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Jackson Wyoming's Off Square THeatre company has announced the full lineup for their 2012 season, which is set to include GOD OF CARNAGE, THE 39 STEPS and more. For tickets, visit: http://www.offsquare.org

The Wilmington Drama League proudly presents the Ruby M. Stanley One-Act Play Festival. For two nights, we'll be presenting four very different, dynamic one-act plays, and you get to vote for your favorite. The winning play will represent the Drama League at the State One-Act Festival this March.

Hollywood and Broadway award-winners Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi, and Lee Roy Reams are to star in 'Doin' It For Love,' a Broadway-style tribute to the standards and the stories behind the music. Opening in Los Angeles, Calif. and Austin, Texas, 'Doin' It For Love' features a 10-piece orchestra conducted onstage by David Geist, the show's music director. Hilary Knight, the internationally renowned artist and illustrator, designed the poster art and collectables for the show. Goin inside of rehearal with the cast in the video below!

Coming up at the City Theatre Company this April is Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman and a book by Alex Timbers. Directed by Michael Gray and music-directed by Joe Trainor, it's a raucous ride through an American past that seems awfully familiar to modern eyes. Production runs April 27 through May 12.

First State Ballet Theatre, Delaware's professional ballet company, will present a new production of the famed classical ballet Giselle closes FSBT's Grand Opera House mainstage season on April 14 and 15, 2012.

Delaware Theatre Company will present Crowns, April 11 - 29, 2012. In the show, A young woman who moves down South to live with her aunt is given a lesson in 'hat-titude' in this toe-tapping musical. From feathered hats to flowered hats, pillboxes to turbans, to hats for work and hats for church, there is a hat for every occassion, and a cultural and historical significance to them as well as 'Mother Shaw' and her 'hat queens' share in their stories. This soul-stirring musical demonstrates the handing down of culture from one generation to the next and celebrates the refuge, equality and healing that occurs in this place of spirituality.

M. T. Pockets Theatre Company has announced the lineup for their 2012 season, which is set ti include: The Maids (April 12-14), Life Over Dreams (April 25-28), Christian Cox: 20102 Aremgaddon...Just a Fan (May 5), New Works (May 26), The Red Feather Ladies Get Their Man/The Revenge of the Red Feather Ladies (June 8-6).

M.T. Pockets Theatre Company will present Women and War on March 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31 at 8pm. The production will be directed by Glynis Board.

Today in 2008, the first Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George opened at Studio 54, where it ran for 149 performances. Sunday in the Park with George is a 1983 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical was inspired by the painting 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' by Georges Seurat. The musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for design (and a nomination for Best Musical), numerous Drama Desk Awards, the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Musical and the 2007 Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production.

Original cast members Michael Crawford and Danielle Hope both recently departed the West End production of THE WIZARD OF OZ, and have been replaced by Over the Rainbow finalist Sopie Evans and Russell Grant and Dorothyand the Wizard respectively. Check out production images of the newcomers in action below!

Today in 1957, The Taming of the Shrew openend at the Phoenix Theatre, where it ran for 23 performances. A comedy by William Shakespeare, the play is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments-the 'taming'-until she becomes a compliant and obedient bride. The subplot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's more desirable sister, Bianca.

Tonight on the winter finale of GLEE, things heat up as the New Directions go head to head with the Dalton Academy Warblers at Regionals. Check out photos and full audio clips from the episode below!

Following sell-out success at Chichester Festival Theatre, Jonathan Kent's acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd transfers to London's West End for a limited season from 10 March 2012. Widely acknowledged as Stephen Sondheim's musical masterpiece, Sweeney Todd stars distinguished musical performer Michael Ball as the eponymous demon barber of Fleet Street and Oscar-nominated actress Imelda Staunton as the devoted Mrs Lovett.

Tomorrow night on the winter finale of GLEE, things heat up as the New Directions go head to head with the Dalton Academy Warblers at Regionals. In the clip below, Sebastian (Grant Gustin) pays a visit to Rachel (Lea Michele) and Kurt (Chris Colfer) to discuss the upcoming competition. Click below to check it out!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, an upcoming restaurant and club, 54 Below, hopes to become a new staple for performers and patrons alike. The 160-seat space is set to kick off featuring Patti LuPone for two weeks in June, and has also confirmed that Brian d'Arcy James, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Rebecca Luker and Megan Hilty have scheduled performances.

The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director), in association with David Shor announced today that the world premiere of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - THE MUSICAL will be rescheduled from the closing production of the current 2011 - 2012 season to a slot in the 2012 - 2013 season. The production which replaces SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE - THE MUSICAL this June will be announced at a later date.

West End star Ramin Karimloo, who was just seen as the title character in the 25th Anniversary concert of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and currently starring as Jean Valjean in the London production of LES MISERABLES, will soon release a new album titled Ramin. According to the star's twitter page, the release has been moved to April 9, 2012.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the cast of FOX's GLEE will not go on tour this summer as they have in years past. Instead, the GLEE team will likely hold a benefit concert t the Hollywood Bowl for GLEE Give a Note.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, producers Michael Harrison and David Ian will open THE BODYGUARD, a musical based on Whitney Houston's film of the same name, at the Adelphi Theatre in November. Now the show has launched its official website, and you can check it out at: http://www.thebodyguardmusical.com/

The stars of the Tony Award winning hit musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Nick Adams and Kyle Brown and Priscilla producer Scott Mauro celebrated Fashion Week in New York City this week at the 9th Annual Woman's Day Red Dress Awards to support the American Heart Association at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Allen Room. Mauro also produced the Red Dress Awards show and festivities that were hosted by 'The Today Show's' Hoda Kotb. Earlier in the week Nick Adams also took to the Mercedes-Benz Fall 2012 Fashion Week runway to model designer Malan Breton's new Fantome Collection.