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The third and final installment in the Bridge Project collaboration between the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), London's Old Vic Theater, and Sam Mendes's Neal Street Productions has been postponed until 2012 due to 'scheduling issues,' Bridge Project press representative Jackie Green told the New York Times.

Alec Baldwin says that he will quit acting after his contract for '30 Rock' expires, US Weekly reports.

Ringo Starr's All Starr Band performed at New York's Radio City Music Hall on July 7 on the occasion of Starr's seventieth birthday, contactmusic.com reports. Starr closed the concert with a singalong performance of 'With a Little Help From My Friends,' for which he was joined by former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney.

The New York Times's Lens Blog has published a slideshow of photographs taken by Broadway actor Joel Grey. Grey has published three books of photographs and has had five exhibits, including 'Joel Grey: 1.3: New Color Images,' which, as previously reported on BroadwayWorld, will be open through July 10 at Manhattan's Steven Kasher Gallery. Grey's pictures were taken on a 1.3-megapixel Nokia cellphone.

GLEE summer camps are being created throughout the United States, the Chicago Tribune reports. Camps based on the hit television show have been started in Illinois, North Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Indiana and Utah, the Tribune states.

Stephanie J. Block, Ken Page, and Lara Teeter will star in CATS, St. Louis's Muny has announced on its official website. Block will play Grizabella, while Page will play Old Deuteronomy and Teeter will play Munkustrap. The production will run at the Muny from July 19 to July 25, with all performances at 8:15pm.

Matthew Morrison told the Los Angeles Times that he finds 'Glee's Emmy nominations 'pretty darn amazing.' GLEE, on which Morrison stars as glee club director Will Schuester, was nominated for nineteen Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy and Outstanding Actor in a Comedy for Morrison.

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, who was to direct Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE at Milan's La Scala, has been replaced by Michele Mariotti, the New York Times reports. La Scala stated on its website, 'Due to the impossibility of maintaining a serene and constructive work relationship, Jean-Christophe Spinosi has decided by mutual agreement with the Teatro alla Scala management to withdraw from the current production.'

The Recording Academy has changed a rule which made artists who had been previously nominated for a Grammy Award ineligible for the award for Best New Artist, the New York Times reports. Under the new rule, only those who have previously released complete albums or won previous Grammy Awards are ineligible.

Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena will become chief conductor for the BBC Philharmonic during the 2011-2012 season, the New York Times reports. Mena will also, along with Christoph von Dohnanyi, Hans Graf and Michael Tilson Thomas, take the place of James Levine at the Tanglewood Music Festival while Levine recuperates from back surgery.

Seven tour dates of the 'American Idol Live!' tour have been cancelled, the New York Times reports.

Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image will open its redesigned building on January 15, 2011, the New York Times reports. The redesigned museum, designed by Thomas Leeser, will feature a glass entrance, a grand staircase, and a video wall in the lobby, as well as a new theater (seating 264) and screening room (seating 68). Museum director Rochelle Slovin told the Times, 'I had always felt that a museum about the movies should have some sense of glamour. That is part of what we've now gotten from this project.' The museum's new design also includes three additional stories, increasing the building's square footage from 50,000 square feet to 97,700 square feet.

Manhattan dance space organization Dance New Amsterdam may be evicted because of its inability to pay rent, the New York Times reports. Dance New Amsterdam's executive director, Catherine Peila, told the Times that Dance New Amsterdam owes over half a million dollars in rent and added, 'With the high rent and the recession, we didn't earn enough money to pay the rent. The arts community should really be revved up: we serve 8,000 students, we employ 250 people a year and we moved to Lower Manhattan to revitalize the area.' Peila also told the Times that the organization hopes to meet with landlord Fram Realty and with cities agencies and to come to an agreement for lower rent.

THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING, a ballet with music by the Pet Shop Boys, will premiere at London's Sadler's Wells on March 22, 2011, whatsonstage.com reports. The ballet, based on Hans Christian Anderson's story, tells of a quest to find 'the most incredible thing' in order to marry a princess, the report says. Javier de Frutos will direct and choreograph, and Ivan Putov will star. The production will run until March 26, and there will be a week of previews before the opening, the report says.

Hana Sharif has been named associate artistic director of Hartford Stage, the Hartford Courant's Behind the Curtain blog reports. Sharif will succeed Jeremy B. Cohen, who is to become producing director of Minneapolis's The Playwrights Center, on August 9.

Steven Berkoff's BIBLICAL TALES will premiere at London's New End Theatre on August 3, whatsonstage.com reports. The show is made up of four one act plays, dealing with the stories of Adam and Eve, Samson and Delilah, David and Goliath, and Moses and Pharaoh, all with a '21st Century twist ... in guises we would never have believed possible,' according to the report. The production will run for four weeks.

The Slant Theatre Project has announced casting for Thomas Ward's BINGE on their official Facebook page. The cast will feature Brent Bateman, John G. Preston, Therese Barbato, and David Lee Nelson. The production will be directed by Adam Knight.

Some of the greatest rock anthems of the 70's, 80's and 90's take center stage in the new rock cabaret musical POWER BALLADZ, debuting Off-Broadway at the Midtown Theatre (163 W. 46 St.) in Manhattan, with previews starting August 5th prior to an official press opening on August 19th. Not your typical theater experience, POWER BALLADZ is a 90-minute rock tribute that gives audiences the chance to unleash their inner rock star: part comedy, part interactive game show, and a genuine joy ride through the music and legend of rock songs by powerhouse bands such as Guns 'N' Roses, Journey, Heart, Queens, Bon Jovi, Styx and more. POWER BALLADZ is created by Mike Todaro and Dan Nycklemoe with Peter Rothstein and written by Mr. Todaro and Mr. Nycklemoe.

Gina Gershon, Danny Glover, and Robert Patrick will star in the independent movie 'Five Minarets in New York,' the Hollywood Reporter reports. The film, to be written and directed by Mahsun Kirmizigul (Turkey's 'I Saw the Sun'), is the story of Maria (Gershon), the wife of a Turkish scholar who is arrested for a crime that he did not commit.

Opera singer Cesare Siepi died Monday in Atlanta at the age of eighty-seven, the Associated Press reports. The cause of death was a stroke.