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Oxygen Media, the destination for high quality crime programming, premieres a new two-hour special, 'The Turpin 13: Family SECRETS Exposed' on Saturday, April 28 at 6pm ET/PT. Hosted and executive produced by Emmy® and Peabody Award winning journalist Soledad O'Brien, the special will take viewers on a deep dive into the story surrounding the Turpin family and the parents, David and Louise, who have been charged with keeping their children shackled and starved within the four walls of their own Perris, California home. Retracing the family's past and present, O'Brien will go BEYOND the shocking headlines to ask how far back the family's SECRETS go and how the alleged abuse was kept hidden for so long. For a sneak peek visit here!

Bay Area Children's Theatre (BACT) brings Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt, to San Francisco May 4 - 27 at the Children's Creativity Museum Theater, 221 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, Fridays at 6:30 p.m. and weekends at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

For those viewers who haven't watched yet or want to experience 10th season episodes all over again, the revival of “Roseanne” will rebroadcast four back-to-back episodes on TUESDAY, APRIL 24 (8:00–10:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. Episodes are also available via streaming and on demand. Plus, an original episode of “Deception” kicks off a two-night event (part two airs SUNDAY, APRIL 29) where, for the first time this season, “Deception” will show viewers how Cameron Black executes one of the grandest illusions in history, immediately following the “Roseanne” marathon on TUESDAY, APRIL 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT).  

The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) presents the New York premiere of Miss You Like Hell. With book and lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes, music and lyrics by Erin McKeown, and choreography by Danny Mefford, the new musical is directed by Public Theater Resident Director and Founder of Public Works Lear deBessonet. Part of The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work at 425 Lafayette Street and the 50th Anniversary of HAIR, the musical will now run an additional week through Sunday, May 13.

Award winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez will be presenting sponsors at the 4th annual Brooklyn Children's Theatre's SPRING SING on Saturday, April 14, 2018. Kristen, an Oscar and Grammy winner, co-wrote Broadway's first a capella show, IN TRANSIT. Bobby, co-creator of BOOK OF MORMON and AVENUE Q, is the only person ever to double EGOT - winning at least two Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards. Together they wrote music for Disney's FROZEN and Disney Pixar's COCO.

The current American president is never mentioned in bookwriter/lyricist Quiara Alegria Hudes and composer/lyricist Erin McKeown's lovely and touching chamber musical MISS YOU LIKE HELL.  But even though the piece has been in development well before anyone thought of the former reality TV star as a serious candidate, his presence is well-felt in their story of an undocumented Mexican-American mom who is facing deportation while trying to rebuild her relationship with her citizen daughter.

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The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) announced today a one-week extension for the New York premiere of MISS YOU LIKE HELL.

Hailed as one of the the most influential and original guitarist-composers of his generation, Dario Chiazzolino has been named Ambassador of D'Angelico Guitars throughout the world. Dario Chiazzolino is a multi-award winning Italian guitarist and composer based in NYC. One of Italy's most in-demand jazz musicians, he performs regularly and records with many top European and American jazz musicians. As someone who toured early on with legendary band Yellow Jackets, Dario is today considered at the top of his field, thanks to his unparalleled technique level, his brand new voice and his originality.

Oxygen Media, the home for quality true crime programming, is aggressively expanding its original series slate with 10 new greenlights and the US premiere of a Piers Morgan event series, it was announced today by Rod Aissa, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Oxygen Media. In 2017, Oxygen rebranded to a fulltime true crime destination and quickly became one of the fastest growing networks in cable behind such hits as 'Cold Justice' 'The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway,' 'Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks' and 'Aaron Hernandez Uncovered,' which all set ratings records for the network.

The Public Theater is currently hosting the world premiere of MLIMA'S TALE, written by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and directed by Obie Award winner Jo Bonney.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosts more than 120 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which runs April 9-14, 2018 in multiple locations throughout the Center. The Center also announced the national awardees for the KCACTF.

AMERICAN MARIACHI, currently playing at the Old Globe, is a brightly engaging and sentimental play that tugs at your heartstrings.  It manages to be both intensely personal and universal as it explores the power of music and memory, family, and circumventing traditional norms through humor and music.

Half way between Houston and Victoria Texas sits a town with a population around 11,600.  In this city sits a young man with hopes and aspirations of sharing the songs he composes with the world.  His name is JOEL Hernandez.  JOEL, having shown an aptitude for music and songwriting capabilities at a very early age gained the immediate backing of his entire family.  This led to JOEL meeting up with west coast Grammy nominated songwriter, producer, musician Rodney Alejandro of SweetSpot Entertainment.  Rodney was deeply impressed and moved to connect the up and coming JOEL with the much sought after professional musicians Ben Sargeant, Ian O'Neill, and Michael “Nomad” Ripoll.  They banded together and Rodney produced JOEL's  March 2018 release “Seasons Change”. 

The ABC Television Network has picked up hit comedy revival “Roseanne” for an 11th season, Channing Dungey, president, ABC Entertainment, announced today. With just one day of Nielsen's delayed viewing counted, the return of “Roseanne” saw its Total Viewer count swell by a best of season for any premiere telecast of over +3.4 million viewers to a 21.869 million average audience.  In addition, after the first day of playback, Roseanne shot up to a 6.24 rating in Adults 18-49, adding more than 1.0 rating point and over 20% to its Adult 18-49 Live + Same Day number. 

The Public Theater presents the New York premiere of MISS YOU LIKE HELL on With book and lyrics by Quiara Alegria Hudes and music and lyrics by Erin McKeown, the new musical is directed by Public Theater Resident Director and Founder of Public Works Lear deBessonet, with choreography by Danny Mefford, part of The Public's Astor Anniversary Season.

Grand Park will celebrate L.A. artists from April 27-29 at the first annual Grand Park's Our L.A. Voices: Spring Arts Festival, a public arts exhibition that will gather diverse and powerful talent from around Los Angeles County and showcase the region's artistic excellence. 

NYU Steinhardt's Program in Vocal Performance will present Dialogues of the Carmelites from March 29-April 1, 2018. The opera in three acts features music by Francis Poulenc and libretto by the composer after Georges Bernanos' play Dialogues des Carmelites. The English translation is by Joseph Machlis. Michael Scarola is the stage director and NYU Steinhardt's Michael Ricciardone is the music director. 

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The First National Tour of ON YOUR FEET! - based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY® winning international superstar Gloria Estefan and her husband, 19-time GRAMMY® winning producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan - celebrated its 200th Performance last night, Tuesday, March 27, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, where it originated its Pre-Broadway engagement the summer of 2015.