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Freaking out over High School Musical 4? Didn't have time to check in on your favorite Broadway stars? Well don't worry BroadwayWorld has rounded up some of the biggest stories from this week from Broadway and beyond with BroadwayWorld's 'This Week in Pictures.'

In its latest acquisition from HBO Latin America, HBO Latino will premiere its new original series EL HIPNOTIZADOR, on April 1, 2016 at 10:00 PM ET. You can also catch episodes on HBO On Demand, HBO GO and HBO NOW.

LONDON, March 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ Vasily Klyukin, famous for purchasing a flight into space with Oscar-winning Leonardo Di Caprio, has published a novel 'Collective Mind' about artificial intelligence and its interaction with people. This novel comes next after his album with futuristic skyscrapers and super-yachts that had a great success.

 The New York Musical Festival (NYMF), previously known as The New York Musical Theatre Festival, announced today the initial lineup for NYMF 2016. Among the shows announced in the lineup are the Next Link Project musical selections, as well as invited production selections, developmental reading selections, and concerts. Now in its thirteenth year, the 2016 Festival will take place in July at locations around midtown Manhattan in New York City. 

Leonardo DiCaprio made headlines this week for calling climate change 'the most urgent threat facing our entire species' in his Oscar acceptance speech. The longtime Hollywood heartthrob isn't alone in his attitudes toward climate change.

Below, check ut Guillermo on the red carpet at the Academy Awards with Sylvester Stallone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Hart, Daisy Ridley, Andy Serkis and more!

Contemporary tap dance at its best will be on view this spring at the American Tap Dance Foundation's Rhythm in Motion shows, April 12 through 17 at the Theater at the 14th Street Y. P

Leonardo DiCaprio stars in one of the most talked about films of the awards season with THE REVENANT, arriving on Digital HD March 22 and on 4K Ultra HD Disc, Blu-ray & DVD April 19

With its broadcast of the “88th Annual Academy Awards,” ABC towered over Sunday's prime, outdelivering its combined broadcast competition (CBS, NBC and Fox) by 184% in Total Viewers (28.1 million vs. 9.9 million) and by 295% in Adults 18-49 (8.3/24 vs. 2.1/6).

Below, check out shots of the winners of the 2016 ACADEMY AWARDS meeting the press during last night's all-star event!

The 88th ACADEMY AWARDS aired Sunday, February 28, 2016, from the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood.

THE REVENANT's Leonardo DiCaprio has won the 2016 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

Longtime CBS/NBC TV news reporter-critic David Sheehan, who is hosting a new internet Oscar special 'AND THE WINNERS ARE...' says what he calls the 'about time' syndrome makes Leonardo DiCaprio the only sure thing at tonight's Academy Awards.

Tonight, the 88th annual Academy Awards will be broadcast on ABC at 8:30 p.m.ET/5:30 p.m.PT live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Beginning at 7:00pm, BroadwayWorld will have all of your live, theatre-centric Oscar. We will be updating this list of nominees as soon as they are announced, so keep checking throughout the night to update your Oscar Predictions list. 

Longtime CBS/NBC TV news reporter-critic David Sheehan has updated his new one-hour internet Oscar extravaganza 'AND THE WINNERS ARE ...' to open with a journalistic acknowledgement of the current controversy about the absence of African-Americans in this year's Academy Awards nominations. The opening features a leadoff interview with Will Smith, whose highly touted performance in 'Concussion' was ignored, adding more momentum to Smith's own viral social media protest hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.

Throughout the week, we've been highlighting some of our favorite nominees with theatre backgrounds, and on Sunday, star of the upcoming Broadway musical NERDS, Patti Murin, will have her own Red Carpet live blog, Senior TV and Film Critic Matt Tamanini will live-blog the ceremony, we will also have a regularly updated article looking at Broadway Twitter's reactions to the broadcast, we will look back at all of the winners and the ceremony's best moments, and we will be live tweeting from @BroadwayWorld and @BWWTVWorld.

mapdance celebrates its 10th anniversary with an exciting and varied event, featuring new works and reconstructions by renowned and upcoming international contemporary choreographers. The roster of artists includes Britain's Kevin Finnan (Motionhouse) and wacky maverick Liz Aggiss, as well as Israel Aloni and Lee Brummer, co-artistic directors of Sweden's ilDance. The current crop of thirteen 'mapdancers' also appear in Martin Lawrance's restaging of Richard Alston's vibrant, evergreen Roughcut (1990) and Abi (Lila Dance) Mortimer's elegant, Leonardo-inspired Schemes, Dreams and Machines from mapdance's 2015 tour.

Beginning today, February 25, 2016, Luxembourg & Dayan will present In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, a group exhibition that surveys the field of artistic production through a series of juxtapositions that reveal discrete dialogues between artists and their assistants both current and former.

Salt Lake Comic Con (http://saltlakecomiccon.com/) announced today that English actress Kate Beckinsale is the latest in a long line of exciting celebrity guests attending FanX 2016.

Below, Wynn Las Vegas' Johnny Avello shares the odds to win the 88th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS