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Tickets are now on sale for David Watt's retro 1920s show 'The Silent Movie Experience' at the 2012 Brighton Fringe Festival. The show will take place at 2pms on the 13th and 27th of May at the Komedia Studio Bar.

4@15: Four New Fifteen-Minute Musicals, performed in conjunction with University of California, Irvine, will commence performances Friday, April 20, for three performances only at Roy Arias Theatre Center. Tammy Holder serves as Music Director; Brian Blythe directs.

Premiere Props announced today that they will be auctioning iconic Hollywood memorabilia at their first EXCLUSIVE HOLLYWOOD VIP AUCTION on Saturday, April 28th at their headquarters in El Segundo, CA. Their live auction will begin at 10am PST and fans from around the world can bid on-line, on the phone, or in person.

Art and class collide, as a group of Northern English miners unexpectedly ascend to the top of the art world in The Pitmen Painters at ACT - A Contemporary Theatre. Penned by playwright Lee Hall, author of the celebrated Billy Elliot, this critically acclaimed play from London and Broadway will receive its regional premiere in ACT's dynamic in-the-round Allen Theatre directed by ACT's Artistic Director Kurt Beattie this Friday, April 20. The official opening night is April 26, and the show is scheduled to run until May 20.

The Broadway Theatre of Pitman's Children's Theatre will present THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE on April 20 at 10am and April 21 at 10am and 1pm.

The Emelin Theatre will host concerts by The Grascals and Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks this weekend, as well as the puppet show HUDSON VAGABOND PUPPETS: THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF.

ELAL Productions will present THEY LIVED IN BRIGHTON, a tribute to pre-war musicians Ray Noble and Jack Strachey, as past of the Brighton Fringe Festival on three evenings 23rd, 24th, 25th May at 6 o'clock. Created by Alan Felton, accompanied on the piano by Mick Hamer, the unusual venue for this show is the comfortable ambience of Alan's parlour on the seafront in Hove.

EMMA award winner Ria Lina will debut her first solo show at the Brighton Fringe Festival, 5-24th of May at the Laughting Horse @ The Hobgoblin. Shows are 5, 6, 7, 17 and 24 of May at 9.30pm.

With stage direction by Wade Willis and musical direction by Alan D. Lytle, City of Angels, a deliciously funny spoof of 1940s film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction, opens Friday, May 4 and continues through Sunday, June 10, 2012. Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 7:00 PM (May 6, 13 and 20), and Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM (May 13, 27 and June 3 and 10). The show sponsor is The Richard & Janet Geary Foundation.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's Education Director and Piedmont Laureate Ian Finley will teach a 4-week class on the art of public speaking this May 7-28, 2012. THE IDEAL SPEAKER: Actor's Tools for All Professions will teach students how to utilize an actor's tools of Confidence, Articulation, and Improvisation in their professional life.

Sarah Hadland and Dean Lennox Kelly feature among the ensemble cast of a new comedy by award-winning playwright Michael Wynne in which three couples attempt to get away from the stresses and dilemmas of modern life on a camping trip. CANVAS, directed by Angus Jackson, will play 18 May- 16 June at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.

Tania Czajka's Lapin Wants Ice Cream will play at the Iambic Arts Theatre (venue 99) as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival, May 5 to 10.

Michael Attenborough, Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre will be presented with the Award for Excellence In International Theatre at a luncheon held today, 17 April 2012, at the Travellers Club, London. Neville Shulman, Director of the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute, will present Attenborough with the Award.

The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance has leased studios, offices, and production facilities at the Westbeth Housing Development Fund Corporation, 55 Bethune Street (Greenwich Village), NYC. The facility has been the home of the Cunningham Dance Foundation since 1970 and continues to serve artists in multiple disciplines who live and work in the complex.

Capezio will celebrate 125 years of excellence with a one-night only special show on Monday, April 23 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (btwn. 6th & 7th Ave) NYC. The show highlights some of history of Capezio. This is a dance show/celebration with a great diversity of American dance talent, including performers from: American Ballet Theatre, Ann Reinking, Bad Boys of Dance, Break the Floor, Cirque du Soleil, Dance Sport Ballroom, Desmond Richardson, Iluminate, Industrial Rhythm, Mark Stuart Dance Theater, MOMIX, Mr. Wiggles, New York City Ballet, Noah Racey and the New York Song and Dance Company, Rock Steady Crew, the Rockettes, So You Think You Can Dance, Tommy Tune, Travis Hall, and the World Cup All Stars Cheerleaders.

The company of the second North American tour of WICKED will welcome Christine Dwyer as Elphaba and Billy Harrigan Tighe as Fiyero on Wednesday, May 2 in Durham, NC.

Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Trust, the charity which operates the UK's most popular theatre, today confirmed two new Trustee appointments. One of the UK's leading architects, Glenn Howells, and the Chief Executive of the innovative games creator SEGA, Mike Hayes, join the Board as non-executive directors.

Playwright/director Theodora Skipitares uses 25 larger than life puppets to reveal, celebrate, and explore the theatrical, philosophical, and moral relationship between the exiled Greek god Prometheus and the future implications of stem cell research in her musical puppet theater work, "PROMETHEUS Within." With an original score by Sxip Shirey, sung by members of Trevor Wilson and Vocal Ensemble, "PROMETHEUS Within" is premiering as part of La Mama's 50th anniversary celebration, April 13-29.

Art Gallery Tours New York have announced a Lower East Side art gallery walking tour for Saturday, April 28 at 1:00 PM - rain or shine. The tour will meet at 196 Bowery near Spring St. and cost $20.

Transport Group, the Drama Desk and OBIE award-winning theatre company, has announced that it will present a one-night-only, all-star concert of the acclaimed 1983 Broadway musical Baby on Monday, June 18 at 7pm at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street. The evening will be directed by Jack Cummings III, with musical direction by Chris Haberl. Original cast members Liz Callaway and Todd Graff, who received Tony Award nominations for their performances, will host the evening. The cast will be announced at a later date.