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Celebrate love in all its forms at The Players Theatre Short Play Festival LUV 2024, running through February 25 for a heartfelt theatrical experience!

The 12th Annual Players Theatre LUV Short Play Festival is back with a love-themed festival featuring original short plays that will make audiences laugh, cry, and feel all squishy inside.

Funny Girl is a semi-autobiographical comedic musical about the life and times of comedian and Broadway star Fanny Brice, and her tumultuous relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein. With a musical score by Jules Styne, lyrics by Bob Merill, and featuring a book by Isobel Lennart, Funny Girl first opened on Broadway in 1964 featuring Barbara Streisand in the starring role, and was produced by Fanny’s own son-in-law Ray Stark. The first Broadway production received 8 Tony Nominations at the 18th Annual Awards Ceremony, and the OBC (Original Broadway Cast) Recording was inducted into the Grammy’s Hall of Fame in 2004.

Featured events include both in-person activations at various locations throughout Seattle, as well as online events that are accessible to audiences everywhere.

Well-known gospel recording artist Kenton Rogers has joined the cast of Avant Bard's revival of The Gospel at Colonus, a critical and audience hit last season. Rogers--an actor, singer, and ordained preacher--will headline The Gospel at Colonus in the role of Singer Oedipus along with local civic legend William T. Newman Jr., who returns as Preacher Oedipus.

Well-known gospel recording artist Kenton Rogers has joined the cast of Avant Bard's revival of The Gospel at Colonus, a critical and audience hit last season. Rogers-an actor, singer, and ordained preacher-will headline The Gospel at Colonus in the role of Singer Oedipus along with local civic legend William T. Newman Jr., who returns as Preacher Oedipus.

Men and Women Talking Love and Sex is performing Off-Broadway at the Davenport Theatre, 354 W. 45th Street (at 9th Ave), NYC. December 5, 2014 thru January 10, 2015 General Admission: $30; January 11, 2015 thru February 14, 2015 General Admission: $60; Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 2PM. www.menandwomentalkingloveanddsex.com

Aaron Ballard ("Celebrity Ghost Stories"), Nicolas Greco (Lovesick), Zane Johnston (The Laramie Project Epilogue), Ben Kahre (The Commons of Pensacola) and Karen Stanion ("U.F.O. Fever")

Metropolitan Playhouse, OBIE Award winner, presents the fourth annual East Village Theater Festival, a three-week celebration of the ever-vital life and lore of the East Village. The festival features four different evenings of new plays and solo-performances, as well as the work of local artists, and a panel discussion on the neighborhood's changing identity.

Metropolitan Playhouse, OBIE Award winner, presents the fourth annual East Village Theater Festival, a three-week celebration of the ever-vital life and lore of the East Village. The festival features four different evenings of new plays and solo-performances, as well as the work of local artists, and a panel discussion on the neighborhood's changing identity.