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Following its smash hit run at London's Dominion Theatre, Bill Kenwright's production of the extraordinary musical, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, is set to thrill audiences once again across the UK, opening in Bromley on Thursday 12 January.

What the cast and director are doing here is offering a solid, slick, and oh so faithful rendition of ROCKY HORROR. Director Mitchell Greco relies on the strength of the fortysomething year-old material, and lets his vision grow gorgeous images and sumptuous arrangements.

At 2:00pm on Sunday October 30, the Blue Horse Repertory Company ('Three by Tennessee', 'Leading Ladies') will perform TODAY'S BRECHT, a special benefit reading of two of Bertolt Brecht's short plays, 'The Jewish Wife' and 'The Informer', and some of the author's poetry and music from the period of their composition.

GEICO has been named title sponsor of the State Champions Bowl Series. For the second time since 2014, this unique event will allow high school football champions from different states to play against each other in post-season bowl games to be televised live on ESPNU.

The Marblehead School of Ballet (MSB) is featuring instructor Jimmy Raye during its 45th anniversary season.  Trained in classical ballet and Pilates, Raye's extensive art portfolio includes recognition as a prominent fashion collector of vintage shoes, hats, purses and clothes by the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and The New York Times.  

Theatre Under The Stars would like (if we may) to introduce the cast of the upcoming TUTS production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show.

Theatre Under The Stars would like to introduce the cast of the upcoming TUTS production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show.

Leading Irish writers of today try to get inside the heads of the 1916 rebels.

This year, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' 'Uptown Funk', Taylor Swift's 1989, Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' and Meghan Trainor topped the 2016 honorees. Scroll down for all the winners!

Portland Stage's gleeful, wickedly funny send-up of the Sherlock Holmes classic, Hound of the Baskervilles, as adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson, makes for a perfect antidote to the winter blues! Mounted with breathless energy by director Daniel Burson and brought to life by an agile, inventive, endearing trio of actors, this irreverent take on one of the best loved tales of the Holmes canon will keep you chuckling long after the curtain falls.

Country icon Hank Williams Jr.'s new Nash Icon Records album, IT'S ABOUT TIME, which includes the rowdy single, “Are You Ready for the Country,” is now available in stores and across digital retailers.

Country music icon Hank Williams Jr.'s new album, IT'S ABOUT TIME, will be released today, January 15, 2016 on Nash Icon Records.

Principal photography is underway on Warner Bros. Pictures' Wonder Woman feature film, the highly anticipated action adventure from director Patty Jenkins ('Monster,' AMC's 'The Killing'), starring Gal Gadot (the 'Fast & Furious' movies) in the role of Diana Prince/Wonder Woman. The character will make her big screen debut this spring in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,' but the new film will mark her first time headlining a feature.

Country music icon Hank Williams Jr. announced today that his new album, IT'S ABOUT TIME, will be released January 15, 2016 on Nash Icon Records.

In this 2015 season of 'Magic, Murder, and Mayhem' Maine's Theater at Monmouth serves up a gripping adaptation of Henry James' familiar tale of psychological Gothic horror, The Turn of the Screw. The novella tells the story of a governess' battle to wrench her two young charges from the grasp of spirits who haunt their estate and to probe the dark secrets which exert a debilitating psychological hold on everyone at Bly. Adapted here by Jeffrey Hatcher as a two person drama in which one actor plays all the characters other than the governess, TAM's seventy-five minute production has a lean look and taut pace that rivet even an audience familiar with the work.

William Shakespeare's magical comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream opens at Theater at Monmouth tonight, July 23 at 7:30 p.m. One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream follows the journey of four young lovers as they find their way through the forest and to each other. But as Lysander says 'the course of true love never did run smooth.' Full of madcap chases and mistaken identities, A Midsummer Night's Dream is an exploration of the mystery and madness of love.

Season 46 continues at TAM with Tom Stoppard's whodunit satire, The Real Inspector Hound opening at Theater at Monmouth Friday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. A parody of the Agatha Christie-style parlor mystery, The Real Inspector Hound explores the thin line between the audience and the stage, as Stoppard fractures reality and life imitates art. Of the 1968 production The Guardian wrote, "Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound is a witty and delicious parody of the fog bound whodunit.'

Noel Coward's clever comedy Fallen Angels opens at Theater at Monmouth today, July 17 at 7:30 p.m. Smart, stylish, and intoxicatingly witty, Fallen Angels takes you on hilarious ride as two women take on the nature of commitment, the sexual double standard, and each other for the chance to rekindle an old flame. Coward's fast-paced comedy of manners discards social codes and exposes the foibles of the British upper class.

William Shakespeare's magical comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream opens at Theater at Monmouth Friday, July 23 at 7:30 p.m. One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream follows the journey of four young lovers as they find their way through the forest and to each other. But as Lysander says "the course of true love never did run smooth." Full of madcap chases and mistaken identities, A Midsummer Night's Dream is an exploration of the mystery and madness of love.

Noel Coward's clever comedy Fallen Angels opens at Theater at Monmouth Friday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m. Smart, stylish, and intoxicatingly witty, Fallen Angels takes you on hilarious ride as two women take on the nature of commitment, the sexual double standard, and each other for the chance to rekindle an old flame. Coward's fast-paced comedy of manners discards social codes and exposes the foibles of the British upper class.