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Three truly exclusive items have been acquired by Chenango River Theatre's Gala Committee as featured items at the 2016 Winter Gala on Jan. 23.  These three items are not available for purchase anywhere except at this event, which supports the theatre's 2016 season. 

Tony Award-winning Broadway starlet Annaleigh Ashford -- currently receiving raves in SYLVIA, and also celebrated for her work on stage in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, KINKY BOOTS, RENT, WICKED and LEGALLY BLONDE, as well as on the hit Showtime television series MASTERS OF SEX - celebrates the release of her debut album a LIVE recording of her critically acclaimed cabaret show LOST IN THE STARS, which debuted last December at 54 Below and has since traveled to select cities across the country.

Tony Award-winning Broadway starlet Annaleigh Ashford -- currently receiving raves in SYLVIA, and also celebrated for her work on stage in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, KINKY BOOTS, RENT, WICKED and LEGALLY BLONDE, as well as on the hit Showtime television series MASTERS OF SEX - celebrates the release of her debut album a LIVE recording of her critically acclaimed cabaret show LOST IN THE STARS, which debuted last December at 54 Below and has since traveled to select cities across the country.

Brett Bailey, the artistic director of Cape Town-based performance company Third World Bunfight, is back in South Africa for a short while and has begun working on his next project, THE RAFT, that will deal with the migrant crisis on the Mediterranean Sea.

Broadway In Chicago will soon welcome Tony Award® nominee Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots, Chicago production of WICKED, You Can't Take It With You and Masters of Sex) as she makes her solo Chicago premiere with an evening of song, story and sequin in her critically-acclaimed, Lost in the Stars, for one-night only on Saturday, March 21 at 8 PM at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut).

Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashford will perform a final encore performance of Annaleigh Ashford - Lost in the Stars tonight at 9:30pm at 54 Below. Ashford with Will Van Dyke and the Whiskey 5 then head on the road to Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and Las Vegas with more cities to be announced soon. Tickets and more information can be found at www.LostInTheStarsCabaret.com.

Colorado native and Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashford will be performing in ANNALEIGH ASHFORD - LOST IN THE STARS at The Garner Galleria Theatre April 11 & 12 only. Tickets go on sale to current DCPA subscribers starting at 10a on Monday, February 16th by calling 303.893.4100 or visiting denvercenter.org. A public on-sale will follow on February 19th at 10a.

Broadway In Chicago has announced Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashford (Kinky Boots, Chicago production of WICKED, You Can't Take It With You and Masters of Sex) makes her solo Chicago premiere with an evening of song, story and sequin in her critically-acclaimed, Lost in the Stars, for one-night only on Saturday, March 21 at 8 PM at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut). Individual tickets go on-sale to the public on Friday, February 6 at 10 AM.

Tony Award nominee Annaleigh Ashford will bring back to 54 Below an encore performance of Annaleigh Ashford - Lost in the Stars February 11, 2015 at 9:30pm.

The penultimate column in our 2014 South African Theatre Retrospectives deals with musical theatre and opera. Today we celebrate 'six of the best' opera and musical theatre productions from around the country - with two honourable mentions for an outstanding cabaret and revue - having already looked at some of the best plays and dance productions of the year.

Deadline writes that TNT is hopping back on the miniseries bandwagon with ONE GIANT LEAP, a four-part series about NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

Actors Jonathan Morgan Heit (Date Night; Valentine's Day; Bedtime Stories); Aly Mawji (Silicon Valley; Parks and Recreation; Grey's Anatomy) and Satya Vanii (Natasha Meet Janice; Cut; Co-ed Scandal) will represent the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's BookPALS as "storytime readers" at the Hollywood Arts Council's 29th Annual FREE Children's Festival of the Arts to be held at Paramount Pictures, this Sunday, August 10, 2014 from 12-Noon - 4:30 p.m.

It's Ghost Month (or August) in Taiwan-a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid bodies of water-but all Jing-nan can think about is how he ended up here, a dumpling vendor in Taipei's night market. He rues the day five years ago when he left UCLA to return home to his dying father in Taipei and tend to the family business. After his father's death, he renamed the stand 'Unknown Pleasures' (after the Joy Division album) and settled into a life he never wanted.

It's Ghost Month (or August) in Taiwan—a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid bodies of water—but all Jing-nan can think about is how he ended up here, a dumpling vendor in Taipei's night market. He rues the day five years ago when he left UCLA to return home to his dying father in Taipei and tend to the family business. After his father's death, he renamed the stand “Unknown Pleasures” (after the Joy Division album) and settled into a life he never wanted.

The famed Princeton Triangle Club, now in its 123rd year, returns to McCarter Theatre for Reunions Weekend with two performances: Friday, May 30 at 8:00 pm and Saturday, May 31 at 7:00 pm.

In MACBETH, Brett Bailey gives us Shakespeare by way of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, filtered through Third World Bunfight's trademark post-colonialist, avant-garde manifesto.

Fifth-grader Walter Levin has just published his first book for kids, 'The Kid Who Went To The Moon,' which combines the entertaining first-person voice of 12-year-old protagonist James Gibson with a positive message.

'The Adventures of Monty and Keaz: One Small Step' (published by AuthorHouse UK) by Ian Reardon depicts the amazing outer space explorations of two audacious mice.

Laughter has long been considered the language of the soul and Four Clowns Jr. has embodied this message in their productions That Beautiful Laugh, a show that spoke to children and adults alike through laughter and a slew of touchingly funny vignettes, and Robin Hood, a hilarious clown-inspired adventure, which marked the company's most prestigious collaboration to date with South Coast Repertory. Now, in its latest endeavor Somewhere Like Earth, Four Clowns Jr. plans to feed the soul, not just with laughter, but with learning as well.

The famed Princeton Triangle Club, now in its 123rd year, returns to McCarter Theatre with the world premiere of Zero Gravitas, all-student written and performed, for three performances tonight and Saturday, November 15 and 16 at 8pm with a special family matinee on Sunday, November 17 at 2pm.

Laughter has long been considered the language of the soul and Four Clowns Jr. has embodied this message in their productions That Beautiful Laugh, a show that spoke to children and adults alike through laughter and a slew of touchingly funny vignettes, and Robin Hood, a hilarious clown-inspired adventure, which marked the company's most prestigious collaboration to date with South Coast Repertory. Now, in its latest endeavor Somewhere Like Earth, Four Clowns Jr. plans to feed the soul, not just with laughter, but with learning as well.

The famed Princeton Triangle Club, now in its 123rd year, returns to McCarter Theatre with the world premiere of Zero Gravitas, all-student written and performed, for three performances on Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16 at 8pm with a special family matinee on Sunday, November 17 at 2pm.

I hardly know where to begin with this review of the Bohemian Theatre Ensemble's gutsy, stripped-down and yet somehow epic production of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” the musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally that is running at Theatre Wit through June 30, 2013. There, I guess I just began. I'm a jumble of thoughts and feeling right now. Come to think of it, so are the three principal characters.

A world of independent film comes to "Everybody's Hometown" as the 6th Annual Media Film Festival prepares to screen outstanding work by local, national and international filmmakers. The 2 day festival takes place Friday, April 5th and Saturday April 6th at the Media Borough Community Center, 3rd and Monroe Streets. Sponsored by the Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union, the Media Film Festival is a juried presentation of outstanding narrative, documentary, animated and experimental films. Admission is $10. For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.mediafilmfestival.org.