
to Sotk even though the mine is located in the environmentally
sensitive Lake Sevan basin.

The ministry of the environment rejected the proposal on the grounds
that ore processing is prohibited in the basin, but Vardanian hopes
the move can still be made.

`One gets the impression no one cares about gold mining in Armenia,’
he said. `As for the law, it is not so cut and dry. Laws can always
be changed, for one reason or another.’

Today the government is considering another AGRC project proposal for
the construction of an 80 million US dollar gold enrichment plant
near the Sotk mine, but this time outside the boundary of the Lake
Sevan basin.

The idea is under review but local environmentalist Rafael
Hovhannesian pledged to `battle with the same determination as we did
for the first project, without question’.

The people who live in the villages of Ararat and Banavan next to the
existing Ararat gold enrichment plant also accuse AGRC of
contravening environmental laws.

The head of the Ararat village administration told IWPR that
villagers were worried about a large, pink cloud, which is blown from
the plant over the fields and the nearby village. The substance is
thought to be potassium cyanide.

`There is a reddish-pink dust everywhere, and most importantly it is
in our lungs, and our children also swallow it,’ said Armen Torosian,
an unemployed villager.

The environment minister Vartan Aivazian is certain that AGRC has
`ecological problems’. `I am talking about on-going processes which
can affect the water and soil,’ said the minister.

In response to the complaints, Vardanian said, `Potassium cyanide is
not the most dangerous substance produced by industry in Armenia.’
He blamed the local population for ignoring a `sanitary zone’ around
the Ararat factory where they had been told not to farm, `In this
zone they are grazing cattle and catching fish.’

Susanna Petrosian is a journalist with the Noyan Tapan news agency in
Yerevan.

Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
June 22 2005

GEORGIANS FIGHT POWER REFORM

Electricity price rises and power cuts are causing tension in
Samtskhe-Javakheti.

By Ketevan Mishvelidze and Tsaulina Malazonia in Akhaltsikhe

The humming of power generators fills the streets of Akhaltsikhe
where in order to catch up on housework women have taken to bringing
irons to work as offices are the only buildings in the city where
electricity is regularly available.

They can’t smooth out their wrinkles at home as much of the
Samtskhe-Javakheti region has been blacked out since last month when
the government introduced a new way of paying for electricity,
described by some as draconian but by the government as essential if
the system is to function.

The state-run United Distribution Company, temporarily managed by the
US firm PA Consulting, has installed shared electricity meters at
homes around the region with each serving two or three blocks of
flats or several private residences.

The readings are then divided equally between all users and one bill
issued every month for all homes. Families get 15 days to pay their
share in full or power is cut off to all homes sharing the meter.

The new system has caused turmoil among families used to paying no
more than 30 lari (16 US dollars) for electricity who are now
receiving bills for up to 100 lari (55 dollars), no matter how many
people live in the property.

A solitary pensioner like Eter Saanishvili now has to pay as much a
wealthy neighbour who uses electricity to heat his house.

Saanishvili has been living in a street that has been without power
for the past month. She is being asked to pay for large amounts of
electricity used during a time when she wasn’t even living at home
but staying with relatives. `How could I have consumed so much
electricity not being at home?’ she said. `No one cares about us, its
no one’s headache that people like me are left in the dark.’

Another distressed resident who asked not to be named insists the new
bills are completely unaffordable, `No one asks me what my salary is
or whether I have any income. They just demand categorically that I
should pay. I won’t pay, just as I won’t resign myself to the
blackouts. My salary is only 57 laris. If I pay 50 laris for
electricity, how can I feed my child on the remaining seven lari?’

The electricity price rises and subsequent power cuts have led to a
rise in political tensions in the region.

On June 6, an angry crowd of around 250 people broke into the
provincial government building, demanding a meeting with the governor
to protest against the new system. A meeting was granted the next
day, but the governor, Giorgy Khachidze, was unsympathetic.

`I will not tolerate disorder even if the whole district comes to my
door, men, women and children. If the police and I cannot restore
order, we will call in the military,’ he said.

