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Round House Theatre's Board of Trustees announced today that it has named Ryan Rilette as its new Producing Artistic Director. Currently the Producing Director at Marin Theatre Company, Rilette will assume his full-time duties at Round House on August 1, 2012.

GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is described as 'a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge.'

The New London Maritime Society (NLMS) today announced the winners of the 2012 Reid MacCluggage Black Maritime History Scholarships. East Lyme High School senior Morgan O'Toole took the first prize, a scholarship award of $1,000, for her fictional diary of an African-American seaman in the Union Army, at the time of the Civil War. Aidan James Quinn, a senior at Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton, won the Second-place prize, a $500 savings bond, for a true maritime history of his Cape Veridan ancestors.

In the second annual presentation of Sweet & Low Down: How Popular Standards Became Jazz Classics, Director Michael Feinstein is joined by singer Nicole Henry and Grammy-winning performer Billy Stritch.

First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83) will close its landmark 15th season with William Shakespeare's most controversial play, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.

Fountain Gallery, the premier venue in New York City representing artists with mental illness, has announced that 100 original works by its artists will be exhibited for sale at the 9th End of Annual Meeting Season Celebration on Friday, June 8, 2012, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. The event will take place at Ellen Philip Associates, located at 134 West 26th Street in Manhattan.

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents the fifth annual Sketch Com-Ageddon, a five-night sketch comedy competition where 47 new and established troupes fight it out to the death, at Comedy Bar, June 12-16, 2012.

Celebrations of composers, performing artists, and musical forms are at the center of the Yale School of Music's sixth season of Yale in New York, the concert series that 'brings together distinguished faculty-famous soloists among them-with the ongoing legacy of exceptional alumni and current students on the stages of Carnegie Hall.'

Arden Theatre Company today announced these seven productions for its 2012/13 Season, which marks the company's 25th Anniversary Season.

World Cup professional Latin dance champions, Delyan Terziev and Boriana Deltcheva, have been added to the cast of the 'We Are The Champions' Ballroom Dancesport Extravaganza show when it comes to the Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford this coming Tuesday evening, June 12.

TheaterWorks, the professional regional theater in Downtown Hartford, announces its 27th Season with major award winning plays, playwrights and premieres.

The new musical adaptation of ROCKY has set casting for its German premiere, which will open this November in Hamburg under the direction of PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Tony nominee Alex Timbers.

BroadwayWorld has learned that composer Scott Alan's HOME, which is aiming for Broadway in 2012-13 and features a book from Christy Hall, is set for new readings later this month.

Celebrate the nation's birthday at the New-York Historical Society and DiMenna Children's History Museum, with free admission for visitors 18 and under.

FridayFest opens this Friday, June 8 from 5 PM-9 PM with Yesterdayze.

Casting has been announced for the Houston engagement of Disney's THE LION KING. Houston's most eagerly awaited stage production ever will leap onto the Hobby Center stage from Tuesday, July 10 to Sunday, August 12. THE LION KING's sold-out eight-week Houston premiere engagement in 2002 at Jones Hall was followed by a sold-out six-week return engagement in 2006 at the Hobby Center.

The original version of William Inge's A Loss of Roses will open on June 15, 2012, at Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock, Ark. The revival will be directed by Austin Pendleton.

On Saturday, Jun 23 at 1pm, the Warner Theatre will present Mozart's Don Giovanni an encore presentation from The Met: Live in HD.

Off-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre presents its 2012 Annual Benefit Gala, a concert performance on Broadway of Lionel Bart's OLIVER! - a glorious, Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens tale of 1850's London in the time of the Industrial Revolution - on Monday, June 11 at The Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street) in Manhattan. Charlotte Moore, who directed last year's concert staging of CAMELOT on Broadway and the Irish Repertory's recent revival of Brian Friel's DANCING AT LUGHNASA, will direct.

Philadelphia Theatre Company announces Venus in Fur by David Ives will concludes its 2012-2013 season May 24-June 23, 2013.