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The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards will once again recognize excellence in dance on both stage and film. This year's Awards gala will take place May 15,2011 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place) New York City 10019.

Directed & choreographed by Tony® Award winner Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes began performances March 10th, 2011 and officially opened on April 7th, 2011 on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 West 43rd Street). Check out opening night footage below!

Renowned singer and actress Liza Minnelli starts off the 'TV Land Awards 2011' with a bang on Sunday, April 17 at 9 PM ET/PT with a rousing performance of her classic hit 'New York, New York'! For the first time ever in the show's nine-year history, the awards were held in good old New York, and television's finest came out to celebrate. Be sure to tune on Sunday at 9 PM ET/PT to see what John Travolta called 'absolutely the coolest night in television.' In the meanwhile, check out Liza Minnelli performing New York, New York to open the show!

Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities and Executive Producer James A. Blackman III continue their 20th Anniversary Season with Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas' sweeping musical, The Light in the Piazza. Performances begin on Wednesday April 20 (with a gala press opening on Saturday April 23) and will run through Sunday May 8 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.

Pete Townshend's score won the Tony Award in 1993 when The Who's concept album from the late 1960's was transferred to the Broadway stage. Townshend said he used Tommy's afflictions to represent the 'basic blindness to reality' shared by most of the general population. The role of Tommy will be portrayed on The Media Theatre stage by Peter Kriss who has been seen in regional productions of 'Footloose' and 'Fame'. View 5-year-old John Michael Daily of Glen Mills performing 'Pinball Wizard', in a clip provided by his parents, by clicking below!

What happens when some of the world's most highly-strung artists become...unstrung? Portland Center Stage is proud to present Opus, by Michael Hollinger, the tart, witty play about the politics and passions that threaten a classical string quartet.

At the Prince Regent Hotel, guests in the dining room are enjoying dessert and live music in the elegant building where the upper crust and powerful congregate. Soon the festivities will be interrupted by the discovery of a dead body.

Town Players of Newtown is pleased to open its 2011 season with the hilarious, fast-paced British farce CASH ON DELIVERY! by Michael Cooney. The play opens on May 6 at 8 p.m. for a three week run.

After a two year absence from the Seattle stage, the Half Brothers return for a night at Theatre Off Jackson, and they're bringing their friends from 'Awesome' and Jose Bold along with them.

Celtic Woman, a smash hit around the globe, comes to The Orpheum Theatre with their newest live show taking place on May 9-10, 2011.

Silhouette Stages Presents Cabaret Night.

Daniel Beaty, writer, director and co-composer of Tearing Down The Walls, has been nominated for a United Solo uAward for his performance in his acclaimed solo show Through the Night (www.unitedsolo.org).

The Civic Center of Greater Des Moines welcomed Broadway's very own ‘Mary Poppins' Ashley Brown in An Evening with Ashley Brown to a very enthusiastic crowd at the Civic Center's Temple Theater last night for a one-night-only cabaret performance on Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Pianist Shai Wosner will join Garrison Keillor and guests on A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast live from New York's Town Hall tomorrow, April 16 at 6:00 p.m. The program will feature regular contributors including the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and vocal sound effect artist Fred Newman, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest 'News from Lake Wobegon.'

North America's oldest and most programmatically diverse music festival, Ravinia, has named renowned pianist, music administrator and educator Kevin Murphy director of the festival's summer music conservatory, the Steans Music Institute.

Dallas Theater Center presents Cabaret directed by Joel Ferrell and staring Wade McCollum, Kate Wetherhead and DTC Resident Acting Company members Chamblee Ferguson, Lee Trull and Sally Nystuen Vahle April 22 - May 22 at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

Bay Street Theatre is celebrating its 20th season and has announced the 2011 Mainstage productions. From the insightful look into the life of Truman Capote, to the wild comedy of Christopher During, and a Broadway bound musical.

Brian Bedford, star and director of Roundabout Theatre Company's The Importance of Being Earnest, and The New York Times' Ben Brantley will be featured on NY1 'The New York Times Closeup' in an interview with Sam Roberts this Saturday, April 16th at 10PM on Channel 1.

Le Salon de Musiques will end it's first season of eight concerts with Schubert and Mozart, performed on the 5th floor of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Sunday, May 15, 2011.

The team behind the world premiere of Bring It On: The Musical (which took place at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre in January) was an extraordinarily rare union of some of Broadway's most acclaimed, award-winning, young creators. With an original book by Tony Award® winner Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q), music and lyrics by Tony Award®-winning composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), music by Pulitzer and Tony Award®-winning composer Tom Kitt (next to normal) and lyrics by Broadway lyricist Amanda Green (High Fidelity), the production is directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Andy Blankenbuehler (In the Heights).