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Producers for the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, announced a National Tour for the 2016-17 season.

A dance legend talks AN AMERICAN IN PARIS with its director/choreographer!

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, is returning to Playhouse Square as part of the Star Performance Series. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this elaborate theatrical production will come to life on stage at Playhouse Square this weekend, April 24-26, 2015. For information on the production, visit BeautyAndTheBeastOnTour.com.

A dance legend talks AN AMERICAN IN PARIS with its director/choreographer!

David Mirvish is extending for the final time the Toronto production of the Tony Award-winning 'Best Musical' ONCE. The production, which began performances at the Ed Mirvish Theatre on February 10, 2015, will now play until June 28. But the show must leave the Ed Mirvish Theatre on that day because Disney's production of NEWSIES moves into the venue the following week.

ONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts for a limited engagement from December 1 - 6. Presented by Broadway Series South, tickets for ONCE are available now to 2015-16 Season Subscribers and can be purchased by calling (919) 831-6941 ext. 6944.

ONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts (255 Almaden Blvd.) for a limited engagement from tonight, April 21-26, 2015.

Today, April 18th, TDF will host a special reception and performance of The Heidi Chronicles to celebrate the show's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, and to raise funds for the arts education program she co-founded, TDF's Open Doors. Open Doors, now in its 17th year, is the first arts education program to be awarded a special Tony Honor for 'Excellence in the Theatre.'

The Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway announced the nominees this morning for the 2014-15 season. The first major Broadway/Off-Broadway award nominees of the New York theater season, the organization is celebrating its 64th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theater. The Outer Critics Circle is an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, Internet, and theatre publications in America and abroad.

A generous new glance at AN AMERICAN IN PARIS!

Hear all the majesty of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS!

ONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards® including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album, will play Omaha's Orpheum Theater for a limited engagement Tuesday, May 12, through Sunday, May 17. Tickets for ONCE are available through Ticket Omaha.*

Gigi star Vanessa Hudgens will be interviewed on "The View" on Tuesday, April 14. "The View" airs locally at 11:00 AM (ET) on WABC-TV Channel 7. Check local listings.

Direct from Broadway, SISTER ACT, the hilarious, five-time Tony-nominated musical smash, is coming to Miami. Called 'In a word, DIVINE!' by the Associated Press, SISTER ACT opens at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County tonight, April 14 for a limited engagement!

ONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the Community Center Theater for a limited engagement from tonight, April 14 - 19.

The new Broadway musical An American in Paris is now in previews and just opened last night, April 12, 2015 at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street). An American In Paris is directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Inspired by the Academy-Award winning film, An American In Paris brings this classic tale to Broadway for the first time with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by Tony nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Lucas. BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photos from the first official curtain call below!

Vanessa Hudgens stopped by the TONIGHT SHOW WITH JIMMY FALLON to talk about starring on Broadway and the stage roles that led up to her turn on the Great White Way, from Quasimodo to GIGI.

In anticipation of tonight's opening, the buzz on Broadway for the last few weeks around An American in Paris has been, 'Oui, oui, oui!'