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BROADWAY: BEYOND THE GOLDEN AGE, Award-winning director Rick McKay's anxiously awaited sequel to his 2004 hit film, BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE, just made its World Premiere to a sold-out crowd at the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. Check out photos from the big night below!

BROADWAY: BEYOND THE GOLDEN AGE, Award-winning director Rick McKay's anxiously awaited sequel to his 2004 hit film, BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE, will make its World Premiere at the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival tonight, January 7. The festival runs through January 11, 2016.

To life! The Broadway revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF just opened Sunday night, December 20 at The Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway), wrapping up the 2015 Broadway season. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, and choreographed by Hofesh Shechter. BroadwayWorld was there for all of the opening night festivities and you can check out coverage from the red carpet below!

BroadwayWorld is excited to report that BROADWAY: BEYOND THE GOLDEN AGE, Award-winning director Rick McKay's anxiously awaited sequel to his 2004 hit film, BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN AGE, is set to make its World Premiere at the 27th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which takes place January 1-11, 2016.

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The new drama Sweat by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined; By The Way, Meet Vera Stark) comes to Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater following a critically-acclaimed debut at Oregon Shakespeare Festival as part of a co-commission between the two theaters. Hailed by The New York Times as an 'extraordinarily moving drama' that 'brims with the kind of ripe, richly imagined life associated with the work of the great August Wilson,' the play is directed by Nottage's longtime collaborator Kate Whoriskey and runs January 15-February 21, 2016 in the Kreeger Theater.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces select cast members for the upcoming 2016 productions of Sweat, The City of Conversation and All the Way.

On Monday, October 28th, 2015, Rick McKay, the Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer and editor of the hit 2004 film, 'Broadway: The Golden Age' won 'Best Film - Greenwich Village Portraits' for his new short film, 'Greenwich Village: A World Apart', at the first ever Greenwich Village Film Festival, which was held at Greenwich Village's historic Player's Theatre at 115 MacDougal Street.

It was 20 years ago when Sarah Jessica Parker starred Off-Broadway in A.R. Gurney's off-beat comedy about a man and his dog, SLYVIA. Just last night her hubby Matthew Broderick had the honor of opening in SLYVIA on Broadway, joined by Annaleigh Ashford as Sylvia, with Julie White and Robert Sella. BroadwayWorld was there for all of the opening night festivities and you can check out photos from the red carpet arrivals below!

Acclaimed Director James Lapine was honored with the 2015 "Mr. Abbott" Award for the outstanding artistry and creativity of his forty-year (and counting) career on Monday October 19th.

59E59 Theaters has announced REMEMBER US TO TOM: Letters from Tennessee's Family, a staged reading of never-before-read letters between Tennessee Williams and members of his family.

Melvin Bernhardt, director of two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and Tony winner for DA, died on Saturday, September 12, 2015. He was 84.

Actor's Equity Association artists Ron Jones, Celeste Roberts, Joel Sandel, David Grant, Nick Henderson and Lauren Smith will produce Houston's first Equity Showcase production, the Houston premiere of Tennessee Williams' rarely produced THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE.

Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) producers proudly open Stephen Sonheim's COMPANY 7pm Saturday, MAY 30th, starring American Idol's breakout star, Justin Guarini.

Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) announces Bucks County's own John Augustine to return (The Hummingbird's Tour, 2014, Director) to the Bucks County Playhouse stage as 'Larry' in Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY, running May 29-June 21. Augustine will play alongside Broadway's Candy Buckley (Scandalous, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret) as 'Joanne'.

The Douglas Morrisson Theatre has announced the final show in its 2014-2015 Journeys Season: Thornton Wilder's vast absurd comedy about the human race: THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH.

BROADWAYWORLD.COM, the largest theatre and live entertainment website, is excited to bring you a 72-hour exclusive of UNDERSTUDIES, an award-winning mockumentary web series by co-creators Elisabeth Gray and Daniel Zimbler that follows Astoria Bagg (Gray) on her mission to 'make it' on Broadway. Between navigating the backstage dramas of a high-end Broadway production of Twilight At Tiffany's (a groundbreaking new play combining the best of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Twilight) and the trauma wrought by a competitive, Tony-award winning mother, Astoria seeks to find her place as an artist in the city of a thousand stages. The cast includes Richard Kind (Spin City, A Serious Man), Tony Award-winner and Golden Globe-nominee Elizabeth Ashley, and Tony Award-nominee Alison Fraser.

BROADWAYWORLD.COM, the largest theatre and live entertainment website, is excited to bring you a 72-hour exclusive of UNDERSTUDIES, an award-winning mockumentary web series by co-creators Elisabeth Gray and Daniel Zimbler that follows Astoria Bagg (Gray) on her mission to 'make it' on Broadway. Between navigating the backstage dramas of a high-end Broadway production of Twilight At Tiffany's (a groundbreaking new play combining the best of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Twilight) and the trauma wrought by a competitive, Tony-award winning mother, Astoria seeks to find her place as an artist in the city of a thousand stages. The cast includes Richard Kind (Spin City, A Serious Man), Tony Award-winner and Golden Globe-nominee Elizabeth Ashley, and Tony Award-nominee Alison Fraser.

Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) announces 'Galavant In The Garden,' a spring garden party benefiting the theater tonight, May 9, featuring a special preview performance of Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming's new one-man show at Dark Hollow Farm, a private Bucks County gentleman's estate.

BROADWAYWORLD.COM, the largest theatre and live entertainment website, is excited to bring you a 72-hour exclusive of UNDERSTUDIES, an award-winning mockumentary web series by co-creators Elisabeth Gray and Daniel Zimbler that follows Astoria Bagg (Gray) on her mission to 'make it' on Broadway. Between navigating the backstage dramas of a high-end Broadway production of Twilight At Tiffany's (a groundbreaking new play combining the best of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Twilight) and the trauma wrought by a competitive, Tony-award winning mother, Astoria seeks to find her place as an artist in the city of a thousand stages. The cast includes Richard Kind (Spin City, A Serious Man), Tony Award-winner and Golden Globe-nominee Elizabeth Ashley, and Tony Award-nominee Alison Fraser.