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Several Broadway stars are set for the upcoming Primary Stages Concert series, including Charles Busch, Mario Cantone, Penny Fuller, Julie Halston, Jamie deRoy, Gregg Edelman, and Karen Mason. The performances will take place in April and May over a one week span that will take place at the 59E59 Theatre.

Stage and screen star Carrie Preston will guest star on a multiple episode arc of the hit television show CBS later this season. Preston will play one of a team of lawyers called in to air Chris North's character, Peter Florick.

The 34th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, made possible by a generous grant from The Humana Foundation, will continue with The Method Gun, created by Austin?based theatre troupe Rude Mechs and written by Kirk Lynn. The Method Gun is a play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and6 sanity in real life.

Laura Linney will will be one of many recipients of the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service at a ceremony on April 24th.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced he will donate the proceeds of the auctioning of his $60.9 million Pablo Picasso painting to charity. Lloyd Webber is auctioning off the piece titled 'Blue Period,' depicting an absinthe drinker at the auction, which will take place in London in June.

City Center recently announced it is set to begin a $75 million renovation project on its building located at W. 55th St. the New York Times reported today. The renovations are said to be headed by the Polshek Partnership Architects, the same group that has worked on Carnegie Hall and the Public Theatre.

'Idol' has finally reached the top 12 contestants of season nine, where they make the jump from a small, intimate stage to the full audience at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. This is where the eventual 'Idol' winner will be crowned and it presents a new set of challenges to the singers, who now have a fill a much larger space with their talent. Luckily, many of the contestants were able to step up immediately, as the performances tonight were, in general, very strong. It was an excellent showing and proved why each of the contestants has earned their way into the top 12.

In a recent interview with WENN, Catherine Zeta-Jones stated that for her next film with husband Michael Douglas, she would like to do a remake of his 1989 film War of the Roses. The original film starred Douglas alongside Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.

Weekend Movie Box Office Update: March 12 - March 14, 2010

On Monday, April 12th DO40 will present its first-ever song and dance concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Project Achieve and the NYC HIV Vaccine Trials Unit. Former gypsy and perennial television star Valerie Harper (right), on the heels of her new Broadway show, LOOPED, will make a special appearance along with guests Anita Gillette (photo, bottom right) and Marge Champion. DO40 members will be heavily represented, and guests from the ballet and modern world will also appear and donate their performances for these important causes.

Joe's Pub has announced several upcoming concerts that will take place at the venue in April. The show will feature a number of Broadway performers, including Matt Doyle, Julian Fleisher, and Judy Gold.

Théâtre du Châtelet's production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will broadcast the recording of the show made in February on Radio France on March 24th at 8:00pm. The concert was recorded February 15th, with the cast featuring David Curry, Rebecca Bottone, Francesca Jackson, and Greta Scacchi.

Casting has been completed for the upcoming performance of THE CHERRY SISTERS REVISITED, which will play as a part of the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. The production will feature music by Michael Friedman, commissioned by the theatre.

The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced its remaining out-of-competition feature film selections in the Encounters, Discovery, Cinemania and Spotlight sections. The Festival will take place from April 21 to May 2, 2010 in lower Manhattan, offering audiences film screenings, conversations and an array of free community events. As previously announced, the 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres.

St. Ann's Warehouse presents the American Premiere of Young@Heart in END OF THE ROAD by No Theater, the third part of their musical theater 'road' trilogy. The production will begin April 21st and run through May 1st.

Handel and Haydn Society principal bassist Robert Nairn leads an intimate program of music and poetry set in a 19th-century English salon, featuring soprano Susan Consoli and actor Jim True-Frost, in collaboration with the Huntington Theatre Company on March 19th at 8:00pm and March 21st at 3:00pm. The program is directed by Peter DuBois.

Eric Idle, author and producer of the hit Broadway musical SPAMALOT, said he would be up for adapting the show from the stage to the screen.

Stage and screen stars Brian F. O'Byrne and Evan Rachel Wood are set to join Kate Winslet in the upcoming HBO Miniseries, 'Mildred Pierce.' The show will center around Winslet as Mildred Pierce Beragon as she worked as a waitress to support her family, consisting of her husband Bert, played by O'Byrne, and her daughter Veda, played by Wood, in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.

The Los Angeles Times has interviewed THE WAKE author Lisa Kron about her new play that discusses the 2000 Presidential Election and 9/11. Obie Award-winner Lisa Kron reunites with Leigh Silverman, who directed Kron's highly acclaimed 2006 production of 'Well' on Broadway, to present this new play to Los Angeles audiences.

The New York Times is reporting the Lincoln Center Festival's upcoming 12-hour production of Dostoevsky's novel, THE DEMONS, sold out all 700 tickets to its two performances in less than 12 hours. Tickets went on sale the morning of March 12th and were gone by 3:30pm that day.