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Cirque du Soleil returns to Boston with TOTEM, its latest big top production. Written and directed by Robert Lepage, TOTEM opens in Boston on June 10, 2012 for a limited engagement under the blue and yellow Grand Chapiteau (big top) located at Boston's Marine Industrial Park. Check out the preview photographs below.

Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) is hosting one of the most ambitious, nationwide, new writing projects seen in recent years to form an integral part of the London 2012 Festival, the spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until 9 September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK. The Ripple Effect will be a vibrant piece of new writing being premiered in different regions of the UK, and in a final celebration in the West End at a Gala Performance hosted by ATG on July 25, 2012.

Artistic Director Steven Atkinson today announced two new HighTide productions premiering at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 1-9 at Pleasance and Assembly Theatre respectively.

Dirty Dancing, the sizzling blockbuster musical, is burning up the record books at the Leeds Grand Theatre. It looks set to become the biggest selling show of all time at the theatre.

The Englert Theatre is excited to present free, family-friendly performances of The Perfect Pig on Saturday, June 2nd during the Iowa Arts Festival. The thirty-minute concerts, performed by the Iowa City Community String Orchestra under the direction of conductor Carey Bostian, will be held at 10am, 11am, and 12pm.

Hotbuckle Productions bring their new adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations to Roscommon Arts Centre on Thursday 14th June. In this bicentennial year of Dickens' birth Hotbuckle's Artistic Director Adrian Preater has adapted the story for a five-strong cast.

Someone To Blame, the acclaimed verbatim play telling the story of Sam Hallam, wrongly convicted of murder in 2004, returns to the King's Head Theatre following his release from prison on 16 May 2012 for performances at 7.15pm on the 3rd to 5th of June, 2012.

Dress Circle have announced that Ghost's Mark Evans will be appearing in their Covent Garden store to sign copies of his latest album 'The Journey Home', The Deluxe Version, on Saturday 16th June 2012 - 2 days before the official release date. Mark will be signing from 12pm - 1pm on the day and signed copies are available to pre-order.

Raw, physical, erotic, harrowing, and transcendent. On June 7, 9, 17, 18, and 22, RedSoil Theater Company will perform two haunting stories from Japan and Rwanda, Yukio Mishima's Hanjo and an adaptation of Immaculee Ilibagiza's book Left to Tell. Hanjo/Left to Tell marks RedSoil Theater Company's debut production and will be performed as apart of the 2012 Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Fringe Blackbox at NOTE.

Chazz Palminteri has revealed that his play HUMAN, in which he plays five characters, has been optioned for Broadway.

Last night, the Paley Center celebrated Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winner Christopher Plummer's television work (including Hamlet at Elsinore, Little Moon of Alban, and The Thorn Birds). Plummer appeard at the event, moderated by David Edelstein (Film Critic, New York Magazine and CBS Sunday Morning). Check out the photos below!

The 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme will be available in the Fringe Shop, 180 High Street, Edinburgh from 10.00 on Thursday 31 May onwards, and in a variety of outlets from 15.00 on Thursday 31 May. The programme can also be viewed online as a PDF from the afternoon of 31 May at edfringe.com.

Pleasance London has announced the line up for its 2012 Edinburgh Preview Season. This year is bigger and better than ever featuring some of the freshest young talent alongside some of the most recognised names in theatre and comedy. Tickets are available from just £5.

A new cast has been announced for The Woman in Black, one of the most exciting, gripping and successful theatre events ever performed, now in its 23rd year in the West End in a production revisited by original director Robin Herford. Adam Best will play The Actor and Ken Drury will play Arthur Kipps from the 3rd of July, 2012.

It's here! Today, Cameron Mackintosh released the trailer for the upcoming movie of the long-running Broadway musical LES MISERABLES based on Victor Hugo's 19th-century French fable of social injustice. Check it out below - the trailer is dominated by Anne Hathoway's rendition of 'I Dreamed a Dream' from her role as Fantine.

A. D. Players has announced its 2012-2013 season, opening with the Houston professional premiere of Steven Dietz's award winning play, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, and followed by the Houston premiere of The First Church of Texaco by Andrew William Librizzi and the Southwest Premiere of Malcolm and Teresa by Cathal Gallagher. These productions are complemented by sequels to audience favorites, Sanders Family Christmas, written by Connie Ray and conceived by Alan Bailey with musical arrangements by John Foley and Gary Fagin, and Anne of Avonlea by Jeannette Carlisle.

Kids Week has revealed a record line-up of 38 shows offering free tickets and activities for children as part of the Kids Week initiative from 1 until 31 August 2012, in an announcement highly anticipated by children and families across London and the UK.

Almost 17,000 stadium seats go on sale today (30 May 2012) for the West End transfer of Chariots of Fire. Following its sell-out run at Hampstead Theatre, Edward Hall's production will open at the Gielgud Theatre on 23 June 2012 where it is currently booking to 10 November 2012. Inspired by Colin Welland's original screenplay, award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett's new adaptation is based on the true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams' inspirational tale of hope, honour and belief.

The Tell Theatre Company has announced they will present BUD, a bravura one-man comedy by acclaimed Cornish writer Nick Darke, from 17 June to 8 July, 2012, at the Kings Head Theatre, London. Directed by Penny Cliff, the production will star Neil Sheffield.

Oberon in association with the Ministry of Theater will present a pre-New York tryout of ROLLER DISCO THE MUSICAL!, an unautherized parody of the classic film Roller Boogie, from May 30 to August 30 at Oberon in Cambridge Massachusetts, with its world premiere opening night on June 13. With executive producer Pablo Rojas, Roller Disco aims to transfer to Off-Broadway in Spring 2013.