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Trinity Rep announced today that Jeffrey Osborne will be honored with the 2014 New England Pell Award for Artistic Excellence, acknowledging his artistic achievements and philanthropic work throughout Rhode Island.

Virgin America today announces it is launching sales on its new business-friendly flights from Dallas' Love Field (DAL) to New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The new flights take off in October 2014, with tickets on sale as of today at virginamerica.com and 1-877-FLY-VIRGIN.*** Virgin America will offer travelers award-winning service and nonstop, conveniently-timed flights from the airport closest to Dallas' central business district - the updated, modern Love Field. The airline will be the only carrier at DAL to offer a consistent, upscale product on every flight - with three classes of service (including a First Class cabin and a Main Cabin Select premium economy service) as well as WiFi, in-seat power outlets, confirmed seating and touch-screen seatback entertainment available for every guest. This month, Virgin America was selected by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the award of two Love Field gates being divested as part of the American Airlines/US Airways merger settlement. To announce the news today, the airline made a surprise landing with one of its custom-designed Airbus A320 aircraft at Love Field - where it is hosting an "open plane" event for media, Elevate loyalty members, partners and social media fans. For more, follow #LoveToFlyVirgin on Twitter.

Palo Alto Players is excited to introduce audiences to a Dr. Frankenstein that Mary Shelley could never have imagined. Reanimated from Mel Brooks' 1974 film, Brooks and Thomas Meehan (The Producers) have teamed up again to create the musical Young Frankenstein. With material just as funny today as it was thirty years ago, this monstrously good musical is super-charged with laughter and fun. Join Dr. Frankenstein (that's 'Fronk-en-steen'!) and the rest of this delightfully deranged cast of characters on a wild ride through Transylvania. Young Frankenstein will run for 11 performances (April 25-May 11, 2014) at the Lucie Stern Theater, located at 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. Tickets are on sale now by ordering online at www.paplayers.org or calling 650.329.0891.

Richard E Grant will appear 'as live' on stage interacting with the real actors in a never seen before 3D hologram effect - a first for a theatrical production. Using a combination of cutting edge technology and traditional theatre illusion this effect allows live actors to perform alongside filmed sequences.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, under the artistic direction of Glenn Edgerton, presents its Summer Series program June 5-8, 2014 featuring the 13th world premiere for the company by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, with costumes by Branimira Ivanova, 'Jeff' Award-winning designer of numerous Hubbard Street premieres; and lighting by Michael Korsch, designer for both of Cerrudo's acclaimed works for Hubbard Street's main company in 2012: Little mortal jump and One Thousand Pieces.

Trinity Rep announced today that former artistic director and Academy-award nominated film, stage and TV actor Richard Jenkins and his wife Director/Choreographer Sharon Jenkins will be honored with the 2014 Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. The theater also announced that nationally known dance educator and choreographer Mary Paula Hunter will receive the 2014 Charles Sullivan Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts. The 18th annual Pell Awards will be held on Monday, June 9, 2014 at Trinity Rep with a reception to follow next door at the Providence Public Library.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, under the artistic direction of Glenn Edgerton, presents its Summer Series program June 5-8, 2014 featuring the 13th world premiere for the company by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, with costumes by Branimira Ivanova, "Jeff" Award-winning designer of numerous Hubbard Street premieres; and lighting by Michael Korsch, designer for both of Cerrudo's acclaimed works for Hubbard Street's main company in 2012: Little mortal jump and One Thousand Pieces.

Fueled by live wow moments, #1 hits and breakout new series, Discovery Channel, with 11 series that averaged more than two million Total Viewers (P2+) each and SKYWIRE LIVE WITH NIK WALLENDA, the #1 LIVE event on cable, again landed in cable's Top 10 for Persons 25-54 in 2013.

