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Next Theatre Company announces their 31st anniversary season main stage productions. The season includes one of the most talked about productions at the 2011 Humana Festival, Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison and directed by Damon Kiely, the United States premiere of The Girl in the Yellow Dress by South African playwright Craig Higginson and directed by Joanie Schultz and the Midwest premiere of After the Revolution by Amy Herzog and directed by Kimberly Senior.

MAD COW THEATRE announces the return of an exciting signature event for Downtown Orlando - The Ninth Annual Orlando Cabaret Festival, Orlando's Home of the Great American Songbook. The Festival will feature cabaret artists and acts from Central Florida and beyond.

A BUTCHER OF DISTINCTION is immediately transferring to the King's Head Theatre in Islington to continue its season, after the sudden closure of The Cock Tavern Theatre. Resident company OperaUpClose has made scheduling changes to its opera rep season to accommodate this important new work. Rob Hayes, the 25-year-old award-winning playwright, made his London debut at The Cock Tavern Theatre this month with the World Premiere of A BUTCHER OF DISTINCTION, also published by Oberon Books.

Launching its 19th season, Shattered Globe Theatre will present DOWN & DIRTY ROMEO & JULIET, opening at its first location, The Globe Pub, 1934 W. Irving Park Road in Chicago on April 14th at 7:00 p.m. The interactive play will move venues throughout its run. Audiences may find themselves moving around a park, around a large building or from venue to venue. The production doesn't have a set, stage, or costumes either, but it does include 14 actors who have memorized rehearsed multiple roles and a chance for the audience and actors to interact.

Entertainment reporter Robin Milling of Milling About on www.Blogtalkradio.com and W*E*N*N will host the Drama Desk panel Movie and Television Stars on Broadway at Sardi's restaurant on April 15, 2011, from 1pm to 2:30 pm. The prestigious panelists come from the world of movies and television; all of them making a successful impact and transition to the stage.

Andrew Upton's adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1926 novel turned play The White Guard, commissioned by London's National Theatre (where it played to five-star reviews last year), is presented in a new production directed by Upton at Sydney Theatre from 7 June to 10 July.

David Janollari, MTV Head of Programming, and Chris Linn, MTV Executive Vice President of Programming and Head of Production, today announced that the network is set to build upon its record-breaking series 'Jersey Shore' by greenlighting new programming that will feature cast members Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi, Paul 'DJ Pauly D' Delvecchio and Jenni 'JWoww' Farley. Executive Produced by SallyAnn Salsano of 495 Productions, the two untitled reality projects begin production later this year and are slated to air in 2012.

Red Branch Theatre Company, the professional theatre company in residence at Drama Learning Center, is pleased to announce their upcoming show, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, running April 29 - May 7. Based on Judy Blume's book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, the story promises to be a delight for audiences of all ages.

Stoneham Theatre announces Season 12, a season devoted to the universal theme of growing up.

The 2009 Drama Desk Award winner and 2010 Bistro Award winner Celebrity Autobiography performs Monday, April 11 at 9:00pm at New York's Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street, with a cast that is scheduled to include Mario Cantone, Tate Donovan, Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh, Marsha Mason, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, and Alan Zweibel. The evening will feature a special tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, who is a central character in one of Celebrity Autobiography's signature pieces.

La Jolla Playhouse will present a reading of its commissioned musical Hands on a Hardbody, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner and 2011 Playhouse Gala Honoree Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), Amanda Green (High Fidelity) and Trey Anastasio of the popular band Phish. Directed by Neil Pepe (Speed-the-Plow) and choreographed by Benjamin Millipied (Black Swan), the Hands on a Hardbody reading will take place in New York on April 8th and 9th (by invitation).

As anticipation builds for the spectacular royal wedding of the century, The Style Network will celebrate the special occasion early with back-to-back hours of bridal bliss on Saturday, April 23 from 8:00 to 11:00pm ET/PT.

Following the successful debuts of four critically acclaimed, new original hit series - The Big C, Shameless, Episodes and The Borgias - Showtime Networks and President of Entertainment David Nevins, will be adding two more original series to the premium channel's line-up.

Met Music Director James Levine leads the new production premiere of Die Walküre, Robert Lepage's staging of the second opera in Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. The production opens Friday, April 22, with an exceptional cast of Wagnerian singers, most of whom are singing their roles for the first time at the Met.

Limited tickets remain for the Louis Sachar novel 'Holes' opening April 15 at Stages Theatre Company (STC). Based on the 1999 Newbery Medal Winner, this production is for ages 8 and up, and is showcased in the Hopkins Jaycees Studio.

Hard Rock Cafe's Chef Aaron Moran to unveil Recycled Percussion-themed dessert. This milkshake includes vanilla ice cream, coffee, roasted peanuts, hot fudge and is topped with a waffle cone. It makes its official debut Friday, April 1, and will be available through the month of April for $6.50 (plus tax) with partial proceeds benefitting the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.

The Antaeus Company strives to keep classical theater vibrantly alive by presenting professional productions with a top-flight ensemble company of actors. Taking their company name from the Titan who gained strength by touching the Earth, Antaeus members - many of whom are familiar to movie and television audiences - regain creative strength by returning to the wellspring of their craft: live theater performances of great classical plays.

A cell phone rings incessantly in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table has had enough and answers the phone. Only afterwards does she discover the cell phone owner is dead ? and with a lot of loose ends. And so begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative comedy that blends the mundane with the metaphysical, the blunt with the obscure and the patently bizarre with the bizarrely moving.

Two songwriting giants on stage together, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, have teamed together for a new show in which both artists - who have been touring together in one fashion or another since 1989 - will perform side-by-side, alternating songs from throughout their careers.

InnateVolution Theater Productions will present its first musical! The Chicago Premiere of Adrift in Macao the new musical comedy by Christopher Durang (Book & Lyrics) & Peter Melnick (Music). Set in 1952 Macao, China, Adrift in Macao is a loving parody of film noir movies.