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Freedom will ring, thunder and boom this summer as Macy's 4th of July Fireworks®, the nation's largest display of patriotic firepower returns to celebrate Independence Day. An awe-inspiring spectacle of color, light and sound will rumble over New York City on Monday, July 4th at 9:00 pm, as Macy's dazzling celebration ends the holiday with a bang. With more than 3 million live spectators and millions tuned in nationwide, the Hudson River will be the showcase for more than 40,000 fireworks that together will ignite the sky for the nation's 235th birthday party.

The Museum of Modern Art announces a complete retrospective of the works of filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow (American, b. 1951). Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow, June 1 through August 13, 2011, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, offers the filmmaker's eight features. As a writer, director, and producer, Bigelow has received numerous honors, most notably Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Directing for her most recent war drama, The Hurt Locker (2008), a new MoMA acquisition. Crafting Genre: Kathryn Bigelow will open on June 1 with The Loveless (1982) and the premiere of the 35mm preservation of Set-Up (1978), with Bigelow in attendance to introduce the film and participate in a post-screening Q&A. The exhibition is organized by Jenny He, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

The Museum of Modern Art has released their upcoming film events, including Cinema Tropical, Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dziga Vertov, and more.

Off-Broadway's The Play Company will feature superb entertainment by Broadway performers and succulent foods prepared by some NYC's top chefs at its 8th annual gala CABARET GOURMENT 2011, set for Monday, May 2 at 7 p.m. at the American Airlines Theatre Penthouse (227 W. 42 St.) in Manhattan.

MYSO is proud to announce its 55th anniversary and approaching Alumni Weekend to take place May 27-29, 2011, at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, 325 W. Walnut Street, Milwaukee. Who knew, in 1956, that the Children's Arts Program would grow to become Music For Youth, which would ultimately become the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, by several measures the largest youth orchestra program in the U.S.?! The organization invites any and all alumni from its 55 year history to help celebrate this auspicious milestone! The Alumni Weekend will feature social gatherings, alumni orchestra rehearsals culminating in a performance and a special alumni recital featuring several alums who have chosen to pursue music professionally. In addition, fifty-five years worth of photos, programs, newspaper articles, and other Music For Youth memorabilia will be displayed during the weekend. Alumni should visit the Alumni page of www.myso.org now for more information and to register for this exciting event.

Government in gridlock! Parties refusing to compromise! A charismatic leader ruling as much by personal appeal as by principles! No, not the present day - Shaw's 'political extravaganza,' written in the past and set in the future, is amazingly topical and as funny as it is foresighted. The Stage Guild presents GBS for the twentieth time!

Reprise Theatre Company presents Ray Romano Live for one performance only on Tuesday, June 7 at 8:00 pm, at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA. Ticket sales from Ray Romano Live support Reprise's mission to produce musical theatre of the highest artistic quality and to make this art form accessible to new audiences through education and outreach programs.

Gonna Make You Love Me, the debut album from Broadway couple Jenny Powers and Matt Cavenaugh, is currently available for digital downloads at all outlets including iTunes and Amazon.com. Physical CD's are also available for purchase on Amazon and CDBaby.com

Fasten your seatbelts for this high-speed romp through Shakespeare's classic farce of shipwrecked separations and mistaken identity! Fourteen Houston-area children ages 12 - high school, currently the students of Main Street Theater's Rehearsal and Performance By Audition class, present Commedia of Errors, adapted by Jonathan Gonzalez from Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The play will be performed Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, at 7:30pm, and Sunday, May 8, at 3:30pm. Performances are at Main Street Theater - Chelsea Market, located at 4617 Montrose Boulevard. For tickets, call 713-524-6706, or log on to mainstreettheater.com. All tickets are $5.00.

