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For its 60th anniversary season, the Totem Pole Playhouse (9555 Golf Course Road, Fayetteville) will get new seats and in turn, sells its 1920 era seats on April 17th. A donation of $25 is being asked for a historical seat. They will be sold between the hours of 10 AM and 1 PM. Seats are disassembled and must be removed on Saturday. In addition to the new seats, the restrooms are being revamped.

New York Gallery Week, a new initiative organized collectively by 50 Manhattan-based contemporary art galleries and 7 not- for-profits - spanning Chelsea, SoHo, the Lower East Side/Bowery, the Upper East Side, and 57th Street - will launch its pilot program in May 2010. New York Gallery Week (NYGW) will be an annual event, concentrating on programmatic and artistic rigor, with a mission that aims to ignite the New York art scene and direct focus back to artists and galleries.

Dixon Place (161A Chrystie St.) presents the premiere of Asylum on April 16th at 8 PM. Asylum was written and will be performed by James Braly. The show is directed by Seth Barrish. It will run from April 16th to May 22nd.

North Carolina Theatre, the region's only producer of professional Broadway musical revivals, announces Bringing Broadway Home, a spectacular benefit concert on Monday, June 21st at 8 PM in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh. This one-night-only event will celebrate 27 seasons of Broadway at North Carolina Theatre and will feature Clay Aiken, Lauren Kennedy, Sharon Lawrence, Terrence Mann and Quiana Parler.

The Old Opera House presents the comedy/drama play The Dixie Swim Club May 7th through May 16th. The Dixie Swim Club is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, which previously brought Christmas Belles and Dearly Beloved to the Old Opera House.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announces that three musicals, BUDDY'S TAVERN, CLEAR, and EDEN, will be developed at its 2010 National Music Theater Conference under the leadership of artistic director Paulette Haupt. The Conference runs from June 26 through July 16 on the O'Neill's campus in Waterford, Connecticut.

Monotonix is playing at the Brooklyn Bowl on April 14. Joining them will be Legendary Shack Shakers, Skeletonbreath and Old Time Relijun with their first live performance in nearly two years.

Imago Theatre revives its most well known production FROGZ from April 15 to May 16. FROGZ opened at the New Victory Theater on Broadway in New York, in April of 2000 and returned to the New Victory in May 2002. FROGZ also performed a smash hit month-ling run at the award-winning American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusets in the summer of 2005.

Quixotic Fusion, a non-profit organization encouraging artistic expression, announces their 2010 Summer Show: Paix Reveuse from June 17 to 20. They also announce the creation of the Adopt a Dancer Program.

Red Mountain Theatre Company presents the smash-hit sixties sensation SHOUT! The Mod Musical May 6-16, 2010, at the RMTC Cabaret Theatre (301 19th Street North).

The Cornelia Street Café (29 Cornelia Street) hosts an evening tonight of spoken word and music with New York Story Exchange at 6 PM and the Poul Weis Group- Patrick Breiner Group at 8:30 PM. New York Story Exchange and curator Barbara Aliprantis offers open mic storytelling followed by featured tellers Robin Bady, Jim Hawkins, and Nicholas Zaharakos. Musician Poul Weis returns with Patrick Breiner to play new quintet music.

Target Margin Theater (David Herskovits, Artistic Director), in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator (Richard Forman, Artistic Director), has announced full casting for the world premiere of The Really Big Once, a new play, created by the company, that tells the story of two theatrical giants, Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams, and how they changed American culture. Under the direction of David Herskovits, the five-member cast features McKenna Kerrigan, John Kurzynowski, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Hubert Point-Du Jour, and Steven Rattazzi. Performances begin Tuesday, April 13, 2010 for a limited engagement through May 8, 2010 at The Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church (131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue). Opening Night is Saturday evening, April 17th at 8:00 p.m.