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Acting Up Stage Company - Toronto's premiere not-for-profit musical theatre - announced its ninth season today. The season includes the new musical DO YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE GOT? A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA, FALSETTOS and more.

Anoushka Shankar, who learned at the knee of her sitar maestro father, Ravi Shankar, will cross the 1,000-year-old bridge between Indian classical and Spanish flamenco roots on her U.S. "Traveller" tour, stopping at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday, April 21st, Broadway's top rated revue 3 MEN AND A BABY...GRAND comes to the Palladium. Three Broadway stars, Brian Lane Green, Lee Lessack, and John Boswell, present their signature collection of show tunes and Rat Pack favorites. The show will take place at 8 p.m.

Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce Ethel Waters: Blues, Broadway, and Jazz as part of the second season of the Jazz & Popular Song series. Hosted by singer-pianist Michael Feinstein, who also serves as Director for the series, this concert celebrates the decades-spanning career of entertainer Ethel Waters.

Compagnia della Rancia will present Happy Days: il nuovo musical April 12 - 22 in Rome, Italy, Teatro Brancaccio.

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres announced today its exclusive arrangement to produce the Midwest Premiere of XANADU on the Main Stage. XANADU was named "Outstanding New Musical" for the 2008 Broadway season by the Outer Critics Circle. Chanhassen's XANADU will open to one week of preview performances from June 1 - 7, with an official Opening Night on Friday, June 8.

For one night only, Eye Candy is coming back to the stage at Go Comedy Improv Theater, Wednesday April 4 at 8pm. This special performance will benefit the Detroit Improv Festival (www.detroitimprovfestival.org) taking place in August. Tickets ($10) are available now online at www.gocomedy.net, by calling (248) 327-0575 or in person the night of the show.

The Largest Room presents CHAMPAGNE, SEX AND PSYCHOLOGY by Arthur Schnitzler and directed by Hilary Wood, starring Damian Lynch and Clara Perez.

The award-winning playwrighting duo Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Lee return to Horizon Theatre with the world premiere of their new play The Waffle Palace: Smothered, Covered and Scattered 24/7/365. Inspired by real life news stories about Waffle House restaurants, the play follows a Midtown diner owner, his staff, and a hilarious cast of customers as they battle to keep The Waffle Palace open against encroaching real estate developers. The Waffle Palace runs May 11 - June 24, 2012.

Following the completion of the modernization of the Drama Music Complex and Garvin Theatre at SBCC, The Theatre Group at SBCC and the SBCC Music Department will hold an open house with guided tours of the facility on Sunday, April 15, 2012 from 4-6pm.

On April 11, for the first time ever, BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY will play at America's longest running professional theater, the Alhambra Theatre & Dining, giving the Jacksonville market a chance to learn about and celebrate the life of the man who changed music forever. Starring in the performance is Tod Meredith, a ten-time veteran of The Buddy Story, who has portrayed Buddy Holly across the United States.

Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is proud to announce an all-star line-up of 7' and 12' vinyl releases created especially for Record Store Day 2012, celebrated at independent record stores worldwide on Saturday, April 21, 2012.

B. Someday Productions and Walking Fish Burlesque present a new comedy, THE END OF THE WORLD - A BURLESQUE COMEDY! By Emily Courier and directed by Stan Heleva. The show runs April 18 to 22, 2012 at Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia. Tickets are $18, and can be purchased online and at the door.

Next Theatre Company is proud to present the Midwest premiere of Amy Herzog's After the Revolution, directed by Kimberly Senior, April 5 - May 13, 2012, at Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes Street.

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents George Bernard Shaw's WIDOWERS' HOUSES - the play that started him on his epic playwriting journey - on Monday, April 23 at 7pm at The Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan. The show is produced and directed by David Staller.

North/South Consonance, Inc. continues its 32nd consecutive season of free-admission concerts on Friday evening May 4, 2012 when mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna and pianist Max Lifchitz join forces for an evening of art songs by composers from México, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan marks the largest presentation of works by Alighiero Boetti (Italian, 1940-1994) in the United States to date. A full retrospective spanning the artist's entire career, the exhibition will be on view in two locations in the Museum from July 1 to October 1, 2012.

Josiah Theatre Works has announced the world premiere musical inspired by music legends Sam Cooke and Donny Hathaway, TRIBUTE (FORGET ME NOT), written and directed by Nickolas Long, III.

TITANIC TALES: STORIES OF COURAGE AND COWARDICE, a theater work commissioned by Lincoln Center, will have its world premiere on Thursday, April 12 at 8:30 p.m. the date on which, 100 years ago, the RMS Titanic was mid-voyage on the way to its fateful encounter with the iceberg that led to the ship's tragic loss on the night of April 15, 1912.

Libra 6 Productions, Inc. presents SILENCE an original play by Herand Markarian, directed by Kevin Thompson, starring Lorraine Serabian, beginning May 4th.