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The 18th annual George London Foundation Recital Series - which presents 'pairs of outstanding opera singers, many of whom were winners of a George London prize early in their careers or recent George London Award recipients' - features three events.

The Arvada Center Artistic Producer, Rod A. Lansberry has announced the cast for Legally Blonde, The Musical. The show runs June 12 - July 1, 2012 in the Main Stage Theater.

This summer, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, presents two exhibitions devoted to folk and self-taught artists of the American South. Creation Story: Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial and Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts will provide a rich view of the diversity and power of African American vernacular art. Both exhibitions may be seen at the Frist from May 25 through September 23, 2012.

Built to Spill have announced that they will extend their current summer tour into the fall with dates scheduled around the recording of a new studio album that will be released by Warner Bros. Records next year.

TNT's LEVERAGE Season Four arrives on DVD July 17 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Featuring an ensemble cast including Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf and Aldis Hodge, LEVERAGE Season Four features extras and never-before-seen footage

Three high school jazz bands took top honors on Sunday night at the 17th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The bands were chosen by a panel of judges composed of distinguished jazz musicians and historians, including Jazz at Lincoln Center's Artistic Director WYNTON MARSALIS; DAVID BERGER, BILL DOBBINS, JEFFREY HAMILTON and SHERMAN IRBY. The three top bands were chosen from a field of 15 finalist bands that participated in the three-day Competition & Festival from May 4-6.

LEAP OF FAITH's Kecia Lewis-Evans will be interviewed on WAMC radio on Tuesday May 8 at 10:35 AM on all Northeast Public Radio frequencies; it also streams live at www.wamc.org.

Imagination Stage Artistic leaders Janet Stanford and Kathryn Chase Bryer work to develop new scripts for the professional theatre (with 38 commissions and counting) to build a better cannon of intelligent work for young audiences...but there is something else missing....good scripts for young performers. That's when the Imagination Stage Education Team gets writing, and summertime is when they get the most creative.

Jujamcyn Theaters (Jordan Roth, President) and True Colors Theatre Company (Kenny Leon, Co-Founding Artistic Director) have announced the 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition on Monday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m. at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street). The event, which is free and open to the public, features high school students from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh and Seattle performing monologues by the late, legendary American playwright.

Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Tammy Blanchard will make her "The Big C" debut on Sunday, May 13 at 9:30 pm on Showtime. Landing a 3 episode recurring role on the hit television series, Blanchard will appear as Giselle, a sexy, uninhibited, and married Pilate's instructor whose relationship with Sean Tolkey (John Benjamin Hickey) starts to obscure his once conventional life.

OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES' Marilyn Sokol will be interviewed on WAMC Radio on Monday May 7 at 9:45 AM. The interview airs on all Northeast Public Radio frequencies and streams live at www.wamc.org.

The company of Broadway's first-ever revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL last month welcomed a new leading man- stage and screen star Corbin Bleu (Disney's 'High School Musical,' Broadway's In the Heights) - to the starring role of Jesus. Get a first look at Bleu in the show below!

Made Event, the team behind the celebrated annual Electric Zoo Festival, is proud to present Benny Benassi & Friends with Hardwell,Bingo Players and DallasK at Governors Beach Club on Governors Island, NYC, Saturday, June 9, 2012.

New Repertory Theatre today announced a one-week extension of the Off-Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken. Originally scheduled to close May 20, the production, now running in the Charles Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts performs through May 27, 2012.

Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the Atlanta Symphony premiere and Theater of a Concert presentation of John Adams's A Flowering Tree June 7 and 9, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center.

As episode five of THE BORGIAS' second season debuts this coming Sunday on SHOWTIME, the network has ordered a third season of Vatican intrigue and Renaissance drama, with ten episodes to premiere in 2013. Production is slated to begin this summer in Budapest, Hungary, starring Jeremy Irons in his Golden Globe® Award-nominated role. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc.

Asian and... today announced Right Here, Write Now, an evening of readings that will take place at Cherry Lane Theatre on May 15th, Tuesday, at 8pm.

It's one of the most popular tourist attractions of the future: a live holographic stage show featuring representations of the 50th through 80th Presidents of the United States of America (and Related Properties).

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

HERO Theatre announced today that the cast of the "King Lear" benefit staged reading starring Olympia Dukakis and directed by Austin Pendleton will include Louis Cancelmi (Sarah Kane's "Blasted" at Soho Rep), Lynn Cohen ("Sex and the City," Tina Howe's "Chasing Manet'), Dashiell Eaves ("Becky Shaw", "A Behanding In Spokane"), Paul Lazar (Classic Stage Company's "Three Sisters", "Silence of the Lambs") and George Morfogen ("Freud's Last Session", CSC's "Three Sisters", and HBO's "OZ"). The cast also includes Elisa Bocanegra, Seth Duerr, Korey Jackson, Albert Jones, Thomas Kopache, James Martinez, Desiree Matthews, Anya Migdal, Liam Mitchell and Bobby Plasencia.