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While Ryan Seacrest hosts IDOL GIVES BACK from the AMERICAN IDOL stage in Los Angeles, Queen Latifah will join the celebration as emcee live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, an additional venue sponsored by ExxonMobil, Wednesday, April 21 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. This year, IDOL GIVES BACK will feature performances and appearances by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, The Black Eyed Peas, Annie Lennox and Jeff Beck.

VH1 and Shed Media are teaming up again with the new series Football Wives, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the glamorous life of the better halves of professional football's most elite players. Production will begin immediately. The eight-episode 30-minute series is set to premiere later this year.

Warner Bros. and New Line will release 'Sex and the City 2' in theaters on May 28, 2010.

Sydney Theatre Company and Allens Arthur Robinson present Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith. The production, playing Sydney Opera House's Drama Theatre, has just announced that it will extend its run through 29 May. Previews begin 17 April, and the show will open Thursday 22 April at 8pm.

Career Transition For Dancers is proud to announce an additional gift for The Sono Osato Scholarship Program for Graduate Studies. Through the generosity of Ms. Osato, her scholarship program is now endowed for a total of $1.25 million. This $250,000 gift is a one-to-one matching grant for the 25th Anniversary Silver Jubilee year of CTFD, with half toward the scholarship program and the other half for general operating.

The acclaimed 24th Street Theatre presents its annual Saturday Explorer Series, designed to bring cutting-edge performance artists to young audiences. The weekly afternoon series offers a great opportunity for parents to share first-class art with their kids. This year, 24th Street Theatre explores music and dance from around the world: sometimes whimsical; sometimes provocative; always excellent!

MotorCity Casino Hotel is proud to announce LUDACRIS "Battle of the Sexes" at Sound Board on Friday, September 10 at 8:00 p.m.

METRO RETRO AT STREET GAMES 2010 will be presented Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.. A rain date is schedule for Sunday, April 18, 2010.

The Role in the Hay Players return in Whose Barn is it Anyway? April 17th at 8pm

The Shelterbelt Theatre is pleased to announce auditions for the premier of Mountain Birds by Maddie Radcliff.

Honesty is the best Policy? Cheaters never win? Not if you are the trickster Brer Rabbit! That rascally rabbit outwits all the other forest creatures on a daily basis and sure enough, they are hopping mad about it!

Patrick Healy of The New York Times discusses the critical reviews of new musical The Addams Family and their impact on the box office.

The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston have joined forces for the first time to create Emerging America - an annual festival devoted to supporting and launching new voices in American theatre. From May 14 through 16, Emerging America brings some of the country's most promising performers, writers, companies and directors to Boston for a weekend filled with energy, imagination, creativity and drama.

Broadway veteren Hugh Jackman is set to appear alongside Alicia Silverstone and Jennifer Garner in new film 'Butter.' Mike DeLuca and Garner will produce the film. The Weinstein Company comedy features a screenplay by Jason Micallef and will be directed by Jim Field Smith.

Angela Lansbury, the great star of stage, film, and television, was honored April 12 with the first annual Stephen Sondheim Award, given by Virginia's Signature Theatre at a black-tie Gala Benefit at the Embassy of Italy. The Sondheim Award, established by Signature last year in the name of America's most influential contemporary musical theater writer and composer, was presented to the actress by Mr. Sondheim himself.

Rickey Minor of American Idol will take as music director of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The announcement from NBC follows news that current music director Kevin Eubanks will depart the show May 28.

LNT@the Alley, Beowulf Alley's Late Night Theatre, 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown between Broadway and Congress, presents La Llorona/Medea adapted from Euripides by Tomas Ulises-Soto and Michael Fenlason. Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays, June 4, 5, 11 & 12 at 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 cash at the door. For additional information, please call (520) 977-5218. Tickets are $8 cash at the door.

Beowulf Alley Theatre will present a staged reading of Warren G. Bodow's play, Fronting the Order on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 7:15 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Admission is by donation. Beowulf Alley Theatre is located at 11 South 6th Avenue (downtown between Broadway and Congress). For more information, please refer to the website, www.beowulfalley.org or call the theatre at (520) 882-0555.

LNT@the Alley, Beowulf Alley Theatre's late night program, presents Grendel's Mom, an evening of sketch comedy. Performances are on Friday and Saturday April 23rd, 24th, 30th and May 1st at 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 cash at the door. The theatre is located at 11 South 6th Avenue, Downtown between Broadway and Congress, For additional information, please call (520) 977-5218.

The hilarious, new musical comedy, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, based on the Oscar-nominated smash hit 1974 film, is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks. Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley reprise the roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster in this hilarious new monster musical playing the Golden Gate Theatre June 30 - July 25, 2010.