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Following up the record-breaking production of Disney's High School Musical presented at The Rose last summer, Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay and the rest of the Wildcat gang will return for the sequel. Featuring a cast of 45 and directed by acclaimed New York director Rob Urbinati, The Rose's production of Disney's High School Musical 2 will be presented June 4-20, 2010.

The McLean Community Center of McLean, Virginia will be hosting various events this summer.

The Rose Theatre of Kingston, UK and Kingston Adult Education recently joined forces to offer Rose volunteers the opportunity to complete a Level 2 National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) in customer service. Those who took the opportunity are now celebrating having passed the course before National Volunteers Week, which runs from June 1 to June 7.

Charlotte, North Carolina's Actor's Crib, Inc. will begin its next set of four week improvisational theatre basic workshops on June 7 and June 10 at 7pm.

In June, jazz singer Taeko will perform two shows to celebrate the release of her new CD, 'Voice.' The first will be on June 11 at the Polish National Home, 60 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut. The second will be on June 16 at the Kitano, 66 Park Avenue at 38th Street, New York, New York. The show will feature songs written by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Marvin Gaye, Duke Ellington, Stanley Turrentine, and Taeko.

'Nightmare,' the new single from Southern California's Avenged Sevenfold, is the Number One Most Added track at Active Rock Radio in the United States this week. It is also the Number One Rock Song on iTunes in the United States, selling over 23,666 units in its first day, as well as the Number One Rock Song on iTunes in the United Kingdom. 'Nightmare' premiered via a Youtube 'Lyric' Video that received over 275,000 plays in 24 hours on the band's official website, www.avengedsevenfold.com.

From June 9 to June 26, Ladidagroup will present Who Ate All The Pies?, a modern musical football fable, at the Tristan Bates Theatre in central London. During its strictly limited run, which coincides with the season of the World Cup in South Africa, the musical will play a variety of performance times.

In late June, Hope Cartelli from Piper McKenzie (the creators of the recent Fight Fest hit Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury) and Eric Bland of Old Kent Road Theater (Death at Film Forum published in the NYTE anthology Plays and Playwrights 2009) will present the world premiere of Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester, which follows Jeannine and several of her peers over three months in New York City, during which time they exist with one another and Jeannine has an abortion.

On June 5, the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York will open two new exhibtions to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary: 'The View from Here: Storm King at Fifty' and '5+5: New Perspectives.'

On July 24, the Hudson Stage Company of Croton on Hudson, New York, will host its annual gala fundraiser, 'Divas on Hudson.' The event will be hosted on a Hudson River property in Montrose. It will be tented rain or shine and will have seating available, in addition to expansive grounds for picnicking. The evening will feature a sunset concert with Broadway singers, a silent auction, wine and cheese, dessert, coffee and the view. Performers at past events have included Audra McDonald, Ann Hampton Callaway, Lauren Kennedy, Liz Callaway, Barbara Walsh, and Shoshana Bean.

On May 20 at 8:30pm at the Cornelia Street Cafe, Gnu Vox will present 'Bulletproof: An Evening With Trish LaRose.' LaRose, whose favorite credits include URBAN COWBOY (national tour), DIRTY BLONDE, URINETOWN, and THE ROSE TATOO, will sing tunes based heavily in the pop/R&B genre without entirely forgetting her musical theatre roots, sharing her personal journey with the audience. She will be accompanied by Brandon Sturiale on piano. David Devoe will be the host, and the cover will be $10.

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former 'Borscht Belt' singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s.

The Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) is proud to announce casting for its production of Peter Pan. Directed by Mark S. Hoebee with choreography by Patti Colombo, Peter Pan will run at the Millburn Theater from June 2 through June 27, 2010. The production will open for the press on June 6. Peter Pan is generously supported by a gift from Allen and Joan Bildner and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

On May 21 and May 22 at 7:30pm, the Oddfellows Playhouse in Middletown, Connecticut will present their Spring Circus Celebration: A Teen Circus Double Bill. The show will feature six new acts by members of the Connecticut School of Circus Arts at Oddfellows Playhouse, followed by the premiere of the Oddfellows Playhouse Traveling Circus' new show 'Spring!'

The Eighth Annual Russian Heritage Festival will begin its month long celebration of Russian culture in New York on Sunday June 6 from 11am to 5pm with a free outdoor festival featuring Russian foods, arts, crafts, music and dance performances at Seaside/Asser Levy Park (corner of Ocean Parkway and Seabreeze Ave.) in Brooklyn. One of the highlights of the day will be a live performance by Tatiana Ovsienko, one of Russia's most popular pop stars. A popular, annual event for people of all ages, the Russian Heritage festival will feature performances by numerous youth groups in the New York metropolitan area, performing traditional music, song and dance and wearing traditional costumes showing the diverse heritage of countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia.

On May 25 at 10am, Obie and Drama Desk award-winning Broadway actress Kathleen Chalfant will deliver the keynote address at The Cooper Union's 151st Commencement. Chalfant has performed in major productions in New York, Los Angeles and London. Well known to audiences for her portrayal of Vivian Bearing in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, Ms. Chalfant received the Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League Award and Los Angeles Ovation Award, among others, for her performance. Among her numerous honors, she was acclaimed for her Tony-nominated performance as Hannah Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches on Broadway and received her second Obie Award for her performance in Talking Heads. In 1996, Chalfant made her Shakespearean debut in the Public Theater's Henry V, for which she received that year's Calloway Award for Best Classical Performance.

On May 21 from 7-11pm, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem will hold an evening of jazz, swing, and dancing at the Dwyer Cultural Center at 258 St. Nicholas Avenue at 123rd Street (between St. Nicholas and Frederick Douglass Boulevard).

Jersey City's Art House Productions's Production of THE CONSTANT NEVER, directed by Christine Goodman and billed as 'a new multimedia adventure play,' will close on May 22. Before the closing, there will be performances on May 20, May 21 (a sign language interpreted performance), and May 22, all at 8pm.

The Grammy®-winning Nashville Symphony has been invited to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall in 2012 as part of the Spring for Music festival, a high-profile celebration of adventuresome programming among leading North American orchestras. The festival's organizers announced today that the Symphony is one of six ensembles scheduled to perform at Spring for Music's second annual event, which will take place May 7-12, 2012. The Nashville Symphony's Saturday-evening performance at Carnegie Hall will conclude the six-day festival.

The Antaeus Company, Los Angeles's classical theater ensemble, will open ClassicsFest 2010 with King Lear, its first full production of a Shakespeare play. Bart DeLorenzo will direct King Lear with renowned scholar, actor, and Antaeus founding artistic director Dakin Matthews and Broadway veteran/three-time Tony nominee Harry Groener heading two fully double-cast ensembles. Two gala openings, one with each cast, will take place on Saturday, June 26 at 8 pm and Sunday, June 27 at 4 pm, with performances continuing through August 8 at Antaeus' interim home, Deaf West Theatre in the NoHo Arts District. Low-priced previews will begin June 12.