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Joe's Pub will be featuring a line-up of numerous Broadway stars this April and May including: Anthony Rapp, Sutton Foster, Billy Porter, Kevin Chamberlin, Justin Bond, Nora York, Jeffrey Johnson, Galt MacDermott and the Hair tribe.

The 92nd Street Y has announced their 2010-2011 schedule which will focus on classical composers. The line-up includes the Takacs Quartet in a Schubert concert series October 16, February 26, and April 9. Another concert series will feature the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio playing the music of the Schumanns, Brahms, and Chopin on October 27-28, December 15-16, and April 6-7.

The Pulitzer Prize winning musical Next to Normal will play Toronto in July of 2011, according to thestar.com. Though the venue has yet to be announced, the North American tour stop will be produced by Dancap.

The National Theatre will be bringing Broadway's Fela! to London's Olivier Theatre for a November 6 premiere. The show will be joined by Michael Grandage's Danton's Death and new plays by Moira Buffini and Mike Bartlett. Also announced by the National, Desmond Barrit and Malcom Sinclair will be joining the cast of The Habit of the Art beginning July 14.

According to a report by Variety, producers are developing The Last Dance, a musical about growing old. A reading is planned for July, and is to be produced by David Binder and Barbara Whitman.

June 4-5, Gregg Edelman, Sally Mayes, Linda Purl, and Kurt Reichenbach will be starring in Ira Without George: The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin. The event will be held at the Ford Amphitheatre and will feature musical direction by Tedd Firth.

Spurred by the one-year anniversary of President Obama's pronouncement to close Guantanamo, Culture Project brings its Blueprint for Accountability series to the Newseum.The event will take place April 22 at the Newseum in Washington D.C. and will feature Matt Dillon, Dr. Anna Keller, Dr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., John Leguizamo, Jeremy Scahill, Rose Styron, Ron Suskind, Vince Warren, and Valerie Plame Wilson.

JD3atrical Productions will be presenting Del Shores' first new play in over seven years, the world premiere of Yellow, written and directed by Del Shores' (The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, Southern Baptist Sissies, Sordid Lives) and produced by Louise Beard, Emerson Collins, Jason Dottley and Del Shores. Yellow will begin previews on Friday, May 29 at 8pm and will open on Friday, June 11 at 8pm and run thru Sunday, July 25 at the Coast Playhouse, 8325 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has been promoting their current run of Romeo and Juliet using the latest social networking phenomenon- Twitter. The project, entitled 'Such Tweet Sorrow,' will continue for the next five weeks.

Kimmel Center President and CEO Anne Ewers and Vice President of Theatrical Presentations and Programming Matthew Wolf announced today the 2010-11 season, which includes five distinct series of performances spanning a wide range of musical genres, key programming instrumental to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts 2011 (PIFA), along with a new subscription option that provides flexible packaging and payment methods.

Ching Valdes-Aran and Ali Ewoldt are set to star in Diverse City Theater's The Pearl Project. Performances run July 6-25 at the Clurman Theatre, and will feature full-length plays by Eric Gamalinda and Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza and two one-acts, by Kristine M. Reyes. Valdes-Aran will star in Gamalinda's Resurrection, and Ewoldt in Reyes' Quarter Century Baby. Additional casting and creative teams are yet to be announced.

Hale Centre theatre will be presenting Ken Ludwig's The Three Musketeers beginning April 20 in Salt Lake City. The show will run through June 5, with performances Monday-Saturday at 7:30PM and Sundays at 4PM. Tickets are $15-$26 and can be purchased by calling 801-984-9000.

Arizona Theatre Company will be ending its run of The Glass Menagerie in Pheonix on April 11. The Tennessee Williams play has four remaining performances- April 8 at 8PM, April 10 at 2PM and 8M, and April 11 at 1PM. For tickets, visit www.aztheatreco.org.

Tempe Little Theatre will be holding auditions for their upcoming production of The Tale of the Allergists Wife. The auditions will be held April 19 and 20 from 7:30-10:30PM. Callbacks will be April 21 at 7:30PM. The show requies 2 men and 3 women. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

New Stage Theatre will be presenting Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate April 13-25 at the Jane Reid-Petty Theatre Center. Performances take place at 7:30PM and at 2:30PM on April 15 and 22. For tickets, call 601-948-3533.

According to Foxnews.com,the Parental Television Council is arguing the the Los Angeles Times inappropriately labeled television shows with adult themes as family friendly. The shows in question are hits such as 'Cougar Town' and 'Two and a Half Men'.

Broadway star Brain d'Arcy James will be appearing at Schadenfreude in The City That Works this Saturday night. Brother of Schadenfruede's Kate James, he will be playing a crooner in a sketch about a house band on the Northwest Side. The performance is a collaboration between Schadenfreude and the band The Jordan Years.

According to Variety, The Last Goodbye, the rock version of Romeo and Juliet featuring songs by Jeff Buckley, will be premiering at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The show will be produced by WTF in association with Hal Luftig, Ruth and Stephen Hendel, Alan D. Marks, and Stephen Moore.

Broadway veteren Hugh Jackman is set to appear alongside Kate Winslet in a new movie by the Farrelly brothers. In the film, Jackman wil play an unfortunate man whose testicals are attached to his chin. Winslet, his date for the night, is the only person who seems to notice this oddity.

Green Day will be one of the headliners of this year's Lollapalooza Fesival at Grant Park on August 6-8. Joining them will be Lady Gaga, Soundgarden, The Strokes, and Arcade Fire. Green Day's music is currently being played daily at the St. James Theatre in the musical American Idiot. The show is set to open April 20.