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What happens once the Ugly Duckling comes out of her shell? She takes a show business journey to become a singing swan superstar! Kansas City audiences can catch the one-night-only performance of Lucky Duck by the Coterie Theatre at 7 p.m. March 8 at the Folly Theater, 1020 Central. The musical comedy with its Kansas City cast will then take flight for its debut at the New Victory Theater in New York March 16-25.

ImprovBoston's sketch comedy darlings, The Dowry, are presenting a warm-weather-inspired sketch comedy. Their latest show, (500) Days 'til Summer, runs Fridays in March and April at 10 p.m. (The show will be dark on Friday March 23.) Tickets cost $12-$16. The show will run at ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect Street, Cambridge. Tickets cost $12-$16 and are available online at www.improvboston.com.

Mid-Michigan's award winning professional theatre company, Williamston Theatre, presents the World Premiere of The Usual: A Musical Love Story, Book and Lyrics by Alan Gordon and Music by Mark Sutton-Smith. Tickets for this modern day musical love story are now on sale.

Off-Broadway's The New Group honors David Rabe and Nancy Manocherian, founding Artistic Director of the cell theater in Chelsea, at the company's 2012 Gala, hosted by Janeane Garofalo & Morgan Spector. Rabe and Manocherian are recipients of the sixth annual Michael Mendelson Award for Outstanding Commitment to Theater. Founded in 2005, this award recognizes individuals who show outstanding commitment to the theatrical community. Past recipients include Wallace Shawn, Fred Wistow, Robyn Goodman, Ethan Hawke, Ruth and Stephen Hendel, Wendy Ettinger and Derek McLane.

Written by Amy Ferris, Ken Ferris and Krista Lyons, and directed by Frank Ventura, MARRYING George Clooney runs February 29 through March 24 at CAP 21 Theatre (18 West 18th St, 5th fl): Wed-Sat at 8pm. Tickets are $18. For more information, visit www.cap21.org. Check out the production photos below!

Trinity Rep will continue its Three by Three in Rep - three world premieres playing in rotating repertory - with Deborah Salem Smith's Love Alone tomorrow at 7:30PM. Although our Pay What You Can (PWYC) nights are usually the first Friday of a performance, the schedule for Three by Three in Rep is a little different.

Z2 Entertainment presents Das Racist at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, April 21st. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 2nd for $23.00 in advance and $26.00 day of show.

Mildred "Babe" Didrikson excelled in basketball, baseball, track and field and golf before her death in 1956 of colon cancer at age 45. America's first female golf celebrity in the 1940s and early '50s, Didrikson won 17 straight tournaments as an amateur before turning pro and was one of the founders of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). Prior to that, she gained two gold medals and one silver medal in track and field in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.

TV Guide reports that Phylicia Rashad has been added to the cast of the pilot episode for NBC's Do No Harm, slated to play Dr. Vanessa Young. Young has a co-worker, Jeffrey Kohl, with a dangerous alter-ego named Ian Price. That alter-ego attempts to destroy him. The pilot is written and produced by David Shulner and directed by Mcihael Mayer.

Paper Mill Playhouse is currently in rehearsals for Damn Yankees, directed by Paper Mill Playhouse's Producing Artistic Director, Mark S. Hoebee, with choreography by Denis Jones. The cast features Howard McGillin (Applegate), Chryssie Whitehead (Lola), Christopher Charles Wood (Joe Hardy), Joseph Kolinski (Joe Boyd), Patti Cohenour (Meg Boyd) and Nancy Anderson (Gloria Thorpe). Damn Yankees begins performances on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, and runs at the Millburn, New Jersey theater through Sunday, April 1, 2012. Opening night is scheduled for Sunday, March 11, 2012. Today, the company met the press and below we brings you complete photo and video coverage of the event.

Denver Center Attractions welcomes home James May, Denver native, as Cogsworth in DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this theatrical production will come to life on stage at the Buell Theatre March 14-18. Tickets are now on sale at www.denvercenter.org or by calling 303.893.4100.

Edna Milton Chadwell, the last living madam of the Chicken Ranch brothel that inspired the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas died on February 25, DailyMail reports. She was in the hospital at the time after a car accident put her there in October.

Arizona Theatre Company announces its 46th Season as Arizona's leading professional theatre by producing six plays in 2012-2013 in Tucson and Phoenix. Audiences will experience six mainstage productions. The coming season, announced by Artistic Director David Ira Goldstein in his 21st season with ATC, promises award-winning recent Broadway hits in brand-new ATC productions.

The Adelaide Chamber Singers (ACS) 2012 season opens with two performances for the 2012 Adelaide Festival of one of the greatest aural works of Western Civilisation - J S Bach's Johannes Passion (St John Passion) - St John's account of Christ's trial and execution was an innovative and dramatic portrayal of Christ's final hours.

Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables will go on sale Thursday, March 1 for the premiere Indianapolis engagement at Clowes Memorial Hall. The all new production of Les Miserables features new staging and reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. Tickets will be available beginning at 10:00 am in person at the Broadway Across America Box Office downtown at 342 Massachusetts Avenue, Clowes Memorial Hall, The Old National Center Ticket Office, online at BroadwayInIndianapolis.com, or by phone at 1-800-982-2787. Ticket prices start at $22.00. For more information on the production visit www.LesMis.com.

The popular children's story based off the book by P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother? comes to life on the Gallo Center for the Arts stage on Wednesday, March 28 at 7:00 PM. It portrays the universal human desire to belong to a family and teaches that families can come in any shape or size as long as it's bound together by love.

Late Night Catechism creator Maripat Donovan and company return to The Laguna Playhouse March 13 thru April 8, 2012 to perform their most recent installment of hilarity titled Sisters Easter Catechism: Will My Bunny go to Heaven?

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, March 22 - April 1 in the Studio Theatre, Storrs. For tickets and information, call 860-486-4226 or visit www.crt.uconn.edu.

Four-time Grammy winning, platinum recording country star Marty Stuart and his band The Fabulous Superlatives will take the Spencer Theater spotlights on Saturday, March 16 at 7 p.m.

OWEN GRAY's new paintings, "LOOKING UP, LOOKING DOWN," will be presented at BLUE MOUNTAIN March 27th - April 21st.