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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced 38 national awardees at the 41st annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), April 14-18, 2009. The students from universities and colleges from across the United States secured their places at the national festival and the opportunity to earn awards, scholarships, and fellowships through their success at regional festivals in January and February 2009.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces four invited productions and the Short Play Festival as part of the 41st annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), April 14-18, 2009. Selected participants from eight regional festivals held in January and February at colleges and universities across the country are invited to showcase their talents at the nation's center for the performing arts, to be considered for scholarships and awards and to participate in master classes with some of the best artists in their field.

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the year Galileo first turned his telescope upward and changed the way human beings thought of their place in the cosmos, Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT and Underground Railway Theater present Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo! Playing Friday, April 10 through Sunday, May 17 at Central Square Theater, this production of The Life of Galileo, Brecht's widely acclaimed masterpiece of science theater, is translated by David Hare, directed by David Wheeler, and stars Boston area favorite Richard McElvain in the title role. Press night is set for Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 PM.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces four invited productions and the Short Play Festival as part of the 41st annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), April 14-18, 2009. Selected participants from eight regional festivals held in January and February at colleges and universities across the country are invited to showcase their talents at the nation's center for the performing arts, to be considered for scholarships and awards and to participate in master classes with some of the best artists in their field.

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the year Galileo first turned his telescope upward and changed the way human beings thought of their place in the cosmos, Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT and Underground Railway Theater present Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo! Playing Friday, April 10 through Sunday, May 17 at Central Square Theater, this production of The Life of Galileo, Brecht's widely acclaimed masterpiece of science theater, is translated by David Hare, directed by David Wheeler, and stars Boston area favorite Richard McElvain in the title role. Press night is set for Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 PM.

Stoneham Theatre's production of this Tony Award-nominated musical adaptation of Arnold Lobel's beloved children's books demonstrates the power of heart over histrionics, showing that sometimes less is more

Sharpen your senses, fire up your imagination, and bring along a hand to squeeze when you get scared out of your wits by 'The Woman in Black,' the season-ender at Gloucester Stage Company

Orfeo Group, a professional, Boston-based theatre company, is offering free admission to John Osborne's 'Look Back in Anger'.

New Repertory Theatre continues exploring this season's theme of isolation and connection with Molière's The Misanthrope, using Constance Congdon's 19th century French setting

New Repertory Theatre is bringing the Belle Époque in France to the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Molière's delightful comedy, The Misanthrope. This classic satire, told with Molière's signature wit, opens for the press on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8PM and plays through February 10, 2007

Boston area theaters mount a weighty 'Orson's Shadow,' a delightful 'Souvenir' and a quietly powerful 'Grapes of Wrath'

Breakneck pace gives this earthbound stage adventure its wings

New Rep production of Martin McDonagh's scorching black comedy delivers chills, thrills, and decidedly disquieting laughter in a provocative bedtime story that's bound to keep you awake nights

Lyric Stage Company production is drop-your-drawers funny!

New Rep inaugurates its new Watertown performing space with equal parts testosterone and rosewater

New Rep production is brutal, bloody, and twisted - but you can't take your eyes off it.

John Lennon may have been paranoid about the government, but he was also being followed.