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If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one's model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She - a singing, songwriting, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player - is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything ever heard before. She changes what seems possible.

Gordon Greenberg, Co-Creator and Director of Pirates! (or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd) describes the themes behind this 2012 Muny production in part one of his conversation with Mike Isaacson. Watch the video below!

Young Hollywood takes you backstage at the Ahmanson Theatre and behind the scenes of the rockin' musical, 'American Idiot', based on the Grammy-winning Green Day album of the same name! Stars Van Hughes and Jake Epstein rest their pipes and sit down with us to talk about the show's amazing run and success -- hear how Van went from stand-in to leading man, and Jake shares a specific pitfall of spending the entire show on stage! Hosted by Lesley Robins. Check out the behind the scenes video below!

Mindy Young likes to do imaginative and energetic family shows that children will love but adults will also find witty and appealing. As a guest director for the SCERA Center for the Arts, she believes she has found it with Disney's "My Son Pinocchio," complete with the beloved songs from the Disney film but given even more charm and sophistication with a score of original songs by Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz. Check out production photos below!

Guests will embark on a first-class virtual excursion to the four corners of the globe at Virginia Stage Company's 2012 Spring Gala "All The World's A Stage," on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Benefits from the evening will proceed VSC's CULTIVATE programs, which bring arts experiences to over 40,000 school children throughout Southeastern Virginia and into North Carolina each year

The Staten Island Children's Museum welcomes Disney's Phineas & Ferb for a visit, a song and a dance! First, children will enjoy a fun, interactive scientific presentation all about oobleck, that squishy, jiggly polymer that finds its way into so many cartoon adventures, then meet, greet and dance with Phineas & Ferb, Live!

ROBYN SPANGLER brings her award winning show "Why I Love Linda Ronstadt" to Davenports on April 19 at 8:00 pm with Musical Director Jeff Roscoe and Patrick Williams on the bass.

The Guthrie Theater, now in previews for the critically acclaimed play Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, welcomed the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to the final rehearsal and first preview last weekend, Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7. This marks the first time that a production of Margulies' work has been staged at the Guthrie. Check out the photos of the playwright at rehearsals below!

Legendary film director Peter Bogdanovich attended FREUD'S LAST SESSION at New World Stages this past Saturday, April 7th to see George Morfogen and Jim Stanek, who recently joined the production as Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis respectively. FREUD'S LAST SESSION is the winner of the 2011 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play and additional productions are already set to open into 2013 in major markets across the nation and around the world. Check out the photo of Bogdanovich below!

Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel have announced the 2012 Summer movie lineup. The 10 film slate begins with 'Notes From the Heart Healer' on Sunday, May 13 at 8:00/7:00c. Read the full lineup below.

The Magic Castle will be featured tonight (April 10th) on NBC's smash hit 'The Voice.' Coach CeeLo Green brings his team of vocalists for a visit to The Magic Castle to learn a lesson on showmanship, character & flair from two surprise and famous magician guests, Penn and Teller.

TLC today announced that is has scheduled the premiere of the all-new series MY BIG FAT AMERICAN GYPSY WEDDING - going inside the hidden world of American Gypsies - for Sunday, April 29 at 10/9c. Each of the series' 8 episodes will explore the tight-knit Gypsy community, offering up unprecedented access to their lives, welcoming viewers into their homes and trailers, and inviting them to their infamous Swarovski Crystal-studded weddings. Building on the worldwide success of the UK series MY BIG FAT GYPSY WEDDING, TLC will now go across the United States to share what it's like to be living as a Gypsy in America.

Currently playing at the Oriental Theatre, FELA! has entered its final week of performances with Broadway in Chicago. Two of the lead actors from the touring production of the Broadway musical stopped by at ABC 7's studios for a special performance. Watch the video of the performance below!

Three Cat Productions celebrates Barbra Streisand's 70th birthday with its fifth annual "Bab Fab: A Barbra Streisand Celebration" at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 24 at the Wilmette Theatre, covering her career from the early Greenwich Village days to the present.

This Thursday, April 12thh, Broadway Sessions in association with TheBestArts.com will feature the 2012 graduating MT class from University of Cincinatti- CCM as well as performances from CCM alums.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents An Evening with Yanni on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 8:00 p.m., at the Benedum Center. This concert is part of the Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents series. In 2012, Yanni brings his tour to North America, followed by a South American tour in the fall, and a multi-city tour of China in 2013. The concert will feature Yanni and his world-class musicians and vocalists performing many selections from his extensive music career.

Theatre in the Round Players (TRP) continues its 60th Anniversary Season as the longest-running theatre in Minneapolis with Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers in weekend performances April 20 through May 13.

Due to high ticket demand, Freud's Last Session is extending its run at Taproot Theatre through April 28, giving audiences an additional week to see this award winning play.

Symbolic Collection, one of the world's greatest collections of twentieth-century pop culture, will present a collection of fine art works by music icon and Rolling Stones band member Ronnie Wood in a worldwide exhibit entitled Faces, Time and Places, to premiere on Monday, 9 April 2012 for three months through Saturday, 30 June 2012 at 498 Broome Street at West Broadway in New York City. Check out the excusive photos of Wood below!

The Bronx Opera invites you to follow the famed mischievous brother and sister into Ilsenstein forest and meet the echoing trees, the little Sandman, the 14 angels of protection, the little Dew Fairy, and emerge in front of the enormous gingerbread house and meet the evil Rosine Leckermaul ('Rosina Tastymuzzle'), the evil witch that turns children into gingerbread in this classic Humperdinck opera based on the famed Brother Grimm story.