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The Metropolitan Museum of Art today unveiled the 2012-13 season of Met Museum Presents, its newly-renamed series of performances and talks. This is the first full season to be programmed by Concerts & Lectures General Manager Limor Tomer, who assumed her post at the Met in July 2011. The program offers interpretations of and reflections on the Museum's collection, special exhibitions, and tradition through the work of some of today's most celebrated composers and performing artists.

Lyric's Thelma Gaylord Academy presents its 2012 spring semester productions of SWEENEY TODD, SCHOOL EDITION performing April 26 through 28, DISNEY'S ALADDIN JR., performing May 4 and 5, and RoKademY's THEO AND THE MAGIC ROAD performing May 26 on the stage of Lyric's Plaza Theatre on 16th Street.

The Maltz Jupiter Theatre brought home eight awards at the April 2 ceremony for the 36th annual Carbonell Awards, South Florida's equivalent of the Tony Awards®. With a ceremony held at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, the Theatre garnered the most awards of any of the South Florida nominees, surpassing winning theaters in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties. By show, the Theatre earned five awards for Crazy For You (including best musical), one for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and one for The Sound of Music.

In THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL, sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. Lucifer and his colorful cast of singing carnies guide these lost souls through their wild, warped amusement park. Check out the trailer for the soundtrack - now available - below!

Some 180 examples of the very earliest works of Egyptian art-created in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, around 4400 B.C.-2649 B.C. (the end of Dynasty 2) from throughout Egypt-will be featured in the exhibition The Dawn of Egyptian Art, opening April 10, 2012, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Outstanding examples of sculpture, painting, and relief from the collections of the Metropolitan and 11 other museums in the United States and Europe have been gathered for this presentation.

After sell-out seasons in the UK and the USA, Scotland's smash hit musical rom-com, MIDSUMMER (A PLAY WITH SONGS), arrives at La Boite next Tuesday following a run at the Sydney Opera House. Check out the promotional video with audience interviews below!

Conceived and Directed by Shane Scheel and Christopher Lloyd Bratten, For The Record: Coen Brothers begins Thursday, April 5 and runs until Sunday, April 29. Weekly performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9PM and Sunday at 8PM. For ticket information please call (323) 661-6163 (ext 20) or visit www.fortherecordlive.com.

Inspired by recent insight from Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Bradley Cooper (ASDS MFA'00), Jennifer Aniston, James Franco, the casts of Mad Men, Glee and Modern Family, as well as other distinguished celebrity guests of their craft class - Dean Emeritus James Lipton's Inside The Actors Studio - a new generation of performers and creators have taken the stage at The Theatre at Dance New Amsterdam for a five-week Repertory Season, March 28 - April 28, 2012.

Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and recording artist Leslie Uggams (On Golden Pond, King Headley II, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, Jerry's Girls, Her First Roman, Hallelujah, Baby! and television's Roots) has launched her new CD Uptown Downtown, now available online at CDBaby.com. This 2-CD cast album includes 21 tracks (24 songs) from her one-woman autobiographical musical that charts her career from Harlem (Uptown) to Broadway (Downtown), and everywhere in between.

After picking up their BEST PRODUCTION awards (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly, Garland, and Ovation) Rogue Machine proudly returns, with over 45 award nominations, offering four plays never before seen in Los Angeles.

After receiving positives reviews from critics and audiences alike - and selling out every performance of its January run - Balagan Theatre brings the coming-of-age rock musical, Spring Awakening, back to Seattle in April, plus a weekend tour to Mount Vernon in May.

Wisconsin Public Radio has teamed with the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre to stage a radio adaptation of "The Lonely Road" and "Rocket from Manhattan" on Sunday, April 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center. Tickets are $10 and are available at the box office, by phone at (414) 291-7800, or online at https://tickets.broadwaytheatrecenter.com.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) will close its 2011-12 season with the Bay Area premiere of The Scottsboro Boys, the critically acclaimed musical based on a tragic chapter in American history. Nominated for twelve 2011 Tony Awards, The Scottsboro Boys features music and lyrics by the legendary Broadway songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman), book by David Thompson (Steel Pier, Chicago), musical direction by Eric Ebbenga, and direction and choreography by five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Contact). Jeff Whiting will serve as associate director and choreographer. Tony and Emmy Award winner Hal Linden (Barney Miller, The Rothschilds on Broadway) joins the stellar cast as The Interlocutor. The Scottsboro Boys performs a limited run June 21-July 15, 2012, at the American Conservatory Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco). Press night is Wednesday, June 27, at 8 p.m. Tickets (starting at $20) are on sale now and may be purchased online at act-sf.org or by calling 415.749.2228.

Pioneer Theatre Company presents Man of La Mancha, the musical staging of the epic tale of Don Quixote, May 4 - May 19, 2012.

After runs in London and New York, Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride makes its San Diego premiere this week at Diversionary Theatre.

France's leading contemporary ballet company, Ballet Preljocaj, performs a romantic and contemporary retelling of Snow White (Blanche Neige), based on the Grimm brothers' original fairytale. This lush, full-length story ballet by French choreographer, Angelin Preljocaj, features massive sets, 26 dancers, and an all-star roster of French artists and designers including the excesses of Gustav Mahler symphonies, sets by Thierry Leproust, and costumes by Jean Paul Gaultier.

What would YOU do if the Nazis came to power? How would your daily life be changed? This is the question asked by ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT, winner of Best New Play in Chicago Award, which premieres in Arizona at Theater Works beginning April 13. ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT is inspired by interviews with German Gentile women who lived through the Third Reich. The play's sweep follow them from their teen years through adulthood as they struggle with the trials of everyday living - work, religion, marriage, motherhood -under the Nazi regime. Facing impossible choices, they survive or succumb and all are changed forever.

In honor of April's National Autism Awareness Month, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will air the acclaimed documentary 'Autism: The Musical' on 'Super Soul Sunday' April 15 at 11am ET/10 (check local listings).

Conductor Jeffrey Milarsky returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall to lead the LA Phil New Music Group in a Green Umbrella concert, Tuesday, April 10, at 8 pm. The concert features the world premiere of Oscar Bettison's LA Phil-commissioned Livre des Sauvages, the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Five Star Signs, and John Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano, performed by Gloria Cheng. Milarsky replaces John Adams, who had to withdraw as conductor due to scheduling demands.

The Magnet Theater announces the return of high energy, all-star cast Friday Night Sh*w on Friday, April 6th at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $5 at the Magnet's main stage theater, NYC.