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Simple Studios will host an audition clinic for all New York City actors on April 23rd. The clinic will be hosted by Debora Balardini and Sandie Luna.

AND THE BANNED SLAMMED ON is Utah's only fundraiser featuring five 10-minute plays created in 24 hours based on incidents of censorship in Utah over the past year.

Hal Prince is currently taking on a new challenge very different from many of the shows he has worked on in the past. In the process of bringing PARADISE found to an eventual home on Broadway, Prince understands he may have to compete against several of his own shows.

Ed Asner distinctly remembers FDR's death. 'When I heard of his death when I was 15, it was as if the bottom had fallen out and I thought, 'What will we do now?' He was like God the Father to me.' This admiration is what led the actor to choose to take on the role of the President in the upcoming production at San Jose Rep.

Nathan Lane discussed the origins of his accent and the upkeep of his thin mustache at the ADDAMS FAMILY opening night party.

Season three of the hit television show TRUE BLOOD is set to air beginning June 13th. BroadwayWorld presents a preview of the upcoming season.

Meinhardt Raabe, the actor who played the Coroner of the Munchkin's in the 1939 film, 'The Wizard of Oz,' passed away at the age of 94 earlier this week. Raabe died at his home in Orange Park, Florida. He was one of the few surviving Munchkins from the film.

Queens Theatre in the Park (QTP) presents T'ain't No Sin, A Ragtime and Jazz Party on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 8pm in the Claire Shulman Playhouse Main Stage Theatre at Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, NY.

THROUGH THE NIGHT, a solo play written and performed by Obie-Award winner Daniel Beaty, will open off Broadway at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue on Friday, May 7th (Previews begin on May 4th). THROUGH THE NIGHT, recently premiered as a co-production with the Crossroads Theatre (New Brunswick, NJ) and The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles to great acclaim.

Diversionary Theatre will stage the musical play Moscow as the sixth and final show of their 2009-2010 season. Moscow is a musical play involving three men attempting to define who they are and why they are confined together in an abandoned theatre. While enduring their 'soul searching,' they make use of their time by playing sockball and by acting out various roles from Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters. While self exploration, relationship conflict and gay romance are part of the chemistry, Moscow amplifies universal and eternal questions: 'Who are we, Where are we, and Why are we here?'

Theatre in the Round Players (TRP) presents Relatively Speaking in weekend performances April 23 through May 16.

Following four seasons of sold-out concerts, KEYS TO THE FUTURE celebrates its fifth anniversary at a brand new venue and with an even deeper mix of styles and talent. This unique piano festival takes place Tuesday through Thursday, May 25, 26, and 27, at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street between Sullivan and Thompson St. Each hour-long concert begins at 7:30pm; doors open at 6:30pm.

ANYONE CAN WHISLTE is an experimental satire that takes aim at every target on the American cultural scene of the moment-conformity, psychology, race relations, greed, religion and politics. It divided the critics, thrilled the emerging counter-culture, baffled the masses, and became an instant legend-one that has grown over the years along with Sondheim's reputation. The title song and 'With So Little to Be Sure Of' have survived as cabaret classics, but the rarely heard complete score is a riot of jazzy, show-biz razzmatazz, waltzes, gospel numbers and Broadway pastiche, as full of variety and surprise as the show that gave birth to it.

Chuck Mead, musical arranger for the upcoming Broadway production of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET said he had some apprehension about maintaining the rock authenticity in a big rock show on Broadway . However, Mead believes the Great White Way is ready for some authentic rock 'n' roll.

ABC has announced that, on April 22nd, it will swap the time periods of its hour-long Thursday drama's, 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Private Practice.' The move will avoid having original episodes of the new show, 'FlashForward,' and 'Private Practice' air on either side of 'Grey's Anatomy.'

The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas' must-see, must-attend, state-of-the-art entertainment complex, will host the touring company of WICKED from June 30th to July 25th.

Opus Nostrum will present the world premiere of a new play by Bob Reich entitled, JOHNNY MACK BROWN RIDE AGAIN. The show will begin performances on April 30th and run through May 15th.

The Four County Players have announced their weekly schedule for April 11th through April 18th.

Big Noise Theatre Company presents All Shook Up April 23 through May 16 Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. at The Prairie Lakes Theater 515 E. Thacker Street, Des Plaines.

Direct Arts, a new intercultural theater and film company, will present for Take Two on Tuesday, April 13th, Tribeca Film Festival's 2009 Best Narrative Short, LA ROUTE DU NORD, followed by a staged reading of Lorraine Hansberry's last play LES BLANCS, which will feature a stellar ensemble cast and live African drumming.