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WICKED will go on sale to the public on Saturday, May 19 at 7 a.m.; tickets will be exclusively available at the box office from 7 to 10 a.m. on-site at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts at 361 Symphony Park Avenue in Las Vegas. Beginning at 10 a.m., any remaining tickets will be available for purchase online at www.TheSmithCenter.com or by phone at 702-749-2000. There is an 8-ticket limit per patron.

The Guthrie Theater today announced casting for the Shapiro & Smith Dance production of ANYTOWN-featuring the music of legendary singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band Members Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell.

Summer at Hedgerow Theatre usually means it's time for a Ray Cooney farce. The theatre, which is currently producing Yasmina Reza's comedy, 'Art' through June 17, will bring Cooney's 'Not Now, Darling' to its stage for a July 5 to Aug. 12 run.

The Contradictions of Fair Hope, the directorial debut of S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf, is a powerful portrait of one of the nation's last surviving benevolent societies-a self-help group formed after Emancipation to help freed slaves take care of the sick, feed the hungry and bury the dead.

Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd announces the cast and creative team for the Alley Theatre's production of the Michael Frayn's Noises Off.

The first major museum retrospective devoted to contemporary artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems - described as 'one of today's most eloquent and respected interpreters of the African American experience' - opens on September 21, 2012, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. Some 225 photographs, installations, and videos, selected from more than fifteen museums and private collections, offer an unprecedented survey of Weems's thirty-year involvement with issues of race, gender, and class.

The Chicago Premiere of Gruesome Playground Injuries, from 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, will run July 5 - August 5, 2012, at the Chopin Theatre Downstairs, 1543 West Division, Chicago, IL. Directed by Rasaka Theatre Company's Artistic Director Lavina Jadhwani, press opening is Saturday, July 7, 2012 at 8 PM. For tickets and more information, visit www.rasakatheatre.com.

Firecat Projects and 16th Street Theater present Nickel History: The Nation of Heat, written and performed by Tony Fitzpatrick with Stan Klein July 19-August 5 in Steppenwolf's Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted with a press opening of Thursday, July 19 at 8 p.m. Adapted and directed by 16th Street artistic director Ann Filmer, Nickel History features film and video art by Kristin Reeves, music by John Rice and Anna Fermin. Singer-songwriter Joe Pug is a guest performer on opening night.

Translated by Richard Wilbur, the show performs this weekend and next at Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) by Encore Players, Katy's premier community theatre.

During the month of June, The Robert G. Reim Theatre in Kirkwood will feel less like a theatre, and more like a Harlem jazz club in the 1930s, when STAGES ST. LOUIS presents the Tony Award-winning musical revue, Ain't Misbehavin'.

On May 16, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off the Dark welcomed its 1,000,000th audience member. View photos of Yvelisse Fermin from Flushing, Queens with the cast below!

The Miami premiere of Disney's THE LION KING opens tonight at 8 p.m. at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County for a limited engagement of four weeks through Sunday, June 10. THE LION KING plays Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. and Sunday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Matinee performances are Saturdays at 2 p.m., Sundays at 1 p.m. with an additional performance on Friday, June 8 at 2 p.m.

Fratellanza-a new collaboration between Michigan brothers Jim and Paul Manganello-is creating a new show for The New Theatre Project imagining the circumstances around the creation of Shakespeare's First Folio. The Mute Quire runs June 17-July 1 at Mix Studio Theater, 130 W. Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti, MI.

Country comedian Bill Engvall will bring his trademark blue collar comedy back to the Treasure Island Theatre, June 22 at 8 p.m.

Just in time for summer blockbuster season, Thomas Blake, director of Los Angeles' long running hit Point Break Live!, returns to New York with the World Premiere of TERMINATOR TOO, JUDGMENT PLAY. Previews of this new interactive spoof of the classic 1991 Schwarzenegger/James Cameron action blockbuster Terminator 2 begin June 23 at downtown's Santos Party. Opening night is slated for July 14 (Bastille Day).

As reported earlier today, Donna Summer passed away this morning, May 17 in Florida after a long battle with cancer. She was 63 years old.

The previously scheduled RADIOTHEATRE HOUR presentation of THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU has been cancelled and will now be replaced by the extension of the popular H.P. LOVECRAFT FESTIVAL, a repertory of cult horror classics by the Grandmaster of 20th Century American Horror. Stories will include REANIMATOR; THE CALL OF CTHULHU; THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN; COOL AIR; THE THING IN THE MOONLIGHT… live, onstage for the first time, complete with award-winning sound design and original orchestral scores.

Thomas Weaver, a successful writer, returns to his hometown to perform the eulogy for his childhood friend, Alvin Kelby. He struggles to find the appropriate words, but comes up with nothing but blank pages.

Written by Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers graduate, Jimmy Osborne, MEAT will preview at Theatre503 from 5 June with press night on 7 June.

The Cincinnati Arts Association, the Music Hall resident arts organizations, and friends and family of Music Hall mourn the loss of Roger Adams, Music Hall's beloved Technical Director since 1994. Roger died at his home on Monday, May 14.