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Award-winning actress and best-selling author Carol Burnett will appear at Indiana University Auditorium April 18 at 8 p.m.

Legendary entertainer Carol Burnett comes to the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines for an exclusive one-night-only engagement of her Q & A format, LAUGHTER AND REFLECTION WITH CAROL BURNETT: A CONVERSATION WITH CAROL WHERE THE AUDIENCE ASKS THE QUESTIONS on Wednesday, November 3, 2010.

Legendary entertainer Carol Burnett comes to the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines for an exclusive one-night-only engagement of her Q & A format, LAUGHTER AND REFLECTION WITH CAROL BURNETT: A CONVERSATION WITH CAROL WHERE THE AUDIENCE ASKS THE QUESTIONS on Wednesday, November 3, 2010.

Director, actor, playwright, and professor Jack Sydow has died, Variety reports. Sydow died on May 28 in Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-eight.

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former 'Borscht Belt' singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s.

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True.

Previews will begin today at Virginia's Signature Theatre for the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees written by Ricky Ian Gordon, the award-winning composer of the opera The Grapes of Wrath and the musicals Dream True and My Life with Albertine. A starry Broadway cast portrays Gordon's own family story - complete with a tough Bronx-born father and former 'Borscht Belt' singer/comedian mother - in a tale of two generations' struggles and triumphs in the decades from World War II through the 1990s.

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True.

The Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) in Katy, Texas presents ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Running April 23-25, The musical comedy is set in medieval times when Knights sat at round tables and Ladies-in-Waiting paraded through castle courtyards. KVPAC's ONCE UPON A MATTRESS is Directed by Gregory Magyar, Choreographed and Assistant Directed by Adam Turner and Lisa Burt. The cast start KVPAC's Senior Company. Set Design by Warren Cochran, and costumes are graciously on loan from Seven Lakes High School. Musical director, Adam Stout adds live music to the production--a first for the KVPAC Company!

The Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) in Katy, Texas presents ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Running April 23-25, The musical comedy is set in medieval times when Knights sat at round tables and Ladies-in-Waiting paraded through castle courtyards. KVPAC's ONCE UPON A MATTRESS is Directed by Gregory Magyar, Choreographed and Assistant Directed by Adam Turner and Lisa Burt. The cast start KVPAC's Senior Company. Set Design by Warren Cochran, and costumes are graciously on loan from Seven Lakes High School. Musical director, Adam Stout adds live music to the production--a first for the KVPAC Company!

The Katy Visual & Performing Arts Center (KVPAC) in Katy, Texas presents ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Running April 23-25, The musical comedy is set in medieval times when Knights sat at round tables and Ladies-in-Waiting paraded through castle courtyards. KVPAC's ONCE UPON A MATTRESS is Directed by Gregory Magyar, Choreographed and Assistant Directed by Adam Turner and Lisa Burt. The cast start KVPAC's Senior Company. Set Design by Warren Cochran, and costumes are graciously on loan from Seven Lakes High School. Musical director, Adam Stout adds live music to the production--a first for the KVPAC Company!

Don't miss your chance to see the JHU Barnstormers' excellent production of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, playing through April 11 on the campus of Johns Hopkins University.

Carol Burnett, the six-time Emmy Award-winning actress, comedienne, singer and author, spoke to Entertainment Tonight about the loss of her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, the impact on their play 'Hollywood Arms' and much more.

Carol Burnett, the six-time Emmy Award-winning actress, comedienne, singer and author reflects to USA Today about the current crop of reality shows, and why her own long-running CBS variety hour, 'The Carol Burnett Show,' wouldn't work today.

Signature Theatre, the current recipient of the Tony Award® for Regional Theatre, presents the world premiere musical Sycamore Trees by Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of the acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and the OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice, as well as the musicals My Life with Albertine and Dream True.

The Chicago Cabaret Professionals present their Spring Series '100 Years of Broadway' every Sunday in March, at Davenport's Cabaret. Over 30 talented singers will perform America's favorite Broadway hits from over the last 100 years. Each night will feature 20 years of Broadway's memorable melodies starting at 1910 and going all the way to the hits of today.

The Chicago Cabaret Professionals present their Spring Series '100 Years of Broadway' every Sunday in March, at Davenport's Cabaret.

The Chicago Cabaret Professionals present their Spring Series '100 Years of Broadway' every Sunday in March, at Davenport's Cabaret. Over 30 talented singers will perform America's favorite Broadway hits from over the last 100 years. Each night will feature 20 years of Broadway's memorable melodies starting at 1910 and going all the way to the hits of today.

The Chicago Cabaret Professionals present their Spring Series '100 Years of Broadway' every Sunday in March, at Davenport's Cabaret.

On December 1, 2009 Tony Award-winning actress Carol Burnett will be inducted into the California Museum's California Hall of Fame.

Arena Stage presents an innovative take on the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Director Amanda Dehnert (Oregon Shakespeare Festival‘s All's Well That Ends Well and Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Cabaret) and famed set designer Eugene Lee (Tony Award for Broadway's Wicked, Candide, Sweeney Todd) take a spin on this timeless love story by staging it in Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park in Rhode Island. This whimsical twist on the classic musical is full of buoyant humor, charming music and incredible magic that will thrill audiences of all ages. The Fantasticks runs November 20, 2009 - January 10, 2010 at Arena Stage at the Lincoln Theatre, with an official opening on Friday, November 27, 2009.

Arena Stage presents an innovative take on the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Director Amanda Dehnert (Oregon Shakespeare Festival‘s All's Well That Ends Well and Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Cabaret) and famed set designer Eugene Lee (Tony Award for Broadway's Wicked, Candide, Sweeney Todd) take a spin on this timeless love story by staging it in Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park in Rhode Island. This whimsical twist on the classic musical is full of buoyant humor, charming music and incredible magic that will thrill audiences of all ages. The Fantasticks runs November 20, 2009 - January 10, 2010 at Arena Stage at the Lincoln Theatre, with an official opening on Friday, November 27, 2009.

On December 1, 2009 Tony Award-winning actress Carol Burnett will be inducted into the California Museum's California Hall of Fame.

Broadway By The Year, an extremely popular series of concerts held at The Town Hall, tackled the year 1959 on April 30th. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture all the fun as several Broadway performers took to the stage to sing songs from The Sound of Music, Gypsy, Fiorello!, Take Me Along, Once Upon a Mattress and more! We are pleased to bring you where no cameras have ever been allowed before in this Video Exclusive!

A cast of Broadway stars performed in Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1959, presented by The Town Hall, on Monday April 30 at 8 PM.