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Grammy nominated recording artist and Broadway performer, Marty Thomas (Xanadu, Secret Garden, Wicked) prepares to redefine the nightclub scene with his new act Marty Thomas Presents: Diva at the hottest spot in Hell's Kitchen.

Pop superstar Rihanna, along with country sensation Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, will give a special performance of Rihanna's latest single, 'California King Bed,' at the first-ever ACM Fan Jam. The performance will air live from the ACM Fan Jam during the 46th ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, which is being broadcast live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Sunday, April 3 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.

World-renowned entertainer Willie Nelson will perform at 'Kokua For Japan,' a Hawaii-based radio, television and Internet fund raising event for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

The New Jersey Repertory Company, located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch, is proud to present the world premiere of 'Night Train' by John Biguenet, April 28 thru May 29, 2011.

On Monday evening, March 28, theatrical producer Margot Astrachan and the St. George's Society of New York Arts Initiative presented a panel discussion at The National Arts Club highlighting both the DRAMA DESK AWARDS and the Obie/Drama Desk Award winning KEEN COMPANY.

For the past five years, the Broadway Kids Care (BKC) has provided philanthropy for various organizations in New York City. At this time, BKC is taking its outreach to an international level. According to BKC member and spokesperson, Sarah Safer, 'my friends at BKC came together to help those affected by the terrible tragedy in Japan.

'Burn This' by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanford Wilson opens this Sunday, April 3, 2011, at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum. Directed by Nicholas Martin, performances of 'Burn This' continue through May 1. This production is dedicated to Lanford Wilson.

The 2011 Festival of New American Musicals, a five-month musical theatre festival, will be held April 1 through August 28, 2011, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson, Bob Klein, and Linda Shusett are the Executive Producers of the annual festival, now in its fourth year. This year's Festival includes 16 world premieres, and an additional 10 west coast premieres.

Drury Lane Theatre presents the Tony Award-winning international hit musical AIDA, Directed and Choreographed by Jeff Award winner Jim Corti (Sweet Charity, Meet Me in St. Louis, Cabaret, and Sugar.) Featuring a dynamic cast led by Stephanie Umoh as 'Aida' ('Sarah' in the 2009 Broadway production of Ragtime) and Jared Zirilli as 'Radames' (first National Tour of Wicked), AIDA previewed March 17, opened March 24 and runs through May 29 at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane.

Paradise Theatre presents THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett NEWLY ADAPTED by Wendy Kesselman Directed by JEFF RICHARDS

Texas Performing Arts welcomes 2010 Grammy Award-winning Brazilian guitar virtuosos Sérgio and Odair Assad for an evening devoted to their Lebanese musical roots, aptly titled De Volta As Raizes (Back To Our Roots).

Two lost souls share an intimate moment, each learning to love and dream again, in playwright Nancy P. Moss's intimate historical drama Anna: Love in the Cold War. The play takes place during a bitter winter night in 1945 Leningrad, where oppression and suspicion are commonplace and one never knows who may be listening. Directed by Joshua A. Kashinsky, Anna: Love in the Cold War will begin performances on April 22nd at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, located at 312 West 36th Street.

Artists Rep is pleased to present 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.

This winter, nearly 1,000 kids from around the city got a jump on their jump shot with the Millennium Basketball Winter League, which fields four divisions: Co-Ed 8 - 10, Boys and Girls 11 - 13, and Boys 14 - 16.

Reprise Theatre Company will present 'The Apple Tree' with book music and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, additional book material by Jerome Coopersmith, and based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton, and Jules Feiffer as the third production of its 2011-2012 season, playing April 17 to 29, 2012 at the Freud Playhouse.

Multi-talented comedian, actor, singer and writer Rodney Carrington will debut his hilarious stand-up routine at the Terry Fator Theatre at The Mirage June 17 - 18, performing at 10 p.m. nightly. For nearly 20 years, Carrington, one of Pollstar's Top Five-grossing touring comedians, has blazed the comedy trails of America with his hysterical stand-up tour while delighting fans with his unique style of comedy.

Tom Shillue, the master of comedic storytelling, will be extending his award winning one-man show Supernormal at Performance Space 122 through April 9. Drawing from his middle class Catholic upbringing, Tom's comically crafted tales of growing up in suburban Massachusetts and life in NY are both poignant and hysterically, universally relatable. In other words, they are so normal, they are radical.

Lawry's The Prime Rib (100 E. Ontario St.) offers Working Dinner-Theatre packages featuring a themed menu and tickets to the acclaimed musical, based upon the book by Chicago's own Studs Terkel, at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place on Saturday, April 16, 2011.

After a successful run of Amiel Gladstone's Hippies and Bolsheviks in 2009, Girl Got Lost Productions and director Chelsea McIsaac are excited to present an exuberant interpretation of one of the earlier plays written by North America's most prolific playwright, Sam Shepard, with his girlfriend at the time, high priestess of poetry/punk/rock, Patti Smith.

This production is a drama along the storyline of the television show 'Law and Order.' There is a courtroom scene that deliberates the health epidemic of HIV/AIDs in our community. Each time the HHCDC provides a drama production, it is for the purposes of entertainment and to raise awareness about something in our community.