Andrew Carr News

George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance: 'A Cavalcade of Ideas Wrapped Around a Full Portion of Wit' will run January 28 through February 22, 2015 at Walnut Street Theatre's Studio 5.

Three one-acts from the writer The New York Times critic Ben Brantley described as "…one of our funniest playwrights," master of parody Christopher Durang, will be presented beginning November 9 at L'Etage Cabaret in Philadelphia. A Streetcar Named Durang: Two Burlesques and a Western will be presented by The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, the Philadelphia-based theater company whose mission is to present classic absurdist theater to audiences in the Philadelphia region.

From a cheesesteak eating competition to catcalling and personal love letters, the 5th annual SoLow Fest is in its biggest year with more than 40 solo performances.

The 3rd Annual Honey Bee Cabaret will celebrate over 100 seasons of great acting at Plays & Players. The fundraiser benefits, in part, the Melissa Lynch Foundation, announcing a new yearly award for an emerging female theater artist. It all takes place on June 22, 2014.

Chapman University in association with Lexikat Artists present the wartime letters of American soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen and their loved ones at home which are brought to life in a new play IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER by Andrew Carroll. *The author will narrate this evening's performance. Directed by John Benitz.

From a cheesesteak eating competition to catcalling and personal love letters, the 5th annual SoLow Fest is in its biggest year with more than 40 solo performances.

Skidmore College Department of Theater has announced its Spring 2014 Season. Details below!

EAR Fuzz is in an open rehearsal of theater, a chance to 'peek behind the curtain' at fascinating artists at play. It is a relaxed, stress-free environment in which four exciting emerging artists, two playwrights and two actors, play with ideas inspired by their work in the Emerging Artists in Residence (EAR) program at Plays & Players. Each EAR Fuzz ends with a 'communal ritual' with the audience in celebration of the growth and an arts and crafts inspiration board as an exciting and fresh way to respond to the work.

EAR Fuzz is in an open rehearsal of theater, a chance to "peek behind the curtain" at fascinating artists at play. It is a relaxed, stress-free environment in which four exciting emerging artists, two playwrights and two actors, play with ideas inspired by their work in the Emerging Artists in Residence (EAR) program at Plays & Players. Each EAR Fuzz ends with a "communal ritual" with the audience in celebration of the growth and an arts and crafts inspiration board as an exciting and fresh way to respond to the work.

Conducted by CSO Associate Conductor Peter Stafford Wilson, the Columbus All City Orchestra will present a free, public concert on Wednesday, May 22, at the Southern Theatre at 7:30pm. Now in its sixth year, the orchestra's 50 members are selected from musicians in grades 9-12 attending Columbus City Schools. The program is tuition free for students and is funded by The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, The Paul Duke Foundation, and The Morris and Emma Woodhull Fund of The Columbus Foundation.

St. Louis County Library celebrates the 2013 Read St. Louis Memoir selection with a special event with bestselling author Cheryl Strayed. Strayed will discuss and sign her highly-acclaimed memoir "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" on Wednesday, April 17, 7 pm at St. Louis County Library Headquarters, 1640 S. Lindbergh.

The long-running hit musical Chicago will be performed by students at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia at the Merriam Theater on March 23, 24 and 25, 2012. In addition to evening performances on Friday March 23 and Saturday March 24 at 8pm and matinee performances on Saturday and Sunday at 2pm, there will be a preview performance on Thursday night March 22 at 8pm.

FRIGID New York and A High Frequency Theatre will present Andrew Hall's "'Til Love Do Us Part" February 22 - March 3 at UNDER St. Marks - 94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Avenue A.

FRIGID New York and A High Frequency Theatre will present Andrew Hall's "'Til Love Do Us Part" February 22 - March 3 at UNDER St. Marks - 94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Avenue A.

USF announces their upcoming season with a theme of Science, Art, and Culture: An Eternal Braid.

The Fox Valley Area can feed their appetite for theatre while helping feed others in the community this summer as Fox Valley Rep's Youth Ensemble proudly presents Little Shop of Horrors.

The author of the longest-running Broadway comedy of the past fifty years, Albert Innaurato, has uncapped his pen to adapt one of his favorite plays, Beaumarchais' The Marriage of Figaro, and will direct a staged reading of his newest work under the auspices of the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts in the Caplan Studio Theater, 211 S. Broad St., on October 21-25, 2010.