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On April 23 and 24, Gulfshore Playhouse will be hosting Franc D'Ambrosio's solo show, I'll Be Seeing YOUZ...A Bronx Boy's Musical Perspective of World War II at the Norris Center. The performance will take place at 7:30PM in an authentic jazz club setting. Tickets are $42 and can be purchased by calling 239-213-3049.

According to EW.com, Adam Lambert, runner-up of last season's American Idol, will be appearing on the April 13 show as a guest mentor for the season 9 contestants. On the following results show on April 14, Lambert will perform his it single 'Whattaya Want From Me.' The theme for next week's contetants is still unknown. Perhaps Lambert will add some drama to this otherwise uneventful season.

The Peccadillo Theater Company will hold its annual benefit, in support of its upcoming production of Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, on Monday evening , April 12th at 6:30PM at the historic Players Club located at 16 Gramercy Park South. This year, Peccadillo will be honoring TONY and Academy Award-winning actor, Patricia Neal, with Peccadillo's Legends of the American Theater Award. Ms. Neal won the first-ever TONY Award for her performance as 'Regina Hubbard' in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest (1946), the rarely seen prequel to The Little Foxes.

Corin Redgrave, Tony-nominated actor, died today at St. George's Hospital in London. Redgrave, who was previously treated for heart problems and prostate cancer, was 70 years old.

The full cast and creative team has been announced for Mary Zimmerman's production of Armida at the Metropolitan Opera. The Rossini opera will be presented April 12 through May 12 and will star Renée Fleming as the title sorceress. The performance will be sung in Italian with titles in English, Spanish, and German.

The StageSource Board of Directors has named long-time Huntington Theatre Company Managing Director Michael Maso as the recipient of the 2010 StageSource Theatre Hero Award. The Theatre Hero Award is being presented to Maso for his service, inspiration and role as a champion to Boston area theatres and the arts. The Elliot Norton Awards will take place at the Paramont Theatre on May 17.

Wayne Brady is set to return to The Venetian in Las Vegas for his show Making It Up, taking place May 27-31, June 17-28, and July 1-5. Last seen on Broadway in Chicago, Brady's Making It Up is a one-of-a-kind experience in which no two shows are ever the same. Not only does Brady create a different show each night with improv partner Jonathan Mangum, he is also constantly adding new elements to the line-up, making each show an original.

Current star of The Addams Family, Nathan Lane will be appearing on this weeks episode of NBC's The Marriage Ref as a guest judge. Lane will be joined by other guest judges Kathy Griffin and Tracy Morgan. The Marriage Ref reality series airs on NBC every Thusday at 10PM.

The Language Archive, written by Julia Cho will be running through April 25 at the South Coast Repertory Theatre. Recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the show features Leo Marks, Betsy Brandt, Laura Heisler, Tony Amendola and Linda Gehringer.

Tony Award winner Michele Pawk is set for a reading of Joan Crawford In...'Flesh and Blood!', written by Joe Major. The event is invitation only, and will take place April 8 -9 in Manhattan. With direction by Richard Roland, the show features Liz McCartney (South Pacific), Marcus Neville (The Full Monty), Roger Rifkin (Early to Bed), Ed Romanoff (Hairspray), Graham Rowat (The Boys in the Band) and Sarah Stiles (Vanities).

Internationally Acclaimed Artist, Opera Designer and Director, Choreographer, and Playwright Robert Wilson Named Recipient of 2010 Jerome Robbins Award. Wilson, whose groundbreaking musical works include the multi-national epic 'CIVIL warS,' 'Deafman Glance,' 'Einstein on the Beach,' and 'The Black Rider' and whose productions have been staged across the globe, will be presented with the award by The Jerome Robbins Foundation in December in New York. Given with the monetary prize is a bronze statue, representing one of the sailors from 'Fancy Free / On the Town,' which was modeled on a figure in the permanent installation by Robin Heidi Kennedy on the Terrazzo Jerome Robbins of the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto, Italy.

Now through May 9, The Rep will be presenting Route 66, an all-new production, featuring some of the most popular songs of the road. The cast includes Danny Calvert, Adam Estes, Zachary Dylan Robbins, and Justin Robinson. Performances are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30PM, Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 4PM and 8PM, and Mondays at 2PM and 7PM. For tickets, visit: www.milwaukeerep.com.

Beginning April 8, Strollers Theatre will present Man of La Mancha at the Bartell Theatre. Directed by JS Fauquet, performances run through May 1 on Thursdays at 7:30PM, Fridays at 8PM, and Saturdays at 4PM and 8PM. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by calling 608-661-9696, x2.

Hartford Stage has announced a dynamic 2010-2011 season which includes Tony winners Ben Vereen and Chita Rivera in their SummerStage program. Both will be presenting back to back solo shows each with one week runs at the Roberts Theatre just outside of Hartford. Rivera will play there June 22 to 27 and Vereen July 6 to 11.

A special treat for Gleeks everywhere, the real-life graduation photos of the GLEE cast members have been released! While some of them still look similar to their high school selves, others might be trickier to identify.

Thrillpeddlers will present a production of a revival of the 1972 Cockettes musical extravaganza Hot Greeks, an original musical by Martin Worman and Richard 'Scrumbly' Koldewyn. This show is part of our 3rd annual Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival, which will play in repertory with performances of the long-running hit musical Pears Over Shanghai. Originally produced as a Nocturnal Dream Show and performed at midnight at the Palace Theatre in Chinatown in San Francisco, Hot Greeks was the fabled & fabulous Cockettes' only other scripted book musical besides Pearls Over Shanghai. Hot Greeks is directed by Russell Blackwood, and original Cockette and composer Richard 'Scrumbly' Koldewyn serves as Musical Director. The cast includes SF favorite Connie Champagne, and Thrillpeddlers stalwarts Birdie-Bob Watt, and the ever luminescent Michael Soldier as Lysistrata.

Nederlander Detroit has announced that the Southeastern Michigan Lincoln Mercury Dealers will sponsor the 2010-2011 Broadway in Detroit season. All engagements will be at the Fisher Theatre, except for Mary Poppins which will play at the Detroit Opera House.

The NJMH will be covering both coasts this week as Directors Christian McBride and Loren Schoenberg do extensive programming in and around Stanford University and Palo Alto, Ca., and in New York, we offer Tuesday evening our final March class on Art Blakey (an evening of film) and on Friday night, pianist/composer Jason Lindner is joined by tablaist Suphala for an intriguing Harlem in the Himalayas concert. For more information, visit: http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/.

Sal Viviano and Nat Chandler and Eric Jordan Young will appear in a concert of The Rat Pack at 7:30pm, Sunday April 11th, 2010 at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire.

Prospect Theater Company will present a benefit concert reading of their 2008 hit musical, HONOR, at Baruch Performing Arts Center on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 6pm. There will be a pre-show reception in the lobby for Benefactor and Patron Level Ticket holders which begins at 4:30pm, as well as a post-show reception with the cast.