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Based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 masterpiece 'The Awakening of Spring,' Spring Awakening is the contemporary musical adaptation of one of literature's most controversial plays. The musical - which was awarded eight 2007 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and continues to tour nationally today - features music by Duncan Sheik ('Barely Breathing'), and book and lyrics by Steven Sater (Carbondale Dreams). Now, the team has reportedly set their sights on re-imagining another classic for London's National Theatre: Alice in Wonderland.

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark made its first television performance since reopening for previews on the AMERICAN IDOL stage for the show's season finale. View the performance below!

In a night packed with performances from stars from Beyonce to Lady Gaga to Tim McGraw, this year's winner was revealed to be 17-year-old country crooner Scotty McCreery; BroadwayWorld brings you official photo coverage of the AMERICAN IDOL season finale below!

After her SOLD OUT winter residency, Michelle Hoffman (better known as 'Shells'), the famed JPMorgan Chase analyst-cum-cabaret sensation, returns to Joe's Pub for a limited spring engagement.

BroadwayWorld.com reported back on April 21 that the Broadway-bound revival of Godspell, which is now aiming for the Great White Way in the 2011-12 theatre season will likely play in the Circle in the Square Theatre, which is currently home to the open-ended run of LOMBARDI. No official announcement has been made, but the production will indeed open this year, on November 7th.

Hatikvah Productions has extended the world premiere run of No Word in Guyanese for Me through June 25.

PLEASE NOTE: The recently-announced revival of BENITO CERENO -- scheduled to begin performances at The Flea Theater on June 16 -- has been postponed, according to Rafael De Mussa, artistic director of Horizon Theatre Rep, which is producing the play. It is anticipated that the production will be mounted in the late summer of early fall.

Noted entertainment attorney Eric S. Goldman will produce Gay Bride of Frankenstein Off-Broadway in the 2011-2012 season. Written by Dane E. Leeman (book) & Billy Butler (book, music & lyrics), Gay Bride of Frankenstein is a pop/rock, fairy tale musical that follows the exploits of four high school friends on one fateful Halloween night at a very unconventional Monsters Ball. It's John Hughes meets Scooby-Doo, and asks the age old question: 'Will the girl get the girl?'

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, under the leadership of Executive Director Stacie Burgua, is proud to present The Whidbey Island Fringe Festival June 27 - August 07!

Local actors, ages 18+, are invited to audition for the 2011/2012 Season at the Tony Award-winning Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT.

Cirque Le Masque presents Fire and Ice, the story of the lost girl who watches as the fairytale she is reading comes to life around her. Cirque Le Masque is a sophisticated European-style circus that incorporates dance and mime with acrobatics, lavish costumes and dazzling special effects.

Michael Brenner, producer and impresario, founder and managing partner of the Mannheim based BB Promotion GmbH, died in the early hours of Saturday, May 21, 2011 at the age of 59. He and his much-loved wife were on a bicycle tour when he was hit by a motorbike. He never recovered from his injuries.

On Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, the public will have an additional opportunity to view three popular exhibitions-the recently opened Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century-at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Memorial Day is a Met Holiday Monday-one of the extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weeks and weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed.

Produced and choreographed for the West Valley City Arts Council by Margene Conde, Forever Plaid tells the story of 'The Plaids', a 1950's style all-male singing group. En route to perform at the 'concert to end all concerts', the four high school buddies perish in a tragic car accident. Hilarity and comic genius ensue when The Plaids are miraculously resurrected and come back to earth to finally play their one last show. Tapping into 50's nostalgia, Forever Plaid features the classic hits 'Three Coins in the Fountain', 'Magic Moments', and 'Love is a Many Splendored Thing'. Directed by Jim Smith.

Minnetonka Theatre is taking it to the high seas this July as they present the zany romantic adventure Anything Goes on the Arts Center on 7's Main Stage. This production marks the on-stage reunion of two Twin Cities musical theatre favorites-Jody Briskey as Reno Sweeney, the evangelist-turned-nightclub singer, and Tod Petersen as Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, the wealthy and soon-to-be wed Englishman.

Soulful saxophonist and composer Cal Bennett and his band will perform a wide range of jazz that includes his new release 'Love Knows Love,' original songs and classic standards Tuesday (May 31) in the Mid-Summer Nights Jazz Concerts Under the Stars series at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center in Leimert Park.

Uptown Players continues its tenth season with the regional premiere of the startling new musical, Next To Normal, running June 10 - July 3, 2011, at the historic Kalita Humphreys Theater. Uptown Players is the first regional theater in the United States to produce Next To Normal, following its long Broadway run, which ended on January 16, 2011, after 21 previews and 733 regular performances.

Acclaimed ballet instructor and choreographer Lou Fancher of the Berkeley Ballet Theater will present two dance master classes for teens and adults on June 14 and 16, 2011 at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood.

This one-person tour de force performance encompasses the life of one of baseball's legendary greats: The Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams. Through the art of performance and visual imagery, we follow Ted's life from his humble beginnings in San Diego to his shinning accomplishments on the diamond.

Excerpts from: RED, WHITE and TUNA Plus Original Works by the Readers on being Gay Adults!