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To open our 2012-13 Black Box season, The Country Playhouse pre¬sents Mr. Marmalade by Noah Haidle, for three weekends only, August 10 - 25. Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm, with Sunday matinees on August 12 and 19 at 2:00 pm, plus a weeknight show on Thursday, August 23, at 7:30 pm.

Juan Pablo Di Pace ha presentado en la sala Se Abre El Telón su espectáculo unipersonal 'Primer Acto', un monólogo donde el artista revisa su carrera en clave musical. Dirigido por su hermana Victoria Di Pace y con dirección musical de Aday Rodríguez, este show volverá a Madrid el 5 de septiembre en la Sala Clamores.

NewFest (www.newfest.org), New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival will soon roll out the rainbow carpet for its 24th season, from tonight, July 27th through Tuesday, July 31st. The stellar lineup includes fourteen narrative features, four documentaries and many anticipated short films. New this year, all screenings and panels will take place at Manhattan's film mecca, The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, marking a continued relationship between the two pioneering film organizations.

Five-time GRAMMY® Award winner Carrie Underwood, country artist Dierks Bentley, pop group Fun. and two-time GRAMMY Award nominee Josh Groban will perform on TEACHERS ROCK presented by Walmart and Walden Media's upcoming feature film "Won't Back Down" - a special tribute concert celebrating teachers and education.

According to Deadline.com, stage veteran Liev Schreiber has joined the cast of the upcoming Lee Daniels film The Butler, as Lyndon B Johnson. Danny Strong wrote the script with Daniels.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates the life, work, and wit of Nora Ephron at Stonehenge Village tonight, July 24, with a special screening of her classic NYC romantic comedy 'You've Got Mail', along with favorite clips from Ephron's modern American classic films.

The RRazz Room, San Francisco's premier nightclub, presents Broadway legend and 2011 Kennedy Center Honoree BARBARA COOK from August 21 to 26. Her show "Let's Fall In Love" is comprised of her signature mix of songs, pop standards, jazz classics and Broadway staples.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrates the life, work, and wit of Nora Ephron at Stonehenge Village on Tuesday, July 24, with a special screening of her classic NYC romantic comedy 'You've Got Mail', along with favorite clips from Ephron's modern American classic films.

According to Deadline.com, Juliette Lewis is currently in talks to star in the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, alongside Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Lewis would play 'self-deluding youngest daughter' Keren.

The Public Theater will begin previews on Monday, July 23 for Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's beloved musical INTO THE WOODS, the second show of The Public's 50th Anniversary season at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Directed by Timothy Sheader with co-direction by Liam Steel, INTO THE WOODS will continue for five weeks through Saturday, August 25, with an official press opening on Thursday, August 9.

El protagonista de 'Fiebre del Sábado Noche' y 'Más de 100 Mentiras' cuenta con humor las alegrías y los altibajos que conlleva estar sobre un escenario, interpretando además canciones de Michael Jackson, Astor Piazzolla, Joaquín Sabina, los Bee Gees y ABBA.

Happy Birthday Tony Kushner! Kushner's best known work is Angels in America, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into a miniseries for which Kushner wrote the screenplay. His other plays include Hydriotaphia, Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, A Bright Room Called Day, Homebody/Kabul, and the book for the musical Caroline, or Change. His new translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children was performed at the Delacorte Theater in the summer of 2006 starring Meryl Streep and directed by George C. Wolfe. Kushner has also adapted Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, Corneille's The Illusion, and S. Ansky's play The Dybbuk.

Iconic actress and entertainer Jenifer Lewis has the distinction of scoring an unprecedented string of sold-out shows at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre with her brilliant performances in Getting It Off My Chest; BiPolar, Bath & Beyond; and Hot Flash! Now, the celebrated diva returns to the Renberg stage with An Intimate Evening With Jenifer Lewis. The special, two-night-only run will take place tonight, July 13 & July 14 at 8 p.m.

Executive producers Gwyneth Paltrow and Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions will join STAND UP TO CANCER's production team to deliver a one-of-a-kind show featuring performances from top recording artists, and celebrities from film, television and sports engaging viewers with powerful stories and a moving call-to-action.

According to IndieWire, Chris Cooper has been cast in the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, alongside Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Cooper also joins the recently cast Andrea Riseborough.

Savannah Guthrie made her official debut as the new co-anchor of NBC's TODAY show this morning, replacing former co-host Ann Curry. Guthrie told viewers that it was "a thrill and an honor to be here." In response, co-host Matt Lauer said he was happy to have her around because she brings "a great attitude and what we like to call a weird sense of humor." Check out her debut below!

The UK's Daily Mail reports that Andrea Riseborough is currently in final talks to star in the upcoming film adaptation of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. The play, which originally premiered at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, opened on Broadway in December of 2007 and was the recipient of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play.

Obie Award winning director Austin Pendleton is now joined by playwright Marcy Lafferty for talkbacks for Mississippi Mud Productions reprise of her stunning play, Vivien Leigh: THE LAST PRESS CONFERENCE, in New York, NY, tonight, July 6 and July 7, & 9, 2012 at the Alexander Technique Center For Performance And Development, 330 West 38th Street, Suite 805.

Today we are taking a look at four sparkling new Blu-ray editions of well-regarded films from the Disney vault by focusing on three titles that are also currently running on Broadway in screen-to-stage adaptations at this very moment - EVITA, NEWSIES and SISTER ACT. The current trend of adapting hit films into musicals for the stage has sporadically proven that some stage adaptations can even be more entertaining onstage, while some recent movie musicals have one-upped their stage roots in a way a few Golden Age adaptations also managed to do. Such is the case with EVITA, NEWSIES, SISTER ACT and SISTER ACT 2 (the latter two both acting as inspiration for the Broadway SISTER ACT musical) - all available for the first time on Blu-ray and each certainly justifying consideration for inclusion in your library if only because each is regarded as a modern-day classic - of sorts - in its own unique and special way. And, without these films, we would never have the current versions of the shows now running on Broadway based upon them (even in the case of a classic like EVITA, whose stage version may have come first, but, as seen and heard in the hit Elena Roger/Ricky Martin/Michael Cerveris revival, now includes the film addition, "You Must Love Me"). Whatever the medium, all of these winning entities offer an entertaining way to beat the heat and celebrate the start of summer in style - with some tunes, old and new, you are not soon to forget.

On Saturday June 30, Valley Performing Arts Center, Northridge played host to the exquisite Miss Barbara Cook, still radiant at 84, who is perhaps the greatest legendary singer to ever grace a stage. What can one say about this living legend that has not already been said to death? I can only add that being in her presence, as I sat in the vast auditorium, I felt like I had been invited into her living room and was sharing a gift that she was giving to me alone and then, of course, to everyone else lucky enough to be there. She made each and every one feel special.