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BY Experience announces the donation and installation of high tech digital projector equipment for their partners at The Actors Fund. The equipment will allow the residents of The Lillian Booth Actors Home to enjoy all National Theatre Live theatrical programming, beginning with The Audience today, June 14.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare is directed by Adrian Noble and runs now through Sept. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe's Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Previews: June 9, 25, 26 and 27. Opening Night: June 28. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Art Center College of Design students explore the intersection of identity and social connection in Community, an art exhibition debuting more than 25 new works opening today, June 11, 2013 in Pasadena. Marking the first in a series of events to be held at Jones Coffee Roasters in partnership with Art Center College of Design, Community will be aesthetic musings and a platform for discussion to examine individuality and group identity in everyday life.

Art Center College of Design students explore the intersection of identity and social connection in Community, an art exhibition debuting more than 25 new works opening on June 11, 2013 in Pasadena. Marking the first in a series of events to be held at Jones Coffee Roasters in partnership with Art Center College of Design, Community will be aesthetic musings and a platform for discussion to examine individuality and group identity in everyday life.

Southern California Lyric Theater and Alison Eliel Kalmus present a World Premiere of an Award winning, critically acclaimed new work, ÆSOPERA, featuring music by Jonathan Price and libretti by Jeff Goode, Jan Michael Alejandro and The Composer.

Sparks & Shadows, a new boutique record label founded by composer Bear McCreary, announces the release of the Da Vinci's Demons Original Television Soundtrack.

Sparks & Shadows, a new boutique record label founded by composer Bear McCreary, announces the release of the Da Vinci's Demons Original Television Soundtrack. The album, containing 26 tracks, over 90 minutes of original music from the first season of the hit Starz Original series produced with Adjacent Productions, will be available through all digital providers on May 28th. A 2-CD collector's edition will be released later this year.

San Francisco's Dark Porch Theatre, recent perpetrators of striking original dramas like Cockroach, Eleanor, and The Tutor, reaches out to the East Coast for another bizarre theatrical tale. The Ape Woman is a rock opera written and composed by May van Oskan. It chronicles the bizarre and haunted journey of Victorian circus phenomenon Julia Pastrana.

The true story of a teenager who plays a game of Catch Me if You Can with the FBI is already larger than life, but this musical, making a tour stop at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, takes it way over the top by adding full-scale musical numbers, kick-line choreography and glitzy costumes.

The Stratford Festival kicked off it's 61st season with a 'original principles' version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, starring Daniel Briere and Sara Topham and directed by Tim Carroll. BWW was on hand to review the first show of the season.

With modern flair, these lush and lyrical mini-operas take inspiration from Aesop's classic fables of human nature's essential truths and are sure to add a unique presence to this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. How does a composer begin to develop five mini-operas based on the fables of Aesop?

Tony nominee Cristin Milioti will play Joe's Pub this Today, May 26, at 7:30.

Baz Luhrmann's lavish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel, The Great Gatsby, has crossed the $100 million mark at the domestic box office after only 14 days in release

TEEN CHOICE 2013 will once again break into summer and celebrate the hottest teen icons in television, music, film, sports, fashion, comedy and the web in the choicest, star-studded two-hour event airing live Sunday, August 11 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" leads the TEEN CHOICE 2013 nominees with seven nominations.

Tickets go on sale for Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing starting Wednesday, May 22. Individual tickets are $17, which includes a dance lesson with a professional instructor followed by two sets of dancing under the stars to a live orchestra. This summer marks the 25th Anniversary season of Midsummer Night Swing, and to celebrate, tickets will be sold at a special '2 for $25' price on May 22 only. There are also Midsummer Night Passes priced at $84 for six admissions, and $170 for the full season. Four-admission passes are available for $60.

Profiles Theatre Artistic Directors Darrell W. Cox and Joe Jahraus announce the World premiere of Resident Artist Neil LaBute's revised stage version of In the Company of Men, opening at The Main Stage, 4139 N. Broadway on May 19, 2013. In the Company of Men, directed by Profiles Resident Artist and Steppenwolf ensemble member Rick Snyder, runs May 10, 2013 - June 30, 2013 with the press opening on Thursday, May 16 at 8:00pm. ?BroadwayWorld has a first look at highlights of the show below!

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday May 15, and Ruby in the Dust's acclaimed stage production will return for a further London season at Riverside Studios tonight.

Tony nominee Cristin Milioti will play Joe's Pub this Sunday, May 26, at 7:30.

BY Experience announces the donation and installation of high tech digital projector equipment for their partners at The Actors Fund. The equipment will allow the residents of The Lillian Booth Actors Home to enjoy all National Theatre Live theatrical programming, beginning with The Audience on Friday, June 14.