Barrow Street Theatre and Jean Doumanian Productions launch a summer music series at the Barrow Street Theatre with a concert of new music by acclaimed composer Todd Almond. Todd Almond: Wyoming and Parts of Kansas, is a travelogue-in-song event inspired by the songwriter's journey across the American plains. Special Guest Maria Dizzia (In The Next Room or the vibrator play, Drunken City) and musicians will join Almond in this one-of-a-kind musical story telling event for one-night only on Monday, May 9th at 8:00 p.m. at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street). Running time is 85 minutes.

With uncanny precision and unforgettable pizzazz, John Epperson - also known as Lypsinka - pays homage to ultimate screen-queen Joan Crawford. Using the actress' own words, The Passion of the Crawford is a fantasia on the persona of this 20th Century cultural icon. Washington City Paper has called Lypsinka 'certifiably fabulous,' while the Los Angeles Times dubbed her 'a geyser of glamour!' Daily Variety raved: 'Watching a Lypsinka show is like channel-surfing in Heaven.'

Classic Rock! There's nothing like it! Not a tribute performance or a cover band. Classic Albums Live is an ensemble of world-class musicians recreating the greatest Rock albums ever recorded live on stage. Note for note, cut for cut using every instrument that it took to record that album exactly as you remember it. It's Rock n Roll played with the precision and fine detail of a philharmonic orchestra, only it's high energy classic Rock.

Denver's prodigal rockers, Kinetix will perform Saturday, May 14 at Gothic Theatre as part of a spring tour culminating with a very special Friday late night performance at the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival on June 3.

Upon hearing that the venerable Philadelphia Orchestra has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after incurring a large deficit amid diminishing income, PETA sent a letter to Allison Vulgamore, president and CEO of the orchestra, with an offer that could help the orchestra and animals on factory farms at the same time: Display PETA's pro-vegan ad on the backs of musicians' music stands, and PETA will donate money to help save the orchestra. The ad, which features a photo of a cute pig and reads, 'A Vegan Diet Is Music to Animals' Ears. Go Vegan,' aims to encourage symphony attendees to think about who's on their plates-for the sake of animals as well as their own health.

Tickets for FLCT's upcoming productino of Disney's MY SON PINOCCHIO are now on sale.

Told through monologue, song, poetry, and multimedia, this autobiographical piece by performance poet/playwright Al Letson challenges perceptions about race and class, as he recounts his struggles to connect with the disadvantaged children of the Sanctuary in Jacksonville, Florida. Summer In Sanctuary will take you into the heart of a community and leave you with a better understanding of the world. Rob Urbinati, who helmed Foggy Bottom and The President and Her Mistress in our 2006/2007 season, is back to direct this funny, poignant, and ultimately inspiring piece of distinctly American theater.

Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will lead the New York Philharmonic in Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 6, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, May 7, at 8:00 p.m. These are the Orchestra's final concerts before departing for the EUROPE / SPRING 2011 tour; both works on this program will also be performed on this tour of European capitals.

The Paley Center for Media is happy to present the New York premiere of HBO's new film, Cinema Verite, starring Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, and James Gandolfini, which takes an incisive look at the behind-the-scenes story of PBS's groundbreaking An American Family, the very first reality TV series-thirty years before The Osbournes and Jon and Kate Plus 8-that has proven to be one of the top landmark media events ever. In 2002, TV Guide named An American Family among 'The Top 50 Greatest Shows of All Time.' That twelve-part series, which recorded the everyday lives of the Loud family, anticipated the reality television explosion as well as the contemporary desire to reveal private secrets on the Internet.

The BritWeek Film and TV Summit, a co-production between the Los Angeles chapter of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Variety, is committed to exploring how entertainment breaks through and crosses over in the U.K. and U.S. The return of this popular conference series will focus on the latest trends in production, distribution, finance and marketing, as they relate to connecting to today's audiences on both sides of the pond.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport is proud to present THE WIZARD OF OZ, part of the TD BANK Youth Theater Series. The Wizard of Oz is based on the classic story by L. Frank Baum and is presented as a fresh new musical comedy, containing adventure, friendly characters and humor. People of all ages will enjoy this colorful classic fairy tale from somewhere over the rainbow!