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Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, today announced the first season of performances at the brand-new 49-seat Mr. Finn's Cabaret, located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (formerly Stage 2), 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.

Back by popular demand, pianist Doug Montgomery returns to the Spencer Theater on Saturday, June 2 at 8 p.m. for a concert of classical music and popular show tunes.

On May 26th, Turner Contemporary will open a major solo exhibition of Tracey Emin's work titled, She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea. This exhibition was conceived specially for Margate, where Emin grew up and the source of inspiration for many of her works.

Opera Idaho announces an all-Boise cast for its July performances of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! in Concert. Baritone Jason Detwiler and soprano Jena Carpenter will play the lead roles, Curly and Laurey, in performances July 13 and 15 at 7:00pm at the Idaho Botanical Garden.

Producer Jordan Roth announced today that the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated "Best Play" Clybourne Park, now playing at the Walter Kerr Theatre, has added another 4 weeks to the previously announced 16-week engagement. Tickets are now on sale for all performances through August 12th.

Tonight was the final night of performances on American Idol, with three rounds of songs to win over your votes. So how did Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez measure up? Find out now!

Westport Country Playhouse and Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc. are partnering to enrich the theater-going experience with a new literary salon series called "Books Worth Talking About!" Launching in June, the program will feature a pre-show discussion with prominent authors followed by a performance of a Playhouse production. The themes of the literary salons and theatrical productions will complement each other.

Amphibian Stage Productions today announced casting for its summer main stage production, The Understudy, written by famed playwright and creator of the hit television show "Smash" Theresa Rebeck. Chuck Huber, Sarah Koestner, and Carman Lacivita star in this outrageous comedy running July 19 through August 5 at The Hardy and Betty Sanders Theatre at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.

All summer and into the fall, Fox Valley Repertory presents beloved music, modern comedy, and staged readings of new plays never before seen on stage. The season includes: Theo Ubique's nostalgic musical revue, Some Enchanted Evening, the inquisitive innovation of Collider New Play Project, Heather Moran's musical story of Rosemary Clooney in Rosie! A Tribute..., FVR Youth Ensemble's return to Disney's High School Musical, Mike Toomey's multimedia comedic recollection of television in TV & Me, Chicago's finest improv troupe performing The Best of The Second City, and marriage, mermaids, and modern comedy in Sirens, at Pheasant Run Resort (4051 E. Main St., St. Charles, IL; 630-584-6342).

The Joyce Theater will present Shatala Shivalingappa, one of the world's most intriguing artists, making her Joyce debut with the New York premiere of Namasya - a program of four solos including works by Ushio Amagatsu and Pina Bausch - this summer from June 27 - July 1.

lonesome road productions, in association with Jim Jensen and Lisselan Productions, announce the final week of Chicago performances for the critically-acclaimed hit, the Doyle & Debbie show, created by Bruce Arntson, and starring Bruce Arntson, Jenny Littleton and Matt Carlton. The show, playing at The Royal George Cabaret, will close May 27, 2012.

Actor, singer, and former teen idol Frankie Avalon will perform at the Gallo Center for the Arts on Saturday, June 9 at 8:00 PM for a special Graffiti Summer concert. Avalon had 31 charted Billboard U.S. singles from 1958 to late 1962, including "Venus", "Why", 'Just Ask Your Heart', 'I'll Wait For You", 'Bobby Sox to Stockings', and 'A Boy Without a Girl.'

The New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA), Chalmette Refining, L.L.C., and the St. Bernard Parish School Board invite the community to the 2012 Spring Performance, an Open House featuring the young dancers of the St. Bernard After-School Ballet Program. The free performance, to be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 6:00 p.m., will mark the culmination of 15 weeks of ballet instruction.

Julia Belanoff, the 17-year-old Bay Area soprano has been invited to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at AT&T Park, before the game between the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago Cubs on Sunday, June 3.

Loosely based upon the fear-mongering tale of Chicken Little, The Private Life of Chickens 'follows the lives of four, feisty fowls as they struggle with the end of the world. Narrated by a cocky British news anchor, the chickens go to great extremes to win this battle on the sky as fear and hysteria build. With a Julia Childs inspired cooking show, a drunken dance off, a hallucinogenic trip to the underworld, the mania unfolds as the chickens battle with an unknown foe in this hysterical adventure- served sunny-side up!'

Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, and featuring a score by Stephen Schwartz, Godspell boasts well-loved songs, led by the international hit, "Day By Day." This musical 'brings the parables of Jesus Christ and hearteningly to life. Godspell is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love.'

The Charlotte improvisational theatre group, the Chuckleheads, will present their Comedy Improv Musical Variety Extravaganza at the Ballantyne Arts Center, 11318 North Community House Rd on Saturday, June 9 at 8:00pm.

Directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, 'The Bully Project' is described as 'a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary. At its heart are those with huge stakes in this issue whose stories each represent a different facet of America's bullying crisis.'

Where will writers and performers Will Dunne, Tony Fitzpatrick, Julie Ganey, Robert Koon, Arlene Malinowski all be on Saturday, June 23 from 2 - 5pm?

Gotham Dance Festival returns for two weeks, presenting five programs that feature the work of more than ten choreographers, including a program celebrating the choreographic work of American women, both established and emerging talents. May 30 - June 10, 2012 at The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $10-$39 and are available at 212-242-0800 or joyce.org.