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Pacific Theatre presents its season finale, Kate Fodor's 100 Saints You Should Know, developed by Chicago's renowned Steppenwolf Theatre. This tale of five souls attempting what should be a relatively simple task: to live life being true to the person they were meant to be. Turns out, it's not so simple.

The second episode of MSG Varsity's Emmy award-winning hit series "The Rockettes Summer Intensive" will focus on six of the twelve tri-state students who are competing with more than 1,000 dancers nationwide for the chance to train with the world-famous Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. Each dancer is competing for one of 450 coveted spots in the 2012 Rockettes Summer Intensive training program. The episode is scheduled to air on Sunday April 15th at 9:00 p.m. on MSG Varsity, channel 14 on Cablevision's iO TV.

Rubicon Theatre Company Producing Artistic Director today announced the company's new partnership with Crystal Cruises, and the organization's first cruise event, an autumnal adventure aboard the Six-Star Crystal Symphony from the picturesque port of Montreal to the neon lights of Broadway, slated for October 21 to October 31, 2012.

Penguin Rep Theatre (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director, and Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director) and Morton Wolkowitz (Stomp, The Unexpected Man) will present the Off-Broadway premiere of Miracle On South Division Street, by Tom Dudzick, directed by Joe Brancato. Performances begin April 25th at St. Luke's Theatre. Opening Night is set for Sunday May 13th.

First Stage's Young Company concludes its 2011-2012 season with Tom Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, Friday, May 4 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 5 at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m.at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut St., Milwaukee.

Syndicated morning show "LIVE! with Kelly" announces the line-up of guest co-hosts who will join Kelly Ripa during the week of April 23-27, 2012. The lineup includes actor Matthew Broderick, who currently stars in Broadway's Nice Work if you Can Get It. See the full lineup below.

Asolo Repertory is presents events leading up the Spanish performances of Hamlet, Prince of Cuba. Set in late 19th century Cuba, the show is currently enjoying a run in English at Asolo Rep and will have two performances in Spanish with English supertitles on May 3 at 8 p.m. and May 5 at 2 p.m. After concluding its run in Sarasota, the show will move to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center in Miami where there will be both English and supertitled Spanish performances May 11-13. Hamlet, Prince of Cuba features guest artist Frankie J. Alvarez as Hamlet, Gisela Chipe (of Asolo Rep's Yentl) as Ophelia, Emilio Delgado as Claudius (known for his role as Luis on Sesame Street), Mercedes Herrero as Gertrude and Andhy Mendez as Laertes. The following programming will be offered in conjunction with the production.

While singers, comics, Broadway shows and aerialist circus shows continue to dominate the showrooms on the celebrated Las Vegas Strip, the Entertainment Capital of the World is finally giving the visual arts the 'premiere destination" spotlight with the highly-anticipated debut of the inaugural World of Art Showcase (www.worldofartshowcase.com) at the Wynn Las Vegas December 20-22, 2012.

DOMA Theatre Company continues its 2012 musical season with a collection of stories by multiple award-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown, opens on May 11 at The MET Theatre in Los Angeles. Marco Gomez directs, Dolf Ramos is musical director and Angela Todaro choreographs. The cast is comprised of four singers: Andrea Arvanigian, Malek Hanna, Mookie Johnson and Joanne O'Brien.

Award-winning comedian Rita Rudner began her show business career on stage in the national company of Zorba with Chita Rivera and John Raitt at the tender age of fifteen. After appearing in several Broadway shows, including Follies and Mack and Mabel, Rita made her last pre-comedian Broadway appearance in 1980 as Lily St. Regis in Annie. Rita returns to her acting roots with the 13-member ensemble cast of The Laguna Playhouse's production of Tickled Pink, making its World Premiere debut from April 24 - May 20, 2012.

