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Las Vegan Jay White pays tribute to Neil Diamond at the Suncoast Showroom June 23 and 24.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presented its annual TheatreWorks Honors Gala. The event honorees were Chairman and Former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank Ken Wilcox and Tony-nominated Broadway composer Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre), both of whom have dedicated their lives to bringing forth vision, innovation, and creativity.

Surfside Players will present the winner of its twelfth annual Playwriting Contest, A WASPS' NEST. David Beyer, retired artistic director for the Indian River Players, has crafted a comedy about an elderly widower dating a younger women whom his children suspect may have Mafia connections. This play runs ONE WEEKEND ONLY, June 8 - 10, Friday and Saturday 8:00pm and Sunday 2:00pm. Directed by Troy Jones. May contain mild profanity.

Freak Dance is described as 'amusical comedy with dance numbers and catchy songs that rival the very films it parodies. Adapted by Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder, Matt Besser (Bad Teacher), from the stage show that ran for more than a year at the UCB Theatre, the comedy skips cheap reference humor and goes right for absurdity and outrageous characters (a UCB specialty).'

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston today announced additional events and offerings as part of the third Emerging America- an annual festival featuring groundbreaking performance by American artists.

Nancy Johnston will replace Allyce Beasley and co-star with Lynne Wintersteller in Kari Floren's two-hander Revisiting Wildfire about two college roommates, best friends for life, who re-unite after thirty years.

Luna Theater Company will present their inaugural world premiere 10-Minute 'Identity Crisis Play Festival' from May 29 - June 3, 2012 at the PlayGround at the Adrienne Theatre 2030 Sansom Street. Tickets are $18.00-$28.00 and are available at www.LunaTheater.org.

Frankenstein in HD - Adapted for the stage by Nick Dear and realized by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle (Best Director, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein is an encore presentation of National Theatre Live's smash hit and will be presented with a rotating cast-on June 3, Benedict Cumberbatch will appear as Victor Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as The Creature; on June 17, Jonny Lee Miller takes the role of Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch is The Creature.

Ovation will air the U.S. premiere the six-part mini-series The Runaway, novelist Martina Cole's tale of star-crossed lovers struggling for redemption against a background of crime and corruption. Part one of the mini-series premieres on Saturday, June 9 at 10:00p/EST & 7:00p/PST and runs for each consecutive Saturday night thereafter.

PAM ANN is coming back to NYC with a brand new one-woman comedic show, PAM ANN: Cockpit, for two weekends only on May 25 & 26 and June 1 & 2 at XL Cabaret.

Dark Prophet Productions will present the New York premiere of Stuck, a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Riley Thomas. Stuck centers on six strangers trapped on a stalled New York City subway who discover they're not so different after all. It will be presented at the 45th Street Theater as part of the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Known for three of the world's biggest gaming franchises ("Warcraft," "Starcraft" and "Diablo") played by millions of people, Blizzard selected the Symphony to perform the soundtrack for one of the most anticipated video games of the past five years. More than 100 Symphony musicians came together last July in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, where the score was performed under the baton of Eimear Noone and recorded live by Blizzard for "Diablo III."

New York-based pop singer-songwriter, Abby Bernstein, releases her sophomore album. Already having performed at renowned NYC venues such as B.B.King Blues Club & Grill, Rockwood Music Hall, and The Bitter End, Abby also recently toured with Barenaked Ladies as their opening act. Abby today announced her upcoming performance at The Living Room on June 5th to promote her second album,Talk in Tongues, which is set to release in early August.

A second performance of Nick Offerman: American Ham at the Vic Theatre has been added to the TBS Just For Laughs Chicago lineup, Saturday, June 16, at 10 p.m. His previously announced 7:30 p.m. show is sold out. Tickets ($35) for the late show are available at the Vic Theatre box office, online at etix.com, or by phone at 800-514-etix (3849).

Theatricum Botanicumcontinues the 2012 Repertory Season with George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House. Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer directs the Nobel Prize-winning author's "Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes" for Theatricum's outdoor stage in idyllic Topanga Canyon.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

#1 Entertainment presents Waiting For More, an evening of new American Musical Theatre writing with a special guest performance by Bobby Cronin, whose shows 'Daybreak' and 'Concrete Jungle' are currently being premiered here in London. Bobby will be performing songs from both Concrete Jungle and Daybreak with current cast members, James Darch, Tash Holloway and Kayleigh Lousie Smith, as well as performing a song himself.

The Muny announced today principal casting for the second show of its 94th season, Chicago (June 25 - July 1), directed and choreographed by Denis Jones.

The Edward Thorp Gallery recently announced an exhibit of recent works by Katherine Bradford. The show will consist of approximately twenty large- to small-scale paintings, and gouache works on paper.

June 11-28, 2012 the international new play festival Zeitgeist: New Playwrights from Austria, Germany and Switzerland brings some of the most sought-after European playwrights and their works to Washington and New York for staged readings with the directors of leading theaters in each city: Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, the Studio Theatre, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, and New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, and Soho Rep in New York City.