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The President and Mrs. Obama will host a celebration of American poetry and prose by welcoming accomplished poets, musicians and artists as well as students from across the country to the White House next week.

Whether you're a classical music lover or a disco darling, there's something for everyone as Peter Nero and the Philly Pops® plays its most requested audience favorites in Big Numbers (May 15, 18, 20-21, 2011). This crowd-pleasing program, which features music ranging from Tchaikovsky to Earth, Wind & Fire, showcases the talented POPS musicians as they step out from the orchestra and into the spotlight for spectacular solo performances.

Wicker Park upscale sports bar The Fifty/50 (2047 W Division St) and The Bench Mob will host an event with Chicago Bulls point guard C.J. Watson that will benefit his Quiet Storm Foundation from 7pm to 9pm on Friday, May 13 in the basement lounge of The Fifty/50.

Playhouse South, A Community Theatre is excited to announce, First Annual Talent Show coming to the stage at The Clark Haines Theater, 3700 Far Hills Avenue.

Open Auditions for Into the Woods will take place on June 13 and June 14 at 7:00 PM. Call-backs will be held on June 15 at 7:00 PM.

On the heels of the opening of its critically-hailed hit production of 'Passing Strange,' Bailiwick Chicago announced today that the company has been awarded the producing rights for the Chicago premiere of the groundbreaking 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,' which, on Tuesday, May 3, was nominated for two Tony Awards (Best Book of a Musical and Set Design) and recently won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical.

Beginning with the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! this summer, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will offer tickets for patrons ages 5 to 30 in the new Pay Your Age savings program.

Burning Coal Theatre Company is partnering with The Town of Cary to bring the pages of Cary's rich history to life in an all-new production, A WALK THROUGH THE PAGES OF HISTORY by Ian Finley, directed by PJ Maske, May 6-8, in conjunction with the Second Annual Herbfest.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for The Old Globe's 2011 Shakespeare Festival, performed in repertory in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Adrian Noble returns as the Artistic Director of the 2011 Festival and will direct Shakespeare's The Tempest and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. Ron Daniels also returns and will direct Much Ado About Nothing.

Tony Award-winning actress Marian Mercer passed away on April 27th. She was 75 years old.

BroadwayWorld has confirmed that Muny's summer season will include LEGALLY BLONDE, KISS ME KATE, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, and more.

Book signing with Fmr. Captain Luis Carlos Montalván, a decorated veteran of the Iraq War, spokesperson for The Tower of Hope, and author of a wonderful new book, Until Tuesday, (about how his service dog, Tuesday, saved his life).

Urinetown could very well be the worst title for a musical. Yet, this 2002 Tony award winner for best director, best original score, and best book of a musical has been entertaining audiences in Utah and abroad for several years now. What makes this musical with a distasteful title so enchanting?

The Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM), in partnership with Center Families, a family program of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center, and Goldman Sachs & Co. Community TeamWorks volunteer program, hosts its annual Pride Night, on Thursday, May 5 from 5:30 - 800pm. The evening is a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents, extended family and friends.

The Canyon Moon Theatre is producing its third annual 'Ritzy Rummage Sale' with a wide range of up-scale donations that will not only benefit the theatre but the donors. A bargain hunter's bonanza, it will include furnishings, décor and fine art, household items and boutique fashions. The sale runs from Friday, May 20 through Sunday, May 22. It will be held at the vacant Casa de Sedona store in the Oak Creek Factory Outlets.

Suspense novelist and Washington insider Rick Robinson's award-winning political thriller 'Manifest Destiny' (Headline Books, Inc.) has been acquired by Los Angeles producer Peter R.J. Deyell ('Road to Nowhere') in a six-figure agreement, with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Quinn Redeker ('The Deer Hunter') attached to write. Deyell is in talks with other top creatives in Hollywood about developing the book into a motion picture.

The Underground at the Abrons series is proud to present Artist and performer Joseph Keckler as he draws on his elastic, classically trained voice, bizarre and precise characterizations, and image-rich language to create an evening of layered performance works. He presents his first show of the year in NYC: a showing of new work, a multi-media concert, which will include the first public screening of video shorts created in 2011, new songs performed in collaboration with violinist Dan Bartfield, and sneak previews of Joseph's forthcoming solo play JOBZ.

Hallmark Channel, Emmy(R) Award-winning producer Linda Yellen ('Playing for Time') and Emmy(R) Award nominee Brad Krevoy ('Taking Chance') announce an all-star cast has been assembled in Bucharest and will commence production of 'William & Catherine: A Royal Romance,' a Hallmark Channel Original Movie, which will have its World Premiere exclusively on the network, Saturday, August 27 (9 p.m. ET/PT, 8C).

Film and television star Will Ferrell made his Broadway debut in his one-man show YOU'RE WELCOME AMERICA: A FINAL NIGHT WITH GEORGE W BUSH in early 2009. Ferrell reprised his role in a film short for funnyordie.com. Check it out below!

The New England Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Broadway stars Megan McGinnis, Matthew Stocke, Gerry McIntyre, Tyrick Wiltez Jones and Jennifer Johns to the stage at Lake Pearl Luciano's.