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Chamber Music America's May 3 First Tuesdays workshop will be presented by teaching artist and jazz pianist Eli Yamin.

Matías Tarnopolsky, Director of Cal Performances, the internationally distinguished arts presenter based on the campus of UC Berkeley, announces the 2011-2012 season featuring the United States premiere of the Desdemona project, a new work by Peter Sellars and Toni Morrison, inspired by Othello; a three-concert residency by the Mariinsky Orchestra of St. Petersburg performing the six Tchaikovsky symphonies; and the Cal Performances debuts of actor John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, a work that combines theater, opera and music, and countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.

The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical NEXT TO NORMAL comes to PlayhouseSquare June 7 -19 as part of the 2010-2011 KeyBank Broadway Series at PlayhouseSquare. Tickets are on sale now at the PlayhouseSquare Ticket Office, online at www.playhousesquare.org and by phone at 216-241-6000.

Beck Center for the Arts has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to provide early childhood arts education programming for preschoolers enrolled in the Head Start Program through West Side Ecumenical Ministry. PNC provided the funding as part of Grow Up Great, its 10-year, $100 million initiative to improve early childhood education.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College concludes its 2010-2011 Target FamilyFun series with American Family Theater's production of Beauty and the Beast on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 2pm.

Los Angeles Children's Chorus (LACC), which has been enchanting audiences for 25 years and is considered one of the world's foremost children's choirs, culminates a year-long celebration of its first quarter century with a special 25th Anniversary edition of its annual Spring Concert, showcasing choir members current and former at the spectacular Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, May 14, 2011, 7 PM

Main Street Theater concludes its inaugural season of the New/Now Series with the world premiere of Walton Beacham's I Am Barbie, a tell-all exposé of one of the greatest icons of the 20th century! With a preview on May 12, I Am Barbie opens May 13 and runs through May 29 at Main Street Theater - Rice Village, 2540 Times Blvd. Performances are on Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets range from $24 - $30, depending on date and section.

Every Day Is Yours To Win, the latest film in R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now Film Project, is currently streaming on YouTube's homepage for 24 hours.

Artists Rep presents the World Premiere of Richard Kramer's striking new adaptation of one of literature's most-read and referenced plays, The Cherry Orchard. Peer into an avant-garde interpretation of this classic Chekhov story that takes on a magical quality as a family grapples with the impending foreclosure of their estate.

In celebration of its 50 year anniversary, the critically-acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will open on Broadway Saturday, October 13, 2012-exactly 50 years to the date after the play's original Broadway opening on Saturday, October 13, 1962. Directed by Pam MacKinnon, the Broadway production will feature the original Steppenwolf cast: ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton with Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks and will open at a Shubert Theatre TBA.

The Music at Sharon Festival has confirmed more details for its beautiful summer festival, taking place at 2 PM on the last Sunday in May, and all Sundays in June at the historical Sharon Temple.

This week's theme on DANCING WITH THE STARS was one of the most fitting themes the show's ever had: guilty pleasures.

The Board of Trustees of Honolulu Theatre for Youth has named Becky Dunning to the position of managing director, effective May 16. She succeeds Louise King Lanzilotti, who resigned in late 2010.

Emma Hunton, currently appearing as Natalie in the National Tour of Next to Normal, will make a one-night only concert appearance at Northwestern University to benefit Broadway in South Africa on Monday, May 2nd.

This May DSI Comedy Theater is giving comedy audiences a chance to unload some of their secrets with the debut of Wikileaks. Each week a cast of DSI comedians will be improvising scenes based on secrets shared from the audience and people on stage.

The timeless tale of adventure, mutiny and friendship is told here through a terrific mix of comedy, music and drama along with sword fights and special effects. This play is riotous and inspiring, comical and daring, this show is ideal for kids of all ages and abilities.

Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake are set to return to Saturday Night Live in May.

Julie Gold, the New York songwriter best known for Bette Midler's version of her Grammy Award winner FROM A DISTANCE is celebrating her new CD entitled LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE at the Metropolitan Room, May 2nd at 7:00 p.m.

The age-old tradition of matchmaking takes a contemporary twist in San Jose Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Love in American Times, by Philip Kan Gotanda. Love in American Times is directed by San Jose Rep's Artistic Director Rick Lombardo, and will run from May 12 through June 5, 2011. Press Opening Night is Wednesday, May 18 at 8 p.m. Proceeds of the company's iconic 'Pay What You Will Night' on Thursday, May 12, will benefit victims of the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disasters.

Just in time for Mother's Day, three finalists from Nick at Nite's 'The Search for the Funniest Mom in America' offer up giggles galore when 'Mama's Night Out' brings its laugh out loud comedy to The Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University on Saturday, May 7 at 8 p.m.