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July 23 was the TV.com NOW Awards during Comic-Con 2010 at PETCO Park in San Diego, California. Those in attendance included Jerry O'Connell, Rob Lowe, Pauley Perrette, Kristin Cavallari, and more. Broadwayworld brings you coverage of the event below.

Sunday, August 1 at 7:30pm will be headlined by The Mark Hodgson & Chris Lee Blues Band and their unique blending sound of blues with side trips into roots-rock and soul. Both Mark and Chris have honed their 'blues bones' and come of age as bluesmen through decades of touring experience in the world of the soul-blues sound. This concert will hit your ears hard with a guitar-driven, harp-crazed style of soulful blues music at its finest...don't miss it!

A Knight to Remember will be our hillarious theatre restaurant for 2010. Written by Jane Rothnie and directed by Dianne Ross.

As 2010 unfolds, saxophonist, composer, producer and consummate hitmaker, Kim Waters, is sure to have a banner year. The model handsome, soft-spoken and charismatic saxman shares, 'My resolution for this year is to continue having a strong family relationship, make great music, and keep my fans always wanting more.' Waters has built a solid career giving his fans what they want, along the way garnering praise from critics and fans alike and becoming one of the top five best-selling instrumentalists in jazz. Kim Waters' winning combination of sensitivity and brawn, intellect and emotion, coupled with his technique and soulfulness have made him one of the premier architects of Urban Smooth Jazz and a mainstay on Quiet Storm and contemporary jazz radio. The prolific saxman, who recently celebrated his 20th anniversary in the business, maintains a hectic schedule juggling such diverse projects as The Sax Pack (with fellow saxophonists Jeff Kashiwa and Steve Cole) and his Streetwize and Tha' Hot Club CDs that are known for their clever reworkings of the hottest hip hop, R&B and reggae hits on the radio. On January 26, 2010 Kim Waters returns with his finest CD yet, Love Stories, a sublime collection of love inspired anthems that explore the deep range of emotions love can evoke.

According to reports, stage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will be lending his voice to the Amazing Spider-Man in Activision Publishing Inc.'s upcoming game, 'Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.' The game is currently being showcased in San Diego at Comic-Con and will be released on September 7.

From oceans to puddles, songs of the seas, lakes, canals, and the ships and sailors who sail them. A singalong evening aboard an historic tanker, the Mary Whalen. Bring voices, instruments, and ears. Bring the kids. Bring a picnic. This will be a grand evening for the whole family.

Children's Playhouse of MD's Performance Camp has just opened five more spaces to allow for more students to enroll.

In the past Popular music was inhibited by music publishers dictating trends and preferences. They decided which songs would be released for public consumption or not. South Africa was no exception, for too long we were stuck with ‘old fashioned translated songs' from European countries. This phenomenon has changed in a big way with the emergence of some brilliant performers and original songwriters. Artist themselves now dictate the tastes and trends. The success of a new generation of performers such as Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers and The School Musical phenomenon, bear testimony to this.

A Tribute to Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, Elton John & Madonna The Barnyard Theatre Productions presents the tribute of all tributes, as we celebrate the music of the 5 greatest pop icons of all time. Imagine Elton, Michael, Tina, Rod and Madonna on one stage in one show, singing number one hits from the last 6 decades of pop music! These solo artists have dominated the charts to such a degree over the years that it was essential to stage a special tribute.

Signal Ensemble Theatre presents the first show of its eighth season, Tom Stoppard's comedy 'The Real Inspector Hound,' the ensemble's inaugural presentation in their permanent theater space at 1802 W. Berenice Ave., a 50-seat venue in Chicago's North Center neighborhood. Theatre critics Moon and Birdboot attend the premiere of a new murder mystery and are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. As Moon laments his status as a second-string reviewer, and Birdboot considers adultery with one of the shows actresses, they soon find themselves inside the play-within-a-play, implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman. In a hilarious send-up of Agatha Christie-style melodrama, Stoppard's 1968 work is just as rooted in absurdism as it is in satire. Kicking off Signal's 'Season of Comedy,' this play set in the theater will appropriately open Signal's new performance space. The show will run about 65 minutes with no intermission.

According to the New York Times, Joel Grey is set to direct a staged reading of 'Normal Heart,' the semi-autobiographical drama written by Larry Kramer about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The production is to celebrate the plays 25th anniversary.

Wayside Theatre presents DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE. Dead Man's Cell Phone runs July 17 through August 14th. The comedy is written by Sarah Ruhl.

The RRazz room at Hotel Nikko is San Francisco's premier nightclub, offering the finest in world-class Cabaret, Jazz, Comedy and Popular music entertainment. This intimate and acoustically perfect venue has been the home for past performers such as: Ashford & Simpson, Oleta Adams, Larry Carlton, Bobby Caldwell, Spyro Gyra, Hiroshima, Diane Schuur, Ben Vereen, Martha Reeves, Miki Howard, The Zapp Band, ConFunkShun, Pete Escovedo, Freda Payne and Sally Kellerman.

The Talent Company Presents the Broadway Hit Musical Comedy ALL SHOOK UP in the New Times Theatre, Art & Home Center, NYS Fairgrounds, July 29-August 15, 2010, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm.

Weekend movie box office estimates: July 17 - July 18, 2010.

The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe!

Outfest, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing, showcasing and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media, has announced the award winners of its 28th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

Marsha Heydt and the Project of Love

Tobacco Road will delight and astound you with its humorous and biting look at the lives of sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, trapped by poverty in rural Georgia as their living standards steadily decline. This powerful drama, adapted from the controversial novel by Erskine Caldwell, invites us to laugh at our shortcomings.

Gina Kim shines a harsh spotlight on a subject all too often kept in the shadows and comes out the other side in one piece in the World Premiere of Miss Kim, a brutally honest work about falling down and learning to get up again, beginning its World Premiere run on August 13th at the Players Theatre, located at 115 MacDougal Street. Written by Gina Kim and Ryan Tofil and directed by Matthew Corozine, Miss Kim is part of the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC).