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On Tuesday, March 23, Antoinette Montague will be performing at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium at the Baha'i Center, with Mike Longo, Payton Crossley, Paul West, and Harry Allen on sax.

Led by the two most recent Tony® Award winners for Broadway's Best Musical, the 2010/11 Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series presented by the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center features a fantastic lineup of Broadway's most popular and critically acclaimed shows.

Laura Bell Bundy's major label debut album Achin' And Shakin' is slated for release April 13 on Mercury Nashville. The infectious lead single 'Giddy On Up' has been described as 'a breath of fresh air' and 'nothing short of a new female anthem' amongst industry critics since the premiere of the music video on January 18.

Stars of stage and screen Lea Michele and Queen Latifah are slated to appear at this year's Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards. The award show will be telecast this Saturday, March 27th, at 8pm on Nickelodeon.

The New York Philharmonic will present The Russian Stravinsky: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Valery Gergiev on April 21-May 8, 2010. The three-week festival - one of several initiatives launched during Alan Gilbert's first season as Music Director - will offer an in-depth look at Stravinsky, exploring how his Russian roots informed his works. Led by the Russian-born Mr. Gergiev, the festival will feature eight programs over three weeks, including concerts, lectures, pre-concert talks, radio broadcasts, podcasts and an Archives exhibit.

Due to rights issues, Flux Theatre Ensemble will not be producing Archibald MacLeish's play, J.B. as previously planned. In its place, Flux will be staging the world premiere of August Schulenburg's JACOB'S HOUSE, a play inspired by the loss of J.B. Playwright August Schulenburg has taken the themes, style, design elements, staging concept, and cast from Flux's planned production of J.B., and used them as inspiration to write his own unique riff on the story of Jacob wrestling the Angel.

Made Event is proud to present a two day ‘A State of Trance 450' celebration with the world's #1 DJ Armin van Buuren and some very special guests at Roseland Ballroom on Friday and Saturday, April 2 & 3, 2010.

CC Coletti and Anthony Krizan are pleased to announce their new tribute show, Experience Janis-A Tribute to Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, live Friday May 7, 2010 at the historic and recently re-opened and remodeled Brook Arts Center.

Fort Wayne's Civic Off-Main presents The Road To Mecca at the Allen County Public Library Auditorium from April 2-18.

David Niven (1910-1983) was an actor of such diverse talents and charm that he is often categorized using clichéd phrases like 'urbane light comedian' or 'leading man.' These descriptions are indeed accurate, but one does not survive before the camera for a half-century on charm alone. The problem-if you can call it that-is that Niven made it all look too easy. Like Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days, he took everything in stride, unflappably and (seemingly) effortlessly playing his part, always prepared for whatever came his way. He was, after all, originally a military man by profession. He then chose to 'bum' around America, eventually winding up in Hollywood. Just as his film career began to blossom, he was one of the first to answer Britain's call when World War II broke out, serving on active duty for the duration and rising to the rank of colonel. He even made two propaganda films during brief leaves, including The Way Ahead, which is included in this series. After making his return in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's masterpiece A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven), he resumed a glorious career in film, theater, television, and writing with his typical debonair insouciance. This series aims to recapture some of the special glory that was David Niven.

Seven New Orleans authors and performers join New York writer Blaise Allysen Kearsley for a hilarious, outrageous, touching evening of literature and music called HOW I LEARNED ABOUT SEX. From childhood stories of curiosity to adult tales of lovemaking gone very, very awry, audiences will reel through eight tales told from eight very different perspectives - male, female, straight, gay, young, and...less young. It's blue enough to please the prurient, but silly enough for the straightlaced, too.

The Howard County Arts Council is honoring the 2009 Howie Award Winners at the 13th Annual Celebration of the Arts in Howard County on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at The Jim Rouse Theatre for Performing Arts. The Celebration gala gives members of the arts, education, government and business communities of Howard County the opportunity to gather and honor individuals and businesses that have made significant contributions to the arts in Howard County.

'BLUE, WHITE & RED' HOUSE PARTY to benefit our Spring/Summer 2010 Season. Join us Friday, March 26 at the home of Executive Director Kevin Mayes for a night of live music, poker, poetry, art and more!

The Katonah Museum of Art (www.katonahmuseum.org) invites you to join artists Dan Hurlin, Roman Paska, and Hanne Tierney and curator Leslee Asch for The Intimate Inanimate, a panel discussion that will provide a revealing look into works featured in the Museum's current exhibition The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater. Ms. Asch will moderate the conversation at the Museum on Sunday, March 28 at 5:30pm. This event is free for members and $10 for non-members. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (914) 232-9555, ext. 0 or emailing info@katonahmuseum.org.

Brooklyn's Brick Theater presents LALALA: SPECTRA and ALICE IN SLASHERLAND, starting March 18th.

Starting tonight, March 18th, the Adam Rogers Quintet will play the Iridium Jazz Club until March 21st.

Start the long weekend off early on Wednesday, March 24 at 7 p.m. with our Cocktails and Cinema event. New Orleans' best bartenders will have a mix-off contest to create cocktails inspired by Tennessee Williams. The judge? Saints player (the first time we've had one at the Festival!) Deuce McAllister! The contest will be followed by a screening of A Streetcar Named Desire at 8 p.m. Tickets are only $5 each and are available both online and at the door.

Tonight, March 18th, the Cornelia Street Cafe presents Wendy Gilles and 'Women Get The Blues' with Golda Solomon.

August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, is coming to Boston's Colonial Theatre May 4 - 16 for two weeks only.

Auditions will be held by the Repertory Theater of Iowa for The Merry Wives of Windsor (co-produced with Salisbury House & Gardens for their 'Shakespeare on the Lawn' series), as well as for RTI's 2010-2011 season of plays (to be announced).