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Now through April 25, Alhambra Dinner Theater will be presenting the hit musical 42nd Street at its Beach Boulevard theater. Tickets are $45 for the performance and dinner, and they can be purchased at http://www.alhambrajax.com.

On Friday, April 16, Theatreworks, Inc. will present Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type at its Florida Theatre . The show is reccomended for children in preschool to second grade, with performance taking place at 10 AM and 12 PM. Tickets are $7.

On March 27, Finian's Rainbow's Kate Baldwin will be featured in a cabaret-style performance to benefit Houston's HITS Theatre. The night will include Kate's favorite Broadway selections, including numbers from her CD, and possibly Finian's immortal signature tunes, 'How Are Things in Glocca Morra?' and 'Look to the Rainbow'. For tickets, visit www.hitstheatre.org.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Mercury Theatre and owner, Michael Cullen will face a $3 million forclosure suit from Ravenswood Bank. As reported by Crain's Real Estate Daily, the Southport Ave. theatre hosted many late-night productions of local troupes until Cullen fell ill earlier this year. In December, Cullen began missing monthly mortgage payments, according to a complaint filed March 9 in Cook County Circuit Court.

During a special preview event last night, the Carpenter Performing Arts Center of Long Beach announced its 2010-2011 season which includes a wide variety of performances. Included in the line-up are Broadway veteren Susan Egan, Pink Floyd, and Leonard Nimoy.

According to a report by BBC Radio 5 Live, Carey Mulligan is set to play Eliza Doolittle in the upcoming remake of My Fair Lady, written by Emma Thompson. Previous rumors suggested that Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman were interested in the coveted role of Doolittle, however Thompson revealed that Mulligan has been cast.

According to Playbilll.com, Memphis, the hit Broadway musical, will be embarking on a national tour, tentatively to launch in fall 2011. Prior to Broadway, the musical played the La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. Memphis co-author DiPietro hinted at the tour possibility in the official blog for the musical.

The Public Theater will continue its series of free staged readings of new plays by the Emerging Writers Group throughout the month of April. The Emerging Writers Group Spotlight Series presents weekly readings of a full-length play by each writer, directed and performed by experienced artists from the theatrical community. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance by calling 212-967-7555.

Jason Wells will be honored with the 2010 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award, for his play Perfect Mendacity. Given by the American Theatre Critics Association, the award will be presented on March 27 at a ceremony at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY.

The Geffen Playhouse's annual fundraiser Backstage at the Geffen is always an evening full of surprises for the audience, but this year Producing Director Gil Cates got a surprise of his own. Unbeknownst to him, the board of the directors unanimously voted to name the organization's main stage the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse, an honor that actress and longtime supporter of the theater Rita Wilson announced at yesterday's event.

On April 24, Malcom Gets, Ann Crumb, Darius De Haas, and many more will be fetured in Harbor Lights' production of Stephen Schwartz- Making Music. The show will be presented at 8 PM at the St. George Theater in Staten Island.

On May 22, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor, John Lithgow returns to Cleveland for a special one day only performance to benefit Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) - the classic theater company that his father, Arthur Lithgow, helped to found nearly fifty years ago.

The 5th Annual Kevin Kline Award Ceremony, held on Monday, March 22 at 7pm at the Loretto-Hilton Theater honored excellence in professional theatre in St. Louis. Recipients included: Jason Cannon (Doubt), John Contini (Barrymore), Neva Rae Powers (Souvenir), Jerry Russo (Glengarry Glen Ross), Cathy Simpson (A Song for Coretta), and Kirsten Wylder (Wonder of the World).

Tony Kushner's Angels in America has evolved from a play to a film, a TV series and now an opera. Making its UK debut, composer Péter Eötvös sates, 'In the opera version, I put less emphasis on the political line than Kushner...I rather focus on the passionate relationships, on the highly dramatic suspense of the wonderful text, on the permanently uncertain state of the visions.'

Following Sunday night's Olivier Awards, a rush of Tweets wondered if Spring Awakening might be revived due to its success. Its two Welsh leads, Aneurin Barnard and Iwan Rheon, received a double win as Best Actor in a Musical and Best Supporting Performance in a Musical respectively. While the show recieved penty of critical plaudits, the musical failed to survive longer than five weeks in the West End after its transfer from its sold-out Lyric Hammersmith run. Could a West End revival really be in the works, or is this just wishful thinking?

'Dancing with the Stars' kicked off its 10th season last night on ABC with 11 stars hoping to make a big impression from the get go. While tabloid queen Kate Gosselin vowed to prove to her children that she could dance, Kate and partner Tony Dovolani fell short of perfect with a score of only 16 from the judges.

Aspen's acclaimed Theater Masters will present its fourth annual 'Take 10,' an evening of ten nine 10-minute plays from aspiring playwrights across the country as part of its National MFA Playwrights competition on April 6th - 9th at Off-Broadway's Walkerspace (46 Walker Street). Distinguished Playwright Lanford Wilson, Theater Masters' Associate Director Pesha Rudnick and I read over 100 scripts submitted from ten of the top graduate playwriting programs to find these remarkable plays from some of the finest young playwrights this country is developing' said Julia Hansen, Theater Masters founder/Artistic Director - and former President of New York's Drama League. 'In many ways, how I started the Drama League's 'Director's Project' is how I am now developing new playwrights and giving them their first chance to have their work receive a New York premiere.'

The Southern Theater will be presenting Accordo on April 19 at 8pm sponsored by The Red Stag Supperclub. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by calling the box office at 612.340.1725. For more information, visit: www.southerntheater.org.

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, will present a panel discussion on Fundraising for Independent Artists, part of its Making Connections series, on Wednesday, March 24 at 6:00 p.m.

For one weekend only, March 25 - 28, Atlanta Ballet presents the U.S. premiere of James Kudelka's 'Four Seasons' at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, featuring special performances by Atlanta Ballet's artistic director emeritus Robert Barnett and current artistic director John McFall.