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Bob Everhart, the president of the National Traditional Country Music Association, is announcing to the world that the Stanley Brothers, who were born in Big Spraddle Creek, are entering America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame, located in the Pioneer Music Museum, the largest upper Midwest institute dedicated to country and rural music of America's past.

Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, August 7, 2011 - Sunday, August 7, 2011.

The cast of Broadway's Golden Oldie's musical, BABY IT'S YOU!, will perform at a fundraising event benefitting Passaic High School on Sunday August 7, at 7:30pm. Florence Greenberg's daughter, Mary Jane, first saw the four singers that her mother would make into the Shirelles at a talent show in the auditorium of Passaic High School, and in honor of that historic event the BABY IT'S YOU! cast will be performing numbers from the Broadway musical that chronicles the meteoric rise of the legendary girl group. The benefit will take place in the newly refurbished auditorium of Passaic High School (170 Paulison Avenue, Passaic, NJ) and will also feature a performance by the Passaic High School Band and a special Q&A with the cast of BABY IT'S YOU!. Tickets are $20 at the door and 100% of the proceeds will benefit a performing arts scholarship fund for a deserving Passaic High School Student.

Long before the stage saw puppets having sex and Ugandans confronting Mormons, there was JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA, a joyously foul-mouthed stage musical that's as much of a hilarious guilty pleasure as its title suggests. The Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills is the latest American regional theater to take on this racy, over-the-top show. Due to popular demand--and, frankly, rightly so--this surreal musical's run has been extended through August 14. At the height of its popularity, Jerry Springer's eponymous TV program which inspired this reverent parody cornered the market in shocking reveals, loud on-stage brawls, and outrageous fringe parades. So the idea that this low-brow talk show-slash-circus sideshow has somehow been immortalized into a musical theater piece--specifically an Opera, perhaps the most high-brow of the Arts--attracts nothing less than amusing curiosity.

Theater Works has announced that they have been nominated for 52 ariZoni awards for the 2010 - 2011 season.

The acclaimed American Century Theater, led by Artistic Director and founder Jack Marshall, announces its 2011-2012 Season, featuring five productions beginning in the Fall of 2011 and continuing throughout Summer 2012.

The cast of Broadway's Golden Oldie's musical, BABY IT'S YOU!, will perform at a fundraising event benefitting Passaic High School on Sunday August 7, at 7:30pm. Florence Greenberg's daughter, Mary Jane, first saw the four singers that her mother would make into the Shirelles at a talent show in the auditorium of Passaic High School, and in honor of that historic event the BABY IT'S YOU! cast will be performing numbers from the Broadway musical that chronicles the meteoric rise of the legendary girl group. The benefit will take place in the newly refurbished auditorium of Passaic High School (170 Paulison Avenue, Passaic, NJ) and will also feature a performance by the Passaic High School Band and a special Q&A with the cast of BABY IT'S YOU!. Tickets are $20 at the door and 100% of the proceeds will benefit a performing arts scholarship fund for a deserving Passaic High School Student.

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) offers its 21st annual Rhythm World, the oldest and most comprehensive festival of American tap and contemporary percussive art in the world, July 25-August 7, 2011 in downtown Chicago.

From Ashton Kutcher's Geisha House to Robert DeNiro's Ago, attaching a celebrity's name to a restaurant is definitely a growing trend in Hollywood.... but is it always a recipe for success?

Universal Studios Hollywood(SM) invites aspiring filmmakers to compete in its annual 'Halloween Horror Nights' short film competition, offering budding directors an opportunity to have their most disturbing horror short films judged by a panel of industry insiders, including horror film auteur Eli Roth, Daily Variety senior writer, Marc Graser and 'Halloween Horror Nights' Creative Director John Murdy.

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) offers its 21st annual Rhythm World, the oldest and most comprehensive festival of American tap and contemporary percussive art in the world, July 25-August 7, 2011 in downtown Chicago.

From Ashton Kutcher's Geisha House to Robert DeNiro's Ago, attaching a celebrity's name to a restaurant is definitely a growing trend in Hollywood.... but is it always a recipe for success?

