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For the first time in two decades, The Kitchen will present a new edition of the acclaimed performance series And That's How the Rent Gets Paid, written by downtown legends Jeff Weiss and Richard C. Martinez. For three nights only (July 14-16), Weiss and Martinez's thrilling serial drama, which follows a charming serial killer through the queer underbelly of New York City, will be brought to life by director and producer Brooke O'Harra with Kate Valk and Nicky Paraiso. The three-day marathon performance features an eclectic group of 50 performers including David Cale, Jennifer Miller, Keith McDermott, Becca Blackwell, Jess Barbagallo, Moe Angelos and Mark Bennett, among others. Weiss will appear in the production, in various cameo performances, throughout the three-day run.

Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre presents a special engagement of Disney's “Tomorrowland,” from today, May 22 – June 17, 2015. Internationally acclaimed magician Greg Wilson will present an all-new magic show, “The Magic of Imagination,” before every screening of the movie. Plus, El Capitan guests will have the chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the filmmakers created the world of Tomorrowland, including costumes, props and concept drawings. In addition, El Capitan guests have the opportunity to be among the first to see the film at a special advance screening on May 21 at 7 p.m.

Charles Hughes' Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, starts with some serious limitations.

Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre presents a special engagement of Disney's “Tomorrowland,” from May 22 – June 17, 2015. Internationally acclaimed magician Greg Wilson will present an all-new magic show, “The Magic of Imagination,” before every screening of the movie. Plus, El Capitan guests will have the chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the filmmakers created the world of Tomorrowland, including costumes, props and concept drawings. In addition, El Capitan guests have the opportunity to be among the first to see the film at a special advance screening on May 21 at 7 p.m.

Berkeley Rep is proud to announce that its annual OVATION Gala raised $675,000 for the Theatre's new play development, arts education, and community engagement programs. Held at the glitzy Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco, the event swept guests up in a masquerade fete filled with theatrical spectacle and surprise entertainment. The Gala was one of the most successful in Berkeley Rep's history, welcoming 330 attendees.

A brand new trailer from Disney's TOMORROWLAND starring George Clooney has been released. Check it out below! Additionally, a special presentation of the film, featuring more than six minutes of footage to be introduced by director Brad Bird, will screen exclusively in IMAX® theatres

Learn about Walt Disney's vision for the future in the TOMORROWLAND featurette below starring George Clooney, producer/writer Damon Lindelof, and director Brad Bird!

A new 30-second TV Spot for Disney's TOMORROWLAND was revealed during last night's MTV Movie Awards. The film hits theaters on May 22, 2015. Get a first look below!

Mary's Mosaic. It's an odd name for a Kennedy assassination tome so it bears explanation.

Walt Disney Studios announced today an unprecedented collaboration between the Studio, Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort to offer park guests a 12-minute sneak peek of Disney's upcoming thrilling, mystery-adventure film, “Tomorrowland,”

Merriment and Milton are hardly synonymous, but the poet who penned Paradise Lost also inspired George Frideric Handel's L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, which concludes 'Mirth, with thee we mean to live.'

Me, the Mob and the Music is the autobiography of sixties' hit-maker Tommy James (as told to Martin Fitzpatrick).

From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird's “Tomorrowland,” a riveting mystery adventure starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Check out the first trailer below!

Be sure to tune-in this Sunday for an exclusive look at Disney's TOMORROWLAND during the Big Game. Check out the teaser the below!

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmoni

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vienna's Musikverein.

Among the heavy hitters in the history of American crime fiction, the late Elmore Leonard was something of a 'tweener': not quite as purely entertaining as Donald Westlake, not as morally serious as Patricia Highsmith or Ross MacDonald, not as stylistically interesting as Raymond Chandler or as close to the no-nonsense bone as James M. Cain (who probably makes for the best comparison).

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmoni

Charles Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol' is returning to Frederick for the twenty-first straight year with Maryland Ensemble Theatre's production at the Weinberg Center for the Arts. The cast of over two dozen actors portraying the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Tiny Tim will transport audiences to Victorian England as the penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his miserly ways and embraces the true spirit of Christmas.