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THE JUNGLE BOOK Exceeds Sales Goals, Play Bound for Miller Outdoor Theatre

The World Premiere of The Jungle Book at A. D. Players' Children's Theater, exceeded sales goals, closing on May 4th with over 90% of seats sold. The theater added three shows to the three week run to meet demand, with most shows selling out. The play was written by Will Ledesma and adapted from the classic adventure book by Rudyard Kipling. (more...)

THE SELFISH GIANT, COMPLICATED and More Set for Three Oaks Theater Festival in Harbor Country, Beg. 7/6

Co-founders John Stoops, Tim Evans, and Marc Grapey announce the inaugural season of Three Oaks Theater Festival, a new summer theater festival that will bring three limited-engagement runs of highly-acclaimed, professional Chicago-based productions and a World Premiere to audiences in Harbor Country, Michigan. Three Oaks Theater Festival is presented in association with Harbor Arts with special thanks to The Pokagon Fund. (more...)

Pivot Arts Launches PIVOT MULTI-ARTS FESTIVAL, 6/6-22

Pivot Arts launches a new celebration of innovative theater, music and dance in unique and often historic spaces from June 6 - 22, 2013 throughout Chicago's Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods. The inaugural PIVOT MULTI-ARTS FESTIVAL answers the City's call for a reinvigorated Uptown Entertainment District by uniting artists, businesses and local organizations around multidisciplinary "pop-up" performances occurring in a former Vaudeville Theater, an at-one-time Charlie Chaplin film studio and other historic spaces throughout these communities. Tickets are now on sale, with a range of free events and no more than $15 per event. To purchase tickets, and for complete festival information, visit www.pivotarts.org/festival or call 773-609-0782. (more...)

Delaware River Waterfront Corporation Announces Full 2013 Season

Today, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation announced the full 2013 season of events on both sides of the Delaware River at a press conference on the waterfront. The summer season in Philadelphia and Camden includes hundreds of events happening at venues from the Great Plaza at Penn's Landing to Campbell's Field. (more...)

GRAND PICNIC Performs for May 11 NYC Contra Dance

Country Dance*New York will present a lively contra dance on Saturday, May 11th, from 8:00 pm to 10:45 pm at the Church of the Village (201 West 13th Street, Manhattan). No previous experience is required and it is not necessary to come with a partner. From 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm there is a beginners' workshop, and the caller walks everyone through the patterns of each dance. Dynamic and spirited music will be performed by the popular New York-based dance band, Grand Picnic. (more...)

Christine Baranski, Irina Dvorovenko and More Star in Encores! ON YOUR TOES, Beg. Tonight

Christine Baranski, Kelli Barrett, Walter Bobbie, Jeremy Cohen, Dalton Harrod, Randy Skinner, Shonn Wiley, Karen Ziemba,New York City Ballet Principaldancer Joaquin De Luz and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Irina Dvorovenko will star in Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toes, the final Encores! presentation of the 2012-13 New York City Center season. (more...)

BWW Reviews: PICNIC Heats Up The Playhouse

Though we're still experiencing mild May weather, things are getting steamy at The Playhouse in San Antonio. The Playhouse's solid production of Willima Inge's Picnic, which runs through May 26th, is a riveting exploration of love and loneliness in a small Kansas town. While many other plays explore the same themes, few do so with this much heat. If there really was this much going on in Kansas, Dorothy would have had no reason to go to Oz. (more...)

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The 8th Annual Charlotte Shakespeare Festival Kicks Off 5/30

The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival returns for an 8th year beginning May 30. The 2013 festival will feature full-length productions of Taming of the Shrew and MacBeth, a pre-show performance series and educational workshops for young people. All performances and workshops are free, but donations are encouraged ($5 minimum suggested). Advance donors can reserve seats. (more...)

THE SOUND OF MUSIC to Open The Mountain Play Association's 100th Season, 5/19

The Mountain Play - 'A Great Outdoor Theatre Adventure' and the San Francisco Bay Area's most magical outdoor theater experience, is proud to present the Tony Award-winning musical The Sound of Music directed by Jay Manley for its 100th season in 2013. (more...)

