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Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality Howard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning November 20.

Unearthed after more than forty years and unheard since their original airing, the recordings of Village Voice "Scenes" columnist and radio personality Howard Smith are available for the first time on iTunes beginning November 20.

BroadwayWorld collected all of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics to bring you Part 2 of our October 13th SIP round-up! Yesterday's evening photos featured a SIP from ANNIE's Lilla Crawford, the cast of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA going full-out Halloween, EVITA's George Lee Andrews celebrating his 70th birthday, and more from NEWSIES, KINKY BOOTS, MARY POPPINS, THE BOOK OF MORMON, JERSEY BOYS, CHICAGO, BRING IT ON, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, WICKED, ROCK OF AGES and tons of regional shows!

Get ready to "Walk the Line" with the legendary Man in Black this summer with Johnny and June, a heartfelt tribute that takes audiences back to the golden age of country music. Playing for three weeks only, August 15th through September 1st at the Huron Country Playhouse, this hit-filled production is not to be missed!

There's a high-spirited celebration underway at the Drayton Festival Theatre as theatregoers are taken on a lively musical journey in this season's production of Johnny and June. Interweaving music and memories, this hand-clappin' salute to the incredible duo of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash is onstage now through August 11th.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will open the world premiere production of Party People at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 7 in the New Theatre. Written by UNIVERSES (Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Steven Sapp, William Ruiz, a.k.a. Ninja), the play is directed by Liesl Tommy, who last directed Ruined (2010) at OSF. Party People will run through November 3.

Oliver Tobias and Paul Nicholas - two of the original stars of the musical Hair when it premiered in the West End in 1968 - are to make guest appearances in a celebrity-packed fundraiser performance of the musical in the West End for the Help For Heroes charity on Sunday July 1.

The Beatles' digitally restored 1968 animated feature film, YELLOW SUBMARINE, makes its worldwide digital release debut today, exclusively on The iTunes Store (www.iTunes.com/TheBeatles).

Celebrate Brooklyn! previously announced its lineup for this year, which begins today, June 5 with a free concert by reggae icon Jimmy Cliff.

The Beatles' classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on May 28 (May 29 in North America). The film's songtrack album will be reissued on CD on the same date.

Celebrate Brooklyn! today announced its lineup for this year, which begins June 5 with a free concert by reggae icon Jimmy Cliff.

Central Square Theater announces that Underground Railway Theater, one of the resident companies, has been awarded the rights to Katori Hall's The Mountaintop which finished an extended Broadway run in January. This production will now replace Tanya Barfield's Blue Door in the previously announced 2012-2013 Season.

The Muriel Kauffman Theatre, a subsect of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, is set to welcome the national tour of the original rock musical, HAIR. HAIR is slated to perform from February 5th through the 10th, 2013. For tickets to HAIR's Kansas City stop, visit www.kauffmancenter.org.

The Beatles' classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on May 28 (May 29 in North America). The film's songtrack album will be reissued on CD on the same date.

Everything about them was a statement. Their clothes, a rejection of materialism. Their drugs, a quest to get closer to God. Their long hair, a flag of freedom. They were hippies, the social watch dogs of the 1960s, and they played a pivotal role in American pop culture.

Nathalie Armin, Paul Bhattacharjee, Simon Chandler, Michael Cochrane, Tariq Jordan, Belinda Lang, Shereen Martin, Daniel Rabin, Simon Rouse, Rick Warden and David Yip comprise the cast for THE BOMB - a partial history.

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, is one of the defining moments in American history.

Monday, January 23 was the Aquarius New Moon AND Chinese New Year (year of the Dragon) - it was also the 80th birthday of one of our national treasures - James Rado - co-author of the legendary musical HAIR. Rado celebrated this milestone at The Copacabana, with a crowd of over 125 - family and friends - including original Broadway HAIR cast members - Natalie Mosco, Marjorie LiPari, Robert I. Rubinsky (aka Bobby The Middle-Aged Celebrity); HAIR alumni including Heather MacRae, André De Shields, Ula Hedwig, Zora Rasmussen, Dale Soules. Other guests included Luther Creek (SPIDER-MAN, 25th Anniversary tour of HAIR, RENT) who performed excerpts from Rado's latest musical AMERICAN SOLDIER (written with brother Ted Rado) at the party along with Rosalind Brown, A.D. Coughlan, Ula Hedwig, Sean Jenness, Marjorie LiPari, Michael Lynch, Natalie Mosco, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, Gordon Ramsey, Robert I. Rubinsky, Sam Underwood and Alex York.

Playwright Václav Havel passed away, according to a spokesperson. He was 75 years old.

The new Smithsonian Channel one-hour documentary, MLK: THE ASSASSINATION TAPES, premiering during Black History Month on Sunday, February 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, is a chilling, immersive experience of those historic events, created almost entirely through the use of television and radio news footage from the weeks leading up to Dr. King's visits to Memphis through the aftermath of his murder.

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, is one of the defining moments in American history.

HOWL! Arts Project 2011, The Actors Fund, and Jim Rado's In the Dark Theater present SUN (AUDIO MOVIE) - the only full-length musical, other than HAIR, written by Tony Award-nominees James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music by Steve Margoshes, composer of FAME: THE MUSICAL -- on Saturday, October 22 at 8:00 p.m. at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place).

HOWL! Arts Project 2011, The Actors Fund, and Jim Rado's In the Dark Theater present SUN (AUDIO MOVIE) - the only full-length musical, other than HAIR, written by Tony Award-nominees James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music by Steve Margoshes, composer of FAME: THE MUSICAL -- on Saturday, October 22 at 8:00 p.m. at Theatre 80 (80 St. Marks Place).

In this new column for BroadwayWorld.com Hodges and Hodges Set the Stage provides a wide-ranging look into select productions that are premiering or touring in the Bay area.

Ambassador Andrew Young today joined Samuel Nappi, Ruth Hendel and Steven Hendel to announce that Moments with Dr. King is preparing for preliminary stagings prior to a Broadway production, and that Congressman John Lewis has joined the team as an advisor. The announcement was initially scheduled to take place in August, coinciding with the anniversary of Dr. King's speech at 1963's March on Washington and the dedication of the National Memorial to Martin Luther King in the capitol city, but it was postponed due to Hurricane Irene. The announcement was made today in tribute to Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth -- a leading civil rights pioneer, co-founder of Dr. King's primary civil rights organization, and a central figure in the groundbreaking events with Dr. King in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 -- who passed away yesterday.