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Desde su apertura a principios de junio, el restaurante musical Folies Café, situado en la localidad madrileña de Alcalá de Henares, quiere continuar su apuesta por fusionar la gastronomía mediterránea y el recuerdo a la época dorada de los cabarets europeos. Para ello, busca artistas y personal de sala que quieran unirse al elenco del espacio con el objetivo de servir a la mesa del espectador un pedazo de historia de ciudades como París y Berlín en forma de montajes en pequeño y mediano formato inspirados en el Music Hall y el Teatro de Variedades.

PEN American Center has just announced the winners and runners-up of the 2012 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country. This year marks PEN's 90th anniversary. For more than 50 of those years PEN's Literary Awards program has honored many of the most outstanding voices in literature.

The Omaha Community Playhouse (OCP) will present Legally Blonde Sept. 14-Oct.14, 2012.

Beginning Monday, September 3, 2012, Ricky Martin's performance schedule as Che in the hit production of EVITA will be Tuesdays at 7pm, Wednesdays at 2pm & 8pm, Thursdays at 8pm, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm. Max von Essen and Daniel Torres will alternate in the role of Che at Monday evening performances. The schedule change is part of a slight restructuring of Mr. Martin's appearance agreement with producers and will not change his overall number of performances in EVITA.

Young dancers in central Indiana can study with ballet greats by taking part in the Indianapolis City Ballet's Master Class Series. The 2012-2013 series, ICB's fourth season, is sponsored by philanthropists Jock and Penny Fortune and takes its first leap Sept. 9, 2012.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that Nicole Kidman and Richard Peña will be the subject of gala tributes to be presented by the festival for the first time during the historic 50th edition of NYFF.

Cleveland School of Dance, the official school of the Cleveland Ballet, will hold a fundraiser, Friday, October 26th, to benefit future events and performances. The school, helmed by Artistic Director and former Cleveland San Jose Ballet Principal Dancer, Gladisa Guadalupe, will also begin classes September 4th, at their new location in Bedford Heights, OH.

Lyric Theatre hosts 'Next Stop: Murder' tonight, August 15th at Lyric's Flagler Center.

The Warner Theatre has just announced three new shows that will go on sale to Warner Members Only on Tuesday, August 14.

The hit musical about a Southern California sorority girl who travels across the country to Harvard Law School is coming to the Milburn Stone Theatre on Cecil College's North East campus, where "Legally Blonde" will be presented Aug. 24, 25, 26 and 31, and Sept. 1 and 2.

The Dallas Opera has announced that single tickets for the tremendously popular AÏDA-its 2012-2013 Season Opener-will become available on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 10:00 am.

7th MONARCH, the critically acclaimed mystery by Jim Henry, featuring Tony Award-winner Michael Rupert, will end its limited engagement today, August 12th at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre. In addition to Michael Rupert, the cast of 7th MONARCH features Michael Cullen, Gretchen Hall, Leslie Hendrix and Matthew Humphreys, under the direction of Scott C. Embler.

Atlanta Lyric Theatre's production of Legally Blonde the Musical, starring Alison Brannon Wilhoit, plays The Cobb Civic Center, August 10 -26, 2012. This award-winning Broadway musical sensation is based on the hit movie starring Reese Witherspoon.

Signature Theatre presents the world premiere of HEARTLESS by Sam Shepard and directed by Daniel Aukin, through September 16, 2012 with an August 27 opening night in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). BroadwayWorld brings you production shots below!

7th MONARCH, the critically acclaimed mystery by Jim Henry, featuring Tony Award-winner Michael Rupert, will end its limited engagement this Sunday, August 12th at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre. In addition to Michael Rupert, the cast of 7th MONARCH features Michael Cullen, Gretchen Hall, Leslie Hendrix and Matthew Humphreys, under the direction of Scott C. Embler.

Signature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) has announced that performances begin tonight for the world premiere of HEARTLESS by Sam Shepard and directed by Daniel Aukin. All tickets for the initial run of the production are $25 as part of the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access. The production runs August 7 through September 16, 2012 with an August 27 opening night in The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center(480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues).

7th MONARCH, the mystery by Jim Henry, featuring Tony Award winner Michael Rupert, will end its limited engagement this Sunday, August 12th at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre. In addition to Michael Rupert, the cast of 7th MONARCH features Michael Cullen, Gretchen Hall, Leslie Hendrix and Matthew Humphreys, under the direction of Scott C. Embler.

The Bushwick Starr and Katy Pyle present Covers, by Katy Pyle with Jules Skloot. In this evening length cabaret of forms, Pyle and Skloot shape-shift through a series of queered archetypes in a continual effort to see and be seen through layers of shame and loneliness. Performing beneath quilts, they cover and transform songs, dance styles, and contemporary performance tropes, inhabiting and discarding roles in an amorphous landscape of shifting identity and perception. Text by Francis Weiss Rabkin. Music contributions from Erica Livingston, Margot Bassett, and Katie Workum.

Single tickets go on sale to the general public today, Aug. 1, for Lyric Opera of Chicago's 58th season. The internationally renowned company will present grand opera with exceptional casts and productions in its beautiful home, the historic Civic Opera House. Lyric will offer 68 performances of 9 operas in the 25-week season, including 6 new-to-Chicago productions, Saturday, October 6, 2012, through Saturday, April 6, 2013.

Legally Blonde The Musical plays the Cape Playhouse now through August 4. Get a first look at the cast onstage in the photos below!