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Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Maria Rosario Jackson as a member of the National Council on the Arts.

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Inc. (MCCE) presents the third concert in its 2011-12 residency at The Staten Island Museum on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 8pm. The evening features works by MCCE's 2011-12 composer-in-residence Andrew Rosciszewski, MCCE's Composer Search Finalist 2012 Elizabeth Nonemaker, Claude Debussy, Manuel De Falla, Alan Hovhaness, Henryk Gorecki and Francis Poulenc performed in a cabaret-style setting by MCCE members Tamara Keshecki (flute), Amanda Romano (harp), Elizabeth McCullough (soprano) and Wen-Yi Lo (piano). The performance will be livestreamed from www.mcensemble.org via Justin.TV and MCCE will field questions during via Twitter and Facebook.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE) continues its 25th Anniversary Season with BTE Associate Artistic Director Amelia Barrett's staging of Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom's "Tuesdays with Morrie" at the MAC at College of DuPage, May 4 - 27. A preview will be held Thursday, May 3 at 8 p.m.

Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Jeff Goldblum (The Pillowman, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'), Justin Long (He's Just Not That Into You, The Break Up, Live Free or Die Hard, Dodgeball, 'Ed'), and Zoe Lister-Jones (The Little Dog Laughed, The Marriage of Bette and Boo) will join the cast of the Broadway comedy SEMINAR, by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Peabody Award winner Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, Omnium Gatherum, 'NYBD Blue,' NBC's new hit series 'Smash') beginning Tuesday, April 3. The new cast just met the press, and BroadwayWorld was there for the big event! Check out video with full coverage below!

Quintessence Theatre Group celebrates its second birthday with a special recitation of Shakespeare's erotic poem VENUS AND ADONIS with Josh Carpenter, Joy Farmer-Clary and Connor Hammond, April 5th - 7th at the Sedgwick Theater. To purchase tickets, visit www.QuintessenceTheatre.org or call 1.877.238.5596.

WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin and Derek Blount, President of the Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Megan Steinbach as Co-Chair of the Corporate Council (with Derek Blount). Ms. Steinbach is a Vice-President in Frost Bank's Corporate Lending Group.

It is fifty years since THE BEATLES released their first single 'Love Me Do' in October 1962. To celebrate, London's Prince of Wales Theatre will welcome LET IT BE, a new West End production featuring more than twenty of The Beatles' greatest hits for a limited season from September 2012.

Madonna's upcoming tour will stop at Madison Square Garden on November 10. The tour, which launches in May, will also include performances at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, Air Canada Center in Toronto, United Center in Chicago, Verizon Center in Washington DC, KayArena in Seattle, the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, MJM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, and several other venues in the U.S.

Greg MacKellan and Stephanie Rhoads, artistic and producing directors of 42nd Street Moon, today announced details for the company's 20th Anniversary Season of musical theater: Moon Goes Platinum! It will be celebrated with five diverse comedies - all first-time productions for the organization, including a political comedy, romantic comedy, singing satire, a comedy-drama and a no-holds-barred farce.

Travel back to 1958 to Springfield High School and meet the Wonderettes, four girls from the song leading squad who step up to perform at their senior prom. As last minute replacements, Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy rename themselves 'The Marvelous Wonderettes,' and rally together to entertain their classmates in four-part harmony at the Springfield High School Class of 1958 senior prom. With hopes, dreams and voices as big as their crinoline skirts, each of the four girls' stories are told through classic pop-charting hits from the 1950s and '60s including 'Lollipop,' 'Dream Lover,' 'Stupid Cupid,' 'Lipstick On Your Collar,' 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me,' 'It's My Party' and more! Check out the promo video below!

The Emory University Symphony Orchestra (EUSO) and the Emory University Chorus perform together in free concerts on Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 at 8 p.m. in Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. The program features three well-known pieces from Classical and Romantic literature; Beethoven's 'Egmont Overture,' Brahms' 'Nänie,' and Mozart's 'Coronation Mass.'

Theatre Out, Orange County's gay and lesbian theatre company, who brought you recent hits Avenue Q and The Wild Party, presents the Tony Award-Winning musical SPRING AWAKENING beginning April 6, 2012. Running through May 5, this musical relives the trials and tribulations of becoming an adult.

The cast of Roadside gathered for the first day of rehearsal for the second musical in the spring series Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival at York Theatre Company: Roadside with Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones and Music by Harvey Schmidt. Directed by David Glenn Armstrong, the cast features original Roadside cast member Ryan Alexander, Erick Devine, Janine DiVita, Jamie LaVerdiere, Daniel C. Levine, Ed Watts and Nick Wyman. Check out the cast photos below!

Travel back to 1958 to Springfield High School and meet the Wonderettes, four girls from the song leading squad who step up to perform at their senior prom. As last minute replacements, Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy rename themselves 'The Marvelous Wonderettes,' and rally together to entertain their classmates in four-part harmony at the Springfield High School Class of 1958 senior prom.

Actor/filmmaker Alex Hyde-White ("Dexter," "Game Change," "The Fantastic Four," "Buck Rogers") will be in St. Louis for a one night only showing of his documentary "Three Days of Hamlet" at the Tivoli on April 18th, 7pm. Tickets for this event can be bought at https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/Ticketing.aspx?TheatreID=258&ShowDate=4/18/2012 or at the Tivoli box office.

The Lost Treasures Collection, a series of rarely performed musicals, continues its second season at Lakewood Theatre Company with the musical, Goldilocks, directed by Ron Daum. This show, the third in a series of musicals featuring movie themes, is presented in a concert/cabaret style and will be performed for two nights only, Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21, 2012 on Lakewood's Side Door stage. The musical features a book by Jean and Walter Kerr, music by Leroy Anderson, and lyrics by the Kerrs and Joan Ford. The title sponsor for the series is Banner Bank.

As Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards turns 25, E! will provide live coverage of the celebrity-filled famous orange carpet at the Galen Center at USC in Los Angeles. E!'s 'Live From the Red Carpet' and hosts, Ross Mathews and Kelly Osbourne, will be on-hand reporting on all of the celebrity arrivals - including Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez - chatting with the nominees, seeing what everyone is wearing, and finding out who's ready to get slimed!

Former Broadway producer and white-collar criminal Garth Drabinsky will not get an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ottawa Citizen reports. The Canada Supreme Court announced Thursday that it would not hear Drabinksy's case.

In a return engagement with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), The Collegiate Chorale will perform 11 concerts in Tel Aviv and Haifa with the IPO under the baton of conductors Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti. They will then travel with the IPO to Austria to make their Salzburg Festival debut, the first performance there by an American choir since the Chicago Symphony Chorus appeared in 1989.

Kellie Martin (ER) will guest star as Nicole Galassini, a smart, no-nonsense expert in African geopolitics and a Captain in the Army's Intelligence Division, in multiple episodes of Lifetime's series Army Wives beginning Sunday, April 1. In the episode titled 'Viral' which premieres Sunday, April 1 at 9:00PM ET, after David gets into a sports accident with a fellow classmate, news of his condition spreads and causes controversy. Trevor and Roxy mediate relationship issues between one of Trevor's soldiers and his wife. Claudia Joy's distaste for Jackie starts to come between her and Denise and the tribe gathers in support of Joan, Roland and David.