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Web: www. sistic.com Sydney FESTIVAL The Sydney Festival: Three weeks of theater, music, dance and film, ranging from Budapest's Katona József Theatre (performing Chekhov in Hungarian, with English surtitles) to the electronica-meets-brass sound of the Matthew Herbert Big Band out of the U.K. to ballet from Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.

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Web: www. sistic.com EXHIBITION Singapore Art Museum

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Web: www. sistic.com.sg Bangkok: Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani, Changwattana Road; March 4, 8: 30 p.m. Admission: 1,000 baht to 5,500 baht.

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Web: www. sistic.com.sg Tokyo EXHIBITION Nordic Modernism: Some of the best modern deco in the world comes from Nordic designers -- Ikea is just the tip of the iceberg -- and for good reason: Scandinavian winters are some of the darkest in the world.

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Web: www. sistic.com Sydney THEATER The 39 Steps: An early Alfred Hitchcock thriller gets a somewhat more comic treatment, with four actors taking 139 roles.

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Web: www. sistic.com Tour: Australia Rex Features (Stevie Wonder)

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Web: www. sistic.com CONCER. The Lord of the R.ngs Symphony: When J.R.R. Tolkien's novels became films, it was to the music of Howard Shore.

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Web: www. sistic.com.sg Tokyo EXHIBITION From Chagall to Malevich: Painters of the Russian avant-garde movement are considered to have played a revolutionary role after the overthrow of the czar in 1917.

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