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The Outdoor Museum (not your usual images of New York) is a book of photographs and verse created as a tribute to the iconic city of New York.

Burning Coal announces the Uta Hagen-based Scene Study Class. Artistic Director Jerome Davis will conduct an 8-week acting class based on the principles found in Uta Hagen's book Respect for Acting. Davis studied with Ms. Hagen in New York City for seven years. The class will be held at Burning Coal Theatre Company's Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. The class runs Mondays from 7 to 10 pm, June 11 to July 30, 2012. The fee is $200, payable prior to the first class. To enroll, call 919-834-4001 or visit www.burningcoal.org.

The 11th Annual Independent Music Awards have just announced their 2012 nominees and Amy Correia is one of a handful of songwriters to garner three nominations: 'Singer-Songwriter Folk Album' -- Your Go Your Way, 'Love Song' -- Love Changes Everything, and 'Story Song' -- Took Him Away. While Keith Richards, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Suzanne Vega, Ozzy Osbourne are just some of the jury members for the official IMA awards this year, there is also a popular vote that fans can cast.

The Canadian Opera Company's 2011/2012 season closes with the company premiere of George Frideric Handel's Semele in a production directed by famed Chinese visual and performance artist Zhang Huan. Joining Mr. Zhang to present Handel's sparkling and seductive opera about the pitfalls of love affairs between gods and mortals is Italian Baroque opera specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini, who leads the COC Orchestra and Chorus. Sung in English with English SURTITLES™, Semele runs for eight performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on May 9, 11, 13, 16, 19, 22, 24 and 26, 2012.

Tuesday, March 20, Primary Stages launched the final production of its 27th season, the New York premiere of The Morini Strad, a new play by Willy Holtzman (Sabina). Directed by Casey Childs, the cast features Michael Laurence (Krapp39, Broadway's Talk Radio, Opus at Primary Stages), Tony® nominee Mary Beth Peil ("The Good Wife," "Dawson's Creek," The King and I), and celebrated violin soloist Hanah Stuart (Chicago Symphony, Zankel Hall). The limited engagement runs through April 28 at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters. Opening night is April 3rd. Check out the production photos below!

Two-time Tony Award winner Katie Finneran (Promises, Promises, Noises Off, TV's "I Hate My Teenage Daughter") will offer an acting and musical theatre performance master class on Friday, April 27th from 6:30pm to 10:30pm at The Davenport Studios in Midtown Manhattan.

Andrew Chappelle, Mr. Mamma Mia!, was crowned as winner of the sold out, sixth annual Broadway Beauty Pageant held Monday evening at Symphony Space. The event raised $75,000 to benefit the Ali Forney Center, which provides shelter to homeless LGBT youth in New York City.

IFC announced today at its first ever Upfront the slate of guest stars that will be sitting down to chat with host Scott Aukerman (co-creator/director/producer, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis; writer/performer, Mr. Show) on his new comedy series, Comedy Bang! Bang!, which riffs on the well-known format of the late night talk show.

According to TVLINE.com, Tony Award nominee Martha Plimpton will return to CBS's The Good Wife to play lawyer Patti Nyholm in the show's season 3 finale. She will play opposite Michael J. Fox as the two actors' characters take on a case centeral to the finale's plot.

Two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman (Private Lives, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the Harry Potter franchise) will play his final performance on Sunday, April 1 in SEMINAR by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Peabody Award winner Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, The Understudy, Omnium Gatherum, NBC's new hit series "Smash"), directed by Obie Award winner Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, Kin, The Coward). Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Jeff Goldblum will make his return to Broadway when he assumes the leading role of 'Leonard' on Tuesday, April 3 for 8 weeks only. Visit the photo shoot for SEMINAR on Broadway as Jerry O'Connell interviews fellow cast members Jeff Goldblum, Justin Long and Zoe Lister-Jones. Check out the behind the scenes video below!

The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts Theater Series presents Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley, April 6-21, 2012 at 7:30 pm, directed by Andrew Grenier, director ofGod of Carnage at WICA in 2011. Check out the production photos below!

The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts F2D2 Series presents "The Earth Portal," Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 7:00, 7:45, and 8:30 pm, in Zech Hall. The Whidbey GeoDome Project is offering a live, interactive preview of its upcoming "The Earth Portal" exhibit at the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. "The Earth Portal," an inflatable immersive visualization environment, will be featured at the Seattle Center for six months beginning on Earth Day, April 21, 2012. You are invited to sample the GeoDome experience, meet our Whidbey team, and learn how this technology is poised to transform both art and science education. Potential uses of the GeoDome on Whidbey will also be explored.

Joslyn Center announces its 3rd Annual Runway Event benefit taking place on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in the Las Palmas Ballroom from 11:30am-2:30pm.

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY released the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Once: A New Musical on March 13, 2012. It was produced by Steve Epstein and Martin Lowe. Once began previews at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 and opened Sunday, March 18, 2012. Go behind the scenes of the cast recording! Watch the video below!

My Occasion of Sin began preview performances on Friday, March 16, 2012 and will celebrate its opening night on Wednesday, March 21 at Urban Stages (259 West 30 Street), running through Sunday, April 15. Tickets are $40 ($25 during previews) and are available at www.Smarttix.com or by calling 212.868.4444. Check out the production photos below!

KISS and MOTLEY CRUE are uniting to launch THE TOUR of 2012. The summer's rock tour will visit 40+ cities nationwide starting July 20th. The Live Nation promoted tour will go on sale beginning Friday, March 23rd at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com. Both bands will have fan club presales beginning Wednesday, March 21st at 10am.

The show that revolutionized musical theatre CATS, coming to The Paramount Theatre from April 17 - 22, 2012, will partner with the Woodland Park Zoo for a variety of CATS events as well as a fundraising project for the Tiger Exhibit.

Broadway Theatre Project (BTP), which has spent the past two decades helping thousands of young, aspiring actors, singers and dancers to realize their potential in the performing arts, gets a taste of another vehicle with a similar purpose, FOX's American Idol, when the television series' Associate Musical Director, Michael Orland, and Vocal Coach, Peisha McPhee, visit the Tampa-based summer musical theatre intensive this summer.

This week The B Street Theatre School Tour production of Fantasy Festival XXVI hits the road. This is the 26th year that elementary and middle schools students throughout northern California have submitted original plays to B Street's annual playwriting contest for young people. Out of over 150 plays submitted this year, just 5 have been selected for the tour. The resulting combined show of these 5 winning plays will be performed at 153 assemblies in over 108 schools in northern California between March 19 and June 8, 2012.

The Whidbey Island Center for the Arts presents, straight from New York, Sister's Easter Catechism: Will My Bunny Go To Heaven? April 17-19, 2012 at 7:30 pm.