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Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters plays May 29 - June 13, 2010. A toe-tapping, finger-snapping musical tribute to the most successful female group of all time. Totem Pole Playhouse brings Sisters of Swing, a joyful celebration of music, family and patriotism, to the stage for the 60th anniversary season.

Broadway actors Christine Toy Johnson and Jose Llana, in partnership with The Eastern Region Equal Employment Opportunity Committee of the Actors' Equity Association, held a sold-out, all Asian-American concert performance of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Tony Award-nominated musical 'Once On This Island' at the York Theatre in New York, NY on Sunday, May 16, 2010.

The Des Moines Playhouse and Iowa Juneteenth Observance present 'Crowns' for two performances only, May 13 and May 15.

THE BILBAO EFFECT, a world-premiere play that puts contemporary architecture on trial, written by Oren Safdie (whose previous play about architecture, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES, was a hit Off-Broadway in 2003) will be presented Off-Broadway with an official press opening night on May 16, 2010 at Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place) in Manhattan. THE BILBAO EFFECT will run Wednesday through Saturday at 8PM through June 5.

The Des Moines Playhouse and Iowa Juneteenth Observance present 'Crowns' for two performances only, May 13 and May 15.

THE BILBAO EFFECT, a world-premiere play that puts contemporary architecture on trial, written by Oren Safdie (whose previous play about architecture, PRIVATE JOKES, PUBLIC PLACES, was a hit Off-Broadway in 2003) will be presented Off-Broadway with previews starting May 12 prior to an official press opening night on May 16, 2010 at Center for Architecture (536 LaGuardia Place) in Manhattan. THE BILBAO EFFECT will run Wednesday through Saturday at 8PM through June 5. For tickets call (212) 352-3101 or (866) 811-4111 or visit www.theatermania.com

The Des Moines Playhouse and Iowa Juneteenth Observance present 'Crowns' for two performances only, May 13 and May 15.

This Earth Day the performers at Children's Musical Theater San Jose have incorporated an Earth Day theme into two of their upcoming shows.

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga and television and film actor George Takei starred in the by invitation only NYC staged reading of new American musical ALLEGIANCE (produced by Lorenzo Thione and Sing Out, Louise! Productions) held Monday, February 22, 2010 at Playwrights Horizon.

Masterworks Broadway, in celebration of the critically acclaimed 2008 Broadway Cast Recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, proudly presents new episodes of 'Masterworks Broadway Podcast Theatre,' the acclaimed podcast series.

The cast and crew of South Pacific celebrated their opening night in style. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic opened its first ever revival on April 3.

Laura Griffith received the ceremonial Gypsy Robe as the cast member of South Pacific with the most ensemble credits under her belt. Griffith was previously in The Sweet Smell of Success, Oklahoma! and The Light in the Piazza.

Only Make Believe honored the Sesame Workshop with the first annual Only Make Believe Community Award and Bon Jovi founding member and keyboardist David Bryan with the James Hammerstein Award at their 7th Annual Gala on Monday November 5 at 7PM at the Millennium Hotel's Hudson Theatre.

Monday, November 5 at 7PM Only Make Believe will honor the Sesame Workshop with the first annual Only Make Believe Community Award and Bon Jovi founding member and keyboardist David Bryan with the James Hammerstein Award at their Seventh Annual Gala at the Millennium Hotel's Hudson Theatre

Federico Garcia Lorca's classic play The House of Bernarda Alba, about a household of women repressed by a domineering mother, and William Finn's modern classic musical Falsettoland, about a gay/straight/divorced/married extended family of New Yorkers preparing for a son's bar mitzvah, will be presented by the Obie Award-winning National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) in June 2007 in NYC.

Musical theater students and alumni from NYU's Cap 21 will join James Lecesne, Randy Redd, Alex De Castro (from Broadway's The Lion King) and special guests composer Stephen Flaherty, singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik and cast members from the new Broadway musical Spring Awakening, to present 'Coming Together,' an evening of song to benefit After the Storm at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall at Greenwich House Music School on Monday, December 11th at 8PM

Over two dozen new performers have signed on to appear in the Actors' Fund On the Twentieth Century benefit concert, which will star Marin Mazzie, Doug Sills, Brad Oscar, Kathleen Turner and others

Members of the Broadway community, including some of those on the release, picked up their copies of the new Hair studio CD, and so did we!