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ITV Granada has revealed plans to broadcast coverage of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations live from London on Tuesday 5th June.

Australia's very own TAP DOGS first appeared at the Sydney Festival in 1995. The tapping feet of this internationally acclaimed dance sensation has now reverberated around the world in 330 cities; 37 countries, and been seen by more than 11 million people. Now they are coming home - stronger, faster, louder and more outrageous than ever to tour Australia from July to August 2012. The 2012 winter tour commences in Canberra 3 to 8 July; then Newcastle 10 to 15 July; followed by Adelaide 17 to 22 July, Hobart 16 to 18 August, Albury 21 to 23 August and finally Wollongong 24 & 25 August.

The Playwrights Foundation's Des Voix...Found in Translation Festival is thrilled to present a staged reading of Communique #10 by Samuel Gallet for the first time ever in English, on Saturday, May 26th 4:00pm at Z Space, translated and directed by Rob Melrose. Communique #10 is the recipient of the Lyon's Theatre Days in 2010, and will be staged by Jean-Philippe Albizzati in France.

The actor Henry Winkler, best known as the Fonz from Happy Days, may star opposite Cheyenne Jackson as an ageing porn star in THE PERFORMERS, a new comedy about the porn industry by David West Read.

The Really Useful Group and AEG Live today announced the first ever UK arena tour of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's legendary rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar. Award-winning musical comedian Tim Minchin - also the co-writer of West End smash musical Matilda - is confirmed for the role of 'Judas Iscariot'. Three million album selling pop icon and former Spice Girl Melanie C will take the only female lead as 'Mary Magdalene', and BBC Radio 1's Breakfast Show host Chris Moyles will make his major stage debut as 'King Herod', in what is set to be one of the biggest and most impressive arena tours to hit the UK.

The 5th Avenue Awards Honoring High School Musical Theatre will celebrates its tenth anniversary by bringing previous recipients back to the stage to present the next generation of musical theater stars with awards and accolades. The acclaimed program, sponsored by Wells Fargo, is a high school version of the Tony Awards, and allows theater students from across Washington to meet, celebrate, and honor the exceptional musical theater productions presented during the 2011-12 school year. The 5th Avenue Awards will be held at 7:00 PM, Monday, June 4, at The 5th Avenue Theatre.

The Great Arizona Puppet Theatre, of 302 West Latham Street t Phoenix, AZ 85003, have announced their two productions for this Summer, GOLDILOCKS and OLD MACDONALD.

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, adapted for the stage from the MGM Motion Picture by Jeremy Sams and Ray Broderick with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman will open at Sydney's Capitol Theatre from the 16th of November. The show will be directed in Australia by Roger Hodgman and features sets and costumes by renowned English designer Anthony Ward.

Russell Scott will present AN EVENING OF TIM RICE on Saturday the 23rd of June at 8.30pm at The Pheasantry, 152-4 King's Road, London SW3 4UT. The show will feature the voices of Eleanor Sandars, Katie Leigh-Jones, Benjamin Mahns-Mardy and Denise Medley-Scott singing songs from Tim Rice musicals Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Aida and The Lion King.

The NARAL Pro-Choice America's 2012 Los Angeles Power of Choice Reception will be held at The Standard Hollywood Hotel; 8300 Sunset Boulevard; West Hollywood, CA 90069 on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 7 pm. Sarah Brokaw, David Eigenberg, Felicity Huffman, Sally Kellerman, Sarah Kelly, Carol Leifer, Amy Madigan, Corky Hale and Mike Stoller will be among those attending.

Commedia Beauregard, a Chicago-based theater company dedicated to producing plays in translation, turned the concept of translation on its head this year with the audience favorite production of Bard Fiction. Their upcoming summer show, Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather continues their film-to-Shakespeare season and will be presented at the Greenhouse Theater Center from June 1-24, 2012.

Following their feature on Britain's Got Talent last year, Out of the Blue is putting on the largest professional show run entirely by students in the history of university a cappella in the UK. The concert will run on the 11-12th of June at 7:30 PM in the New Theatre, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AG.

Musical stand-up comedian Ashley Frieze will perform Discograffiti: Songwriting under the spotlight at the Brighton Fringe Festival on the 18th/19th May, 9.30pm and 25th/26th June, 8.15pm, At The Hobgoblin, 17 York Place, Brighton.

MSG Entertainment and The Bowery Presents will welcome Metric to the Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 8PM. This show is in support of the band's fifth, full-length studio album, Synthetica.

On the heels of her 'Self-Producing: Owning Your Voice & Manifesting Your Vision' talk on 5/6 in suport of Stray From the Heart Dog Rescue, Suzana Stankovic has been invited to speak at Theater Resources Unlimited this weekend as part of their TRU Producer Boot Camp course. Suzana will speak on 'Production Time Line: What Happens When' and 'Putting Together Your Production Team'.

"Mike Stoller In Conversation with Steve Barri" will be presented at the Skirball Cultural Center on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. in the auditorium at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90049. Immediately following the program, Mike Stoller will signing copies of his book, "Hound Dog - The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography."

A Storytelling Workshop For Kindergarten, First & Second Graders with instructors Becky Everly and Denise Dodd will take place on Saturday, May 19th at HARMONY VINEYARD CHURCH, 600 NE 46th Street, Kansas City, MO 64116 from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

A cabaret about depression? In the hands of writer/performer Jo Loth, this odd combination has created Mind Games, an entertaining take on a serious issue. In June 2012, Jo will be playing a return season of Mind Games at The Butterfly Club, Melbourne's home of cabaret.

Rubicon Theatre continues its 14th season May 24 with August Wilson's powerful and poignant drama GEM OF THE OCEAN. Ahead of the first preview tomorrow, May 16, check out these production shots of Lillias White and the rest of the cast in action.

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.