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PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL will move to the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center Saturday, April 2nd, 2011. Performances are Saturdays and Sundays at 11am for the opened run.

A Red Orchid Theatre closes its 2010-2011 Season with Machiavelli's The Mandrake, translated by Peter Constantine and directed by Steve Scott.

Previous Olivier Award-winners Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton are to host the 2011 Olivier Awards with MasterCard at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 13 March.

Stephanie Shine, after serving Seattle Shakespeare Company for 17 years (4 years as Education Director and 13 years as Artistic Director) will resign as Artistic Director on June 30, 2011. Shine's announcement comes on the heels of a record-breaking run of her production of The Threepenny Opera that was performed at the Intiman Theatre.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will re-open its production of To Kill A Mockingbird, a stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel by Christopher Sergel. The production runs March 10 - 20, 2011. Performances are March 10 - 12 and 17 - 19, 2011 at 7:30 pm and March 13 and 20th at 2 p.m.

Shakespeare on the Sound, Connecticut's premier outdoor summer theater company presenting free Shakespeare in the park today announced that the company will host a gala for its 16th summer production, Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, under the direction of Joanna Settle.

Writers' Theatre Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, directed by William Brown. The production runs April 19- June 26, 2011 at Writers' Theatre, 325 Tudor Court in Glencoe.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its 2011 season with the debut of Jersey Boys star JOHN LEONE in "Songs My Father Loved: A Tribute to the Great Italian-American Singers" on Monday, March 21.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will re-open its production of To Kill A Mockingbird, a stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel by Christopher Sergel. The production runs March 10 - 20, 2011. Performances are March 10 - 12 and 17 - 19, 2011 at 7:30 pm and March 13 and 20th at 2 p.m.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) Short Shakespeare! Macbeth embarks on a five-week tour of Midwest schools from March 7 to April 8, 2011, following its critically-acclaimed run on CST's Courtyard Theater stage.

AliveWire Theatrics presents the World Premiere of Besharet, written by Chana Porter and directed by Scott Rodrigue. Besharet is the company's inaugural theatrical production, and runs from March 5 - 27, 2011 in a limited engagement at the 9th Space theater, located at 150 1st Avenue (home of Performance Space 122) in NYC. Previews begin March 5 for a March 7 opening.

Previous Olivier Award-winners Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton are to host the 2011 Olivier Awards with MasterCard at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 13 March. The pair, who will preside over the most glamorous ceremony in years, are no strangers to the Olivier Awards. Ball won the coveted Best Actor in a Musical Award in 2009 while Staunton is a double winner, having picked up the famous bronze statuette in 1985 and 1991. Both hugely experienced stage performers, Staunton and Ball's presenting double-act comes ahead of their joint appearance on stage in Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd this September. Treasured as much for her screen work as her stage appearances, Staunton is a BAFTA-winning actress with a vast body of work behind her. Such is her versatility that musicals Into The Woods, Guys And Dolls and Mack And Mabel sit on her CV alongside plays Life X 3, There Came A Gypsy Riding, Uncle Vanya and, most recently, Entertaining Mr Sloane in the West End. On screen, Staunton has starred in numerous films including Shakespeare In Love, Much Ado About Nothing, Sense And Sensibility and Vera Drake - for which she won a BAFTA and received an Oscar nomination - as well as the hugely popular television serial Cranford. Before heading to Chichester, Staunton returns to the London stage in A Delicate Balance at the Almeida theatre this May. Ball will be adding Olivier Awards host to a resume that already includes actor, producer, radio and TV presenter and recording artist. Since making his West End debut in the original production of Les Miserables in 1985, Ball has appeared in a variety of high profile West End productions, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera, The Woman In White and Aspects Of Love, Stephen Sondheim's Passion and family musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He made his opera debut at the London Coliseum in 2007 in Kismet and has appeared several times on Broadway. In 2008 he famously donned drag to play the loveable role of Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, a performance which earned him an Olivier Award. On top of that, Ball has released 12 solo albums, represented Great Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, toured all over the world and, since 2008, presented Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch on BBC Radio 2. In 2010 he turned producer by co-producing the musical Love Story in the West End. Theatre fans who want to see Staunton and Ball in action can purchase tickets to the Olivier Awards, either by MasterCard through www.olivierawards.com or with cash, Theatre Tokens or MasterCard in person at the tkts booths in Leicester Square and Brent Cross.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) Short Shakespeare! Macbeth embarks on a five-week tour of Midwest schools from March 7 to April 8, 2011, following its critically-acclaimed run on CST's Courtyard Theater stage.