For its spring program, Smuin Ballet will present the West Coast premiere of Swipe by Val Caniparoli, internationally renowned choreographer and principal character dancer at San Francisco Ballet. Smuin audiences will also be treated to the World Premiere of Through by Ma Cong (French Twist), an uplifting work set to music by Academy Award-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. The bill will also include Michael Smuin's elegant Symphony of Psalms, a breathtaking classical piece set to Stravinsky's score. Smuin's spring program will play at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts April 27-May 6, Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts May 18-19, and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts May 23-27. Single tickets ($25-$62) are on sale now at www.smuinballet.org. (See end of press release for complete box office information.)

Mad Cow Theatre's intimate 2-theatre complex in Downtown Orlando plays host to The Tenth Annual Orlando Cabaret Festival, May 3-13, 2012. Over 25 performances of jazz, pop, Broadway, comedy, and a few surprises featuring many of Central Florida's favorite artists. Eight veteran vocalists team up to present four shows in this year's festival -the company includes Evan D'Angeles, Cami Miller, Zach Nadolski, Frank Siano, Trevor Southworth, Melissa Vasquez, Natalie Walker, and Julie Woods-Robinson.

Genesis Repertory - in the 3+ years it maintained residence in Brooklyn - has continued its acclaimed classical stage, premiered musicals and new works, expanded its training program to include acting, voice, young people's programs, and playwrighting, and even premiered a film at New York's Anthology Film Archives, now takes on a second location: The Block Institute's Block Academy, located at 133 27th Avenue, houses a 650-seat theater with it's own entrance, private bathrooms, dressing areas, and kitchen/concession. Mary Elizabeth MiCari, Genesis' artistic director, decided to inaugurate this new space with the company's The Final Projects, part of its arts intensive training program, Genesis University on Stage. The event will be Saturday night, April 21 at 8:00 p.m. $10 All Seats.

If you struggle to get your man even to buy you flowers, Moss Rich's poems will melt your heart with a lifetime of love poems written to his wife Milly to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. Pighog Press published a selection of the poems as Lifetime of Love in a boxed set in 2011. The performance puts his poems in their historical context including his association with the Unity Theatre in the 1930s and the whole arc of Jewish culture through the twentieth century. This adaptation, starring Nic Choulman and Raymond Daniel-Davies, brings the poems to life in a promenade performance including projections and audio at the Bali Brasserie in Hove.

Playwright Annie Baker and director Sam Gold-whose previous collaborations include the acclaimed The Aliens and Circle Mirror Transformation-have reunited to stage a new adaptation of Chekhov's masterpiece, Uncle Vanya. Soho Rep, which, in association with John Adrian Selzer, will present the world premiere production June 7-July 15, today announces the cast and creative team.

The Next Fifty, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, Apr 21 - Oct 21, begins on Saturday, Apr 21 with a full day of festivities, 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., on the Center grounds.

Years before Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance turned ballroom dancing into must-see TV, one show was setting stages ablaze around the globe. BURN THE FLOOR, the Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that has thrilled audiences in more than 30 countries, brings the fire and passion of their live performance to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) for 5 performances only, May 4 - 6, 2012. BURN THE FLOOR is the final installment in the Taco/The White Family Foundation Contemporary Classics Series. Tickets are on sale now at the PPAC Box Office, online at www.ppacri.org and by phone at (401) 421-ARTS (2787).

Nederlander Presentations, Inc. announces that Grammy® Nominee and R&B superstar Deborah Cox will star as Lucy in the international musical sensation JEKYLL & HYDE that will begin a preview engagement at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, September 7 - 30, prior to returning to Broadway in April 2013 following a 25-week National Tour. The tour will launch at San Diego's Civic Theatre in San Diego, California on October 2, 2012. Cox will star alongside the previously announced Tony Award Nominee Constantine Maroulis in the title dual role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde.

Seattle-based theater ensemble The Wrecking Crew presents Pugilist Specialist, an award winning political theatre piece by Adriano Shaplin, starting Friday, May 11th. The production will run through Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at Stone Soup Theatre's DownStage on 4029 Stone Way North (between Fremont and Wallingford).

PERFECT CRIME, Warren Manzi's long-running funny, romantic thriller, will celebrate its 25th anniversary Off Broadway on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 with performance number 10,233. PERFECT CRIME is the longest-running play in the history of New York theater.