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Pillsbury House Theatre presents the World Premiere of PA'S HAT: LIBERIAN LEGACY by Cori Thomas and directed by Marion McClinton. The cast features Ansa Akyea, Namir Smallwood, Regina Marie Williams, and Bruce A. Young. Performances run Wednesdays through Sundays, May 28, 2010 through June 27, 2010. Tickets are $10 - $20. Performances take place on the Pillsbury House Theatre Mainstage at 3501 Chicago Avenue South in Minneapolis.

We are so pleased to announce that Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) has been awarded a $30,000 Challenge Grant from Houston Endowment, a philanthropic foundation established by Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones in 1937. It is one of the region's largest and most respected funders and is a private foundation that exists to improve the lives of people in the Greater Houston Area.

Bundy will perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Thursday, April 29. According to her twitter, she will sing 'Boyfriend?' on the episode. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Captain Sig Hansen will also appear.

HANSON is proud to announce the first two legs of their North American tour in support of their highly anticipated fifth record, Shout It Out.

Upcoming Guests On The 'LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN' ON CBS

The new season of TV Land's PRIME original series 'How'd You Get So Rich?' is back and better than ever as the notoriously uncensored Joan Rivers explores the fabulous and fascinating lives of the mega-rich. The 30-minute series premieres on Wednesday, May 5 at 10 p.m. ET/PT featuring Joan's visit with her friend, real estate mogul Donald Trump, who advises on how to make millions, as well as John Paul DeJoria who created Paul Mitchell Hair products and now also owns Patron Tequila.

The Big Bang Theory: Episode 3.23: The Lunar Excitation

With 28,000 auditions, 18 million video views and 85 million gold stars already given to the hopefuls, the response to the GLEE open casting call on MySpace has been so overwhelming that the submission window is being extended by one day starting today, Wednesday, April 28 at 12:00 PM PST, and closing tomorrow, Thursday, April 29 at 11:59 AM PST. Now even more amateur and professional performers will have the opportunity to submit an audition video exclusively on MySpace at myspace.com/gleeauditions. That means if you haven't submitted your audition video yet, then you still have time!

Dean's motorcycle crash may lead to a McDermott-Spelling marriage collapse in an all-new episode of Oxygen's "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," on Monday, May 3 at 10pm ET/PT. Tori is fed up with Dean's dangerous behavior and the couple reaches a crisis point during the biggest fight of their marriage.

Coming Up On DATELINE 4/30-5/2

'LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY' Announces Guests 4/28-5/10

NBC's renewed vocal-competition series 'The Sing-Off' will be traveling to four U.S. cities in May in search of the most talented a capella singing groups to compete for a chance at a Sony Music recording contract. Auditions will take place in New York City (May 22), Nashville (May 29), Chicago (May 31) and Los Angeles (June 5).

Syfy and Columbia University School of the Arts today announced the creation of the Syfy Imagine Greater Development Award, which will be awarded to the top student filmmaker in the Columbia University School of Arts Graduate Film Program whose project best exemplifies creativity and imagination.

NBC, Donald J. Trump and Paula M. Shugart, President of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO), announced today that Curtis Stone, internationally-renowned chef and current 'Celebrity Apprentice' contestant and 'Today' show co-host and correspondent Natalie Morales, will host NBC's '2010 Miss USA(R) Pageant.' The 59th-annual competition will be broadcast live from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 16 (7-9 p.m. ET). The telecast will feature performances by multi-platinum country music superstar Trace Adkins and pop rock band Boys Like Girls (BLG), as well as color commentary by Joan and Melissa Rivers.

Once again improving its new earlier 8pm time period against Fox's American Idol, ABC's DWTS the Results Show outdrew NBC's Biggest Loser by 5.9 million viewers (12.2 million vs. 6.3 million) in the hour and tied the NBC program among Adults 18-49 (2.3/7). ABC's most-recent star of The Bachelor, Jake Pavelka was the 5th celebrity dancer eliminated from the contest this season. The dancing results program generated huge year-to-year gains in the hour for ABC, over the year-ago night with original programming, boosting the slot by +8.9 million viewers and by +130% in Adults 18-49 (3.3 million and 1.0/3 with originals of According to Jim). In fact on average among Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, DWTS the Results Show is delivering ABC's strongest performance in the time period against American Idol in 7 years - since 2003.

Monday night's 9PM season two finale of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' took home the crown as Logo's highest-rated telecast, averaging a .8 in the P18-49 demo. This was also Logo's most watched telecast ever, drawing in 633,000 total viewers who witnessed Tyra Sanchez as she was named 'America's Next Drag Superstar.'

Dr. Drew Pinsky announced today the formation of Dr. Drew Productions, which will be based in Los Angeles and focus on high-quality reality television projects featuring Dr. Drew as well as other talent. Pinsky will partner with long-time manager Howard Lapides on this project. Lapides will be the managing partner.

Cartoon Network premiered two new original action-adventure animated series on Friday, April 23, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (8 p.m.) and Generator Rex (8:30 p.m.) that ranked #1 on all television in their time periods among boys 6-11 and boys 9-14, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research. Additionally, Generator Rex ranked #1 in its timeslot on all TV among kids 2-11. Both new series also earned powerful triple-digit ratings and delivery gains vs. the same time period in 2009. These outstanding premiere performances have prompted the network to order 32 additional episodes of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and 20 new episodes of Generator Rex. Both series are produced at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, CA.

Only three weeks remain to see the Southern California premiere of acclaimed playwright Julie Marie Myatt's intense look at returning home from war, Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter, that runs through May 16 at Chance Theater.

CENTERSTAGE announces the winners of the 24th Annual Young Playwrights Festival. Honorees will workshop their plays for three days with professional theater artists, which leads up to staged reading of the plays at the Festival on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. Additional applicants will have a workshop and reading of their play at their school; others receive an honorable mention.