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Fox Valley Repertory announces that the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley is awarding a capital improvement grant in the amount of $3,450 for the purchase of ten dual dimmer cards to improve stage lighting needs.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts today announced the recipients of the 2010 Sally Ordway Irvine Awards. In addition to the traditional awards for Vision, Commitment, Initiative and Education, a new award was given this year to acknowledge extraordinary efforts to expand access to the arts across Minnesota.

The Heineken TransAtlantic Festival (April 14-30, 2011) grabs a fearless hold on the punk travels and dubbed-out grace of a generation of new musicians from Mexico to Brazil, from Brooklyn to Nigeria. Then it transports them to Miami Beach's best kept secret: A swooping mid-century bandshell right on the beach, in the heart of the city's North Beach historic district.

Iowa Shares has announced its newest member, Friends of the Center, a non-profit group that offers financial support to The Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center.

After several rounds of tough auditions, the award-winning Minnetonka High School Drama Department has cast its biggest show ever-Andrew Lloyd Webber's romantic masterpiece, The Phantom of the Opera. With performances beginning April 29th, it will be the musical's first ever Minnesota production.

One of the most unique and compelling interpretations of the late John Lennon's music comes from The Nu-Utopians (formerly The John Lennon Song Project), a 7-piece ensemble that honors the genius and artistry of this icon's songwriting and singing in a thoughtfully re-imagined tribute.

Recently honored by President Barack Obama with the National Medal of Arts, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2011 will officially commence with a star-studded Season Opening Gala performance and celebration on June 18. A dance photography exhibit by Annie Leibovitz, created especially for the Pillow, will be on display in an exclusive preview.

In the 9 o'clock hour, ABC's special preview of 'Shark Tank' was up sharply from its most-recent telecast in February 2010 (on 2/5/10), gaining 35% in Total Viewers (6.2 million vs. 4.6 million) and 36% in Adults 18-49 (1.9/5 vs. 1.4/4). In fact among viewers and young adults, ABC's 'Shark Tank' achieved series-high numbers.

Despite most of the media's attention being focused on Charlie Sheen these days, his former 'Two and a Half Men' co-star Jon Cryer has reportedly - and much more quietly - been cast in the NY Philharmonic production of COMPANY as David.

The musical opened at the St. James Theater on October 11, 1948, and hit the right chord with theatre goers, eventually playing 792 performances. Does it still strike the same note with today's audiences? Find out!

From 1880 to 1930, Vaudeville was the most popular form of entertainment in America. Audiences marveled at singers and dancers, jugglers and comics, aerialists, ventriloquists, illusionists, acrobats, animal acts and scenes from New York stage-plays. Young performers learned their trade by working the circuits, doing as many as six shows a day. A few became legends. It was a time and a life like no other.

Repertwa (http://repertwa.com), a new website aimed at contemporary Musical Theatre composers, performers, collectors and enthusiasts has gone live. Repertwa is an online store where composers can sell their sheet music, recordings and backing tracks to an audience looking for new and exciting material may otherwise be difficult to find.

Variety reports that casting for the upcoming film 'The First Ride of Wyatt Earp' will include stage favorite Diana DeGarmo, as well as stage and screen star Val Kilmer. The series is based on the true story of Wyatt Earp, the western frontier sheriff and jack of all trades whose story has lasted generations.

PHANTOM PROJECTS THEATRE GROUP, celebrating their 15th Anniversary Season and Toni Morrison's 80th Birthday, brings THE BLUEST EYE to Los Angeles.

WHAT: FHCT Youth Theater announces the opening of the original comedy 'The Tortoise and the Hare (and Other Tall Tales)' by Youth Artistic Director Ross Collins

Michael Wilson, director of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore will be featured on NY1's 'On Stage' this weekend.

Artists Repertory Theatre is proud to announce their 2011/12 season's play selections: God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, No Man's Land by Harold Pinter, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol by John Longenbaugh, Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker, (I Am Still) The Duchess of Malfi by Joseph Fisher, Next to Normal book/lyrics by Brian Yorkey with music by Tom Kitt, and Race by David Mamet.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center's production of the world premiere of The Sonneteer, the new play by award-winning playwright Nick Salamone, has been extended due to tremendous response from audiences and critics alike.

Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) presents Crossing Currents, to close its 2010-2011 performance season at the Lab Theater April 7 -10. This Minnesota dance event offers a world premiere and a triptych of Art Inspired work. MDT celebrates its eclectic repertory, exclusive work, past commissions, and the new as we look forward to our 50th anniversary in 2012.

Adrianne Palicki stars as the title character in the new NBC pilot 'Wonder Woman,' from executive producer David E. Kelley ('Boston Legal,' 'Ally McBeal,' NBC's 'Harry's Law'). The pilot was written by Kelley, who also serves as executive producer with Bill D'Elia ('Boston Legal,' 'The Practice,' NBC's 'Harry's Law').