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The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts' premiere theatre engagement, Parfumerie, begins performances Nov. 26.
Award-winning actor, screenwriter and producer Emma Thompson will be honored with with the Modern Master Award at the 29th edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Pittsburgh's August Wilson Center for African American Culture is facing closure, according to the New York Times.
Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster will star in the Broadway premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's award-winning 1997 musical Violet, about a disfigured young woman on a cross-c…
Sarah-Louise Young's solo show, Julie Madly Deeply, begins performances Nov. 25 at London's Trafalgar Studio 2, where it will continue through Jan. 4, 2014.
"Too Much Johnson" (1938), the rediscovered Mercury Theatre film directed by Orson Welles, makes its New York City premiere Nov. 25 at the Directors Guild of America Theater at 6:3…
The New York premiere of the late August Wilson's autobiographical one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned, officially opens Nov. 24 at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre.&…
Tony winner Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, The Snow Geese) is one of the many Broadway professionals now working with Stagelighter.com, an online resource that allows actors from a…
The Washington DCJCC is launching "Embracing Democracy: Who Has the Right to Speak For Israel?," a community-wide conversation exploring the relationship between the American Jewis…
Award-winning actor Ian McKellen, currently co-starring with Patrick Stewart in repertory performances of Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land on Broadway, said this production may be his…
Sonnet Repertory Theatre presents the The Maids, featuring "High School Musical" star Monique Coleman, beginning Nov. 22 at the Ford Foundation Studio Theatre at the Pershing Squar…
Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad will direct August Wilson's Fences at Long Wharf Theatre.
The lineup for the inaugural season of Oz, Nashville's new arts institute, has been announced.
"Too Much Johnson" (1938), the rediscovered Mercury Theatre film directed by Orson Welles, will receive its New York City premiere Nov. 25 at the Directors Guild of America Theater…
Shakespeare Theatre Company presents the musical farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, beginning Nov. 21.
The Old Globe's 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! officially opens Nov. 21 following preview performances that began Nov. 16.
The Manhattan Theatre Club's world-premiere engagement of The Commons of Pensacola, written by stage and screen star Amanda Peet, officially opens Nov. 21 at New York City…
A concert version of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, performed by an African-American cast, will play the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Two River Theater.
The Playwrights Realm has named Elizabeth Irwin, Lila Rose Kaplan, Jason Gray Platt and Amelia Roper as 2013-14 Writing Fellows.
The U.S. premiere of Witnessed By the World, Ronnie Cohen and Jane Beale's new play, officially opens Nov. 20 at 59E59 Theaters following preview performances that began Nov. 8.
The Old Globe in San Diego will present the New Voices Festival, a weekend of readings of new American plays, beginning Dec. 13.
"Downton Abbey" star Dame Maggie Smith was honored with the Evening Standard Icon Award at the 59th Annual Evening Standard Awards Nov. 17.
Stage 72 presents the one-night comedy event A Conversation with Susie Essman & Mario Cantone Nov. 20 at 7 PM.
Manhattan Theatre Club and Ars Nova have announced the 2013-14 participants for The Writer's Room.
The Wooster Group will present Cry, Trojans!, an American adaptation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