The head of the local office of United Distribution Company defended
the reforms, which he said were an attempt to correct the wide
disparity between power consumption and payments received.

`People have taken electricity for granted far too long, spending as
much as they wanted, and not paying. This caused losses to the state
and people did not get power anyway. Now we are going to find out
exactly how much power every neighbourhood consumes,’ said Giorgy
Beradze.

He explained that the `communal’ electricity billing system is just
the first phase of the reform process. Phase two will involve setting
up individual household meters in 16 Georgian cities including
Akhaltsikhe.

`Another 20 million lari (11 million dollars) has been earmarked for
this in this year’s government budget,’ Beradze said.

Nikoloz Valiashvili, advisor to the UDC’s general director, said such
reforms are essential, because abuse of the system has become
chronic.

`We investigated the region and discovered up to 32 ways to steal
electricity, practiced by the locals,’ he said. `For example people
have been tying a fishing hook to a really long rod and hitching it
onto a high-voltage power line.’

Former Georgian parliament deputy Gochi Natenadze is cynical, saying
the regions have been targeted as the government is too afraid to
implement the new system in the capital. `Whoever came up with this
reform thought they could do what they want in `backward’ regions,’
he said.

Samtskhe-Javakheti is a desperately poor region with no natural gas
and where water is supplied once every few days for a couple of
hours. Despite some windfalls from the new Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
pipeline, unemployment is still more than 80 per cent.

If the situation does not improve before winter arrives – and
winters can be very cold and snowy here – more trouble is expected,
particularly in neighbouring Akhalkalaki and Ninotsminda which are
next in line for reform. These regions are home to some 90,000
Armenians, who are already suspicious of the Georgian government.
Tensions are also running high here as the local Russian military
base, a major employer, prepares to shut down.

Giorgy Beradze insists the reforms will continue. `Let them live in
darkness until they start paying for the electricity they use,’ he
said.

Ketevan Mishvelidze and Tsaulina Malazonia are reporters for Southern
Gates, a newspaper supported by IWPR in Samtskhe-Javakheti.

PlayBill
June 22 2005

Producer Will Assume Leading Role in Off-Broadway’s ‘Beast on the
Moon’

Kenneth Jones Playbill On-Line
41 minutes ago

While Omar Metwally takes time off from Beast on the Moon to shoot a
movie in July, the producers of the Off-Broadway drama have found the
perfect replacement – one of the producers.

For the month of July, starting June 30, producer David Grillo will
play Aram Tomasian, the Armenian immigrant who settles in Milwaukee
and carves out a new life with his haunted bride, played by Lena
Georgas, a refugee from the early-century Armenian genocide.

Tony Award nominee Omar Metwally’s temporary leave of absence is to
accommodate his work in a new Steven Spielberg film.

Grillo, who earned an MFA in acting from Yale School of Drama, played
the role of Aram in Boston in 1999, and acquired the New York
production rights two years ago.

Beast on the Moon is his first venture as commercial producer. His
producing partner for the project is Matt Salinger.

“I first fell in love with Beast on the Moon when I played Aram in
the Boston production,” Grillo said in a statement. “I knew then that
this was a play that had to reach New York audiences. I have been
standing-by for Omar since we began previews this spring. While Omar
is off filming, I am looking forward switching hats and revisiting
Richard Kalinoski’s beautiful play from an actor’s perspective.”

Omar Metwally is expected to return to Beast on the Moon in late
July, as the show heads into its 16th week of performances.
Understudy auditions for Grillo’s Aram are ongoing.

The cast also include Louis Zorich and Matt Borish. Larry Moss (The
Syringa Tree) directs.

Performances play Century Center for the Performing Arts (111 East
15th Street) Tuesday at 7 PM, Wednesday-Saturday at 8 PM with
matinees Wednesday at 2 PM, and Saturday and Sunday at 3 PM. Tickets
are $65 for all performances. Tickets and information are available
at Telecharge.com, (212) 239-6200.

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