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The extraordinary display features the works of young artists whose lives have been touched by cancer and blood disorders and provides a unique focus on their personal issues. The exhibit will open to the public Wednesday, April 14 at 5:30 p.m. in Ste. C 140 of LaCenterra (between Simply Cinco and Panera Bread) and runs through April 28 before moving to KVPAC gallery for an additional three-week showing. The exhibit will close to the public Friday, May 21 at 5:30 p.m. in KVPAC Building 2 with a special child-friendly 'Whine & Cheese-its' cocktail party and performance of Cinderella. Families are welcome!

Following sellout performances at Tristan Bates and the Tara Studion, One Mind Theatre Company present 'Eight' by Ella Hickson, directed by Nick Ewans and Renu Arora.

Pride Films and Plays, a new not-for-profit, is proud to announce its inaugural activities as an organization. The first two events scheduled are Five Decades of Great Gay Theater, May 9 - June 13, a series of staged reading of great gay plays, Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 West Belmont*, and the Great Gay Screenplay Contest, held in conjunction with Chicago Filmmakers. The contest seeks new screenplays dealing with gay history, characters or themes and relevant to the world. The semi-finalists will be read this fall during Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.

The Muny has announced casting for its 2010 summer season, featuring a number of Broadway veterans reprising roles they created on Broadway. Performers include Ken Page, Gary Beach, Stephanie J. Block, Georgia Engel, Ashley Brown and more.

The ghosts who have taken up residence with The Production Company are a restless lot, filled with a crackling, questing vitality rarely found even among the living. As embodied with disquieting fierceness by Sara Lilly, David Ross Paterson, and Skip Pipo in COPENHAGEN, this endlessly fascinating play by Michael Frayn is directed with surgical exactitude by August Viveirto to a fever pitch. These spectral presences just won't stop haunting one another with their questions and revisions and caveats. Give them the courtesy of your full attention, and you'll find them taking possession of your own imagination as well, probably raising your blood pressure in the process. They prove themselves electrifying companions.

WHITE WAVE has announced its deadline for choreographers to submit applications for two thrilling upcoming festivals to be presented this fall: the 10th Anniversary DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL and 5th Annual WAVE RISING SERIES.

Due to audience demand, Arizona Theatre Company has added two performances of The Second City Does Arizona, or Close But No Saguaro on Sunday, April 25 at 2 PM and 7 PM.

Soles4Souls, the international shoe charity, is excited to announce its partnership with Rich Eckhardt, the nationally recognized guitar player best known as long-time member of Toby Keith's Easy Money Band. Rich is one of the most sought after guitarists in the country, and has shared the stage with artists ranging from Steven Tyler of Aerosmith to Shania Twain. He has performed in nearly every major concert venue in the world, played on multi-platinum and Grammy award winning albums, and has entertained for American presidents. His most recent musical release 'Cottage City Firehouse' was released in 2009 to critical acclaim, including being nominated for a 2009 Nashville Music Award.

Flat Rock Playhouse has announced the complete cast for its production of Steel Magnolias, set to run from April 29th to May 23rd.

Bay Street Theatre has announced its scheduled performers for its summer Comedy Club series. Among others, David Alan Grier is set to appear on July 19.

88's brings the best of Broadway & L.A.'s singers to one stage the third Monday of every month at the incredibly beautiful and romantic restaurant Cafe La Boheme in West Hollywood. Each show hosts over a dozen amazing singers to bring together an incredible night of music. April's tribute is to the music of Disney!

On April 20th, for the first time on CD, DRG Records presents the legendary performances of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli that Capitol Records recorded 'Live' at London's London Palladium on November 8 & 15, 1964.

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its next editions of At This Performance to be held on Sunday, April 18th and Monday, April 19th at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre.

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, has announced that it will host CABARETION! [KA-ba-'RAY-sh-un !] , noun - The fusion of contribution, performance, and celebration of the Off-Off Broadway community at Carolines on Monday, May 17th from 6-9pm.

Reprise Records will release The Original Broadway Cast Recording of American Idiot on April 20, 2010, the same day the show will open at the St. James Theatre in New York City. The official album features the 24-member cast accompanied by Green Day, marking another incredible collaboration between the band and the musical. Based on Green Day's chart-topping 2004 album American Idiot, the musical and the cast recording include every song from American Idiot, as well as several songs from the band's GRAMMY® Award-winning current album 21st Century Breakdown.

It seems only appropriate that Rochester's Geva Theatre Center would transition from Arthur Miller's The Price to August Wilson's Two Trains Running; comparatively speaking, however, Wilson has given Miller a run for his money. Ron OJ Parson's exhilarating production of Two Trains Running, the fourth fully mounted play of Geva's celebration of Wilson and the seventh in his famed Pittsburgh Cycle, gives its audience what The Price never could: an entertaining, well-paced, and (dare I say) priceless night of theater.

Sue Fuller: String Theory, Constructions and Works on Paper, 1944-1984, is on view at the Susan Teller Gallery, April 2 through 24, 2010. The full show may be seen under Exhibitions at WWW.SUSANTELLERGALLERY.COM.

Michael Amante, the 'People's Tenor' that can sing it all is coming to the St. George Theatre on May 15th for one show only.

Nicholas Martin announced today the remainder of the 2010 Season for Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), the 56th season, and final one under Martin's tenure as WTF Artistic Director.

New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by Mia Westerlund Roosen on Park Avenue from April 19-August 28, 2010. The current exhibition features three new works Juggler, Baritone, and French Kiss on the Park Avenue Malls in the landscaped medians between 52nd Street and 53rd Street.