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Peninsula Players Theatre, Door County's premier professional theater, has been awarded a $15,000 grant for general operating support from The Shubert Foundation, Inc., which is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States.   For information on Peninsula Players 2017 season visit www.peninsulaplayers.com or call 920-868-3287.

How far would you go to protect what's most important in your life? That's the question at the heart of Lisa Gardner's LOVE YOU MORE. I've never read anything by Gardner before, but the novel's synopsis caught my attention right away:

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's Oldest Professional Resident Summer Theatre and Door County's theatrical icon, announces artistic company members for its 82nd season, running June 13 through October 15, 2017. 

The Women's Theater Company, a professional theater company in Parsippany, NJ, presents Almost Maine, written by John Cariani.

Jacqueline Dark is appearing with the State Opera of South Australia in Cavalleria Rusticana.

Second-wave feminism has been rising for a decade, and Roe vs. Wade is about to be decided. In When We Were Young and Unafraid, stage and television writer Sarah Treem introduces us to four women from different generations and backgrounds, and sets out to make the audience decide: Who is the feminist?

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce its 82nd season performing June 13 through October 15, 2017.  Nestled along Door County, Wisconsin's scenic shore, the award-winning acting company of Peninsula Players has been enthralling generations of audiences in its 600-plus seat, all-weather pavilion since 1935, presenting hundreds of pre-Broadway tryouts, world premieres, classic dramas, comedies and musicals.

?Nine vignettes, nine couples and 18 very different characters, with just four actors to fill the roles. This is both the challenge and the beauty of the upcoming Hackmatack Playhouse version of Almost, Maine, a romantic comedy opening Wednesday, Aug. 17 in Berwick, Maine.

David Furr has bruises; lots and lots of bruises. In his stellar performance as Gary Lejeune in the current revival of Michael Frayne's hilarious NOISES OFF, Furr slides on a floor scattered with sardines, stumbles down one staircase. slips across a balcony, gets his foot caught in a box of theatrical props, wields a hatchet and falls down yet another staircase which crumbles apart as he does so. It's an understatement to say that his role is physically demanding.

48 HOURS: “The Sober Truth” was Saturday's #1 broadcast at 10:00 PM with viewers and adults 25-54, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Jan. 2.

The UK's foremost festival of international contemporary circus returns with a season of world premieres, amazing new productions and street performances from the hottest names in circus. From performances that push the human body to its limits to discussions about the cultural significance of circus throughout history.

Today we are presenting a special Inside Look of an upcoming InDepth InterView with acclaimed stage and screen star Marc Kudisch all about the searing and provocative new Broadway play HAND TO GOD and his many recent endeavors. In the complete conversation, Kudisch and I analyze all aspects of his brand new Broadway hit HAND TO GOD and parse the finer points of the religion-themed comedy as well as touch on his thoughts on the daring, thought-provoking and edgy Robert Askins play, with today's preview touching on many of the themes of the piece, the importance of the play's message to a modern audience, an exhaustive analysis of the character dynamics that exist in this world and what initially drew Kudisch to the idiosyncratic project in the first place, as well as how it has changed throughout the course of its run Off-Off-Broadway to Off-Broadway to Broadway. Additionally, in the full chat, Kudisch and I look back at some of his most notable roles, as well, ranging from THE WILD PARTY to 9-TO-5 to his recent Shakespeare turn opposite Paul Giamatti in HAMLET and stint on Netflix's hit drama series HOUSE OF CARDS as well as much more.

The Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park is adding 3 more performances of their production of 'Almost, Maine,' on February 20-22 (Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.).

Newnan Theatre Company begins its 38th year bringing entertainment to Newnan and Coweta County with their production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine. The production opens tonight, January 22nd and runs through February 1st.

Newnan Theatre Company begins its 38th year bringing entertainment to Newnan and Coweta County with their production of John Cariani's Almost, Maine. The production opens January 22nd and runs through February 1st.

The Arches' annual festival of new work by Scotland's most exciting performance makers is back, featuring artists brought together by a shared determination to subvert and surprise.

The Arches' annual festival of new work by Scotland's most exciting performance makers is back, featuring artists brought together by a shared determination to subvert and surprise.

S.D. Wagner, a producer for 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder', the new Broadway production recently nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical, was struck by a car in New York City.