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Fashion model and actor Arron Blake is to star in Fashion Victim - The Musical!, a thoroughly modern morality tale of style-crossed lovers set in the cutthroat world of la mode.

Whether you call yourself Parisian or you're just visiting the City of Love, Broadway au Carre is the new hot ticket in Paris to get your American musical theatre fix, along with a good glass of red wine. Once a month, you can kick off your Wednesday evening at Le Carre Parisien, a typical Parisian cafe and cave-a-vins, with a cabaret concert by a featured performer, followed by an open mic, where some of the best local artists gather to belt out their favorite Broadway show tunes. Broadway au Carre also features a new musical theatre composer each month, with a set of songs that have never been performed in Europe before. The list of featured composers this season includes Will Van Dyke, Daniel Mate, Andrew Byrne, Peter Saxe, Niko Tsakalakos, Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel, among others.

The Happy Belated Birthday to My Sister Comedy Improv Musical Variety Extravaganza Starring the Chuckleheads Comes to the Warehouse Performing Arts Center, 9216-A Westmoreland Road, Cornelius on Saturday, July 26 at 6p (family friendly) & 8pm. The Charlotte improvisational theatre group, the Chuckleheads, present their Happy Belated Birthday to My Sister Comedy Improv Musical Variety Extravaganza at the Warehouse Performing Arts Center, 9216-A Westmoreland Road, Cornelius, NC on Saturday, July 26 beginning at 6:00pm (family friendly) and 8:00pm.

Jason Omar Griffith, a former Las Vegas Strip performer, was convicted of second-degree murder on Thursday, May 22nd, for killing and dismembering his dancer ex-girlfriend, Deborah Flores-Narvaez. Read the original article here. When the victim, Flores, disappeared in mid-December 2010, her friends, family, and authorities were left without answers for about a month before there was any word on her whereabouts. Griffith's housemate, Louis Colombo, finally spoke up, leading police to Flores' remains which were buried in a vacant house.

Today, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration between the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation's active duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2014. Leadership support has been provided by MetLife Foundation through Blue Star Families. The program provides families an opportunity to enjoy the nation's cultural heritage and learn more about their new communities after a military move. The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov/national/blue-star-museums.

This year the Showboat Circus is once again coming to Tribeca with old-time family entertainment aboard a century-old covered wooden barge. DeadPan Alley, starring Will Shaw, is a one-hour, one-man performance of physical comedy, verbal wit and expert skill. Audiences of all ages will be thrilled with astounding and hilarious displays of juggling and balance, fancy cowboy roping, flying boomerangs, rare and amazing spinning top manipulations, hat tricks, sight gags, audience participation and clowning steeped in the traditions of the great comedians from the silent film era to the present. DeadPan Alley also features serious (and not-so serious) musical presentations with the piano and harmonica. Will Shaw has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Sesame Street and was an instructor for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Clown College.

Wells Fargo Center for the Arts announced 24 new shows for 2014-2015 featuring world-class performances in music, dance, comedy, speakers and family entertainment. For 33 years, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts has presented a popular and diverse range of outstanding performances for fans of all ages and diverse interests. Tickets will be available to members of Wells Fargo Center for the Arts on Tuesday, May 20 and on sale to the general public on Friday, June 13 at noon. Tickets and memberships may be purchased online at wellsfargocenterarts.org, by phone at 707.546.3600 and in person at the box office at 50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa.

The celebrated creator of Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs Francesca Millican-Slater returns to tell stories of a flat she has fallen in love with. A doomed love affair documented in lyricism, power point, a touch of stand up and classic karaoke.

This summer the writers of previous Edinburgh Fringe hits Coalition and Making News and multi-award winning director of Instinct For Kindness and Lockerbie - Unfinished Business are set to team up with one of the most respected actors of his generation to present a satirical tale of political intrigue, gamesmanship and ambition in the corridors of power. Alan Cox is to be directed by Hannah Eidinow in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's Kingmaker, the story of a fictional yet strangely familiar political figure whose bumbling bonhomie disguises a fierce determination and a heart of steel.

Linda Shelton, Executive Director of The Joyce Theater, announced today the organization's programming for its 2014-2015 fall/winter season, launching September 9 with the New York premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's extravagant production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, danced by the magnificent dancers of the National Ballet of Canada at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

Artists from their Spring 2014 season sing 'Over the Rainbow' to help the Boston Pops celebrate the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz. Artists include Jason Alexander, Melissa Etheridge, Billy Porter, The Hot Sardines, Jennifer Holliday, and Leonard Nimoy.

Director Alex Timbers has confirmed that Here Lies Love, the musical based on David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's 2010 concept album, will be opening in London at the National's Dorfman Theatre in October. The show tells the story of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos' rise to power and subsequent descent into infamy and disgrace at the end of the People Power Revolution. It originally opened in April 2013 at the Public Theatre in New York City, and was extended by popular demand on four occasions.

In the video below, go behind the scenes with Katie Rose Clarke and Adam Halpin as they sing three songs from Long Wharf Theatre's upcoming production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. The cast consists of Katie Rose Clarke (Cathy) and Adam Halpin (Jamie). Check out the video below!

The cast of After Midnight says farewell to their most recent guest star, Vanessa Williams. Williams' last performance is on Sunday, May 11 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W. 47th Street). Set to replace Williams is The Color Purple's Fantasia Barrino.

On Monday June 2, Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) will present Inspire: Happiness, an evening of insightful conversations about happiness and altruism at the State Library of Queensland.