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Theatrica Ltd. in association with The Landor Theatre have announced the cast and creatives for THE THING ABOUT MEN, a musical comedy, including Lucyelle Cliffe, Peter Gerald, Kate Graham and Steven Webb. THE THING ABOUT MEN will play for a strictly limited run of only four weeks at The Landor Theatre; from the writers of the long running Off Broadway show, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and the producers/director responsible for the award winning production of The Hired Man at The Landor last August.

Penguin Rep Theatre (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director, and Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director) and Morton Wolkowitz (Stomp, The Unexpected Man) is set to present the Off-Broadway premiere of MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET, by Tom Dudzick, directed by Joe Brancato. Performances begin April 25th at St. Luke's Theatre (308 West 46th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues). Opening Night is set for Sunday May 13th.

Cape Town Opera are set to bring their acclaimed production of The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS to Birmingham Hippodrome for the first time, opening Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 June. The dates mark the first performances of their forthcoming UK tour prior to a two week run in London.

In Herman's new recording of Herman classics, the voice and the songs form a marriage of music and with each other.

Playwrights Foundation and Cultural Services of the Consulate General of France/SF is spear-heading a major new international exchange project, Des Voix...Found In Translation, that supports the translation of vanguard French and American playwrights and promotes their work to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. The San Francisco festival will feature translations of new plays by three emerging playwrights working in France today. Plays by Marion Aubert (pink picture), Nathalie Fillion (blue picture), and Samuel Gallet (yellow picture) will be performed in English during a Festival, scheduled from May 25-27, 2012, in a producing partnership with Z Space, a theater located in San Francisco's vibrant, cutting-edge Mission District and Deborah Taylor/FireMused Productions, LLC.

Company XIV, in association with Morningside Opera and SIREN Baroque, proudly presents the World Premiere of JUDGE ME PARIS, a Baroque Burlesque Opera, directed and choreographed by Austin McCormick. JUDGE ME PARIS includes excerpts from John Eccles and John Weldon's Baroque opera The Judgment of Paris, sung by Morningside Opera, with a libretto by William Congreve, Baroque music performed by SIREN Baroque, and additional text by Jeff Takacs.

New York native, Outasight, has released his brand new single 'Now or Never.'

Broadway stars Ed Watts (The Fantasticks, Finian's Rainbow), Tituss Burgess (Guys and Dolls, Disney's The Little Mermaid) and Andrew Samonsky (South Pacific) will appear in concert with Maestro Peter Jaffe and the Stockton Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, April 28th at 8pm at Alex G. Spanos Center, University of the Pacific. Doors will open at 5:45pm and there will also be a picnic at 6:30pm. Together they will perform OH WHAT A NIGHT! BILL BOARD HITS OF THE 1960's (produced by Broadway Pops International). Featuring Billboard hits from 1957 through 1969 and music by: The Four Seasons, Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Darrin, Otis Redding, Righteous Brothers, Stevie Wonder, and Aretha Franklin.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) has announced the 2012 session of Basic Finance for Artists (BFA), a free six-week intensive personal finance seminar designed for 20 individual New York City artists working in visual, performing, literary, media and multi-disciplinary arts. Launched in 2008, BFA is designed to help artists develop financial awareness through practical training in money management. The program takes into consideration the complexity of artists' income across a range of artistic practices.

In "Fragments: Poetry - Ancient and Modern" (ISBN 1470023628), poet Blue Flute blends poems from all parts of the ancient world with a selection of modern verse. The book's first half is devoted to verse culled from lost, antiquarian worlds. Flute digs deep into world history to unearth poems from ancient Greece and Rome as well as Israel in its most archaic iteration.

Naked Girls Reading NYC is set to present HOLLYWOOD STORIES. Naked Girls' literary starlets will share juicy biographies, classic scripts, behind-the-camera accounts, Hollywood legends, L.A. noir, and stories from the casting couch.

Joe Chindamo is a jazz pianist and an internationally acclaimed composer and arranger, and Zoe is a violinist. In each other they have found not only life partners, but also a unique musical partnership. They have collaborated on ReImaginings, a new CD that is both a collision of musical styles and a testament to their mutual musical respect.

The Rogues' Gallery is set to present THE FOLK CONTRAPTION, a summer show. THE FOLK CONTRAPTION is part play, part gig and part magical-mystery tour. After runaway success at the Heritage Arts Company's VAULT Festival, storytellers, writers and folk musicians will perform in the brand new show in London.

Since Nina's last live performances in early 2011, she has been busy film-making, the films which can soon be seen on BBC4. A Ventriloquist's Story - Her Master's Voice (winner of the audience award at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas) and Make Me Happy: A Monkey's Search for Happiness will be broadcast in June.

The International City Theatre will host a staged reading of INNOCENCE, a new musical by British team Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton. The reading will be held today, April 24, at 7 PM and will be free and open to the public.

Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) join the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ (UJC) to present the 15th annual benefit concert in support of the United Jewish Appeal of MetroWest NJ (UJA) on Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m., at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. Internationally renowned pianist Yefim Bronfman performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3.

Southway Playhouse's Main House is set to present the premiere of Sebastian Barry's THE ONLY TRUE HISTORY OF LIZZIE FLINN for a four week engagement beginning June 21. The show is directed by Critic's Circle Award Winner Blanche McIntyre. Performances will run June 21 - July 27, Monday through Friday at 7:45PM and Saturday matinees at 3:15PM.

The Blackwood Players are set to perform the comedy of errors CRAZY CAPERS, DODGY DEALS from May 18 - June 2. The performance will be held at Blackwood 21. Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for concessions and $15 for groups of 10 or more. Tickets may be reserved at online at http://www.trybooking.com/BFEO or phone 1300 658 522. The show is suitable for all ages and runs approximately two and a half hours.

The International City Theatre will host a staged reading of INNOCENCE, a new musical by British team Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton. The reading will be held on Monday, April 24, at 7 PM and will be free and open to the public.

Cabaret Cares/Help Is On The Way Today has annouced their sixth annual Gala Fundraiser will be held on May 20, 2012 at the Laurie Beechman Theater. Help Is On The Way Today, founded by 2012 MAC Award Winner Joseph macchia, is a 501c3 charitable organization dedicated to assisting children living with HIV/AIDS. The talent line up has just added the hilarious Christine (S**t Liza Minelli Says) Pedi. Robert Creighton, of the Tony Award winning cast of Anything Goes, will act as auctioneer.