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BrightSide Theatre today announced its production of My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, conceived by David Grapes and Todd Olson with book by Todd Olson.

Know Theatre of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Fringe Festival today announced the 2012 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The 9th annual festival is scheduled to kick-off Tuesday, May 29thwith CityBeat's official Fringe Kick-off Party. The festival will continue through June 9 with 35 productions and special events including the second year of the high school centered program, FringeNext.

Godspell's Morgan James will complete the Memorial Day Weekend with her soul 'n' blues band at Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen Street) on Monday, May 28th at 9pm. Tickets are $10.

'Meet America's first political maverick, who kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States. Who cares if he didn't have the constitutional right? This award-winning rock musical recreates and reinvents the life of 'Old Hickory,' one of our nation's founding rock stars, from his humble beginnings on the Tennessee frontier to his days as our seventh Commander-in-Chief in the Oval Office.'

Today, the cancellation of the previously announced 10th edition of Inffinito's Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil New York at Tribeca Cinemas, scheduled for June 10 through June 16, 2012, was announced.

The Ringwald Theatre today announced the 3rd installment of its Gay Play Series (GPS). Last year's outing was attended by hundreds of people over a ten day festival period.

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) today announced that the 33rd annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating extraordinary Toronto talent in the performing arts, will take place on Monday, June 25 at 8pm at the St.Lawrence Centre for the Arts in the Bluma Appel Theatre.

Marcus Simeone returns to the Metropolitan Room for a special evening, one night only.

Mint Theater (Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director) will begin performances Saturday, May 26th, for the first-ever revival of Love Goes To Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles. The Mint production will run from through July 22 at their home (311 West 43rd Street). Opening Night is set for Monday, June 18th.

From the depths of the sea to the birds in the sky, Mesa Arts Center and National Geographic Live today announced the 2012 National Geographic Live Speaker Series. Now in its sixth season, National Geographic's popular speaker series features presentations by dynamic National Geographic explorers, scientists, photographers, and filmmakers. National Geographic Live speakers report cutting edge and compelling stories from the field through images and video. Four-part series tickets are available now; single tickets go on sale July 2.

American Voices will be hosting its first YES Academy program devoted entirely to hip hop. Taking place in Kota Kinabalu (KK) on the island of Borneo, YES Hip Hop KK will offer youth in Borneo classes on hip hop, breakdancing, DJing, beatboxing, graphic design and community leadership.

Houston Grand Opera today announced a new commission, New Arrivals. Based on the real life story of Houstonian Yani Rose Keo, who escaped certain death by the guerilla group, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the libretto is by renowned playwright, Catherine Filloux and score is by American composer, John Glover.

North/South Consonance, Inc. continues its 32nd consecutive season of free-admission concerts on Tuesday evening June 5, 2012 when the acclaimed North/South Chamber Orchestra performs four works by three generations of composers originally from Latin America but who reached their artistic maturity while living in the US. The concert will start at 8 PM and will take place at the auditorium of Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th St - between Broadway and Columbus) in New York City. Admission is free - no tickets needed.

The works of the late, iconoclastic downtown theatre star, Warhol favorite and trailblazer of 'glitter rock,' Jackie Curtis will be featured in the dynamic new revue JUKEBOX JACKIE -- conceived and directed by Tony Award winner Scott Wittman and featuring the leading lights of today's downtown scene -- being given its world-premiere production by La MaMa at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) currently in previews prior to its official press opening Wednesday, May 30.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic give the world premiere of LA Phil Creative Chair John Adams' LA Phil-commissioned The Gospel According to the Other Mary, Thursday and Friday, May 31 and June 1, at 8 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3, at 2 pm, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The latest of Adams' large-scale works is a full-evening oratorio and features the Los Angeles Master Chorale and six soloists: mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor, contralto Tamara Mumford, tenor Russell Thomas and countertenors Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings and Nathan Medley.

Andrea Rosen Gallery today announced the performance schedule for Josiah McElheny's Some thoughts about the abstract body.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday June 1, 2, and 3rd, JRG Masterclasses will be presenting a weekend-long masterclass series focusing on music and theatre. This 5 session weekend will cover the gamut from audition technique, to acting through song, to musicality, choreography, and vocal styles.

For the final installment of Greenwich House Music School's 26th annual North River Music Series, pianist and GHMS faculty member Taka Kigawa will perform an evening of prized John Cage works, including selections from Cage's monumental Etudes Australes, on Thursday, June 7th in the school's Renee Weiler Concert Hall. This occasion will also mark Mr. Kigawa's first solo concert at Greenwich House Music School.

The one and only William Shatner, one of the most recognizable actors in the world, is coming to the Paramount Theatre in downtown Aurora Friday, January 4, 2013 at 8 pm to perform his hit one-man show that premiered on Broadway and is touring the country: SHATNER'S WORLD: We Just Live In It.

Robert Daws will play Prime Minister Jim Hacker alongside Michael Simkins as Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby in the triumphant return of Yes, Prime Minister to the West End. Bringing politics back to Whitehall, the popular political comedy will begin an open-ended run at Trafalgar Studios - formerly the Whitehall Theatre, on 6 June 2012.