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Direct from Ireland, celebrated Irish Singer and Entertainer, Tony Kenny will bring his program, 'Celtic Nights', a celebration of Irish music, comedy, song and dance to Queensborough Community College on Friday, March 26.

Full Moon Vocalise is bringing the Lakota Flute tradition to all New Yorkers in a celebration of the Ant by artist Xavier Roux at the Invisible Dog. On Sunday, March 28th at 6:30 PM, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, seventh generation Lakota flute maker will play the flute.

The YWCA of Bethlehem, in cooperation with Northampton County high schools and local corporations, will collect and distribute prom dresses for Lehigh Valley young women.

Matt Doyle, of Broadway's SPRING AWAKENING and BYE BYE BIRDIE, as well as TV hit 'Gossip Girl,' returns this April to Joe's Pub with a unique follow-up to his two sold-out engagements last summer. The concert will take place on Wednesday, April 21 at 7 PM.

365 DAYS/365 PLAYS REVISITED by Suzan-Lori Parks will play at the Firehouse Theatre Project (1609 W. Broad Street, Richmond, VA) on April 26 and 27 at 8 PM.

The World Music Institute will present EL ESPIRITU JIBARO featuring Yomo Toro and Roswell Rudd on March 27, 2010 at 8 PM. The performance will take place at Peter Norton Symphony Space (Broadway at 95th Street, NYC).

Mexican-born Rolando Villazon returned to the opera stage on March 22 after a long break for surgery and recuperation. The tenor played Nemorino in Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE (THE ELIXIR OF LOVE) at the Vienne Staatsoper.

Although he's 91 years old, Arthur Laurents, author of the books for GYPSY and WEST SIDE STORY as well as the original director of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, continues to create. Currently, the revival of WEST SIDE STORY is running on Broadway and is being met with much success. Laurents is a theater veteran, and one who isn't afraid to say what's on his mind.

The 14th Street Playhouse has a number of events coming up at the end of the month and throughout March including THIS THING CALLED DANCE and PUNCHLINE PRESENTS... JEFF GARLIN.

GLEE will return on April 13 with more than just new episodes. According to GLEE's official fan wiki, a third album will be released when episodes return. The album will be titled 'GLEE: The Music-The Power of Madonna.' The release will coincide with the shows much anticipated all-Madonna episode on April 21.

In November, GLEE aired an episode titled 'Wheels' which featured the character of Artie, who cannot walk. In the episode, the glee club didn't have the funding to afford a bus for regionals that could accommodate Artie and his wheelchair. The episode also featured two actresses with Down's Syndrome. The two actresses actually have Down's Syndrome, which drew attention to the fact that the actor who plays Artie, Kevin McHale, is not really disabled.

Wall-to-wall hits mark the Center's 2010-2011 Broadway and Curtain Call Series as well as a special Bonus Event. The Broadway Series includes Lincoln Center Theater's seven-time Tony®-Award winning South Pacific, The Public Theater's Tony Award-winning production of Hair, an exhilarating new show from Cirque du Soleil, the return of Broadway's biggest blockbuster Wicked, the Orange County debut of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's enchanting Mary Poppins and the compelling new Broadway revival of Leonard Bernstein's powerful West Side Story.

Ian McEwan's novel 'Atonement' which was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 2007 is now being adapted to an Opera, the author announced at the Southbank Centre in London on Thursday.

A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL!, which premiered at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre in 2009, will next play Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre from November 30 - December 19, 2010, with a new composer BroadwayWorld has learned.

H.M. 'Harry' Koutoukas, a surrealist playwright, actor, and teacher from the beginnings of the Off-Off-Broadway movement, died on March 6 in his apartment at the age of 72.

Tony Award-winning Broadway star Sutton Foster will bring her concert, 'An Evening with Sutton Foster' on tour this year, playing shows in New York, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, and more.

According to Variety, Off-Broadway's New York Theater Workshop may be the home of Disney's 'Peter Pan' prequel PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS during the 2011 season.

According to published reports and rock trio frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day has begun to work on their new album.

Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher will both star in an upcoming romantic comedy to be directed by Ivan Reitman, according to reports by 'Variety.' The film, which has a working title of 'Friends With Benefits' features a screenplay written by Elizabeth Meriwether.

Casting has been announced for Studio 42's Studio Sessions: The Reading Series, a regular multi-disciplinary showcase of emerging talent. 'Four UNPRODUCABLE Plays Daring to Be Heard,' will be performed at Jimmy's 43 (43 East 7th Street).