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SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK(ING LOT) Season 2024 To Include MACBETH And AS YOU LIKE IT

 'Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot)' returns after the sold-out run of Twelfth Night last year to present two of Shakespeare's greatest plays: Macbeth and As You Like It.

Amas Musical Theatre To Honor Patricia Birch And Len Cariou At 55th Annual Benefit Gala Concert

Amas Musical Theatre will celebrate its 55th Anniversary at its annual Gala Benefit Concert on Monday, May 13, 2024 at Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Len Cariou & Peter Filichia To Be Honored at 78th Annual Theatre World Awards

The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors has announced two of the individuals to be honored at 78th Annual Theatre World Awards to be held on Monday evening, June 10, 2024 beginning at 7:00 p.m.

IN SCENA! Celebrates 10 Years With Two Italian Shows At Hall Of Nations

In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY celebrates its 10th anniversary with two Italian shows at Hall of Nations. The festival will also be held in San Diego, Santa Rosa, Calgary, and Lethbridge from October 27 to November 5, 2023. The festival aims to promote Italian theater and build a bridge between the artistic scenes in Italy and the US. For more information, visit www.inscenany.com.

In Scena! 2023 Italian Theater Festival Fall Edition to Begin This Month

In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY presents its Fall 2023 Special Edition, celebrating its 10th anniversary season. The festival will take place in New York, San Diego, Santa Rosa, Calgary, and Lethbridge, featuring Italian theater performances with English supertitles.

Now Hiring: Master Technician, Stage Manager & More - BWW Classifieds

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 7/6/2023 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Orson Welles' A CHRISTMAS CAROL Comes to Smock Alley Theatre

AboutFACE's much-loved festive 'radio-play-within-a-play' for the whole family returns by popular demand this December!

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: They're Over The Moon For Idina Menzel in Which Way To The Stage

Musical theatre fandom and body image issues in Ana Nogueira's hilarious and touching Which Way To The Stage. Also, Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks commences with Trish Harnetiaux's fun and offbeat California and jazz favorite Nancy Harrow scores a pair of Russian classics.

Stockton Civic Theatre Presents IT'S ONLY A PLAY

Stockton Civic Theatre is pleased to present its first production of the New Year. 2020 is rolling in with a hysterical comedy by renowned American playwright Terrance McNally. It's Only a Play is set in the posh Manhattan apartment of wealthy Broadway producer Julia Budder during the opening night party of her latest play, The Golden Egg. As the celebrity guests arrive downstairs, the hostess, playwright, director, lead actress, and friends gather upstairs and anxiously await the late-night reviews. The banter is hilarious as they boast about their theatre experiences and engage in shameless, and often harsh, celebrity name dropping.

Broadway Press Agent Bob Ullman Passes Away at 97

Robert ('Bob') Ullman (left), the legendary theatre press agent, whose career included Ethel Merman and Mary Martin: Together on Broadway, A Chorus Line (from workshop to Public Theater to Broadway), Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Visit, Lauren Bacall in Cactus Flower, The Dining Room, Driving Miss Daisy, Sunday in the Park with George, and over 150 additional Broadway and off-Broadway plays and musicals, died on July 31, 2019 in Bayshore, Long Island, New York. He was 97. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. Bob's death was announced by Rev. Joshua Ellis, a long-time Ullman friend, a former Broadway press agent, and now, an Interspiritual minister.

'CHASING MEM'RIES' World Premiere, Starring Tyne Daly, Opens Tonight at the Geffen

The World Premiere of Chasing Mem'ries: A Different Kind of Musical, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly and featuring new and original songs by award-winning lyricists Alan & Marilyn Bergman, plays an extended run at the Gil Cates Theater at The Geffen Playhouse through Sunday, December 17, 2017. Opening night is tonight, November 15.