MTV today announced that actor and producer Channing Tatum will receive the third annual "MTV Trailblazer Award" presented by Mila Kunis during the "2014 MTV Movie Awards"

Palo Alto Players is excited to introduce audiences to a Dr. Frankenstein that Mary Shelley could never have imagined. Reanimated from Mel Brooks' 1974 film, Brooks and Thomas Meehan (The Producers) have teamed up again to create the musical Young Frankenstein. With material just as funny today as it was thirty years ago, this monstrously good musical is super-charged with laughter and fun. Join Dr. Frankenstein (that's "Fronk-en-steen"!) and the rest of this delightfully deranged cast of characters on a wild ride through Transylvania. Young Frankenstein will run for 11 performances (April 25-May 11, 2014) at the Lucie Stern Theater, located at 1305 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. Tickets are on sale now by ordering online at www.paplayers.org or calling 650.329.0891.

The Music Institute of Chicago celebrates the 100th anniversary of its E.M. Skinner organ by presenting acclaimed young organist Nathan J. Laube in concert Saturday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

'The Voice' (3.6 rating, 10 share in adults 18-49, 12.6 million viewers overall from 8-10:01 p.m. ET,) ranked #1 for the night in adults 18-49 and won the time period among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox

NBC dominated Monday in 18-49 among the Big 4 networks, taking 6 of 6 half-hours and winning the night by a 64% margin (with a 3.6 rating vs. ABC's second-place 2.2). NBC won the night among those networks in every key demo.

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Broadway stars Ryan Silverman and Nikki Renee Daniels joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Friday in its most recent pops program, 'The Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era.' The program was created and conducted by Maestro Steven Reineke, Music Director of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, and Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Performances run through March 16.

NBC has finished #2 among the Big 4 networks for the primetime ratings week of Feb. 24-March 2 behind only Academy Awards-boosted ABC.

NBC swept six of six half-hours among the Big 4 networks last night in adults 18-49 and total viewers with “The Voice” and “The Blacklist,” both of which ranked #1 in their time periods among the Big 4 networks in every key ratings category.

In 2007, author N. Karina Tovar Naidenoff had quite an unusual dream. She had it for 10 days in a row and it was so extraordinary. She felt that she needed to tell her dream to every person she knows. Two years later and up to the present, she realized that it was the most amazing experience she ever had. For Naidenoff, even if it was just a dream, she feels that people needed to know it and what better way to share her dreams than through the magic of books.

Megan Mullally is a two-time Emmy-winning star of TV's Will & Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein. Tonight, February 22 she debuts Broadway@ The Broad: Megan Mullally, her live music and comedy concert special, in Santa Monica, CA's - for two shows only.

Speaking with The New York Times, Landless' producing artist director, Andrew Baughman, confirmed that Sondheim had given the company the go-ahead to stage a 'Prog Metal' edition of the famous musical at the Undercroft Theater this summer.

Laughing Stock Productions will present Heath Franklin's CHOPPER: BIG LATE SHOW in a 2014 tour. Don't believe what you read in the paper! Australia's MOST WANTED comedian, Chopper is heading to stages across the country to host the hardest line up in comedy.

Alton Brown, Iron Chef host and renowned television personality is taking his brand of quirky humor and culinary science on the road with the 'Alton Brown Live! The Edible Inevitable Tour.' Brown will appear at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts tonight, February 14, 2014.

Laughing Stock Productions will present Heath Franklin's CHOPPER: BIG LATE SHOW in a 2014 tour. Don't believe what you read in the paper! Australia's MOST WANTED comedian, Chopper is heading to stages across the country to host the hardest line up in comedy.

I knew what I was getting into with War Horse. Having read the book and seen the film, I knew it was going to make me cry. I was still unprepared. War Horse managed to completely sell out its debut Scottish run at the Festival Theatre weeks before it opened.

Megan Mullally is a two-time Emmy-winning star of TV's Will & Grace, and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein. On Saturday, February 22 she debuts Broadway@ The Broad: Megan Mullally, her live music and comedy concert special, in Santa Monica, CA's - for two shows only.