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The Kleban Foundation today announced that the 22nd Annual Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has gone to Marcy Heisler. For the Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist, the judges declared a tie between Andrew Gerle and Matt Schatz. The 2012 prizes will be presented on June 18, 2012, in a private ceremony (by invitation only) at ASCAP.

A Noise Within (ANW), the highly regarded classical repertory theatre company and a leading force in arts education, presents SUMMER WITH SHAKESPEARE, a three-week summer program for youth ages 10 to 18 which demystifies Shakespeare's verse and grooms young artists to be Shakespearean performers. On a deeper level, this camp, which runs from June 25 to July 14, 2012, at the company's new state-of-the-art theatre in Pasadena, illuminates a connection to the patterns of the human condition inherent in Shakespeare's works.

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that individual tickets for Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the classic musical love story running at Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre October 16-21, 2012, will go on sale at 9 a.m. on Friday, June 1, 2012.

Writer/performer Peter Michael Marino presents a comic autopsy on his $6 million West End musical fiasco Desperately Seeking Susan in DESPERATELY SEEKING THE EXIT. Directed by Obie Award winner John Clancy, performances of this solo tell-all comedy run through May 18 at the Triple Crown Underground with newly added shows June 3 & 10 at The PIT Underground.

Starting May 25, let the Roxy Regional Theatre's THE WEDDING SINGER 'take you back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room.'

On Friday, May 25 at 8pm acclaimed jazz musician, Sarah Manning returns home with Harmonious Creature featuring Skye Steele on violin, Aram Bajakian on guitar and Jerome Jennings on drums.

Burning Coal is excited to premiere Oakwood: Unplugged, a musical performance in the historic Oakwood Cemetery, 701 Oakwood Avenue Raleigh, NC, Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19th at 6:30 pm and Sunday, May 20th at 2 pm. Adult tickets are $20, students $10, and are available by calling 919.834.4001 or visiting www.burningcoal.org.

World Champion ballroom dancer and Aussie native Kym Johnson will guest star in several upcoming performances of Dancing with the Stars: Live in Las Vegas at the New Tropicana Las Vegas this Memorial Day weekend.

The Warner Theatre Center for Arts Education's Performance Lab students will present a world premiere performance of The Beautiful Empire of Ordinary Kings,written and directed by the Warner Theatre Director of Education, Isabel Carrington and featuring hit music of popular contemporary artists.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present an original ensemble created production for the Fredneck in all of us, The All New Grand Ole Hee Haw Hootenanny Hoedown Jamboree.

MAX MAVEN: THINKING IN PERSON begins previews at The Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex (312 W. 36th Street -1st floor) on Tuesday, June 12th at 7PM.

Tony Award nominee and Broadway veteran, Barbara Walsh, will bring Terrence McNally's Master Class back to its birthplace when she portrays legendary opera diva, Maria Callas, in a production of the play at Alpine Theatre Project (ATP) in Whitefish, Montana June 15 -24. The Tony Award winning play was originally developed at "The Gathering" playwriting conference in nearby Bigfork, MT in the early 1990's. ATP's production will be the first professional production of the play in the area. It will be directed by David Ackroyd.

Born in Highland Park, Mich., and raised in Detroit, Meadows studied television and radio broadcasting at Wayne State University before performing improvisational comedy at the Soup Kitchen Saloon. In 1985, Meadows relocated to Chicago, where he first joined ImprovOlympic, and then the legendary comedy troupe Second City. During his three-years at Second City, he wrote and starred in productions of The Gods Must Be Lazy, with Chris Farley; It Was Thirty Years Ago Today; and Flag Smoking Permitted in Lobby Only, gaining a loyal following with his sharp comedic talent. In 1991, Meadows achieved the dreams of comics nationwide when producer Lorne Michaels asked him to join SNL as a featured player. Nominated for an Emmy® as part of the show's writing team that same month, he later made the transition to cast member status two years afterward.

The Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) in New Hope, Pennsylvania, has announced that the re-opening of the legendary and beloved landmark will kick-off with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, July 2 at 7:00 p.m. with the first performance of A Grand Night for Singing by Rodgers and Hammerstein to follow.

Sheffield Theatres and Paines Plough transfer the trio of plays about love, life and the world to Shoreditch Town Hall for a London run ahead of a national tour. The Roundabout Season will run from Wednesday 19 September to Saturday 27 October and features One Day When We Were Young by Nick Payne, Lungs by Duncan MacMillan and The Sound of Heavy Rain by Penelope Skinner.

The Collegiate Chorale presents Contemporary Voices on May 21, 2012 at 7pm at St. Bartholomew's Church, 325 Park Avenue, NYC. The concert features five musical gems by 20th and 21st Century masters of choral composition. Single tickets start at $20 and are available online at collegiatechorale.org or by phone at The Chorale office at (646) 435-9465.

Kevin Kline and Dianne Wiest will perform I take your hand in mine ... the love letters of Anton Chekhov to Olga Knipper, a play by Carol Rocamora, in a staged reading benefiting The Acting Company on Monday, June 25, 7pm at The Kaye Playhouse, East 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006. Benefit tickets, including cast dinner, from 212-258-3111.

ProArts will present "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" as the final show of their Spring season. This "tragic comedy" was written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paul Zindel in the late 1960s and first produced in 1967 in Los Angeles.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION, the play by Mark St. Germain, will celebrate its 700th New York performance this Friday, May 18th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

On Sunday, May 13th, the Tony Awards Film Series featured two films, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," and "Oklahoma!"