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Comedian Ron White appears at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 7P. Tickets are $55 - $25 and go on sale Friday, April 13 at 10A at the PPAC Box Office, online at www.ppacri.org and by phone at (401) 421-ARTS (2787). Please note that all PPAC ticket prices include a $3 restoration charge and are subject to change without notice.

For one week from April 24 to April 30, the Cantare division of the Young People's Chorus of New York City (YPC) will be one of only six of the world's children's choirs invited to participate in the Adolf Fredrik Let the Future Sing 2012 International Children's and Youth Choir Festival in Stockholm, Sweden. Led by YPC Associate Conductor Elizabeth Núñez, YPC is the first American choir ever invited to take part in this prestigious festival.

Mike Eldred, renowned vocalist known for his appearances on Broadway as "Jean Valjean" in Les Miserables, his performance as "Tony" in the Nashville Symphony's recording of West Side Story on NAXOS Records, and starring in the national touring production of The Civil War, has been invited by Desmond Child and Marcus Hummon to star in their fundraiser production of Broadway Babies! The Broadway Songbooks of Desmond Child & Marcus Hummon in Nashville on April 11th. The sold-out evening will benefit Thistle Farms, a social enterprise run by women who have survived prostitution, trafficking, addiction, and life on the streets. The production also features Kim Bretton, Nick Duckart, Tabitha Fair, Michelle Nicolo Prentice and Chris Roberts.

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present West Water Outlaws at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, May 9th. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, April 13th for $10.00 in advance and $12.00 day of show.

ABC Studios announces the May/June DVD debut of four new TV series on DVD, just weeks after their season one finales on ABC-TV. The spring releases begin May 22 with the DVD debut of the paranormal thriller "The River." The network's hilarious "GCB" struts its stuff to DVD on June 12, and both the explosive thriller "Scandal" and the mystery-suspense sensation "Missing" head home to DVD, also on June 12.

Bayside! The UnMusical!, the unauthorized musical parody of TV's Saved by the Bell, is returning to East Village's Kraine Theatre on May 9th! The entertaining and edgy sendup of the popular Saturday morning teen drama will have a limited two week run from May 9th - 19th.

IN THE MOOD returns to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Sun. Apr. 22, 2012 at 7:00 PM. More than a concert, IN THE MOOD is a Big Band Theatrical Swing Revue. It's the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, and other greats of the 1940's. Featuring a company of In the Mood Singers and Dancers with the sensational String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra, the show's music arrangements, costumes and choreography are as authentic as it gets!

New Line Theatre, 'the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre,' will close its 21st season May31-June 23, 2012, with HIGH FIDELITY, the funny, rowdy, emotional rock musical that garnered positive reviews in New Line's 2008 production, the first production of the show after its Broadway run.

Now in the midst of a record-breaking year, Lantern Theater Company announces the productions scheduled for its 2012/13 season. The Lantern opens its 19th season with a remount of David Ives' New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656, the best-selling play in the company's history and featuring the original cast and creative team from the original 2011 production. This limited return engagement is followed by the Philadelphia premiere of The Liar, also by Ives, a sophisticated comedy of lies and love adapted from the French play by Pierre Corneille. Mid-season, the Lantern completes Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy (A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West) with the darkly comic The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Lantern Associate Artistic Director Kathryn MacMillan will direct both The Liar and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. In the spring, Lantern Artistic Director Charles McMahon directs Henry V, William Shakespeare's epic journey through royal courts and battlefields. The season concludes with Heroes, a playful, bawdy, and heartbreakingly funny comedy by Tom Stoppard, adapted from Gerald Sibleyras' Le Vent De Peupliers and directed by Lantern affiliated artist M. Craig Getting.

On April 7-14, Performing Arts at Pace University will present "Our Lady of 121st Street" by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Grant Kretchik, at The Lion Theatre on Theatre Row. Check out production photos below!

If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one's model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She - a singing, songwriting, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player - is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything ever heard before. She changes what seems possible.

Gordon Greenberg, Co-Creator and Director of Pirates! (or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder'd) describes the themes behind this 2012 Muny production in part one of his conversation with Mike Isaacson. Watch the video below!

Young Hollywood takes you backstage at the Ahmanson Theatre and behind the scenes of the rockin' musical, 'American Idiot', based on the Grammy-winning Green Day album of the same name! Stars Van Hughes and Jake Epstein rest their pipes and sit down with us to talk about the show's amazing run and success -- hear how Van went from stand-in to leading man, and Jake shares a specific pitfall of spending the entire show on stage! Hosted by Lesley Robins. Check out the behind the scenes video below!

Mindy Young likes to do imaginative and energetic family shows that children will love but adults will also find witty and appealing. As a guest director for the SCERA Center for the Arts, she believes she has found it with Disney's "My Son Pinocchio," complete with the beloved songs from the Disney film but given even more charm and sophistication with a score of original songs by Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz. Check out production photos below!

Guests will embark on a first-class virtual excursion to the four corners of the globe at Virginia Stage Company's 2012 Spring Gala "All The World's A Stage," on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Benefits from the evening will proceed VSC's CULTIVATE programs, which bring arts experiences to over 40,000 school children throughout Southeastern Virginia and into North Carolina each year

The Staten Island Children's Museum welcomes Disney's Phineas & Ferb for a visit, a song and a dance! First, children will enjoy a fun, interactive scientific presentation all about oobleck, that squishy, jiggly polymer that finds its way into so many cartoon adventures, then meet, greet and dance with Phineas & Ferb, Live!

ROBYN SPANGLER brings her award winning show "Why I Love Linda Ronstadt" to Davenports on April 19 at 8:00 pm with Musical Director Jeff Roscoe and Patrick Williams on the bass.

The Guthrie Theater, now in previews for the critically acclaimed play Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, welcomed the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright to the final rehearsal and first preview last weekend, Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7. This marks the first time that a production of Margulies' work has been staged at the Guthrie. Check out the photos of the playwright at rehearsals below!

Legendary film director Peter Bogdanovich attended FREUD'S LAST SESSION at New World Stages this past Saturday, April 7th to see George Morfogen and Jim Stanek, who recently joined the production as Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis respectively. FREUD'S LAST SESSION is the winner of the 2011 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play and additional productions are already set to open into 2013 in major markets across the nation and around the world. Check out the photo of Bogdanovich below!

Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel have announced the 2012 Summer movie lineup. The 10 film slate begins with 'Notes From the Heart Healer' on Sunday, May 13 at 8:00/7:00c. Read the full lineup below.