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Audra McDonald will perform her only Berkshire solo performance on June 15 at 8pm at The Colonial Theatre accompanied by pianist Andy Einhorn.

Billboard Magazine interviewed numerous stars from Oklahoma and gathered their reaction to the tragedy that has unfolded there. Toby Keith maintains his hometown, Moore Oklahoma, will bounce back following this unbelievable ordeal.

Mason Alexander was recently a runner up finalist in the 2013 Jerry Herman Awards, has also been named a 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and will be receiving an award from the President and performing at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC. This honor is the highest honor a high school senior can receive. Only 141 students are honored out of the millions graduating and from those only 20 are Arts Scholars.

The Voice” coach Blake Shelton, as well as advisor Sheryl Crow, are set to perform on the hit NBC musical competition series next week.

IN PLAY WITH JIMMY ROBERTS returns Tuesday, May 21 at 10:30 p.m. ET on Golf Channel with a new slate of real-life stories that encompass the game of golf in this critically-acclaimed newsmagazine series.

Below, check out highlights from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE'S WEEKEND UPDATE with Seth Meyers, from May 18!

Below, check out quotables from NBC's 'LATE NIGHT WITH Jimmy Fallon' for the week of MAY 13 - MAY 17:

Snap-Two Productions, Inc. and LimanAde Productions in association with Issembert Productions, Inc. will present a staged reading of the new drama with music, Signs of Life, at American University in the Katzen Arts Center Studio Theatre on June 1 at 7:00 P.M. and June 2 at 1:00 P.M. The performances will feature American University alumni, current students and a student from BRAVO@KAT, the children's wing of Kensington Arts Theatre. This is the first academic production of Signs of Life.

As part of their "In Performance at the White House" series, the President and First Lady will host a concert in the East Room honoring singer-songwriter Carole King, who will be awarded the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. President Obama will present the award as he did when the Library of Congress honored Stevie Wonder (2009), Sir Paul McCartney (2010), and the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David (2012). The program will include performances by King, as well as Gloria Estefan, Billy Joel, Jesse McCartney, Emeli Sande, James Taylor and Trisha Yearwood.

Dr. Rennie Harris, Alvin Ailey Award recipient and renowned choreographer, returns to the New Victory stage (Legends of Hip-Hop, New Vic 2004, 2006; Puremovement, New Vic 1999) to inspire the next generation of hip-hoppers with Rennie Harris Awe-Inspiring Works-RHAW. Featuring a hip-hop dance theater company of talented young dancers, RHAW delivers straight- up Philly soul and fresh spins on classic street dance styles, creating depictions of city life and young love. Rennie Harris' RHAW, will run at The New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street from tonight, May 17 through the 26th.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) and the Aspen Institute Arts Program (Director, Damian Woetzel) announced today that a special free Public Forum program, WHAT ARE WE WORTH? SHAKESPEARE, MONEY, AND MORALS, will take place at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Monday, June 17 at 8:00 p.m.

Atlantic Theater Company welcomes Olivier and two time Tony Award winning playwright John Guare, who will make his Off Broadway acting debut in the world premiere production of his new play 3 KINDS OF EXILE, directed by Atlantic artistic director Neil Pepe, featuring Atlantic ensemble members Peter Maloney and David Pittu and guest artists Alison Cimmet, Jeffrey Kuhn, Jacquelyn Landgraf, Martin Moran, Kate Rigg, Omar Sangare and Timothy Splain.

Chris Mann, the classically based pop vocalist and 2012 finalist on NBC's 'The Voice,' will perform atThe Capitol Center for the Arts tonight, May 15, at 7:30 p.m.

Below, check out quotables from NBC's 'LATE NIGHT WITH Jimmy Fallon' for the week of MAY 6 - MAY 10:

In the latest "Meet the Press" PRESS Pass conversation, David Gregory sat down with legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin to discuss his new book, "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration."

In her first interview since being rescued by Navy SEALs, Jessica Buchanan tells CBS 60 MINUTES Scott Pelley she was resigned to the thought she would die in the Somali Desert. Watch a clip from Sunday's upcoming interview below!

As part of the Alley Theatre's New Play Initiative, where the Alley facilitates a creative collaboration between playwrights, directors, actors, and designers, the organization is producing Kenneth Lin's edgy and fresh drama WARRIOR CLASS. Kenneth Lin's INTELLIGENCE-SLAVE was previously produced in 2010 as part of this program as well. Kenneth Lin is also a staff writer for Netflix's HOUSE OF CARDS and the creator of USA Networks new limited series AMERICAN WAY.

In an exclusive interview that took place this afternoon in Istanbul, Ann Curry, NBC News' National and International Correspondent and Anchor at Large, sat down with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who asserts that Syria's President Bashar Hafez al-Assad has used chemical weapons and that Assad crossed President Obama's red line a long time ago.