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today four new series will be joining the network's primetime lineup in June. The new original series 'Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal' will premiere Monday, June 6 (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) immediately followed by 'The Dr. Laura Berman Show' (10-11 p.m. ET/PT). 'Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind' debuts Friday, June 17 (10-11 p.m. ET/PT) and 'Carson Nation' starring Carson Kressley premieres Saturday, June 25 (10-11 p.m. ET/PT).

NBC will broadcast a special hour-long episode of 'The Voice' following the networkh's exclusive coverage of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, February 5 (10-11 p.m. ET; time approximate). The announcements were made today by Bob Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today four new series will be joining the network's primetime lineup in June. The new original series 'Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal' will premiere Monday, June 6 (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) immediately followed by 'The Dr. Laura Berman Show' (10-11 p.m. ET/PT). 'Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind' debuts Friday, June 17 (10-11 p.m. ET/PT) and 'Carson Nation' starring Carson Kressley premieres Saturday, June 25 (10-11 p.m. ET/PT).

VH1 announced today that it will air the 17th annual 'Critics' Choice Movie Awards' on Thursday, January 12 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. This year marks the first year that the show will be held on a Thursday and the fifth straight year the network will televise the event. In addition, Den of Thieves will produce for the second year with Jesse Ignjatovic serving as executive produce for the third year.

The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) announces the reunion of their award-winning Children of Eden team with their upcoming production of Galt MacDermot's (HAIR) musical, The Human Comedy. With libretto by William Dumaresq based on the story by William Saroyan, the production will be directed by APAC Artistic Director Tom Wojtunik.

Queen legend Brian May and West End and Broadway singing sensation Kerry Ellis are to perform the live version of their hit album, ANTHEMS, in a special Royal Albert Hall concert next Spring on the May Bank Holiday Sunday after the Royal Wedding.

The Joyce Theater today announced the programming for its 2011?2012 Fall/Winter Season that includes an eclectic mix of international companies and encompasses a range of dance artists and styles.

Theater Works is proud to present a summer camp experience like no other! Unprecedented demand for Theater Works Youth programming in our one of a kind - state of the art performing arts venue is causing us to expand our Youth Programming.

A truly groundbreaking landmark recording, Tribute To Bird and Monk, was widely lauded when it was first released in 1978 - credited as one of the best and most unusual albums of that year by Neil Tesser in a Jazz Magazine article that noted the record's 'tough, bright, innovative resiliency' and earning the coveted five star (highest) rating in a Downbeat review by critic Jerry de Muth (who called the two LP set 'a brilliant mixture of arranged and free jazz') and garnering arranger-producer Heiner Stadler a place in the magazine's Annual Critic's Poll as a Talent Deserving Wider Recognition. More than thirty years later, the album originally released on Tomato Records, is a coveted collectors item whose importance has only been compounded with time, while Stadler's pioneering conception continues to be a talent very much deserving of wider recognition. Now reissued as a compact disc on his own Labor Records imprint, it is likely that Stadler's unique talent will again be heard as deserving increased attention and the music will once more be praised on a level comparable to when it first appeared. The considerable artistic success of Stadler's pioneering project can be credited as much to his visionary assembling of a truly distinctive ensemble to perform his inventive orchestrations, described by de Muth as 'far more than arrangements,' noting that 'recompositions would be a better term.'

Following the immense success of the previous two festivals of jazz piano duos, which began in 2009 to celebrate the arrival of a new Steinway to Dean St and the launch of an ongoing relationship with Steinway, a stellar lineup of UK and international giants of jazz piano come to Dean St over four days to perform on 2 Steinways.

Following the immense success of the previous two festivals of jazz piano duos, which began in 2009 to celebrate the arrival of a new Steinway to Dean St and the launch of an ongoing relationship with Steinway, a stellar lineup of UK and international giants of jazz piano come to Dean St over four days to perform on 2 Steinways.

Adapted and performed by Bob Jaffe, …AND THEN YOU GO ON, AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE WORKS OF SAMUEL BECKETT draws from 13 of Samuel Beckett's works, spanning 44 years (1936 - 1980).

Kathryn Pintus reviews the off-West End hit