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Linda Ann Watt will teach a MASTER CLASS-ACTING & SCENE STUDY. This 10-session class meets weekly at Spirit Square, 235 North College Street, 3rd Floor, starting on Thursday, June 14, 2012, 7-9 p.m.

Naked Girls Reading NYC presents BROS vs HOS on June 20.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College announces its 58th season of music, dance, theater, and family programming reflecting the multicultural diversity of Brooklyn. The outstanding line-up features performances from Jamaica, Russia, China, and Canada, as well as the United States, and includes both Brooklyn premieres and returning favorites.

George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint today announced that the New Brunswick's theatre's 39th season will open with One Slight Hitch, by comedian and regular contributor to "The Daily Show," LEWIS BLACK. Starring in this delightful modern farce will be actor MARK LINN-BAKER, who was recently seen on Broadway in Relatively Speaking and is known to television audiences from the hit comedy Perfect Strangers.

The company of the second North American tour of WICKED will welcome Jeanna de Waal as Glinda on Wednesday, June 27 in E. Lansing, MI.

Playhouse on the Square and the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County will host dog auditions and pet adoptions at Playhouse on the Square on Saturday, June 23 from 11am to 2pm.

Museum of the Moving Image will present a live performance by Sideband, the groundbreaking electronic music ensemble, on Friday, June 15, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. The concert will feature laptops as musical instruments, augmented by wireless networks, multichannel speakers, live 3-D video projections, hacked video game controllers, homemade hardware, traditional instruments, physical movement, pianist Kathy Supove, and much more.

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, a musical satire of 1960s corporate life, from the Tony-winning composer of Guys and Dolls.

TBS JUST FOR LAUGHS CHICAGO today announced that Adam Sandler will make a special appearance to introduce an advance screening of his new movie That's My Boy at the Kerasotes Showplace ICON on Thursday, June 14.

Motherhood the Musical® playing through June 16 at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted Street, is offering all moms the opportunity to be "Queen for the Day!" to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Official Birthday on Wednesday, June 13.

The 7th Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival announced that this year's program of "Tennessee Williams and Music" will present the pleasures of music in the drama of America's great playwright. The seaside village of Provincetown will be alive with the sounds of blues, Mariachi, Dixieland, American Pop, Art Song and African drums. Theater artists from around the globe will converge on this art colony where Williams worked over several summers in the 1940s, performing his classics, his little known works and new works that he has inspired.

Wilkie Ferguson, currently appearing on Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated production of The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS, will give a solo concert performance at The Triad Theater (158 West 72nd Street) at 9:30pm on June 11, 2012.

Playscripts, Inc. has announced the winner of their Pitch 'N' Play playwriting competition: How to Kiss a Girl by Wade Bradford, based on a Twitter pitch by Leslie Kenner.

Coldplay, Tim McGraw, Sheryl Crow, Phish, The Killers, The Tragically Hip, Maxwell, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, K'NAAN, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen and many others are joining together this summer to support RED.

At a press conference held June 5 at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 169 nominations for 212 eligible productions that opened between June 1, 2011 and May 22, 2012 for the 33rd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto.

Barbara Hamilton Memorial Award was inaugurated in 1996 and is given to a Canadian artist who demonstrates excellence in the performing arts and is dedicated to advocating and being an ambassador for the arts in Canada. The Barbara Hamilton Memorial Award is sponsored by the City of Toronto, and the recipient is awarded with a scroll and a cheque for $1,000 from the City.

The Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award (LMJH Award) was inaugurated in 2008 and recognizes the important work of theatre, dance and opera administrators. Recipients of the LMJH Award have at least 10 years of demonstrated commitment to the performing arts, in addition to having made an impact on the industry in Toronto. The award is named after Leonard McHardy andJohn Harvey, the celebrated owners of Toronto's Theatrebooks, which they co-founded in 1975, and now stands as one of the longest surviving independent bookstores in the country.

The George Luscombe Award was inaugurated in 1999 and recognizes an individual for mentorship in theatre. Revolutionary theatre founder and artistic director George Luscombe founded Toronto Workshop Productions in 1959, marking the beginnings of Toronto's alternative theatre movement. His 27 years at TWP is the longest tenure of any artistic director in Canada.

James Lecce's exhibition of new abstract paintings will be on view at McKenzie Fine Art through this Saturday, June 9, 2012.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival will present Michael Ogborn's award winning musical Baby Case, directed by Jeremy Dobrish, produced by Charlie Fink, Michael Ogborn, Robert Soslow, Juliana Schauerman, Dorothy Flynn, Caroline Castagno, Glenn Gunderson, Kathy Lou Leone, Diane Santillo, and Anne Makara. Baby Case will playfrom July 16 - 22, 2012 at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 W 42 St).