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StudentsLive, the Premier Broadway Education Company, has annouced its first-ever multilingual international and domestic "Passport to Broadway" Program for students from July 23, 2012 to August 3, 2012 at Pearl Studios and Manhattan Movement and Arts Center (MMAC). The musical theatre intensive final performance takes place over 10 days from approximately 8:30am to 6:00pm, Monday through Friday, at Pearl Studios led by Broadway Musical Directors, Choreographers and Interactive Intensives with Broadway Performers and Guest Artists.

According to the official LYSISTRATA JONES blog, Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn are currently at work on a high school-friendly edition of the Broadway comedy, which will be made available for licensing soon.

The Board of the Reprise Theatre Company is announcing that they are entering into an exploratory phase in order to assess its future programming and the funding of that programming. This phase necessitates the cancellation of "The Apple Tree," the third show of the 2011-2012 season, which was to have been performed April 17 to 29. Subscribers are being contacted to arrange refunds for "The Apple Tree" portion of season tickets, as they were previously with "The Baker's Wife."

Newsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse in fall 2011. The musical, featuring a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman, and a book by four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will play its first Broadway preview on March 15th prior to its March 29th opening night; the final performance is scheduled for June 10th. Click below to meet the Broadway company and catch up with some familiar favorites!

The BCT Contemporary Music Series will present an intimate evening of music with Bill Coffey and His Cash Monday Cousins and other special guests at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery will present Hernan Bas, Occult Contemporary, on view March 15 - April 21 2012, at 540 West 26th Street.

On Friday, March 9, 2012 Capital Stage's new midtown venue at 2215 J Street will host popular actress/comedienne Katie Rubin performing her one-woman comedy show My Spiritual Death, a Comedy Show!

The Matt Baker Comedy Variety Show brings together some exciting performers the first weekend of March for all ages. For over 10 years Matt has been headlining venues all over North America. He has performed shows in all 50 states, was featured at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival and has been seen on numerous television shows including Last Comic Standing and America's Got Talent. His unique brand of comedy and mass appeal has allowed him to perform over 2,000 shows at colleges, cruise ships, theaters, corporate events and festivals.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its 600th New York performance this Monday, February 20th (President's Day) at New World Stages There will additionally be a special added holiday performance this Sunday, February 19th at 7pm.

On Sunday, July 15 at 7pm, Diana Krall will take to the stage at Whitney Hall to for a special one night jazz performance.

El Dorado Musical Theatre opens its production of the classic 42nd Street tonight, February 17, 2012. The production will run through March 4, 2012.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's acclaimed educational touring company, Shakespeare LIVE!, will present one-hour family performances of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream on Saturday, March 10 at The Theatre's Main Stage - the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in Madison.

"Blood Done Sign My Name", featuring Christine Horne, is now a feature film on TV One and Neflix for Black History Month.

Native Voices at the Autry, the country's only Equity theatre company dedicated exclusively to presenting and developing the work of Native American playwrights, presents two full-length, one-man plays, WALKING ON TURTLE ISLAND and GHOSTLANDS OF AN URBAN NDN, written by and starring acclaimed actor and storyteller ROBERT OWENS-GREYGRASS (Lakota*) in repertory from March 3 to 18, 2012 (previews begin March 1), at the Autry National Center's Wells Fargo Theater in Los Angeles. In the two vastly different works, which showcase his wit and humor, Greygrass portrays an astonishing 38 characters. Kevin Sifuentes (Hopi*) directs both productions. Randy Reinholz (Choctaw*) is Native Voices' Producing Artistic Director, and Jean Bruce Scott is Producing Executive Director.

Newsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse in fall 2011. The musical, featuring a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman, and a book by four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will play its first Broadway preview on March 15th prior to its March 29th opening night; the final performance is scheduled for June 10th. The footage of the Broadway company in rehearsal has been released and BroadwayWorld brings you a first look below!

Les Miserables will hit the big screen later this year, featuring an all-star cast including Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe tasJavert, Sacha Baron Cohen as Thernardier, Eddie Redmayne as Marius, Aaron Tveit as Enjolras, Anne Hathaway as Fantine, Helena Bonham Carter as Madame Thenardier, the opera-trained Mamma Mia! film star Amanda Seyfried as Cosette and Samantha Barks as Eponine. Interested in a blast from the past? Check out this old ad from the early 1990s when the first plans to adapt the musical for the screen materialized .

Bob Boyett has announced the full Broadway cast for the National Theatre of Great Britain's acclaimed production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS. Previews begin on April 6 and the official opening is April 18, 2012 at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society ("SDC") and 8 Legged Productions LLC, the Producer of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, have reached a settlement of all pending litigation between them.

Back in May 2008, THE LITTLE MERMAID actor Adrian Bailey, a member of the cast's ensemble, fell over 20 feet through an open trap door during a matinee performance. Bailey subsequently broke both wrists for which he received surgery, and reportedly shattered his pelvis among suffering other injuries. At the time, it had been one of the most serious accidents to occur onstage during a performance that Broadway had witnessed. Subsequent law suits ensued, including a products liability case against the Canadian automation company, Niscon, who provided the automation software that allowed the trap-doors on set to be remotely operated.

19 cast members of the original 1981 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, including leading actors Lonny Price, Ann Morrison and Jim Walton, were reunited at New York City Center for a reception and performance of the City Center Encores! production on Tuesday, February 14. It was an event we would not have missed and BroadwayWorld has been bringing you photos and video highlights of the event throughout the week. This morning, we take you inside the opening night reception and joyful curtain call, during which both companies joined in for a chorus of 'Old Friends' along with Stephen Sondheim himself.