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The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Board of Trustees today announced the departure of NJSO President & CEO André Gremillet. Gremillet has been appointed Managing Director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Australia; he will leave the NJSO in September. Gremillet became President & CEO of the NJSO in January 2007.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has announced the development of The Way of Things by Theresa Rebeck, an adaptation of William Congreve's restoration comedy The Way Of The World, as the eighth play of the 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The Way of Things replaces Ms. Rebeck's previously announced Fool.

South Australia's Slingsby Theatre Company returns to Arts Centre Melbourne from Wednesday 8 to Saturday 11 August with the coming-of-age tale Man Covets Bird. A story about flying the nest, birdsong, and growing up, Man Covets Bird creates an enveloping world of prose, live music, melancholia and sunshine, and is suitable for kids aged 10 and over and adults alike.

MotorCity Casino Hotel will welcome Beauty Buzz 2012 to Sound Board on Sunday, October 7th at 4:00 p.m.

Producers Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian and Tom Wirtshafter have announced that the Off-Broadway hit play Tribes has been extended at The Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street, NYC), by popular demand, through January 6, 2013.

Beginning at 6:15pm today Birmingham Hippodrome will be streaming LIVE from behind the scenes of Dirty Dancing. At 6:15pm we will join the full company on stage as they complete the daily physical warm-up, then from 6.30-6.45pm we get an insight into the intense vocal warm-up before curtain up. This will be a unique and rarely seen opportunity to take a glimpse behind the red curtain and see the day to day workings of a major theatrical production.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.org) continues its Thirty-First Season with the August 3rd opening of Following Sarah, by Rich Espey, at Fells Point Corner Theater (www.fpct.org), 251 South Ann Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, 410-276-7837. Directed by Anne Shoemaker,Following Sarah runs through August 26th, with performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. There will be two Thursday performances on August 9th and August 23rd at 8 pm. Opening weekend all tickets are $10.00, all other performances are $12. Tickets can be purchased on-line at www.fpct.org, or at the door.

NEWSADOOZIES: A Man-Eating Musical, a new musical parody of the cult movie/Broadway musical Newsies, fresh from a packed performance at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, enters its fifth month at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, 307 West 26th Street (west of 8th Ave). Showtimes are: Wednesday, July 18th @ 8PM (paired with Incredibly Extreme and Extremely Incredible) and Wednesday, July 25th @ 8PM (paired with Death Wears Stilettos). Tickets are $5 and can be reserved at http://newyork.ucbtheatre.com/shows/view/3015.

Berkshire Theatre Group's Acting Apprentice Company begins performances of Pinocchio at the Neil Ellenoff Stage at The Mount, 2 Plunkett St., Lenox, MA on July 25 at 4pm.

The Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre kicks off its new season in August with the West Coast premiere of Chinglish. David Henry Hwang won three Obies and the Tony Award for Best Play with popular scripts like M. Butterfly and FOB. Now he's back with a canny comedy of cross-cultural errors. Two-time Obie-winner Leigh Silverman returns to the Roda Theatre to stage the play.

From August 19 to September 9, 2012 Theater for the New City (TNC), under the direction of Crystal Field, Artistic Director, will present its third 'Dream Up Festival,' a festival of experimental theater featuring new works from across the country and abroad. The theater's Literary Manager, Michael Scott-Price continues as curator.

Itinerant no longer, Chicago Children's Theatre (CCT) and Artistic Director Jacqueline Russell are looking forward to welcoming family audiences this fall to the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., Chicago - CCT's first permanent home in the company's seven-year history.

Signature Theatre has announced that casting is confirmed and tickets are now on sale for the New York premiere of THE TRAIN DRIVER written and directed by Athol Fugard.

Franklin Performing Arts Company has announced the following upcoming events.

The Recording Academy has released the following statement.

Selections from SYMPATHY JONES - The New Secret Agent Musical includes 11 songs from the new 1960s-set adventure comedy about a young woman who wants to be a spy, written by Masi Asare (composer/lyricist) and Brooke Pierce (bookwriter).

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre presents Murder Abbey, a solo costume drama parody written and performed by brigade member, Kate Hess (Children's Hospital). Murder Abbey premieres at UCB-LA at 5919 Franklin Avenue on Thursday August 9th at 8:00 pm and continues on September 6th at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $5 and reservations can be made at http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com or by calling 323-908-8702.

Tjasa Ferme, Winner - Slovenian National Film Award, Best Actress- to star in COCKTALES in Midtown International Theatre Festival 2012.

Z2 Entertainment will present Tycho & Album Leaf at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, September 26th. Tickets will go on sale to the public today, Monday, July 17th for $20.00 in advance and $22.00 day of show.

The Magnet Theater (254 West 29th Street) presents four weekly shows this summer. From 'a competition you've never seen before to a show your shrink might suggest as an outlet for your suppressed feelings, this is improvisation at its best and a great way to spend summer nights for under $10. Yes, that's right; each show is only $5-7.'