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San Francisco Playhouse will complete its twelfth season with Stephen Sondheim's trailblazing musical comedy, Company, directed by Susi Damilano. The play will feature a cast of local favorites, with Keith Pinto (Into the Woods) starring as Robert, along with Teresa Attridge, Velina Brown*, Morgan Dayley, Michelle Drexler, Ryan Drummond*, Richard Frederick*, John Paul Gonzalez, Monique Hafen*, Stephanie Prentice*, Chris Reber*, Abby Sammons, Nicole Weber and Michael Scott Wells.

Provincetown's most intimate venue welcomes the biggest names from Broadway and concert stages as rj productions in association with The Provincetown Theater proudly hosts a summer season stacked with many Tony Award Winners and Nominees. Kicking off the summer series is 2014 Tony Award Winner, Lena Hall, direct from 'Hedwig & The Angry Inch' and her concert debut at NYC's Cafe Carlyle, on July 6-7, 2015.

Burning Coal Theatre Company will present Oakwood Lives! for audiences of all ages today and Saturday, May 29th and 30th at 6:30pm and Sunday, May 31st, 2015 at 2 pm at the Oakwood Cemetery at 701 Oakwood Ave, Raleigh, NC.

EVITA opens May 16, 2015 at the Candlelight Pavilion in Claremont, blending a fine dining and musical theatre experience during their 30th season. With more than 20 major awards to it's credit, and the Oscar winning film version starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas, Evita has become iconic.

This summer the Old Log Theatre will present the Tony Award nominated musical comedy The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, directed by R. Kent Knutson; music director John Lynn and choreographed by Regina Peluso. A cast of 24, featuring Julia Cook, Jefferson Slinkard, John Paul Gamoke, Whitney Rhodes and Ken Rosen, brings big songs and big hair to the stage in this sassy, spirited and touching musical about a real-life brothel in Texas.

Cookeville High School's production of West Side Story claimed top honors - the award for Best Show of 2014/15 - last Saturday at the second annual Nashville High School Musical Theatre Awards, presented at Lipscomb University's Collins Alumni Auditorium and hosted by Melinda Doolittle.

Visionary composer and producer Jean-Michel Jarre has announced the June 19 release of three special edition vinyl EPs

Burning Coal Theatre Company will present Oakwood Lives! for audiences of all ages on Friday and Saturday, May 29th and 30th at 6:30pm and Sunday, May 31st, 2015 at 2 pm at the Oakwood Cemetery at 701 Oakwood Ave, Raleigh, NC.

Today Surfer Blood reveal its full national headline tour in support of 1000 Palms, the band's third full-length and first release with acclaimed indie imprint Joyful Noise out May 12th.

Repertory Philippines (Rep) and the City of Makati present Ray Cooney's 1983 farce RUN FOR YOUR WIFE at OnStage (Greenbelt 1, Makati City) now through Sunday, May 3. It's Rep's third time (the first one was in 1986; the second, 2001) to stage the show, directed by Miguel Faustmann.

Hotel Nikko San Francisco and Michael Feinstein are thrilled to welcome Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee, Lena Hall (Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Kinky Boots), to Feinstein's at the Nikko for two performances only - tonight, April 24 (8 p.m.) and tomorrow, April 25 (7 p.m.) Making her Feinstein's at the Nikko debut, Hall will perform her one-woman show, Sin and Salvation, featuring an eclectic mix of soulful rock, pop and blues.

Featuring an unprecedented cast of 100 celebrity narrators, the timely documentary Unity will be distributed by SpectiCast in select theatres worldwide beginning August 12.

NEW YORK, April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Morgan James Publishing's (www.Morgan-James.com)new release, Defying Death in Hagerstown by John Paul Carinci, captures readers' attention as they find the killer of a 90-year-old unsolved triple murder case.

Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com or call (646) 476-3551.

Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including: Natalie Douglas in 'Hello Dolly...The Music of Dolly Parton;' 54 Sings the Beatles; Donna Vivino: Confessions of a Broadway Baby; Lesli Margherita: All Hail the Queen; and Sondheim Unplugged.

City of Aurora Mayor Thomas Weisner announced today the 2015 line up of concerts and events at RiverEdge Park, downtown Aurora's beautiful outdoor concert venue, primed to launch its third season this summer.

Verity Wilde reviews CYRANO DE BERGERAC at Northampton's Royal and Derngate theatre.