Glee to Tour Across America!

Glee is going on tour again. Leading up to a brief European jaunt at the end of June, 13 members of the show’s cast will play a 16-city tour of the United States.

All of the New Directions choir will participate in the tour, meaning Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Dianna Agron, Heather Morris and Kevin McHale will be in the house. Darren Criss will also join the tour, though Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison and Ashley Fink will not. ‘Glee Live! In Concert’ kicks off in Las Vegas on May 21.

Here is a full list of the dates:

May 21: Las Vegas, NV, Mandalay Bay Event Center
May 22: Sacramento, CA, Arco Arena
May 24: San Jose, CA, HP Pavilion
May 27: Anaheim, CA, Honda Center
May 28: Los Angeles, CA, Staples Center
May 29: San Diego, CA, Valley View Casino Center
June 1: Minneapolis, MN, Target Center
June 2: Indianapolis, IN, Conseco Fieldhouse
June 3: Chicago, IL, Allstate Arena
June 6: Boston, MA, TD Garden
June 8: Philadelphia, PA, Wells Fargo Center
June 11: Toronto, Canada, Air Canada Centre
June 13: Detroit, MI, Palace of Auburn Hills
June 14: Cleveland, OH, Quicken Loans Arena
June 16: East Rutherford, NJ, Izod Center
June 18: Uniondale, NY, Nassau Colliseum

Boy Wonder Boy - Donald Glover of COMMUNITY

Stone Mountain, Georgia, can boast two famous native sons: 30 Rock’s Kenneth the Page (who happens to be fictional) and Donald Glover (who happens not to be). They’re not unrelated, of course. Glover is the upstart comic who nabbed a dream job -- writing for 30 Rock, whereby he put his hometown on the map -- only a few days out of NYU. After three successful seasons, he quit to pursue stand-up, but just as quickly landed a part in NBC’s new sitcom Community. In addition to all that, he’s somehow managed to write, shoot and star in the feature film, Mystery Team (which premiered at Sundance) in collaboration with Derrick Comedy, his YouTube-adored sketch group, and also tape a half-hour stand-up special that airs this March on Comedy Central.

On Community, Glover holds his own alongside Chevy Chase and Joel McHale, but he’s a long way -- if not a long time -- from his online beginnings. “Everyone else I’ve seen in other places before, whether it’s Mad Men or Fletch or The Soup,” he says of his costars. “People are like, ‘Oh, hey, I’ve seen the YouTube short of you pooping yourself!’” Luckily, poop sells. The Derrick videos -- with more than seven million views -- helped send him from Tina Fey’s workaholic writers’ room to a spot in front of the camera.

But he’s not Derrick’s only beneficiary. Watch the Derrick canon carefully and the best of comedy’s new class flashes by: The Office’s Ellie Kemper, SNL’s Bobby Moynihan, Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza. They’re all products of New York’s UCB Theater, the current high temple of sketch where Glover’s hilarious oddness was honed. “I remember going for the first time,” he reminisces. “I saw a dude in a Darth Vader mask fuck another dude in the ass with a dildo. That scared the shit out of me -- and I realized, this is my home.”

Comedy Central Presents: Donald Glover airs March 19th at 11 p.m.