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GRACE PERVADES and AS YOU LIKE IT Set For The Ralph Fiennes / Theatre Royal Bath Season

Theatre Royal Bath has announced the opening productions of the Ralph Fiennes / Theatre Royal Bath season taking place from June 2025. Learn more about both upcoming shows here!

22 Theater Books for Your Winter 2024 Reading List

The weather outside might still be frightful for a while, but what better time to stay in and snuggle up with a great Broadway read? Check out our complete Winter 2024 reading list!

BWW Interview: RSC Director of Design Stephen Brimson-Lewis Talks MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Director of Design Stephen Brimson-Lewis has over twenty years of experience designing for the RSC. Stephen takes us through the collaborative process of designing Measure for Measure.

Arts Management Veteran Marcus L. Overton Passes Away At Age 75

Marcus L. Overton, a passionate and colorful 54-year veteran of the performing arts management world as well as an actor, director, writer, teacher, scholar, linguist and Emmy-award winning radio and TV host, died at age 75 on June 9 in San Diego after a long battle with kidney failure. He is survived by his husband Raymond A. Fluta. Overton left instructions that his ashes were to be taken to Paris, a city he visited yearly, and scattered on the graves of Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Marcel Proust and Francois Poulenc.

Henry Ford College's Theatre Arts Announces The Inaugural Production Of Its New Black Box Theatre

HFC's Black Box Theatre will begin productions in May in the former home of the college's Virtual Theatricality Lab. (VTL).

Artistic Director Tim Carroll to Make Shaw Festival Debut Helming SAINT JOAN

When the Shaw Festival's 2017 production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan begins previews on May 3 at the Festival Theatre, it marks two milestones for Artistic Director Tim Carroll - a Shaw Festival directorial debut and his first undertaking of a work by the Festival's namesake. His production joins the tradition of earlier presentations of Saint Joan by former artistic directors Christopher Newton and Jackie Maxwell in 1981 and 2007, respectively.

Ravinia Creates Role Conductor Laureate For James Levine

Ravinia has created the role of Conductor Laureate—a title reserved for an exalted musician whose eminent leadership has formed and shaped an institution's artistic quality over time—for James Levine, recognizing him as one of the most significant conductors in history, announced Ravinia President and CEO Welz Kauffman today.

RSC Collaborates on SHAKESPEARE IN ART Exhibition at Compton Verney

As part of the Bard's 400th anniversary celebrations, the gallery at Compton Verney in Warwickshire - which is just nine miles away from Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon - has joined forces with the RSC to create a new exhibition. SHAKESPEARE IN ART: TEMPESTS, TYRANTS AND TRAGEDY, opening next month, pays tribute to a playwright whose work has inspired countless artists over the centuries, from Sargent, Fuseli, Rossetti, Blake and Watts to Romney, Karl Weschke, Kate Tempest and Tom Hunter.

'Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis' is Released

7,000,000 jobs go unfilled every day. That number will double in the next six years to 14 million. A new book warns of the jobs cliff and reveals a comprehensive, proven solution to stave off an economic meltdown.