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LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT has released photos of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, with direction by Eric Petersen. 

Cleveland Public Theatre has announced the world premiere of local playwright Jeanne Madison's play Showin' Up Black February 20 through March 8, 2025.

Maryland Ensemble Theatre will present The Beauty Queen of Leenane, an intimate and pitch-black comedy by Martin McDonagh, best known for The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and recent film The Banshees of Inisherin.

The Monmouth Community Players, alongside Marquis Season Sponsor Great Falls Federal Credit Union and Season Sponsors Winthrop Area Federal Credit Union and Readfield Insurance Agency, have announced the cast of their upcoming production of Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple, Female Version'.

Asolo Repertory Theatr has announced complete casting for the World Premiere of Ken Ludwig’s Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, which begins previews on January 17, 2025.  See photos from the production.

Casa Mañana kicks off the new year with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory TYA Version, presented by Happy State Bank and sponsored by Frank Kent Cadillac. The show runs January 31 – February 16 and is suitable for all audiences. Tickets are on sale now.  See photos from the production.

Kentwood Players presentation of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage, opened Friday, January 17 at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Ave., Los Angeles 90045.

ArtsEmerson, Boston's leading presenter of contemporary world theater and film and the professional presenting and producing organization of Emerson College, recently announced its film programming slate for Winter/Spring 2025.

Goodspeed Musicals has announced the participants for the 13th annual Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, which will be held January 27 - February 23 on the Goodspeed campus in East Haddam, Conn.

A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD begins in February at Know Theatre. From the writer of the Academy Award-winning film, The Whale, comes a humorous and wrenching tale about land, fatherhood, and the sacrifices we make for our children.

Franklin County Visitors Bureau is hosting the Penn's Woods Printmakers in an All -Media Art Exhibit. The exhibit is in the lobby of the Franklin County 11/30 Visitors Center, 15 South Main Street in Chambersburg, and will be on display through February 14.

The Conejo Valley Comedy Festival will debut its first-ever event, bringing two unforgettable days of stand-up, improv, and family-friendly fun to the heart of Conejo Valley. We are bringing comedians from the biggest stages (e.g. Netflix, Comedy Central, Hulu, Late Night with Conan O'Brien), to The Conejo Valley! 

Oil Lamp Theater will launch its 2025 season with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield with new revisions by Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield and directed by JT Nagle. See photos from tge production now playing through February 16, at Oil Lamp Theater,.

The Firehouse Theatre, in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of History and Culture and the Richmond Planet Foundation, has commissioned playwright Kristen Adele Calhoun to dramatize the life and times of John Mitchell Jr., the “fighting editor” of The Richmond Planet Newspaper.

Shame-slaying, hip-swaying, singing-songwriting drag queen Flamy Grant comes to the Fred Kavli Theatre on Thursday, April 17, 2025, at 7:30 pm.

Tickets are selling fast for Island City Stage's milestone production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance. In response to popular demand, an additional show has been added on Wednesday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Florida Grand Opera has received an additional $1 million matching gift from philanthropists Tina Vidal-Duart and Carlos Duart.

Moving Arts will present Unreconciled, by Jay Sefton, Co-written by Mark Basquill and directed by Gerladine Hughes as part of their Arts Expanded Series. The award winning production will have ten performances March 21st - 31st, 2025. 

From March 4 through May 3, 2025, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT), LA Phil Insight and Wild Up, collaborate on a festival that uplifts the legacies of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell — legendary collaborators whose music is expansive, quintessentially queer, in which every moment is full of choice.

On January 11, Philadelphia community music institution, Settlement Music School, honored a leader in Philadelphia arts and culture, Peter Benoliel, by renaming its Germantown Branch to the Peter A. Benoliel Germantown Branch.