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Last month, BroadwayWorld announced the official casting of the major roles in Cameron Mackintosh's highly anticipated Broadway revival of Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's mega-musical Les Miserables - Ramin Karimloo as Jean Valjean, Will Swenson as Javert, Caissie Levy as Fantine and Nikki M. James as Eponine, with a follow-up this month revealing Andy Mientus as Marius and Charlotte Maltby as Cosette - and, now, just as the first six did for us, so do the final three new stars of the show - Cliff Saunders as Thenardier, Keala Settle as Madame Thenardier and Kyle Scatliffe as Enjolras - recount some of their fondest memories of attending the show as observers, reflect on the prescient themes of Victor Hugo's timeless novel and reveal what specifically drives their passion for the powerful material, as well as look ahead to the new production of the international stage sensation arriving back on Broadway in 2014

Was Lee Harvey Oswald a lone gunman as he took aim at JFK from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22nd 1963, or was he the scapegoat for a cover-up by the FBI, CIA or a Mafia conspiracy?

Madison Rising, America's most patriotic rock band, is proud to announce the release of their second album – American Hero

Today and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13, the Monroe Center for the Arts in Hoboken, N.J., will come alive with the work of hundreds of artists and several musical and theatrical performances as part of the Digable Arts Festival.

On Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13, the Monroe Center for the Arts in Hoboken, N.J., will come alive with the work of hundreds of artists and several musical and theatrical performances. 'Kookspeak,' by Summer Dawn Hortillosa, a series of monologues by characters who live inside their heads, will make its Hoboken debut at the festival with two performances.

From Julia Mercedes Castilla comes 'The Other America', a moving and, at times, humorous account that centers on a South American journey and experience in the United States. Highlighting the many challenges and frustrations common to immigrants in general, this book paints a concrete picture of people who are adjusting to a new environment not only with a different language, but with different lifestyles, moral codes and preferences.

After 10 successful books, Charles F. David comes back into the limelight with a thought-provoking military fiction titled 'Eli'. A spin-off from his previous book 'FLAT LINE', David begins with an appalling premise: U.S.A. reduced to shambles and left withering on the vine. What with all the tanks, drones and nukes launched, it is nothing but a wasteland, a reminder of sorts of the annihilation and humiliation of the world's mightiest empire.

The Krevsky Center becomes Krevsky Stadium as the Cubs take to the field, and a crazy bunch of Cubs fans take to the bleachers

On Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13, the Monroe Center for the Arts in Hoboken, N.J., will come alive with the work of hundreds of artists and several musical and theatrical performances. 'Kookspeak,' by Summer Dawn Hortillosa, a series of monologues by characters who live inside their heads, will make its Hoboken debut at the festival with two performances.

A gripping love story set against the backdrop of the early half of the 20th century is what Bui Tran Vuong offers in his new book titled The Reminiscence. In this heart-wrenching piece set in conflict-torn Vietnam all the way to The Land of the Free, he immerses readers into a moving plot that draws attention to love and commitment and how these weigh in contrast to dreams and ambitions.

Child abuse remains rampant. Despite tremendous efforts to bring an end to this hideous crime, it continues to transpire. No child, however, deserves to be treated so cruel. With this, Teata pens a forceful story to beat the gong louder in the fight for the rights of children titled Unattainable Age Of Reason. A gripping and revealing book written with no holds barred.

Liberia, which means 'land of the free,' was founded by freed slaves from the United States in 1820. These freed slaves, called Americo-Liberians, first arrived in Liberia and established a settlement in Christopolis now Monrovia (named after U.S. President James Monroe) on February 6, 1820. This group of 86 immigrants formed the nucleus of the settler population of what became known as the Republic of Liberia.

It is hard enough to know what we really see and experience. Are you feeling all life has to offer, is your head down or are you alive? It is even harder to know what others feel. When two people see art do they see the same thing? No, definitely not. Lynn Stein and I enjoyed a day in NYC at the Guggenheim, the MET and the Park Avenue Armory. What did we see and how did we experience the same exhibits?

Up till now, more Americans realize that the country is dipped in a deep abyss of problems. A crisis requiring immediate intervention before America can surface to the top once more. Robert Kirkconnell pinpoints these problems that warrant discernment through a discussion in strict regard for what is considered right and sound in his debut book American Heart of Darkness.

Lady Gaga kicked off New York City's Gay Pride Celebration with a performance at Pier 26 and with a rousing rendition of the National Anthem, albeit with a minor lyrical change.

American Storm is set to showcase its stars and stripes with a special free performance at Palms Casino Resort, tonight, June 14 at 9 p.m. Guests are invited to join the guys from America's hottest male revue at Moon Nightclub for a meet-and-greet after the show.

Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's 'A RAISIN IN THE SUN,' Kwame Kwei-Armah's 'Beneatha's Place' muses on what might have happened when Beneatha Younger and Nigerian political activist Joseph Asagai, left Chicago to live in a Nigeria still fighting for independence from British rule.

The American National Theatre (Sean Cullen, Founder/Artistic Director) to present readings of THE IMMIGRANT (4PM), written by Mark Harelik, directed by Randal Myler; and THE LEGACY, or WHAT THE JEWS BELIEVE (7:30PM), written & directed by Mark Harelik, on Monday, February 25, 2013. The ANT readings will take place at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre (410 West 42 Street). Tickets are FREE to the public.

Writers Guild and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Tony Kushner has been chosen to receive the WGAW's 2013 Paul Selvin Award for his adapted screenplay for Lincoln. Named after the late Selvin, who served as counsel to the Guild, the award is given to the WGA member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties, which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere. Kushner will be recognized, along with other honorees, at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 17, at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE.

A storm is coming…an American Storm to be exact. The sizzling male revue show will make its debut at DB's inside the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino tonight, Nov. 30. The show will perform Todays and Saturdays at 9:00 p.m.

A storm is coming…an American Storm to be exact. The sizzling male revue show will make its debut at DB's inside the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino this Friday, Nov. 30. The show will perform Fridays and Saturdays at 9:00 p.m.

Baltimore Choral Arts salutes the 1812 Anniversary and our national anthem, and presents the Baltimore premiere of Ysaye Barnwell's Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, tonight, November 3, at 8 pm in Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium.

Baltimore Choral Arts salutes the 1812 Anniversary and our national anthem, and presents the Baltimore premiere of Ysaye Barnwell's Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, on Saturday, November 3, at 8 pm in Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium.

A new Paul Thomas Anderson film only comes along once or twice a decade, so the recent teasers that have been released for his new film - a veiled Scientology parable titled THE MASTER, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Pheonix and Amy Adams - have been inspiring adulation amongst both Anderson's devotees (The Milk Drinkers?) and film fans alike, but what about yesterday's official trailer premiere? Sheer awe. When Philip Seymour Hoffman joined me in my InDepth InterView column in 2010, we spoke quite a bit about his previous work with Anderson on MAGNOLIA - which he called "an opera" - and BOOGIE NIGHTS, which is unquestionably a magnum opus; to say nothing of Hoffman's memorable turns in the respectively arresting and enchanting HARD 8 and PUNCH DRUNK LOVE - and the first news of this new religion-based project had just surfaced at that time, so this week's long-awaited release of the official theatrical trailer of THE MASTER is a promise of a new Anderson/Hoffman cinematic collaboration finally at long last fulfilled - and much, much more, as well.

Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), a progressive dance education and performance center, will present four new works by established choreographers seeking to discover new dimensions during the 2011-2012 performances of RAW Directions.