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Jana Robbins and Craig Haffner will present industry-only staged readings presentations of The Jazz Age, a new play by Allan Knee (FINDING NEVERLAND, LITTLE WOMEN).

Award-nominated Vertigo Theatre Productions are bringing a new show and its star from New York to Manchester for its UK Premiere prior to a 4 week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Jana Robbins and Craig Haffner will present industry-only staged readings presentations of The Jazz Age, a new play by Allan Knee (FINDING NEVERLAND, LITTLE WOMEN).

According to perezhilton.com, Madonna has refused to allow her song 'You'll See' to be included in the upcoming Susan Boyle musical I DREAMED A DREAM.

Writer/Performer Peter Michael Marino presents a comic autopsy on his $6 million West End musical fiasco Desperately Seeking Susan in DESPERATELY SEEKING THE EXIT. Directed by Obie Award winner John Clancy, performances of this site-specific, solo tell-all comedy begin May 3 at the Triple Crown Underground. The American premiere will be followed by the UK premiere at Manchester, England's Taurus Bar (presented by Vertigo Productions) and a run at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The Cincinnati Arts Association has announced the winners of its 2012 Overture Awards Scholarship Competition, held on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater.

Grammy nominated recording artist and Broadway performer, Marty Thomas (Xanadu, Secret Garden, Wicked) hosts a nightclub act weekly at midtown hotspot Industry Bar every Monday night called Marty Thomas presents DIVA. This Monday night, March 5 marks the one year anniversary for the show and a celebration is happening.

The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns with its new edition, Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter, to the Triad Theater Monday, March 5 at 7pm. Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter performs at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street. The cast is scheduled to include Bobby Cannavale, Mario Cantone, Tony Danza, Gina Gershon, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Jennifer Tilly, and Alan Zweibel.

IRT presents THE NAKED SIDE OF GRACE: THE FINAL CONCERT of GRACE FULLEST & VIOLET TENDENCIES through March 4 at 7:30pm(Wednesday and Thursday) or 8pm(Friday and Saturday).

Jana Robbins and Craig Haffner will present industry-only staged readings presentations of The Jazz Age, a new play by Allan Knee (FINDING NEVERLAND, LITTLE WOMEN).

Grammy nominated recording artist and Broadway performer, Marty Thomas (Xanadu, Secret Garden, Wicked) hosts a nightclub act weekly at midtown hotspot Industry Bar every Monday night called Marty Thomas presents DIVA. This Monday night, March 5 marks the one year anniversary for the show and a celebration is happening.

IRT presents THE NAKED SIDE OF GRACE: THE FINAL CONCERT of GRACE FULLEST & VIOLET TENDENCIES February 29-March 4 at 7:30pm(Wednesday and Thursday) or 8pm(Friday and Saturday).

In a career spanning three decades, the American choreographer Karole Armitage has continuously bridged contemporary ballet with the worlds of visual art and fashion. Luminaries such as Jeff Koons, David Salle, Philip Taaffe and Brice Marden have created sets and costumes for her dances. She is described as 'pioneering in her valorization of voguing, creating the video for Madonna's 'Vogue' in 1992 and serving on the jury of many of New York's underground voguing balls, elaborate early 1980s events in which 'walkers' competed in a series of categories emulating high fashion, style or a ways of being.'

Filmed at Minneapolis' historic State Theatre, IN GOD WE RUST features Black's inimitable comedy tirades as he jumps up and down and wags his finger at the absurdities of our lives.

Columbia Records -- The music from Fox's smash hit Glee has reached another amazing milestone this week as they are #8 in the top 10 selling digital US artists of all time, according to SoundScan. With over 32 million Glee songs digitally downloaded in the US, they are in the company of pop icons Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Black Eyed Peas.

According to the Associated Press, recording artists Nicki Minaj and Mary J. Blige are set to perform at the February 26th NBA All-Star Game. Blige will sing the National Anthem while Minaj will open the show with a medley of her hits as the player's names are announced.

The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography returns with its new edition, Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter, to the Triad Theater Monday, March 5 at 7pm. Celebrity Autobiography: The Next Chapter performs at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street. The cast is scheduled to include Bobby Cannavale, Mario Cantone, Tony Danza, Gina Gershon, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Jennifer Tilly, and Alan Zweibel.

The band Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. will be releasing a special Detroit-themed 12' for Record Store Day. The EP will feature 'We Almost Lost Detroit,' a Gil Scott-Heron cover that also appears on their full length debut It's A Corporate World, as well as two covers of songs by fellow Detroit artists Madonna and Sixto Rodriguez and three remixes by Detroit-based artists.

Beginning today, Beatles fans around the world can, for the first time, purchase ringtones for the legendary band's 27 UK and US #1 hits, exclusively on iTunes (www.iTunes.com).

StudentsLive, the Premier Broadway Education Company, has annouced its first-ever multilingual international and domestic "Passport to Broadway" Program for students from July 23, 2012 to August 3, 2012 at Pearl Studios and Manhattan Movement and Arts Center (MMAC). The musical theatre intensive final performance takes place over 10 days from approximately 8:30am to 6:00pm, Monday through Friday, at Pearl Studios led by Broadway Musical Directors, Choreographers and Interactive Intensives with Broadway Performers and Guest Artists.