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The songbook of Grammy Award winners David Hidalgo sand Louie Perez of Los Lobos drives Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, a multimedia play with music by Theresa Chavez, Louie Perez and Rose Portillo that takes its title from the group's 1985 rocker "Evangeline." Chavez and Portillo co-direct the world premiere production for About Productions, opening at the Bootleg Theater on May 12 for a limited, three-week engagement through May 27. Low-priced previews take place May 3-11.

The Skidmore College Department of Theater announces its Spring 2012 Mainstage production, AJAX IN IRAQ by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Lary Opitz. Performances are April 13-15 and 19-22, 2012. All shows are in the Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater at 8:00pm except Sunday matinees at 2:00pm.

Hot off his run in "Dancing with the Stars," Emmy-winning television star, celebrity stylist, author and fashion designer, Carson Kressley will return to the Ogunquit Playhouse as Mr. Applegate (aka the Devil himself!) in the 2012 production of Damn Yankees (the new Boston Red Sox version!), on stage July 25 - August 18. This summer the Ogunquit Playhouse is celebrating its 80th anniversary of producing award-winning theatre in Southern Maine. Carson Kressley was last seen at the Ogunquit Playhouse in his critically acclaimed performance as Man in Chair during the 2010 run of The Drowsy Chaperone.

The Fresh Beat Band, Nickelodeon's popular preschool music group and stars of the hit TV series of the same name, are adding a second leg (50 cities, 70 performances) to their current sold-out nationwide concert tour and will play PlayhouseSquare on Saturday, October 13, 2012, at the State Theatre FOR ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY. After a brief break from the road, the tour will resume Aug. 23 in Melbourne, Fla. More than 200,000 fans will have seen the live show by the end of the first run making it one of this year's most successful music tours. Tickets and Fresh Beat Band VIP packages will be available at www.freshbeatbandlive.com and www.ticketmaster.com beginning Friday, April 13. Nickelodeon and Ticketmaster will offer pre-sale tickets and VIP packages beginning Thursday, April 5, at 10 a.m. local time in each city. Citi® card members will also have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Thursday, April 5, at 10a.m. through Citi's Private Pass Program at www.CitiPrivatePass.com.

Cherry Pitz and Joe the Shark, two of New York's premiere names in modern burlesque, will present Hotsy Totsy Burlesque! Combining Burlesque and Theater, Hotsy Totsy is New York's only episodic, monthly burlesque show. Featuring a different script each month and a rotating cast, Hotsy Totsy is a high camp soap opera showcasing some of the best burlesque talent this city has to offer. Check out the production photos below!

Lazer Vauderville is presented by ArtsRock of Rockland, Inc., a Rockland County, NY not-for profit arts organization, on Sunday, April 22 at 2:00 p.m. at the Lafayette Theatre in downtown Suffern. This international touring stage show features black light juggling, lasers with magic, acrobatics, slapstick comedy and dance. Starring Carter Brown with hoop rolling and rope-spinning, Cindy Marvell the first woman ever to win the International Juggling Association Championships, and Jeff Taub former Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus clown, as well as Comedia Dell'Arte theater performer and master mask maker. Following the show there will be milk ‘n cookies for all the children!

This "voices-on" workshop is designed for singers eager to improve their harmony skills and for musicians looking to get more deeply into singing early American country/old-time/bluegrass music. It will concentrate on chord-based, close vocal harmony. Small groups will work on duets and trios with other workshop participants. Recording devices are encouraged. Everything is taught by ear, with word sheets. Participants should be a step up from beginning singers, and feel comfortable matching pitch and holding a part against someone else (think 'row, row, row your boat' as a round).

Syndicated morning show 'LIVE! with Kelly' announces the lineup of co-hosts who will join host Kelly Ripa during the week of April 16-20, 2012.

