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The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema with programming support from Japan Society previewed some major highlights for this year's New York Asian Film Festival (June 29 - July 15).

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has announced the lineup for its series of one night only concerts and performances.

New Haarlem Arts Theatre (NHAT), the professional theater company of City College of New York (CCNY), will open its second season June 14 to July 8 with 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' by August Wilson, directed by Eugene Nesmith and starring Johnnie Mae as Ma.

Broadway In Chicago today announced the two award recipients from the First Annual Illinois High School Musical Theater Awards: Meadow Nguy from O'Fallon, Ill. (O'Fallon Township High School) and Nathan Salstone from Northbrook, Ill. (Glenbrook North High School), who will represent the state of Illinois at The Jimmy™ Awards in New York on June 25, 2012.

Beck Center for the Arts presents the regional premiere of the award-winning rock musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, May 25 through July 1, 2012 in the Studio Theater. Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 7 p.m. Sundays. There are no Sunday matinee performances for this production. Tickets are now on sale.

Ars Nova today announced a by-invitation-only reading of Suprema, a new musical by Jordan Harrison (Maple and Vine) and Daniel Zaitchik (Picnic at Hanging Rock), on Friday, May 18 at 3pm at Ars Nova.

Shakespeare on the Sound, Connecticut's outdoor summer theater company, will present a newly conceived production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, under the direction of Joanna Settle, this June and July for the company's 17th season.

After performances in Franz Schmidt's oratorio The Book With Seven Seals under Fabio Luisi in Vienna (May 13-14), Rene Pape will sing in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Daniel Barenboim at Milan's La Scala, in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI (June 1).

After an unexpected cancellation of the season's highlight, The Tempest Project, The New Theatre Project presents a special event, the New Work Collage 2012: Taking Chances.

The Brooklyn Museum's June 2 Target First Saturdays celebrates the beginning of summer with a night of music, dancing, games, contests, and food at the Best of Brooklyn Block Party. The Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturday attracts thousands of visitors to free art and entertainment programs each month.

The Marriott Theatre (10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire) presents HERO, a new musical written by Aaron Thielen with music and lyrics by Michael Mahler, previewing June 20, opening June 27 at 8 p.m. and running through August 19, 2012. Eleven-time Jeff award-winner David H. Bell directs and choreographs. Erich Bergen (JERSEY BOYS, Nat'l Tour) stars as Hero Batowski.

York Theatre Company will present the 8th Annual NEO 8 on Monday, May 21 at The York Theatre at Saint Peter's (Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by a champagne and dessert reception to toast the evening.

Beginning Friday, June 1st, Shuler Hensley will star as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Off-Broadway's SILENCE! The Musical through June 24th, filling in for the vacationing David Garrison.

Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) is pleased to announce that the deadline for applications for the Mark Ryder Original Choreography Grant Program has been extended to June 15, 2012.

PBS today announced that LOVE NEVER DIES is part of special programming premiering on PBS stations beginning June 2, 2012 (check local listings). LOVE NEVER DIES, Andrew Lloyd Webber's follow-up musical to THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is based on the book by Ben Elton and features the new Australian production filmed in Melbourne.

On Monday, June 11, at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust welcomes the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra and special guest soloist, Marin Mazzie, for a musical event - Music for the Tempest-Tost: A Tribute to Emma Lazarus, inspired by the Museum's exhibit Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles.

In June 1992, David Drake opened his one-man show The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, which went on to make theatrical history as one of the longest running one-man shows in New York. The New York Times called the writing 'angry, occasionally ferocious... Every line is spare, quick, complex, as it chronicles an important time of change for gay men in America.'

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will announce the hire of Jocelyn Prince as the theatre's new Connectivity Director.

Victoria Theatre Association announces the Star Attraction presentations for the 2012-2013 season featuring Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain and Food Network's Justin Willman, plus music from jazz to Celtic to rock and the return of two of Dayton's most popular shows. Star Attractions are performances that are not part of an established series.

Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, presents the new "Laugh Out Loud Tour" from Chicago's legendary sketch comedy theatre, The Second City. Featuring some of the best sketches, songs and improvisations from The Second City's fifty-two year history, the "Laugh Out Loud Tour" will be performed on Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16 at 8 p.m.