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This year's International Istanbul Theatre Festival is set to feature artists from around the world in a wide variety of plays in many different languages. Actors and dancers from Japan, Belgium, Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States will be performing at the festival's 15 venues which include: the Atatürk Cultural Centre, Sabancý University Performing Arts Centre, Institut Français d'Ýstanbul, Casa d'Italia, Pera Museum, Talimhane Theatre and Theatre Z. This year's festival will take place May 10 - June 10.

According to this week's Nielson ratings, Tuesday's episope of Glee earned the show 12.6 million viewers. Though down from last week's 13.66 million for its much anticpated Madonna episode, Glee with the help of American Idol viewers made Fox the #1 for 18-49 year olds for three consectutive nights.

On May 22, Anthony Chisholm, Jasmine Guy, Samuel L. Jackson, Audra McDonald, and Phylicia Rashad will be participating in Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company Celebrity Golf Tournament & Gala. The event will also feature a gala party in a private Buckhead home for an evening of fine dining and entertainment. Tickets start at $200. For more information, contact LaTeshia Ellerson at 404.588.0308 ext. 203 or at lellerson@truecolorstheatre.org.

On Monday, May 3rd, Broadway legend Bernadette Peters will be holding a performance and book signing for her latest publication, Stella is a Star. The event will take place at Dylan's Candy Bar on 1011 3rd Avenue at 60th Street from 3-5PM. Guests can also particpate in a live raffle drawing for which the winner will be awarded the chance to appear onstage with Bernadette Peters & Mary Tyler Moore at this year's Broadway Barks on Saturday, July 10th in Shubert Alley.

Today, 'LIVE! With Regis and Kelly' featured the cast of COME FLY AWAY as part of 'Broadway Week,' which launched on Monday, April 26. Regis visited the cast, and was showcased in his own special performance with the talented cast. For this special week, top morning program 'LIVE! with Regis and Kelly' has welcomed some of today's most popular Broadway entertainers who are known to light up both the stage and screen. Each day, the hosts have featured some of today's most exciting musicals, with the hosts themselves taking part in some of the productions. LIVE! with Regis and Kelly airs on ABC at 9:00am EST.

Emmy nominee Allyce Beasley and Broadway veteran John Tyrrell will be appearing in the Schoolhouse theater production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid.Performances take place May 27-June 20 in Croton Falls New York. The performance will be directed by Pamela Moller Kareman.

Rochelle Steiner has been named dean of the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts, effective August 1, 2010. Formerly Director of the Public Art Fund in New York from 2006 to 2009, Steiner has commissioned 35 public art projects with established and emerging international artists including Olafur Eliasson's The New York City Waterfalls, which is one of the most ambitious works of public art to have been realized. Steiner has also held curatorial positions in major museums in the United States and London, and she is currently a consultant for the Miami Art Museum.

The cast of the new Off-Broadway hit, BLOOD BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON now playing at The Public, gathered on April 26 to record their cast album, which will be produced by Kurt Deutsch and Dean Sharenow on the Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records label. A release date for the album will be announced shortly.

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has been confirmed to be appearing in a Liverpool run of Antony and Cleopatra. She will play Cleopatra opposite Jeffery Kissoon in the Everyman Theater production, which will feature direction by Janet Suzman. Perormances will begin October 8 and run through November 13.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Glee star Diana Agron is set to play the romantic lead in the upcoming Dreamworks flick 'I Am Number Four.' The film is an adaptation of a James Fray and Jobie Hughes young-adult novel.

Contactmusic.com reports that Bret Michaels spirits are especially high these days and is looking to returning to work as soon as he makes a full recovery. They report that the Poison frontman and his managers currently in the process of rescheduling upcoming tour dates that had been cancelled after the star suffered a massive brain hemmorage last week. Allegedly, Michaels is aiming to join Lynyrd Skynyrd on the road as soon as a month from now.

This Sunday's Everything Old is New Again will be featuring the music of Paul Robeson. The program can be heard every Sunday from 9-11AM on WBAI 99.5 FM. The upcoming Robeson show will include some of his most popular tunes including: 'Every Time I Feel The Spirit' from Othello, 'Mood Indigo', 'Ol' Man River', 'Going Home' and more.

According to the New York Times, the rock n' roll musical From a Jack to a King has recently kicked off its Asian tour in Singapore. With direction by Matt Devitt, this 1992 hit of the West End is based largely on the tale of Macbeth. This jukebox musical was written by Olivier Award winner Bob Carlton, and debuted in 1982 at the Bubble Theatre in London.

PBS will be airing the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet on April 28. The production was filmed for television by the BBC as part of their Great Performances series.

The New York Pops has announced additional casting for its upcoming 27th Birthday Concert and Gala. Entitled The Best Is Yet To Come: Celebrating the Legacy of Frank Sinatra, the event will take place at Carnegie Hall on May 3 at 7PM. The evening will be hosted by Liz Smith.

The Kimmel Center's will be hosting a spring fundraiser which will include three different events which will all take place at 7:30PM on May 19.

According to a report by ET Online, Poison frontman and 'Celebrity Apprentice' contestant Bret Michaels will soon be undergoing surgery to relieve swelling around his brain. A close friend of the family has revealed that Michaels' condition has been deteriorating following the massive hemorrhage he suffered last Thursday.

The Algonquin Hotel has announced their 2010 Oak Room schedule, which will include a wide variety of cabaret performances. The new season will begin with Johnny Rodgers performing What A Wonderful World May 11-29. The show will feature his versions of 'What A Wonderful World,' 'Huggin' and Chalkin,' 'Too Marvelous For Words' and his own songs 'Home To Mendocino,' 'One More Moment' and 'The Best Of You In Me.'

According to Variety, William H. Macy and Marisa Tomei are set to star in the upcoming legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer. John Ramano's adaptation of Michael Connelly's book of the same title will be directed by Brad Furman. Macy and Tomei will be joining Matthew McConaughey, who has been attached to the film. Filming will begin in July, and the release date for the movie is still unknown.

According to a report by Variety, HBO's 'In Treatment' will be welcoming Dane DeHaan to an episode in the upcoming third season. DeHaan will appear as one of Gabriel Byrne's patients in the new season, which is set to begin production soon in New York. Season three will begin later this year on HBO.