The married owners of a trendy Manhattan art gallery have their sophisticated home life upended when it's their turn to take in the wife's eccentric mother. When their best client, an elderly artist, hits it off with Mom, the comic sparks really begin to fly.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) announces the availability of the U.S. edition of Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, published by Oberon Books. One Man, Two Guvnors arrives on Broadway on April 6, 2012, starring James Corden, the leading man from the London run. This edition is the Broadway version of the One Man, Two Guvnors script, specially revised by the playwright to tickle the funny bone of American audiences.

Join Carswell Berlin, private antiques dealer and expert in early 19th century American furniture, as he surveys the stylistic changes and features that characterize Phyfe's work over the course of a 50-year career. Mr. Berlin is a lender to the current Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York, where furniture from his collection dominates two of the three principal galleries of the exhibition. Several other pieces are illustrated in the exhibition catalog. On display at the Merchant's House is a set of 12 Duncan Phyfe side chairs, circa 1835, purchased by the Tredwells when they moved to East 4th Street.

Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' Mamma Mia!, the internationally popular musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, April 24-29, 2012. Seen by approximately 50 million people worldwide, the show is celebrating more than 4,000 performances in its tenth year at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre and remains among Broadway's top selling musicals. Tickets are on sale now. Mamma Mia! is presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust as part of its 2011/12 Broadway Across America-Minneapolis Season. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit HennepinTheatreTrust.org or call 1.800.982.2787.

The critically acclaimed FX comedy "LOUIE" Season 2 arrives on Blu-ray and DVD with even more uncomfortable moments and hilarious antics on June 19th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Ocean Professional Theatre Company announces its Premiere Professional Season 2012 at the Beautiful new State of the Art Bengal Auditorium, 180 Bengal Drive in Barnegat, NJ, 08005. Headed up by Ocean County theatre veteran Steve Steiner, OPTC will be producing a full season of Broadway shows and new Mystery Play as well as four offerings specifically for children. Tickets range from $29.00-35.00 and Children's Theatre is $10.00.

Casting has been confirmed for Little Radical Theatrics' latest offering, the New York Regional Premiere of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, which is slated to play a limited engagement (May 25-June 2, 2012) at the Westchester Sandbox Theatre in Mamaroneck. The 'provocative, scathing and topical satire with wild and zany humor' will be helmed by LRT artistic director Michael Mirra, with musical direction by Ricky Romano, and original choreography by Jessica Bittner.

Presented in collaboration with the represented country's consulates general and cultural institutions, the International Voices Project will celebrate the voices of international playwrights with eight premiere concert-style readings of selected plays that will be performed by a professional cast with stage directions read to allow audiences imaginations to create the world of the play. After each reading, there will be a post-performance discussion with the cast and audience, followed by a reception hosted by the consulates.

Comedians from across the country are appearing Wednesday through Sunday evenings at Big Al's Comedy Club, located inside The Orleans Hotel and Casino. Local favorites such as Kathleen Dunbar, Brian McKim and Traci Skene are among those scheduled to appear in the club in the coming weeks.

In Rockin' the Boat, artistic director Brian Winnie takes ChoralSounds and the audience on a chronological voyage of discovery into some of the great music of stage and screen. Examining the vast differences between songs originally written for chorus and songs that were always intended as solo numbers, Rockin' the Boat includes many of the great choruses from stage and screen. Including everything from Mozart's Dies Irae (Amadeus) and John Williams' Duel of Fates (Star Wars: Phantom Menace) to Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and 21 Guns (American Idiot).

After sold-out performances last season, Victory Gardens announces The Second Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival, in partnership with the New York-based One Minute Play Festival (OMPF), to benefit the Fresh Squeezed series. The event will be held in the Zacek-McVay Theater at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater on April 15 and 16, 2012, at 7:30pm.

To celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month, Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) Historic House Tours will highlight one-of-a-kind portraits featured in Louis and Lucille's home by noted artists: Calvin Bailey, Tony Bennett, Samuel Countee and LeRoy Neiman throughout the month of April.