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Off Off Broadzway, the burlesque-parody all-female sketch comedy troupe, presents Day Drinking and Sleep Eating, their 'gleefully inappropriate revue.'

The Utah Cultural Celebration Center presents this interactive art and science exhibition in partnership with the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah, The Utah Division of Arts and Museums, and Curators Blake Wigdahl and Dave Stroud of Thanksgiving Point.

Meet Mike Faist, playing Morris Delancey in Disney's newest Broadway production, NEWSIES, in the video below!

Pride Films and Plays announces that five finalists have been named in the 2012 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest, as PFP continues to explore 'What's New and Who's Next' in LGBT film and theater. The finalists are: At The Flash, by Sean Chandler and David Leeper, Woodland Hills, CA Lost in History, by Adam Siegel, Maplewood, NJ Hello Norma Jeane, by Dylan Costello, London, UK Mr. Teddy, by George Smart, Quincy, MA Under A Rainbow Flag, a new musical, by Leo Schwartz, Chicago, IL Check out the event photos below!

Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Different River - a new work composed by Alvin Singleton and commissioned by Mr. Spano and the Orchestra - May 10, 11, and 12, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. Guest pianist Leon Bates will join the Orchestra for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and the program will also include Copland's Symphony No. 3, which is most famous for its finale that quotes the Fanfare for the Common Man.

Over 20 years in the making, singer songwriter Glen Hansard will release his first ever solo album, Rhythm and Repose, on Anti- Records June 19. Best known for his work with The Frames, The Swell Season and in the feature film Once, for which he won an Academy Award, Rhythm and Repose is Hansard's debut solo album and first album of new material since his 2009 release Strict Joy with The Swell Season. The album will be available for pre-sale at the Anti Store. In recent months Hansard has been seen in the documentary The Swell Season which has toured the film festival circuit this year, contributed two songs to the blockbuster soundtrack, The Hunger Games, and been active in the promotion of Once, The Musical which successfully opened on Broadway on March 18. Hansard will support the new record on a U.S. tour. See reverse for details.

It's not easy being a superhero- or the teenage daughter of a single mom. In Team of Heroes: Behind Closed Doors poor Melissa is both. Good thing she has a way with floating knives. Team of Heroes: Behind Closed Doors is a prequel to Alecto: Issue #1, one of the most popular shows in Annex Theatre's 25 year history. The story moves back and forth in time, telling both the story of the Team of Heroes and their first encounter with supervillian Chaos Theory, and the story of teenaged Melissa, who will grow up to become Madame Mayhem.

Ponty's glowing voice transforms her signature piano style on Into the Light (Harmonia Mundi; U.S. release: April 10, 2012), a tribute to happiness and the authenticity it demands. Ponty brings a gentle energy to upbeat, jazz-inflected pieces. Her voice floats over sunny brass, lively bass, and a distinctively nimble, smart touch on the keys.

Thanks to the success of the first Trivia Night, Cortland Repertory Theatre has planned "Trivia Night: Part Two - The Sequel" for Thursday, April 19th as a fundraiser for the 2012 Season and for renovations to CRT Downtown. This event will be held in a new location, upstairs at the Dark Horse Tavern, 96 Main Street in Cortland. The doors will open at 6:30 PM, with the contest beginning at 7:00 PM.

Ask anyone who grew up in this country in the last 75 years or more to name the most seductive older woman in their movie memory and I'll bet you'll find Mrs. Robinson's name at the top of that list. She has become an American icon, immortalized not only in Mike Nichols brilliant movie but in the words of Paul Simon's eponymous song. Now Mrs. Robinson is donning those famous heels and heading over to Ivoryton for the Ivoryton Playhouse's production of The Graduate, opening on April 18 - May 6th.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art today unveiled the 2012-13 season of Met Museum Presents, its newly-renamed series of performances and talks. This is the first full season to be programmed by Concerts & Lectures General Manager Limor Tomer, who assumed her post at the Met in July 2011. The program offers interpretations of and reflections on the Museum's collection, special exhibitions, and tradition through the work of some of today's most celebrated composers and performing artists.

Lyric's Thelma Gaylord Academy presents its 2012 spring semester productions of SWEENEY TODD, SCHOOL EDITION performing April 26 through 28, DISNEY'S ALADDIN JR., performing May 4 and 5, and RoKademY's THEO AND THE MAGIC ROAD performing May 26 on the stage of Lyric's Plaza Theatre on 16th Street.

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre brought home eight awards at the April 2 ceremony for the 36th annual Carbonell Awards, South Florida's equivalent of the Tony Awards®. With a ceremony held at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, the Theatre garnered the most awards of any of the South Florida nominees, surpassing winning theaters in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties. By show, the Theatre earned five awards for Crazy For You (including best musical), one for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and one for The Sound of Music.

In THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL, sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. Lucifer and his colorful cast of singing carnies guide these lost souls through their wild, warped amusement park. Check out the trailer for the soundtrack - now available - below!

Some 180 examples of the very earliest works of Egyptian art-created in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, around 4400 B.C.-2649 B.C. (the end of Dynasty 2) from throughout Egypt-will be featured in the exhibition The Dawn of Egyptian Art, opening April 10, 2012, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Outstanding examples of sculpture, painting, and relief from the collections of the Metropolitan and 11 other museums in the United States and Europe have been gathered for this presentation.

After sell-out seasons in the UK and the USA, Scotland's smash hit musical rom-com, MIDSUMMER (A PLAY WITH SONGS), arrives at La Boite next Tuesday following a run at the Sydney Opera House. Check out the promotional video with audience interviews below!

Conceived and Directed by Shane Scheel and Christopher Lloyd Bratten, For The Record: Coen Brothers begins Thursday, April 5 and runs until Sunday, April 29. Weekly performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9PM and Sunday at 8PM. For ticket information please call (323) 661-6163 (ext 20) or visit www.fortherecordlive.com.

Inspired by recent insight from Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper (ASDS MFA'00), Jennifer Aniston, James Franco, the casts of Mad Men, Glee and Modern Family, as well as other distinguished celebrity guests of their craft class - Dean Emeritus James Lipton's Inside The Actors Studio - a new generation of performers and creators have taken the stage at The Theatre at Dance New Amsterdam for a five-week Repertory Season, March 28 - April 28, 2012.

Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and recording artist Leslie Uggams (On Golden Pond, King Headley II, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, Jerry's Girls, Her First Roman, Hallelujah, Baby! and television's Roots) has launched her new CD Uptown Downtown, now available online at CDBaby.com. This 2-CD cast album includes 21 tracks (24 songs) from her one-woman autobiographical musical that charts her career from Harlem (Uptown) to Broadway (Downtown), and everywhere in between.

After picking up their BEST PRODUCTION awards (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Garland, and Ovation) Rogue Machine proudly returns, with over 45 award nominations, offering four plays never before seen in Los Angeles.