Auditions for The Old Globe's 2010 Summer Shakespeare Intensive will be held on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20 on the Globe campus.

From Wednesday 9 March 2011 Nicola Stephenson and Patrick Robinson will join the West End cast of the National Theatre's hit production of War Horse which is currently taking bookings at the New London Theatre to 18 February 2012. Nicola Stephenson will play Albert's mother, Rose Narracott, and Patrick Robinson will play German soldier Friedrich Muller.

From Wednesday 9 March 2011 Nicola Stephenson and Patrick Robinson will join the West End cast of the National Theatre's hit production of War Horse which is currently taking bookings at the New London Theatre to 18 February 2012. Nicola Stephenson will play Albert's mother, Rose Narracott, and Patrick Robinson will play German soldier Friedrich Muller.

Virginia's Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre, through its groundbreaking American Musical Voices Project (AMVP), announces the world premiere of the musical comedy And the Curtain Rises (formerly known as Wheatley's Folly). Beginning performances on Thursday, March 17, 2011, And the Curtain Rises marks the third production presented as part of Signature's AMVP, the largest commissioning program for new musicals in the country, following Michael John LaChiusa's Giant in 2009 and Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees last year. The Washington Post has said that 'Signature's AMVP is the most ambitious embrace of new musical theater in the DC region.'

A haunting American classic, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL marks the first Cleveland Play House production of a work by Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winner Horton Foote, and the world-premiere performance of this play by an African-American cast. Receiving the blessing of Hallie Foote, daughter of the playwright, this co-production with Round House Theatre is helmed by Timothy Douglas and stars preeminent African-American actress Lizan Mitchell as Carrie Watts. THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL begins in the Drury Theatre at Cleveland Play House on Friday, February 4 and runs through Sunday, February 27, 2011. Tickets are available at Cleveland Play House box office by calling 216.795.7000 ext 4 or online at www.clevelandplayhouse.com. THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL is presented with support from US Bank, Turner Construction, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, and the Ohio Arts Council.

The Howard County Arts Council is honoring the 2010 Howie Award winners at the 14th Annual Celebration of the Arts and 30th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, March 26, 2011, at Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD.

AliveWire Theatrics proudly presents the World Premiere of Besharet, written by Chana Porter and directed by Scott Rodrigue. Besharet is the company's inaugural theatrical production, and runs from March 5 - 27, 2011 in a limited engagement at the 9th Space theater, located at 150 1st Avenue (home of Performance Space 122) in NYC. Previews begin March 5 for a March 7 opening

Lucy Cohu (Julia), Diana Hardcastle (Edna), Ian McElhinney (Harry), Imelda Staunton (Claire) and Tim Pigott-Smith (Tobias) will join the previously announced Penelope Wilton (Agnes) in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance, directed by James Macdonald which will run at the Almeida Theatre from 5 May - 2 July, with press night on 12 May 2011. A Delicate Balance will be designed by Laura Hopkins with lighting by Guy Hoare and sound by Ian Dickinson.

?Straight from a six-week tour of Australia, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) acclaimed Funk It Up About Nothin' makes its London debut at Theatre Royal Stratford East beginning April 8, 2011.

Tony Estrella, artistic director of The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm), today announced the theater's 27th Season (2011-2012) - an exciting and powerful lineup delivering The Gamm's trademark one-two punch of reinvigorated classics and powerful, provocative, up-to-the-moment contemporary dramas.

Casting has been announced for the Broadway production of The Royal Court Theatre's JERUSALEM, the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning play by Jez Butterworth and starring Tony and Olivier Award-winner Mark Rylance (La Bête, Boeing-Boeing). The production, directed by Ian Rickson, will open on April 21, 2011 at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street). Previews begin April 2. The production will play a limited 16-week engagement.

AliveWire Theatrics presents the World Premiere of Besharet, written by Chana Porter and directed by Scott Rodrigue. Besharet is the company's inaugural theatrical production, and runs from March 5 - 27, 2011 in a limited engagement at the 9th Space theater, located at 150 1st Avenue (home of Performance Space 122) in NYC. Previews begin March 5 for a March 7 opening.