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Seven tour dates of the 'American Idol Live!' tour have been cancelled, the New York Times reports.

Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image will open its redesigned building on January 15, 2011, the New York Times reports. The redesigned museum, designed by Thomas Leeser, will feature a glass entrance, a grand staircase, and a video wall in the lobby, as well as a new theater (seating 264) and screening room (seating 68). Museum director Rochelle Slovin told the Times, 'I had always felt that a museum about the movies should have some sense of glamour. That is part of what we've now gotten from this project.' The museum's new design also includes three additional stories, increasing the building's square footage from 50,000 square feet to 97,700 square feet.

Manhattan dance space organization Dance New Amsterdam may be evicted because of its inability to pay rent, the New York Times reports. Dance New Amsterdam's executive director, Catherine Peila, told the Times that Dance New Amsterdam owes over half a million dollars in rent and added, 'With the high rent and the recession, we didn't earn enough money to pay the rent. The arts community should really be revved up: we serve 8,000 students, we employ 250 people a year and we moved to Lower Manhattan to revitalize the area.' Peila also told the Times that the organization hopes to meet with landlord Fram Realty and with cities agencies and to come to an agreement for lower rent.

THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING, a ballet with music by the Pet Shop Boys, will premiere at London's Sadler's Wells on March 22, 2011, whatsonstage.com reports. The ballet, based on Hans Christian Anderson's story, tells of a quest to find 'the most incredible thing' in order to marry a princess, the report says. Javier de Frutos will direct and choreograph, and Ivan Putov will star. The production will run until March 26, and there will be a week of previews before the opening, the report says.

Hana Sharif has been named associate artistic director of Hartford Stage, the Hartford Courant's Behind the Curtain blog reports. Sharif will succeed Jeremy B. Cohen, who is to become producing director of Minneapolis's The Playwrights Center, on August 9.

Steven Berkoff's BIBLICAL TALES will premiere at London's New End Theatre on August 3, whatsonstage.com reports. The show is made up of four one act plays, dealing with the stories of Adam and Eve, Samson and Delilah, David and Goliath, and Moses and Pharaoh, all with a '21st Century twist ... in guises we would never have believed possible,' according to the report. The production will run for four weeks.

The Slant Theatre Project has announced casting for Thomas Ward's BINGE on their official Facebook page. The cast will feature Brent Bateman, John G. Preston, Therese Barbato, and David Lee Nelson. The production will be directed by Adam Knight.

Some of the greatest rock anthems of the 70's, 80's and 90's take center stage in the new rock cabaret musical POWER BALLADZ, debuting Off-Broadway at the Midtown Theatre (163 W. 46 St.) in Manhattan, with previews starting August 5th prior to an official press opening on August 19th. Not your typical theater experience, POWER BALLADZ is a 90-minute rock tribute that gives audiences the chance to unleash their inner rock star: part comedy, part interactive game show, and a genuine joy ride through the music and legend of rock songs by powerhouse bands such as Guns 'N' Roses, Journey, Heart, Queens, Bon Jovi, Styx and more. POWER BALLADZ is created by Mike Todaro and Dan Nycklemoe with Peter Rothstein and written by Mr. Todaro and Mr. Nycklemoe.

Gina Gershon, Danny Glover, and Robert Patrick will star in the independent movie 'Five Minarets in New York,' the Hollywood Reporter reports. The film, to be written and directed by Mahsun Kirmizigul (Turkey's 'I Saw the Sun'), is the story of Maria (Gershon), the wife of a Turkish scholar who is arrested for a crime that he did not commit.

Opera singer Cesare Siepi died Monday in Atlanta at the age of eighty-seven, the Associated Press reports. The cause of death was a stroke.

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre founding artistic director Stanley E. Williams has died, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Williams, who was sixty, died of cancer in San Francisco on July 2.

Two-time Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals will bring the delightful new musical comedy Radio Girl to the stage this summer at The Norma Terris Theatre, its home for developing new works in Chester, Conn. Based on the beloved story of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, this wholesome tale will charm audiences of all ages July 29 through August 22.

Ben Vereen's performance in 'Broadway Legends: An Evening with Ben Vereen' at the Hartford Stage will be recorded live on July 7 and July 8 for Vereen's album, Vereen announces on his Twitter account.

Noted Broadway actors Sean Palmer and Sarah Litzsinger are headed to Fort Worth for Casa Mañana's production of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, July 23 - 29 at Bass Performance Hall.

Casting for the London production of FELA! has been announced, Grace Notes reports. As previously reported on BroadwayWorld, the production will star Sahr Ngaujah, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway production, as Nigerian composer and activist Fela Kuti. The production will also star Paulette Ivory and Melanie Marshall.

Hampstead Theatre's new Artistic Director, Edward Hall, announces his first season at the London venue. In an opening season of provocative and potent ideas from both emerging and established artists, Hampstead plans to celebrate originality, wit, and spirit and to ask critical questions about how we live today.

The Tudor City Greens Concert series will continue on July 6 at 12pm with 'A Child's Garden of Verse: Songs By, About, For, and With Children,' the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC) has announced. The concert will be hosted by Raissa Katona Bennett, whose credits include THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and CHESS.

Jane Lynch is to guest star on Nickelodeon's 'iCarly,' Entertainment Weekly reports. Lynch is to play the frequently mentioned mother of Sam (Jennette McCurdy) in a Season Four episode. The episode is to be filmed next week. Lynch's real-life stepdaughter is a great fan of 'iCarly,' Entertainment Weekly reports.

NBC will air the new anthology comedy 'Love Bites' at midseason, due to casting issues, USA Today reports. Actress Becki Newton ('Ugly Betty') is pregnant; Vernon Sanders, executive vice president of current programming, says that in the show's pilot, 'she plays a virgin, so we have to make adjustments to that.' In addition, actress Jordana Spiro is leaving the show, due to conflicts with her role on 'My Boys.' Cindy Chupack has also stepped now from her role as executive producer, although she will write for the show, USA Today reports.

As previously reported on BroadwayWorld, Ireland's Abbey Theatre will present Ibsen's JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN from October 6 to November 20 in a production starring Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, and Lindsay Duncan. The Theatre's official website has now announced that the production will be brought to New York in January 2011. A New York venue has yet to be announced.