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Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA Comes to The Heights Players

The Heights Players is presenting Tom Stoppard's Arcadia through November 10th, 2024. Through the masterful interplay of past and present, the play weaves together threads of mathematics, poetry, landscape gardening, romantic entanglements, and most importantly: order and chaos.
Cast Set for THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ at the ATA Sargent Theatre

The full cast and crew for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ, a musical fable, have been announced. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Full Cast and Crew Set for F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ At Sargent Theatre

The full cast and crew for the musical-comedy THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novella, has been announced. The show opens September 15 at the ATA Sargent Theatre in Midtown Manhattan.
A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER Opens At The Heights Players

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder comes to Brooklyn for a limited engagement at The Heights Players - Brooklyn's longest-running sustaining theater. With book and Lyrics Robert L. Freedman, and Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak, The Heights Players bring this uproarious hit to their stage.
BLITHE SPIRIT to Open This Friday at Upright Theatre Company

Upright Theatre Company in Euless, TX has announced the opening of Blithe Spirit, the first play of the theatre company's season after opening earlier this year. The show opens Friday, July 9 and runs through Saturday, July 24 on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm.
Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Embraces Face Masks in THE TWO GENTLEMAN OF VERONA

SILive has reported on the creative way that The Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre has embraced facially coverings in its production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, utilizing them in their costume design.
Black Ensemble Theater to Open its 2020 Season With the World Premiere of Jackie Taylor's LEGENDS

Black Ensemble Theater opens its 2020 Season: Season of Change with Legends the Musical: A Civil Rights Movement, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, written and directed by Black Ensemble Theater Founder and CEO Jackie Taylor. Legends the Musical will be performed February 22-April 12, 2020 at the Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, 4450 N. Clark Street in Chicago. The press opening is Thursday, March 5 at 7:30pm.
mxmtoon Releases Video For 'unspoken words'

2019 might be coming to a close but mxmtoon isn't slowing down closing out the year with one more video from her breakout debut album the masquerade. The 19-year-old singer-songwriter has just returned from her run of UK dates after a completely sold out North American fall tour.
BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Extended To May 5

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY - the heartfelt, intimate musical based on Robert James Waller's tender story of love, regrets and second chances - will play an additional two weeks to meet audience demand, according to Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Artistic Director Fred Anzevino. The new closing date is now Sunday, May 5. Theo Ubique's production, which opened to the press on March 11, earned raves from critics and has been playing to near-capacity houses since its opening. Giving the production 3-1/2 Stars, the CHICAGO TRIBUNE's Chris Jones said leading actress Kelli Harrington 'shines in a Broadway-worthy performance.' Catey Sullivan, writing for the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, said 'the supporting cast is a delight' and called the show ' a genuinely moving story of loss, longing and sacrifice.' WTTW's Hedy Weiss said music director Jeremy Ramey has 'a genius for conjuring a symphonic sound with a five-piece ensemble.' The entire cast will continue with the production for the two-week extension.
The Cuckoo's Theater Project To Present MOBY DICK! THE MUSICAL By Hereward Kaye And Robert Longden

The girls of St. Godley's School are in trouble! Money for the school has run out, and the place will have to close. Leave it to these resourceful girls and their unflappable headmistress to come up with a plan to keep the school afloat. Using whatever they can find at hand, the girls mount an original production as a fundraiser: a musical version of Moby Dick, featuring their headmistress in the coveted role of Captain Ahab.
The Cuckoo's Theater Project To Present MOBY DICK! THE MUSICAL By Hereward Kaye And Robert Longden

The girls of St. Godley's School are in trouble! Money for the school has run out, and the place will have to close. Leave it to these resourceful girls and their unflappable headmistress to come up with a plan to keep the school afloat. Using whatever they can find at hand, the girls mount an original production as a fundraiser: a musical version of Moby Dick, featuring their headmistress in the coveted role of Captain Ahab.
The Cuckoo's Theater Project To Present MOBY DICK! THE MUSICAL By Hereward Kaye And Robert Longden

The girls of St. Godley's School are in trouble! Money for the school has run out, and the place will have to close. Leave it to these resourceful girls and their unflappable headmistress to come up with a plan to keep the school afloat. Using whatever they can find at hand, the girls mount an original production as a fundraiser: a musical version of Moby Dick, featuring their headmistress in the coveted role of Captain Ahab.
SISTER ACT Opens at Artisan Center Theater

SISTER ACT opens at Artisan Center Theater on Friday, August 25, 2017 and runs through Saturday, September 23, 2017. 
Friday Late Night Comedy Show 26 Returns for Round Two 5/26

Late-Night at the Pride Arts Center announces the second round of its popular late night show,"26," Saturday nights at 10pm, August 5th through September 23rd at The Buena, Pride Arts Center, located at 4147 N Broadway Ave.
Photo Flash: HOG'SBELLY: A Fable Noir Grips Gorilla Tango

A Dead Whale Productions continues their inaugural season with the world premiere production of Artistic Associate Tyler Garamella's Hog'sBelly: A Fable Noir, directed by Founding Artistic Director Dane Eissler. A Dead Whale is proud to continue their commitment to challenge theatrical convention by creating edgy and original theatrical events by all means necessary. Hog'sBelly opens Thursday, July 20th; and closes on Saturday, July 29th at Gorilla Tango Theatre in Bucktown, Chicago.
Prop Thtr Presents New Work ON LOSS at the 28th Annual Rhinofest

Prop Thtr presents On Loss by Mark Chrisler (Chicago Reader's Best Playwright, 2010) and Groundswell by Karen Fort as part of the 28th Annual Rhinofest.

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