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Glass Mind Theatre's Brainstorm festival is back, this year with a new twist! Playwrights will be teaming up to tackle 5 brand-new short plays inspired by the Baltimore community. The twist? Each playwright chose a submitted location and were tasked with creating half a play either starting in said location, or ending there. Brainstorm 3: Mind the Gap runs June 1 - June 17, 2012 at Load of Fun Theatre (120 West North Avenue, Baltimore), on Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm.

Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz will be honored with Desert Ensemble Theatre Company's inaugural Melpomai Award at When You Believe: A Conversation With and Tribute To Stephen Schwartz May 19 in Palm Springs.

Showbiz Players, Inc. presents AVENUE Q from June 1st - 10th at Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, 1028 Scott Blvd. Covington, Ky. 41011. Check out this video of the cast and puppets performing 'Movin' On Up'.

Anthony Freud, general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago, announced today that the company is reporting a breakeven operating performance for fiscal year 2012. Lyric has operated in the black for 24 of the past 25 years-a record among the country's major not-for-profit music and performing-arts companies.

Check out this video of the Elements Theatre Company rehearsing 'The Dining Room' by A.R. Gurney.

Siobhan Dillon and Mark Evans from GHOST: The Musical will release their cover of the Righteous Brothers song 'Unchained Melody' on the 11th of June on Sain Records. This is the first track to be lifted from Mark Evans debut English album 'The Journey Home', which will be released on June the 18th.

West End stars Dave Willetts (Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Cats, Ragtime, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) and Marti Webb (Blood Brothers, Tell Me On a Sunday, Evita, Cats) will join forces to headline the legendary Broadway musical 42nd Street as it embarks on a national tour of the UK from 1st June 2012, playing 23 venues to the end of the year.

World-renowned Jazz and Rhythm & Blues Vocalist, Barbara Morrison will present top talent in The 1st Annual Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center Blues Festival to be performed on two stages at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center (BMPAC), 4305 Degnan Boulevard, #101, Los Angeles, CA 90036 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 18, 19 and 20, 2012.

Check out this video of the cast and crew of ANTHING GOES miming to 'What Makes You Beautiful' sung by One Direction. Choreographed by Brandon Bieber & Brandon Rubendall, the film is directed/edited by Raymond J. Lee.

Art Gallery Tours New York have announced a Lower East Side art gallery walking tour for Saturday, May 26 at 1:00 PM - rain or shine. The tour will meet at 196 Bowery near Spring St. and cost $20.

The Children's Theatre will present the live-on-stage musical BEN FRANKLIN AND THE HISTORY OF AMERICA May 16-19 at the Broadway Theatre of Pitman, 43 S. Broadway, Pitman, NJ 08071.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Lincoln Center) and The Philhallmonic Society present 'Swingin' On A Star'--a musical celebration of the 1940s on Saturday, June 23rd, 2012, 2:30 p.m. at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center (entrance on 65th and Amsterdam Avenue). The concert is free with general seating.

Andrew Lloyd Webber will receive a BASCA Fellowship at this year's Ivor Novello Awards on Thursday 17 May. The BASCA Fellowship is the highest accolade which a composer can receive, bestowed by composers in the UK. It recognises unique creative talent in music writing together with iconic achievement for and on behalf of composers. BASCA Fellows are exceptional artists and ambassadors for the song-writing and composing profession and BASCA's role within it.

Hot off his forty-city book tour promoting his book Blackouts and Breakdowns, Mark Brennan Rosenberg is bringing his musical book reading series "How to Date A F+++ing Loser" which enjoyed three sold-out performances last fall, back for a one-night only event benefiting the Forty-Sixth Street Clubhouse, an organization that helps the LGBT community deal with problems related to alcoholism. The event will take place on Saturday June 23 at 9:30 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre located at 61 Christopher Street in New York.

Sell a Door has announced the casting for their upcoming production of The Hound of the Baskervilles - due to play the Greenwich Theatre in July 2012.

The El Segundo Playhouse continues its inaugural season presenting "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Christopher Sergel from May 10 through May 20, 2012 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm with Sunday matinees at 2:00pm. Check out these production photographs of Marcus Wynn and the rest of the cast on stage.

Vicky Featherstone will replace Dominic Cooke as the Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre in London from April 2013.

Billy Elliot the Musical, now in its eighth year, will release a further 640,000 tickets this week, taking booking at the Victoria Palace Theatre to 21 December 2013. Check out the production photographs below.

Derren Brown's 2012 Olivier award-winning show SVENGALI will take up residence at London's Novello Theatre for 27 performances only, from July 12 - Aug 11. This is the last chance to see the live show that has performed in over 150 venues across Britain.

Nickelodeon, Life Like Touring and Daniel Sparrow & Mike Walsh Productions will present the UK premiere of Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer LIVE! Search for the City of Lost Toys, arriving at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue for a limited three week run from 28 August to 16 September 2012.