The Wilmette Theatre Announces Summer Children's Concert Series

The Wilmette Theatre,1122 Central Ave., announces an exciting Spring/Summer 2013 Children's Theater and Concert Series including whimsical concerts by kid-friendly artists Future Hits, The Dreamtree Shakers, Mindy Hester & The Time Outs, and Mr. Singer & The Sharp Cookies. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Effortful HAPPY DAYS at Allenberry Playhouse

HAPPY DAYS, about to go into repertory with THE FULL MONTY, is a perfectly decent excuse to spend a day or an evening at Allenberry. (more...)

Moonlight Stage to Open 2013 Summer Season with SOUTH PACIFIC, 6/26-7/13

Moonlight Stage Productions' 33rd summer season, the first planned by new Artistic Director Steven Glaudini, will begin with the great American classic musical SOUTH PACIFIC, with performances from June 26 to July 13. (more...)

UPDATE: Emily Blunt to Join INTO THE WOODS Film as 'The Baker's Wife'; Plus Christine Baranski as 'The Stepmother'?

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Emily Blunt is in talks to join Disney's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall. Now, sources have told The Wrap that that Christine Baranski, who was part of the original reading last October, is in talks to take on the role of Cinderella's evil stepmother. (more...)

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2013-14 Season of Plays Announced: Roger Rees in THE WINSLOW BOY, World Premiere Play CUTIE AND BEAR and More!

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced its 2013-14 season of plays. Each season, Roundabout offers revivals of classic plays and musicals as well as development and production of new works by established playwrights and emerging writers. (more...)

Gotham Chamber Opera Presents La Hija de Rappaccini, 6/17 & 6/24

Gotham Chamber Opera presents Daniel Catan's 1988 opera, La hija de Rappaccini (Rappaccini's Daughter), on Mondays, June 17 and 24, 2013 at 7pm at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (rain date June 25). Seating is by general admission on the lawn. Blankets and outside food will be permitted. Boxed Picnic dinners will also be available for purchase. Tickets are $35 and are available at www.ticketcentral.com or (212) 279-4200. For more information visit www.gothamchamberopera.org. (more...)

BWW Reviews: 3-D Theatricals' Magnificent PARADE

In 1998 when Jason Robert Brown won a Tony Award for the score of this unusually provocative musical Parade, the opulent Broadway production closed to critical acclaim, but due to excessive costs, the show remained inaccessible until the Donmar Warehouse resurrected it and produced a tight - minus the frills - mounting at the Mark Taper Forum in 2009. 3-D Theatricals, who are becoming increasingly known for their superlative skill with producing big musicals, have decided to put back many of the frills of the original and double the cast to its original size - 36, in order to enhance and give the musical the big, full-voiced chorus sound it deserves. And, in my mind, this bigger hybrid version surpasses the Taper's for its grande musical elegance and the presence of a perfectly cast lead actor in the role of Leo Frank, Jeff Skowron. (more...)

Pacific Symphony Announces THE RITE OF SPRING Events, Now thru 6/8

Aaron Copland once characterized 'The Rite of Spring' as the foremost orchestral achievement of the 20th century, and The New York Times proclaimed the significance of the work to be 'to the 20th century as Beethoven's Ninth is to the 19th.' With the arrival of the centennial of Stravinsky's iconic masterwork, a reverberation of celebration can be heard around the symphonic world and Pacific Symphony is no exception, offering a variety of activities that continue through June 8. In conceiving 'The Rite of Spring,' Stravinsky broke all the rules and defied convention, and it is very much in this spirit that the Symphony approaches its celebration-culminating with a party on the arts plaza, featuring the Symphony's second 'Inside and Out' Plazacast and Community Celebration-a free live simulcast of the concert projected onto the wall of Segerstrom Hall. Arrive early (5 p.m.) and enjoy activity booths and a slate of community ensembles performing on the arts plaza. For more information, call (714) 755-5799 or visit PacificSymphony.org. (more...)

Photo Flash: Starlight Park Opens with Community Celebration

NYC Parks Commissioner Veronica M. White today joined Congressman Jose E. Serrano, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Assembly Member Marcos Crespo, NYC Parks Bronx River Administrator and Bronx River Alliance Executive Director Linda Cox, and members of Community Board 9, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, The Point, Rocking the Boat and the Friends of Starlight Park to cut the ribbon on a newly renovated Starlight Park and improved Bronx River Greenway. Scroll down for photos! (more...)

Around the Broadway World: Regional Highlights for the Week of 5/6

If you haven't had the chance to catch up on your theater news, look no further than today's recap of all things theater - exclusive features, interviews, reviews and more! - around the Broadway World for the week of May 6! (more...)

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