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Wolf Trap has announced the following upcoming performances.

Wolf Trap has announced the following upcoming performances.

Beginning at 4 p.m., three hours before the main awards show, the pre-telecast ceremony announced awards in 70 additional categories, including Best Musical Theater Album. In other theatre-related news, Safe & Sound (From The Hunger Games) by T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, John Paul White & Joy Williams beat SMASH's Let Me Be Your Star by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman for Best Song Written For Visual Media .

The Rep's summer season opens by baring baring the souls (and the bodies) of our actors in The Full Monty.

An August line-up of FREE events at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center includes urban folk for families, a film screening highlighting legendary Stax Recordings soul and R&B artists of the 1960s/70's, evening concerts by rising American singer/songwriters and the Louisiana-generated stylings of one of today's leading Cajun music groups, excerpts from Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo in an evening of music-theater, and a stylish evening of dance served up by Ballets With a Twist.

Wolf Trap Presents a Week of Lighthearted Laughs, a Gilbert & Sullivan Classic, and Brings Bayou Back to the Beltway.

Created by David Simon (HBO's 'The Wire,' 'Generation Kill' and 'The Corner') and Eric Overmyer ('St. Elsewhere, 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and HBO's 'The Wire'), the Emmy(R)-nominated drama series TREME kicks off its 11-episode second season SUNDAY, APRIL 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Today's performer line-up announcement is for the Vancouver Island MusicFest - July 7-10, 2011 - on beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Created by David Simon (HBO's 'The Wire,' 'Generation Kill' and 'The Corner') and Eric Overmyer ('St. Elsewhere, 'Homicide: Life on the Street' and HBO's 'The Wire'), the Emmy(R)-nominated drama series TREME kicks off its 11-episode second season SUNDAY, APRIL 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Every acting job in film and television begins with an actor standing in front of the camera, holding a script and wondering 'What do they want me to do?' The camera audition, for many actors, is the most excruciating part of the process. This one day seminar will prepare you to confront that moment by focusing on the audition as the first creative step in the development of the role. You probably won't get to play the role but leave that up to the gods. If you audition well and bravely you will be noticed and asked to audition more often. Thus you'll get very good at it. Thus you'll get cast more often because the odds will be in your favor.

Every acting job in film and television begins with an actor standing in front of the camera, holding a script and wondering 'What do they want me to do?' The camera audition, for many actors, is the most excruciating part of the process. This one day seminar will prepare you to confront that moment by focusing on the audition as the first creative step in the development of the role. You probably won't get to play the role but leave that up to the gods. If you audition well and bravely you will be noticed and asked to audition more often. Thus you'll get very good at it. Thus you'll get cast more often because the odds will be in your favor.

The open expanse of the Skirball Cultural Center's courtyard looks peaceful nestled under the Santa Monica Mountains, but in summer, it bursts with the raucous and joyful noise of the best of the world's musicians: Hungarian gypsies bang milk cans and Kenyan bards wield handmade fiddles, while nonagenarian Yiddish-singing piano bar veterans and soulful Cajuns, hip salsa activists, and trans-cultural divas rub shoulders with dancing neighbors of all generations, backgrounds, and lifestyles.

The open expanse of the Skirball Cultural Center's courtyard looks peaceful nestled under the Santa Monica Mountains, but in summer, it bursts with the raucous and joyful noise of the best of the world's musicians: Hungarian gypsies bang milk cans and Kenyan bards wield handmade fiddles, while nonagenarian Yiddish-singing piano bar veterans and soulful Cajuns, hip salsa activists, and trans-cultural divas rub shoulders with dancing neighbors of all generations, backgrounds, and lifestyles.

The open expanse of the Skirball Cultural Center's courtyard looks peaceful nestled under the Santa Monica Mountains, but in summer, it bursts with the raucous and joyful noise of the best of the world's musicians: Hungarian gypsies bang milk cans and Kenyan bards wield handmade fiddles, while nonagenarian Yiddish-singing piano bar veterans and soulful Cajuns, hip salsa activists, and trans-cultural divas rub shoulders with dancing neighbors of all generations, backgrounds, and lifestyles.

Dallas performer Ada Lynn discusses her nearly eighty years in show business and the secret to her continued success.