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Full Cast Set For THE PRODUCERS at Menier Chocolate Factory

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced the full cast for Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s The Producers. Learn more about the cast here!

Andy Nyman, Marc Antolin, and More Will Lead THE PRODUCERS at Menier Chocolate Factory

As public booking opens for Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s The Producers, the Menier Chocolate Factory has announced initial casting. Find out who's joining the cast here!

Lehigh Valley Charter High School For The Arts Kicks Off Fall Season With THE OSCARS: A CONVERSATION AMONG FRIENDS

The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts (Charter Arts) Theatre Department will present a series of original plays written by new as well as seasoned professional playwrights as part of its 2024-2025 season.

Mosaic Theater Company To Honor Dan Logan And Jane Lang At The Spark 2024 Benefit Celebration, February 10

Mosaic Theater Company honors co-founder Dan Logan and Jane Lang at The Spark 2024 Benefit Celebration on February 10.

Chloe Bailey, Anthony Mackie & More Join SNEAKS Animated Film

Lengi Studios and Cinema Gypsy Productions set Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Martin Lawrence (Bad Boys for Life) and Chloe Bailey (Grown-ish) will join the animated feature SNEAKS, with Quavo (Migos), Keith David (Coraline; Princess and the Frog), Donovan Louis Bazemore (The Lion King), and more.

Leslie Odom, Jr. to Star in LET FREEDOM RING CELEBRATION at the Kennedy Center

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Georgetown University will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a free, ticketed musical tribute, the Let Freedom Ring Celebration. The annual program, part of the Center’s Millennium Stage free daily performance series, features Leslie Odom, Jr.

Chris Paul & RZA Added as Executive Producers on HANDLE WITH CARE

NBA All-Star Chris Paul and Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA have joined the upcoming documentary HANDLE WITH CARE as executive producers. Additionally, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Luguentz Dort, two of Canada’s brightest NBA stars, along with CJ Paul and Juanita Thompson of Ohh Dip!!! Productions, have come onboard as executive producers.

Photos: First Look at Imagine Productions' SECOND TO SHERLOCK

A raucous new musical from local composer Brian Horne! After a series of private and public readings over the past five years, Imagine Productions is proud to be presenting this WORLD PREMIERE production. When a low-class detective in Victorian England gets a chance to prove himself by catching the infamous Jack the Ripper, he finds escaping from the shadow of the world’s greatest detective will be harder than he thought. Performances run December 3rd thru the 11th, 2021 at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215. For tickets or more information, visit: https://www.imaginecolumbus.org/

Full Cast Announced For HABEAS CORPUS at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Joining the previously announced Kirsty Besterman (Constance Wicksteed), Jasper Britton (Arthur Wicksteed), Matthew Cottle (Canon Throbbing), Ria Jones (Mrs Swabb), Thomas Josling (Dennis Wicksteed), Caroline Langrishe (Lady Rumpers), Catherine Russell (Muriel Wicksteed) and Abdul Salis (Mr Shanks), are Katie Bernstein (Felicity Rumpers), Kelvin O'Mard (Mr Purdue) and Dan Starkey (Sir Percy).

Menier Chocolate Factory Announces Initial Casting Announced For Alan Bennett's HABEAS CORPUS

The antics of the Wicksteed home are a darkly satirical merry-go-round in Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus.  Family, friends and the quest for sexual pleasures of the body (“corpus”) are the ruling passions in this farcical comedy of ill-manners. Through an escapade of mistaken identities and carnal encounters, one motto holds fast: “He whose lust lasts, lasts longest.”

RTG Features Partners With Pop-A-Shot Game for Competition TV Series

 The first project represented by ICM is a partnership with the iconic basketball shooting game Pop-A-Shot® to develop an unscripted competition show for television

ALASKAN NETS Wins Santa Barbara Film Festival Audience Award

 The highly anticipated basketball documentary ALASKAN NETS made its world premiere at the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the Documentary Competition on Saturday, April 3rd.

NBA Legend Charles Barkley And RTG Features To Produce The Line Scripted Series

RTG Features, the newly established sister studio to basketball media leader SLAM, has announced that it is partnering with NBA legend Charles Barkley's Round Mound Media to produce the serialized one-hour scripted show “The Line,” based on the bestselling book Scandals of '51 from author Charley Rosen. RTG will introduce the series to buyers at the virtual American Film Market, which is running this week.

RTG Features Produces Coach John Thompson Documentary

RTG Features, the newly established sister studio to basketball media leader SLAM, has announced that it is co-financing and co-producing an upcoming documentary on legendary basketball coach John Thompson and his Georgetown University program as one of the first projects from the company.

Menier Chocolate Factory Announces Spring Season For 2020

With the critically acclaimed production of The Boy Friend currently running at the theatre, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announce the forthcoming two productions a?" the European première of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-winning play Indecent, directed by Rebecca Taichman; and Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus directed by Patrick Marber, who returns to the Menier following his smash-hit production of Tom Stoppard's Travesties.

Triple Addiction Release New EP 'American Heartbreak'

VIDEO: Hale Barns Carnival Gets Support From Celebrity Blogger Perez Hilton

Celebrity blogger, columnist, and media personality Perez Hilton has shown his support this week for the upcoming Hale Barns Carnival.

Jewish Family Services Announces Upcoming Programs And Activities

The Learn Laugh & Love program series, sponsored by Jewish Family Services and the Heritage Center of the Jewish Community Center, will present a free program on Thursday, Jan. 17, "New Year--New You…Nutrition Made Simple" at 1 p.m. in the MAC Room at the Campus. Crystal Futrell, a specialist in nutrition and health with the Johnson County Research and Extension program will facilitate a conversation about people's relationship with food and consequences on their health.  Futrell has worked with the Master Food Volunteer program as the Family Nutrition Program (FNP) program assistant prior to becoming Family and Consumer Sciences Agent/Nutrition and Health.  

Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell Will Perform in LET FREEDOM RING! Concert at the Kennedy Center

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Georgetown University celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a free, ticketed musical tribute titled Let Freedom Ring!

DM Playhouse Honors Legends

The Des Moines Community Playhouse honors legends J Michael Kellar, Melissa Kellar, Greg Leavengood, Mark Morrison, and Antonia Nozicka on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. A reception begins at 3:00 PM with a program at 4:00 PM.