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Orlando Repertory Theatre (The REP), in partnership with UCF, has announced its 10th Birthday Season. The REP is Orlando's only professional theatre for families and young audiences and has performed shows such as PINKALICIOUS: The Musical, Lyle the Crocodile, and A Nutty Nutcracker Christmas.

For more than thirty years, Peter Gros and his animal friends have entertained children and adults alike. In this live stage show tonight, April 27 at 7:30 PM, Gros highlights his wildlife adventures with a mix of video clips, audience participation, and exotic animals. He includes stories that deal with issues of conservation, travel, and wildlife filming.

Soprano Teresa Wakim makes her Handel and Haydn Society (H&H) Symphony Hall debut as a featured soloist with Mozart Coronation, H&H's final program of the 2011-2012 Season. Wakim, a member of the H&H professional chorus since 2003, will be stepping in to replace scheduled guest Rosemary Joshua, who has withdrawn from her appearance due to personal reasons. Performing with Wakim is tenor Thomas Cooley, who returns to H&H in Mozart Coronation after most recently performing in Mozart Mass in C Minor in 2010; he can be heard on H&H's recording of the work, released on CORO. Soloists also include mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy and Boston-based baritone Sumner Thompson, who both return toH&H after having performed as members of the H&H Chorus as well as guest soloists. Murrihy most recently appeared in Handel's Messiah in 2008, and Thompson was heard last season in The Bach Experience.

Glammy Award nominee Marti Gould Cummings hosts the weekly Broadway revue UNTUCKED AND UNCENSORED at The Ritz Lounge on 46th Street and 9th Avenue. Each week a broadway guest performs along with Cummings and DJ Clayton Moore at 11pm. This free show has featured Felicia Finley, Saycon Sengbloh, Ben Cameron, Stephanie Gibson, just to name a few.

Aluna Theatre is set to present an international festival of theatre for Human Rights - Panamerican Routes / Rutas Panamericanas: a new festival featuring a new generation of Canadian and Latin American voices that will converge on Toronto from across the continent from May 15-27 for two weeks of mainstage performances, special presentations, professional development workshops and a conference exploring Theatre and Human Rights as well as a photography exhibit. All events take place at Theatre Passe Muraille. Visit alunatheatre.ca for more information, detailed schedules and/or to purchase tickets.

The Pretty Good Girl Dance Studio will perform LUNA, directed by Louise Barrett. LUNA brings to life the book of the same name by LGBT author Julie Anne Peters.

The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre has announced its 51st Season Line Up. Opening the season will be BUS STOP by William Inge, which was the show that launched the Spotlighters Theatre 50 years ago on October 12, 1962.

Hilary Easton & Company are set to present THE CONSTRUCTORS May 17-20.

For more than thirty years, Peter Gros and his animal friends have entertained children and adults alike. In this live stage show on April 27 at 7:30 PM, Gros highlights his wildlife adventures with a mix of video clips, audience participation, and exotic animals. He includes stories that deal with issues of conservation, travel, and wildlife filming.

In Shakespeare's time, all female roles were played by men (often boy apprentices), who learned to create an idealized version of femininity onstage. This practice continued throughout the Jacobean era until the theatres were closed by Oliver Cromwell in 1642. When Charles II returned from his exile on the continent in 1661, the theatres reopened and actors initially resumed the tradition of men-as-women. But the new monarch had an appreciation for women onstage and the old practice was quickly abolished.

Theatrica Ltd. in association with The Landor Theatre have announced the cast and creatives for THE THING ABOUT MEN, a musical comedy, including Lucyelle Cliffe, Peter Gerald, Kate Graham and Steven Webb. THE THING ABOUT MEN will play for a strictly limited run of only four weeks at The Landor Theatre; from the writers of the long running Off Broadway show, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and the producers/director responsible for the award winning production of The Hired Man at The Landor last August.

Penguin Rep Theatre (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director, and Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director) and Morton Wolkowitz (Stomp, The Unexpected Man) is set to present the Off-Broadway premiere of MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET, by Tom Dudzick, directed by Joe Brancato. Performances begin April 25th at St. Luke's Theatre (308 West 46th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues). Opening Night is set for Sunday May 13th.

Cape Town Opera are set to bring their acclaimed production of The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS to Birmingham Hippodrome for the first time, opening Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 June. The dates mark the first performances of their forthcoming UK tour prior to a two week run in London.

In Herman's new recording of Herman classics, the voice and the songs form a marriage of music and with each other.

Playwrights Foundation and Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France/SF is spear-heading a major new international exchange project, Des Voix...Found In Translation, that supports the translation of vanguard French and American playwrights and promotes their work to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. The San Francisco festival will feature translations of new plays by three emerging playwrights working in France today. Plays by Marion Aubert (pink picture), Nathalie Fillion (blue picture), and Samuel Gallet (yellow picture) will be performed in English during a Festival, scheduled from May 25-27, 2012, in a producing partnership with Z Space, a theater located in San Francisco's vibrant, cutting-edge Mission District and Deborah Taylor/FireMused Productions, LLC.

Company XIV, in association with Morningside Opera and SIREN Baroque, proudly presents the World Premiere of JUDGE ME PARIS, a Baroque Burlesque Opera, directed and choreographed by Austin McCormick. JUDGE ME PARIS includes excerpts from John Eccles and John Weldon's Baroque opera The Judgment of Paris, sung by Morningside Opera, with a libretto by William Congreve, Baroque music performed by SIREN Baroque, and additional text by Jeff Takacs.

New York native, Outasight, has released his brand new single 'Now or Never.'

Broadway stars Ed Watts (The Fantasticks, Finian's Rainbow), Tituss Burgess (Guys and Dolls, Disney's The Little Mermaid) and Andrew Samonsky (South Pacific) will appear in concert with Maestro Peter Jaffe and the Stockton Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, April 28th at 8pm at Alex G. Spanos Center, University of the Pacific. Doors will open at 5:45pm and there will also be a picnic at 6:30pm. Together they will perform OH WHAT A NIGHT! BILL BOARD HITS OF THE 1960's (produced by Broadway Pops International). Featuring Billboard hits from 1957 through 1969 and music by: The Four Seasons, Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Darrin, Otis Redding, Righteous Brothers, Stevie Wonder, and Aretha Franklin.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) has announced the 2012 session of Basic Finance for Artists (BFA), a free six-week intensive personal finance seminar designed for 20 individual New York City artists working in visual, performing, literary, media and multi-disciplinary arts. Launched in 2008, BFA is designed to help artists develop financial awareness through practical training in money management. The program takes into consideration the complexity of artists' income across a range of artistic practices.

In "Fragments: Poetry - Ancient and Modern" (ISBN 1470023628), poet Blue Flute blends poems from all parts of the ancient world with a selection of modern verse. The book's first half is devoted to verse culled from lost, antiquarian worlds. Flute digs deep into world history to unearth poems from ancient Greece and Rome as well as Israel in its most archaic iteration.