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Masterworks Broadway continues to make good on its promise to open its vaults with more classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era. Working (1978 Original Broadway Cast), Call Me Madam (Dinah Shore and the Original Broadway Company, 1950) and Desert Song (1959 Studio Cast) will be available as downloads through all major digital service providers and as disc-on-demand with the original cover art, via Arkivmusic.com and Amazon.com.

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), under the artistic direction of Ben Donenberg, returns after 16 years to The Japanese Garden on the grounds of the VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center Campus with a summer production of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy AS YOU LIKE IT directed by Royal Shakespeare Company artist Kenn Sabberton - July 10 to 29.

Sam Strong will be joining the Melbourne Theatre Company as Associate Artistic Director of the on the 1 January, 2013.

With just over six weeks to go until the start of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Fringe Society have released their updated mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

30,000 new tickets will be released for sale from 9.00am Monday 25 June for JERSEY BOYS - The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons opening at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Friday 13 July 2012.

As part of the current three-play Royal Court at the Duke of York's Season with Posh by Laura Wade, Jumpy by April De Angelis and Constellations by Nick Payne, four of the UK's leading playwrights will direct one of their all-time favourite plays in a series of one-off afternoon readings from 29 June at the Duke of York's Theatre in a special event supported by The Ambassador Theatre Group. Nick Payne, Polly Stenham, Roy Williams and David Eldridge will select their favourite plays and will have less than two days to bring their vision to life with a full cast to be announced for staged readings on Friday afternoons this summer.

The Hudson Village Theatre has announced details of its second summer offering, Back in '59, written and directed by Canadian playwright, producer, director and actor Thom Currie, playing July 11 to 22. Since its birth last year at the Showboat Theatre Festival in Colborne, ON, the high-octane musical has been a sell-out success and now Montrealers can shake, shimmy and roll to chart toppers from the early sixties.

Vital Theatre Company was the recipient of 2012 Best Family Show at the Off Broadway Alliance Awards Ceremony held June 19th, 2012 at Sardi's Restaurant in New York. Check out the photos below of book writer and lyricist for STINKYKIDS THE MUSICAL, Sammy Buck and Vital Theatre Company's Education Director Linda Ames Key accepting on behalf of the company.

West End LIVE is back for its 8th year, playing this weekend 23-24th of June in Trafalgar Square. Check out the full programme below, which features Matilda, Wicked, Les Mis, and indeed every single West End musical currently running in London!

Actor French Stewart and playwright Vanessa Claire Stewart will discuss the premiere of "Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton" at Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood on June 22. Hosted by arts journalist Julio Martinez, the interview will be broadcast on Arts in Review from 2 to 2:30pm.

The producers of the musical adaptation of Dirty Dancing have announced new casting for the next stage of the UK tour, now booking through to the summer of 2013. The new company, which includes Jill Winternitz, Nicky Griffiths and Paul-Michael Jones, will have their first performance at the Birmingham Hippodrome on Wednesday 4 July.

Dame Helen Mirren is currently considering a role as Queen Elizabeth II in THE AUDIENCE, a play about the Queen's reign so far by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) in the West End this fall and on Broadway in spring 2013, according to the New York Post. Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) has been tipped to direct the play, which will humanise the Queen by mixing stories of her private and public lives.

Peter Karrie will be joined by Rebecca Timmons and select students from the Egyptian Theatre Youtheatre Musical Program for an evening of musical theatre fun on July 19, 2012. Check out the preview photographs of the performance below.

Harry Christophers, Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society (H&H), has been named in the Queen of England's 2012 Birthday Honors List, receiving a CBE for services to music. CBE is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II, and stands for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire."

Mad Cow Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 season of live, professional theatre in the Heart of Downtown Orlando will include Sunday in the Park with George, Dreamgirls, Death of a Salesman and more.

The Hit Men are returning to the Broadway Theatre of Pitman this summer for a concert on August 25 at 8pm. This quintet of original recording and performing members of mega-star acts produced hundreds of hit records in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

At Saturday night's 12th annual Midsummer Night Drinks hundreds of friends and supporters gathered at Woodhouse Park, the stunning East Hampton home of Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper, for a wonderful evening of fun, food and cocktails, all benefiting God's Love We Deliver. This signature event supports one of New York City's most beloved charities, the only organization of its kind that cooks and home delivers nutritious meals to clients living with severe illnesses, their children and senior caregivers.

The world premiere of the full-length version of a new play by acclaimed young playwright, Kieran Lynn, An Incident At The Border opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of nine Sunday and Monday and Tuesday matinee performances on Sunday, 22 July 2012.

The multi-award winning team of shake & stir theatre co are back at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) from 16 August to 1 September in the Cremorne Theatre with an adaption of George Orwell's classic novel 1984.

The Public Theater will present an additional free performance of AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by Daniel Sullivan, tonight (Tuesday, June 19) at 8 p.m. AS YOU LIKE IT, the first show of The Public's 50th Anniversary season at the Delacorte, will officially open on Thursday, June 21 and continue through Saturday, June 30.