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GLAAD Media Award recipients were announced in 29 of this year's 41 media categories at the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented by IBM and Prudential at New York's Marriott Marquis on Saturday night.

Dates have been announced for the Washington, D.C., engagement of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the National Theatre. The musical will make its D.C. premiere on October 1, 2009, and play through December 12.

The Lyric Hammersmith production of Spring Awakening transferred to the Novello Theatre on Saturday 21 March 2009. The record-breaking run at the Lyric Hammersmith, a raft of five star reviews, and the overwhelming response from sell-out audiences propelled the European premiere production of the Tony Award-winning musical to London's West End.

Company is described as 'on the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state. In vignette after hilarious vignette, we are introduced to his married friends as Robert weighs the pros and cons of married life'.

As Houston's major presenter of the performing arts, Society for the Performing Arts (SPA) announces a 2009-2010 season filled with engaging performances by the world's best musicians and dancers with an eye on affordable tickets. For the 2009-2010 season, SPA will pay particular tribute to the living legends of the American musical theater, world music and contemporary dance. Stephen Sondheim, the single most important composer/lyricist to work in American musical theater during the second half of the 20th century, headlines the season in an evening of conversation with New York Times columnist and former chief drama critic Frank Rich. The music of Hollywood and Broadway come to life with composer Marvin Hamlisch and actor Joel Grey in concert!

The New York Post's Stefanie Cohen reports that television shows shot in New York will be going away if lawmakers don't allow for film and television industry tax breaks in the new state budget.

The Associated Press reports that 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year' grabbed top honors at Saturday's Kids' Choice Awards. The Disney musical was selected as the favorite movie by audience votes at the 22nd annual slime-filled Nickelodeon spectacle held inside UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. 'High School Musical' star Vanessa Hudgens was also selected as the favorite movie actress.

MTC MainStage Studio Theatre presents 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill' by Lanie Robertson. Starring Gayle Samuels from Broadway's 'Dreamgirls,' Dancin',' and 'Sunset Blvd.' as Billie Holiday, the show runs April 24 - May 3, 2009. Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 4pm and 8pm, Sundays at 3pm.

The Actors Studio Drama School presents its Inaugural Repertory Season at Pace University, designed to introduce our graduating students to the professional world and the public in fully-professional productions of the work they have created during their three years of study. Here you will witness a weekly series of scenes, one-act plays and full-length plays, some of them written by our playwrights, and all of them directed by our directors and acted by our actors.

When is anyone morally sanctioned to take another's life? Is redemption possible for anyone who has committed the sin of murder? These questions lie at the heart of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment-the classic, celebrated Russian novel of motive and murder, perhaps the greatest and most insightful crime story ever written. Thrillingly adapted for only three actors, this absorbing and highly theatrical drama will unfold in a heart-stopping 90 minutes at the Jungle Theater, March 27 - May 3.

BBC AMERICA will premiere two shows featuring actor, John Barrowman this evening. Best known to U.S. audiences as Captain Jack in BBC AMERICA's top rated series, Torchwood, Barrowman brings his musical theatre expertise to Any Dream Will Do and reveals his personal journey in The Making of Me.

Producer Allision Ferrier has announced the upcoming Off-Broadway production of BRANDT REITER's new drama END OF PLAY, which will begin performances on April 17th, 2009. END OF PLAY is a thirteen-character drama about Theatre, Hollywood and the cost of dreams. When industry outcast Jack Wells abandons his NYU teaching post for Los Angeles to support his young girlfriend's fledgling career, he finds himself caught between the depth of her ambition and his own tarnished soul.

The Directors Company production of Irena's Vow, the new play by Dan Gordon, starring four-time Tony nominee, and three-time Drama Desk Award-winner Tovah Feldshuh, and directed by Michael Parva, opens on Broadway tonight, Sunday, March 29th at 6:30 pm.

Theatre Tulsa, in cooperation with Clark Theatre, presents Bel Kaufmans 'Up the Down Staircase', the production has cancelled tonights performance due to weather conditions below is a statement from the theatre:

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports that renowned UK singer and performer John Barrowman is in early negotiations to put on a sequinned gown, high heels and false eyelashes for the West End show La Cage aux Folles.

Hosted by WABC-7 News Anchor Lori Stokes and Tony Award winner & ACCENT ON YOUTH star David Hyde Pierce, WABC is set to bring viewers on a sneak peek at Broadway's upcoming and newest shows including, 33 VARIATIONS, ACCENT ON YOUTH, EXIT THE KING, GOD OF CARNAGE, IMPRESSIONISM, MARY STUART, THE NORMAN CONQUESTS, THE PHILANTHROPIST, WAITING FOR GODOT.

Variety is reporting that stage and screen actress Kathy Bates will star in football drama 'The Blind Side' opposite Sandra Bullock with John Lee Hancock directing from his own script. Warner Bros.-based Alcon Entertainment is financing and producing reports the trade paper. Gil Netter's producing along with Alcon co-toppers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove while Molly Smith, Erwin Stoff and Tim Bourne will exec produce.

Actor/Singer/Songwriters D.C. Anderson (currently on stage as 'Andre' in the National Tour of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA) and Geoff Packard (currently on stage as 'George Willard' in WINESBURG, OHIO at Kansas City Rep) will perform an evening of their original songs at the UNICORN THEATRE at 3828 Main St. in Kansas City, Missouri on FRIDAY, APRIL 3 at 11:00 p.m.

West Side Story is back on Broadway in a new production directed by its two-time Tony Award winning librettist Arthur Laurents. West Side Story opened at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway) on Thursday, March 19, 2009.

The Miami Herald reports that the hapless group of out-of-town actors, stranded in a rented Wilton Manors house after their theatrical production was canceled this week, have received a needed helping hand from Miami real estate developer and arts patron Tony Goldman on Friday.