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CHICAGO veterans Bianca Marroquin and Ruthie Henshall will each return to the role of Roxie Hart yet again, in the upcoming months. Marroquin will play the merry murderess from April 15 through April 25 and the original London Roxie will play the role from April 26 through June 13.

A contestant on 'Pilipinas Got Talent,' Reggie Ramirez, recently shocked audiences with his performance of 'Endless Love.'

Registration has begun for the 2010 Children's Theatre Camp at The Hackmatack Playhouse, Route 9 in Berwick, Maine. Katie Rodgers is the director of the program. According to Rodgers, 'The children's 2010 summer play will be an original show called THE WORLD'S A STAGE, using American music from the Tin Pan Alley era (Gershwin, Foster, Joplin, Berlin). The campers will have the chance to insert their own personalities and ideas into the show, and will, as always, help paint and build their sets and design and create their own costumes.'

The New McCree Theatre recently announced upcoming events which will feature Charles H. Winfrey being awarded the 'Community Pioneer' award, a production of A TRIBUTE TO MOWTOWN: AN AMERICAN DREAM STORY, and the continuing radio program 'African American Inspiration.'

The LA Times reports that LA's Independent Shakespeare Co., which has been performing at Hollywood's Barnsdall Art Park, will move to a bigger and better venue this summer when it presents its Griffith Park Shakespeare Festival on the east side of Griffith Park.

According to Entertainment Weekly, GLEE star Lea Michele recently filmed an anti-fur PSA with PETA called 'IF You Wouldn't Wear Your Dog, Please Don't Wear Any Fur.'

The GLEE cast recently sat down with Oprah on a set that looked like a classroom to discuss the award winning show.

After last weeks' shocking elimination of Shannen Doherty, the dancers on season 10 of 'Dancing With the Stars' held their breath to see who would be the next to go. Buzz Aldrin, who received the lowest number of votes from the judges, was kicked off this week. Surprisingly, Jake Pavelka, who received a 21 from the judges, joined him in the bottom two.

In the third week of Dancing with the Stars' 10th season, each of the couples was challenged to tell a story through their routines. Many teams fell in the middle of the road in terms of scoring, while Even Lysacek and Trebunskaya received the highest scores and Aldrin and Costa the lowest for the third week in a row.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, two-time Tony Award winning Stephen Daldry is set to direct a movie adaptation of Safram Foer's novel 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.'

After much anticipation and speculation, Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard confirmed today plans to tour North America. Kicking off July 23, 2010 in Asheville, North Carolina, Clay and Ruben will bring their 'Timeless' tour to 17 cities including appearances at famed venues such as New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, LA Nokia Live in Los Angeles, and Pennsylvania's American Music Theater. This is the first time the two artists will tour together.

The Wall Street Journal reports on a conflict has arisen between two unions over who holds jurisdiction for the performers of Twyla Tharp's COME FLY AWAY, which blurs the lines between dance and musical theatre.

This autumn, actress Kim Cattrall will return to her birth city of Liverpool to play Cleopatra in the Liverpool Everyman Theatre's production of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

Erin Davie (GREY GARDENS, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC), Hunter Ryan Herdlicka (A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC), Aaron Lazar (A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC), and Andrew Samonsky (SOUTH PACIFIC) will join previously announced stars Tim Anderson (9 TO 5), Annaleigh Ashford (HAIR), Paul Castree (9 TO 5), Mario Cantone (ASSASSINS), Jeffry Denman (WHITE CHRISTMAS), Jerry Dixon (ONCE ON THIS ISLAND), Kathy Fitzgerald (9 TO 5), Josh Grisetti (ENTER LAUGHING), Adam Gwon (ORDINARY DAYS), Ann Harada (AVENUE Q), Van Hughes (AMERICAN IDIOT), Tyler Maynard (ALTAR BOYZ), Kerry O'Malley (INTO THE WOODS), Charlie Pollock (9 TO 5), Tory Ross (CRY BABY), Joseph Zellnik (YANK!), and Anthony Rapp (RENT), plus some surprise special guests, for At Hand Theatre Company's BROADWAY RECYCLED, an Earth Day concert benefitting the Broadway Green Alliance and At Hand Theatre Company. It will be presented for one night only, April 18th at 7pm at Joe's Pub.

Wichita Community Theatre is proud to present their next production, A...MY NAME IS ALICE from April 15 through May 1.

Matt Cavenaugh will play Superman this summer when an updated version of IT'S ABIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S SUPERMAN takes to the Dallas Theater Center stage.

MultiStages will present its 2009 New Works Winner HELL AND HIGH WATER, WHAT TO DO WHEN THE SKY FALLS from April 1-18 at the Hudson Guild Theatre (441 West 26th St.).

Librettist of the Off-Broadway hit THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, David Thompson, is currently working on new musical projects with composer Strew and director Scott Ellis.

According to Whatsonstage.com, Tony Award winning actor Robert Lindsay will reprise his role as Aristotle Onassis in Martin Sherman's ONASSIS. It will premiere at the Derby Theater which reopened in 2009 after the closure of Derby Playhouse. ONASSIS will run from September 10-25 before transferring to the West End (no London dates or theater have been announced yet.)

The American Repertory Theater will host it's 2010 Gala on Monday, May 3 at 6 PM. The event will take place at 650 E. Kendall Street in Cambridge.