'CHASING MEM'RIES' World Premiere, Starring Tyne Daly, Extends at the Geffen

The World Premiere of Chasing Mem'ries: A Different Kind of Musical, starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly and featuring new and original songs by award-winning lyricists Alan & Marilyn Bergman, will extend for one week in the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse and run through Sunday, December 17, 2017.

FLASH FRIDAY: Broadway Meets Baseball When Willie Mays Visits WHAT'S MY LINE

Can you guess which Broadway star was a big fan of the New York Giants' great center fielder?

THEATRICAL THROWBACK THURSDAY: Eli Wallach & Cast Of LUV Show Game Faces

Today, in honor of the passing of legendary stage and screen star Eli Wallach we shine a light on a delightful vintage clip from way back in 1965.

AboutFACE Ireland to Present Orson Welles' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 12/20-22

AboutFACE Ireland will be presenting Orson Welles' Christmas Carol, a new play for Christmas for the whole family, at the Powerscourt Theatre in Dublin, for 5 performances only, December 20th-22nd 2013. Written by Paul Nugent, it tells a fictionalized account, based on true events, of the Christmas Eve 1938 night where, in CBS Radio Studio 1, the young radio superstar Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air are set to perform their eagerly awaited weekly 60-minute version of a classic; tonight it's “A Christmas Carol.” Only things aren't too Christmassy: it's ten minutes to ON-AIR and legendary Scrooge Lionel Barrymore has fallen sick, and now 23-year-old Orson has to step into his shoes; plus the script still isn't right, Orson's on the rampage, his cast are revolting after three days of rehearsing without sleep, and the pressure's on after the success of “War of the Worlds”: the Nation awaits and Hollywood's watching! Will this Christmas Carol have a happy ending?

Lost Orson Welles' TOO MUCH JOHNSON, Found in Italy

George Eastman House, together with the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF), the Cineteca del Friuli, and Cinemazero today announced the recovery of Mercury Theatre's long-lost Too Much Johnson, directed by Orson Welles in 1938. The silent film was found in a warehouse by the staff of Cinemazero, an art house in Pordenone, Italy.

GSN's MATCH GAME Marathon to Premiere Christmas Day with Two New Episodes

This Christmas, GSN will honor the 50th anniversary of one of the most enduring and memorable classic shows, MATCH GAME, by airing a marathon on Tuesday, December 25th from 8:00am ET to 5:00pm ET that includes two episodes that have never been seen on television.

WHAT'S MY LINE, I'VE GOT A SECRET Air on GSN, Beginning Tonight

GSN has announced the two-week return of 'Late Night Black and White,' a showcase of fan-favorite classic games. Weekdays from tonight, December 17th - 28th, GSN will add two of TV's most popular panel shows to its lineup with the broadcast of 'What's My Line?' at 2:00 am ET and 'I've Got A Secret' at 2:30 am ET.

WHAT'S MY LINE, I'VE GOT A SECRET to Air on GSN, Beg. 12/17

GSN has announced the two-week return of "Late Night Black and White," a showcase of fan-favorite classic games. Weekdays from December 17th - 28th, GSN will add two of TV's most popular panel shows to its lineup with the broadcast of "What's My Line?" at 2:00 am ET and "I've Got A Secret" at 2:30 am ET.

AboutFACE Ireland Presents the World Premiere of ORSON WELLES' CHRISTMAS CAROL, December 22 & 23

It's Christmas Eve 1938 at CBS Studio 1 in New York City, and radio superstar Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air are set to perform their eagerly awaited weekly 60-minute version of a classic; tonight it's "A Christmas Carol." Only things aren't too Christmassy: it's ten minutes to ON-AIR and legendary Scrooge Lionel Barrymore has fallen sick, and now 23-year-old Orson has to step into his shoes; plus the script still isn't right, Orson's on the rampage, his cast are revolting after three days of rehearsing without sleep, and the pressure's on after the success of "War of the Worlds": the Nation awaits and Hollywood's watching! Will this Christmas Carol have a happy ending?