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City Parks Foundation will bring the SummerStage dance program to Harlem on Friday, July 30, 2010 as a part of the 25th anniversary season of SummerStage.

City Parks Foundation will bring the SummerStage dance program to Harlem on Friday, July 30, 2010 as a part of the 25th anniversary season of SummerStage.

Yesterday, July 8, celebrities attended the World Renowned Shen Yun Performing Arts Show. The show was held at The Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles, California. The performance includes 20 traditional Chinese dance and songs. The 40 member orchestra consists of both Chinese and Western instruments. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the event below.

For the 25th anniversary season of SummerStage, City Parks Foundation has launched a major re-branding of the festival to include music, dance, film and theater performances in all five boroughs.

For the 25th anniversary season of SummerStage, City Parks Foundation has launched a major re-branding of the festival to include music, dance, film and theater performances in all five boroughs.

Nickelodeon has announced that they will partner with Columbia/Epic Label Group (a label group of Sony Music Entertainment) to co-produce Victorious, an original new live-action comedy series from prolific creator and executive producer Dan Schneider (iCarly, Zoey 101, Drake & Josh) and featuring teen star Victoria Justice (Zoey 101, Spectacular!). Twenty episodes have been ordered of the half-hour comedy series, which is set in a modern day Hollywood school for the performing arts and features an ensemble cast of teens who act, sing, dance and perform original music. The series, set to premiere in 2010, is currently being produced in Los Angeles, CA.

A variety of music, dance, and theatre performances, and a film series comprise the 2009 fall season for Harlem Stage, a performing arts center and one of the country's top presenters, producers, and supporters of works by artists of color.

Angelo Parra's The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith will be performed at the New Brunswick Playhouse, running March 3?29. Miche Braden, who portrayed Bessie Smith in the previous productions of the play, will recreate the title role once more.

When the curtain rises this season on The Color Purple, theatergoers will see Oprah Winfrey's name above the title as producer.

LaChanze has been announced as the star of the upcoming musical The Color Purple, which will begin previews at the Broadway Theatre on November 1st