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The American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF) presents Tap City, the preeminent annual tap dance festival of the world. This is the quintessential celebration of our collective American heritage - virtues that are certainly evident in tap's hometown, New York City. Tap City 2012 offers hundreds of master classes and courses with internationally renowned teachers, expansive adult, pre-professional, teen and youth training programs, awards and numerous diverse premiere performances and city-wide events.

Hartford Stage Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak today promoted Resident Director Maxwell Williams, an artistic presence at the Tony Award-winning theatre for more than a decade, to the post of Associate Artistic Director.

A Thousand Clowns opens Berkshire Theatre Group's Fitzpatrick Main Stage on July 21 at 8pm. Previews begin July 16 at 8pm and closing is on July 28.

The Recording Academy has released the following statement on the passing of Andy Griffith.

Theater Latte Da announced today they will produce Company, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth, this fall at the Ordway Center's McKnight Theatre. Company will preview October 25 and October 26, open on October 27, and run through November 18, 2012.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's classical season at the Hollywood Bowl opens with internationally-acclaimed conductor and hometown hero Leonard Slatkin leading Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Tuesday, July 10, at 8 pm. Slatkin continues the classical week, leading the LA Phil in a program showcasing Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3, Thursday, July 12, at 8 pm.

Cortland Repertory Theatre is announcing that their administration and box offices have moved to the new "CRT Downtown" building at 24 Port Watson Street in Cortland from their former location at 37 Franklin Street. Office hours are Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 6:00 PM and Saturdays from noon to 6:00 PM. The phone numbers have stayed the same: the Box Office toll free number is 800-427-6160 and the administration office line is 607-753-6161.

MusicalFare presents HAIR, the tribal love-rock musical that originally defined the genre of the 'rock musical.' Join our 'tribe' as we present this gigantic show in our intimate space and revel in the memory of a time that may have been decades ago, but still resonates in today's society. Featuring favorite songs like 'Aquarius,' 'Good Morning, Starshine,' 'Easy to be Hard,' and 'Let the Sunshine In,' HAIR promises to be an experience to remember!

Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi and Lee Roy Reams, are to star in "Doin' It For Love," a Broadway-style tribute to the standards and the stories behind the music.

Traverse Theatre Company will commission ten of Scotland's most exciting writers, plus two writers to be discovered over the course of the Fringe, as the breakfast theatre returns to the Traverse Festival.

The Chicago Commercial Collective has announced the return of the Chicago and Broadway hit drama, A Steady Rain, with its original cast and crew to the Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave. The production, written by Keith Huff and directed by original director Russ Tutterow, runs Saturday, July 7 - Sunday, Sept. 2. Previews are July 7 at 8 p.m. and July 8 at 2 and 7 p.m. Opening/Press night is Tuesday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. The regular run is Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now and are $40 (preview tickets are $35) and may be purchased online at www.asteadyrainchicago.com. Student and group discounts are available.

Cape May Stage will welcome another Broadway legend to the Robert Shackleton Playhouse. On Monday, July 23rd at 8pm, Faith Prince brings her critically-acclaimed one woman show Total Faith to Cape May.

Continuing its artistic mission of promoting new work in contemporary theatre, Firehouse Theatre Project presented its Tenth Annual Festival of New American Plays the weekend of June 28, and by the end of the weekend, the audience had selected the first place and runner up winners!

The River to River Festival has announced the following remaining events.

To celebrate the re-opening of Melbourne's most-loved concert hall, Arts Centre Melbourne is presenting a program of community-orientated participatory events throughout July - September.

The Broadway-bound THE NUTTY PROFESSOR Musical, premiering this summer at TPAC in Nashville, is now in rehearsals. Get a sneak peek below!

Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters will host the fourteenth annual BROADWAY BARKS!, a star-studded dog and cat adoption event benefiting New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies. Produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, sponsored by the ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and with additional sponsorship by the New York Times, the event will take place on Saturday, July 14 in Shubert Alley, the heart of the Broadway Theater District (located between 44th and 45th Streets, between Broadway and Eighth Avenues). The festivities begin at 3:30 p.m.; celebrity presentations of pets from animal shelters citywide will take place between 5-6:30 p.m.

THE MUMMY AND THE REVOLUTION centers around 'an Egyptian revolutionary, an American collector of antiquities, and a reanimated mummy - just three of the characters in this sexy, slap sticky romp where ideological opposites attract and the 'new' Middle East is never too far from the same old same old. A comedic gem from the writer who brought the acclaimed plays Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith, Back of the Throat, and Our Enemies to Silk Road Rising audiences.'

MotorCity Casino Hotel announces Sunday Jazz Brunch in Iridescence, on September 2nd. The venue, located on the 16th floor of the hotel tower offers a city view and provides the perfect backdrop for great food and entertainment.

A most unique, all day tribute will be paid to July 4th as the giant, 130-feet digitally-animated fireworks display, blazing in red, white and blue, on the Toshiba Vision and TDK screens will be the only programming featured on these iconic screens on One Times Square, where the New Year's Eve Ball drops, today, July 4th from 12:01AM through Thursday, July 5th; 12:00AM; One Times Square.