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Come celebrate the holiday of Passover at Coney Island USA's Sideshows by the Seashore with one grand afternoon of 'Jewish-Centric' sideshow, magic and variety entertainment.

Don't you feel the pressure to change? Your neighbor has become one. And so has your wife. With their beautiful horns, rough skin, and cacophonous trumpeting-don't you think they are just a little bit better than you? The answers to these questions (with even more questions raised) are at the center of RHINO -- the latest production from San Francisco's most innovative troupe -- Boxcar Theatre (www.boxcartheatre.org). Based on Eugene Ionesco's absurdist masterpiece, Rhinoceros.

Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen is an alchemist at heart. Finding inspiration in musicians ranging from Bach to Stevie Wonder, Avishai can transform a tired Israeli school tune back into poetic gold. He can take the Sephardic melodies his grandfather sang in prayer, or his mother hummed while washing dishes, and make them groove. He can take a sinuous and spontaneous jazz bass line turn it into a top forty hit.

New York alternative music duo, Die! Die! My Darling!, will make a special appearance on Jeremy X. Halpern's weekly music show aired on www.Weirdos.TV. Katie Madonna Lee and Louis Jordan of Die! Die! My Darling! will join composer and producer Jeremy X. Halpern for a jam session at Halpern's Williamsburg studio on Tuesday April 6, 2010.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts proudly invites the community to celebrate and experience the work created by its faculty and students at Kenilworth Open Studios on April 17 from 11am - 2pm at Kenilworth Square East, 1925 E. Kenilworth Place on Milwaukee's east side.

Two of Brooklyn's vanguard organizations for African American music and culture, Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium and International African Arts Festival, will collaborate to produce a Community Day Gala Concert, as part of the 11th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival, featuring saxophone great Pharoah Sanders.

Plays & Players, Center City Philadelphia's longest continually operated theater at 1714 Delancey Place, has teamed up with Represented Theatre Company's REP RADIO to present On Stage Philadelphia's Performing Arts Preview Series featuring ten minute sneak-peak performances of upcoming productions in the Greater Philadelphia area representing theatre, dance, music, comedy and multimedia. Audiences will have an opportunity to meet and mingle with artists, and take advantage of special offers to the upcoming productions.

Virginia Opera is wrapping up its 35th Anniversary Season with the scorching production of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. The production, also celebrating a famous 75th Anniversary, is a brave American classic bridging the gap between Broadway and opera. The clever love story between characters Porgy and Bess explodes with a fiery tempo, amid George and Ira Gershwin's distinguished style featuring jazz, Broadway, and opera. Porgy and Bess is based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward, which focuses on African-American life in the early 1920s in Catfish Row located in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Full Metal Blues Band, headed by father and son team, Vince and Dre', bring their hard edge blues sounds to the Cornelia Street Cafe' on Tuesday night, March 23rd at 8:30 PM.

The off-Broadway musical GOOD OL' GIRLS is set to record its cast album today, March 23. The cast features Sally Mayes, Teri Ralston, Lauren Kennedy, Liza Vann, and Gina Stewart. A release date for the recording has yet to be announced.

On Tuesday, March 23, Antoinette Montague will be performing at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium at the Baha'i Center, with Mike Longo, Payton Crossley, Paul West, and Harry Allen on sax.

Led by the two most recent Tony® Award winners for Broadway's Best Musical, the 2010/11 Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series presented by the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center features a fantastic lineup of Broadway's most popular and critically acclaimed shows.

Laura Bell Bundy's major label debut album Achin' And Shakin' is slated for release April 13 on Mercury Nashville. The infectious lead single 'Giddy On Up' has been described as 'a breath of fresh air' and 'nothing short of a new female anthem' amongst industry critics since the premiere of the music video on January 18.

Stars of stage and screen Lea Michele and Queen Latifah are slated to appear at this year's Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards. The award show will be telecast this Saturday, March 27th, at 8pm on Nickelodeon.

The New York Philharmonic will present The Russian Stravinsky: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Valery Gergiev on April 21-May 8, 2010. The three-week festival - one of several initiatives launched during Alan Gilbert's first season as Music Director - will offer an in-depth look at Stravinsky, exploring how his Russian roots informed his works. Led by the Russian-born Mr. Gergiev, the festival will feature eight programs over three weeks, including concerts, lectures, pre-concert talks, radio broadcasts, podcasts and an Archives exhibit.

Due to rights issues, Flux Theatre Ensemble will not be producing Archibald MacLeish's play, J.B. as previously planned. In its place, Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB'S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B. Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux's planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

Made Event is proud to present a two day ‘A State of Trance 450' celebration with the world's #1 DJ Armin van Buuren and some very special guests at Roseland Ballroom on Friday and Saturday, April 2 & 3, 2010.

CC Coletti and Anthony Krizan are pleased to announce their new tribute show, Experience Janis-A Tribute to Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, live Friday May 7, 2010 at the historic and recently re-opened and remodeled Brook Arts Center.

Fort Wayne's Civic Off-Main presents The Road To Mecca at the Allen County Public Library Auditorium from April 2-18.

David Niven (1910-1983) was an actor of such diverse talents and charm that he is often categorized using clichéd phrases like 'urbane light comedian' or 'leading man.' These descriptions are indeed accurate, but one does not survive before the camera for a half-century on charm alone. The problem-if you can call it that-is that Niven made it all look too easy. Like Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, he took everything in stride, unflappably and (seemingly) effortlessly playing his part, always prepared for whatever came his way. He was, after all, originally a military man by profession. He then chose to 'bum' around America, eventually winding up in Hollywood. Just as his film career began to blossom, he was one of the first to answer Britain's call when World War II broke out, serving on active duty for the duration and rising to the rank of colonel. He even made two propaganda films during brief leaves, including The Way Ahead, which is included in this series. After making his return in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's masterpiece A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven), he resumed a glorious career in film, theater, television, and writing with his typical debonair insouciance. This series aims to recapture some of the special glory that was David Niven.