William S. Burroughs News

Bay Street Theatre is celebrating its 21st season and has announced the 2012 Mainstage productions.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the University of Massachusetts Lowell announced yesterday - which would have been Jack Kerouac's 90th birthday - they will present the world premiere of the Lowell native and literary icon's only full-length play, "Beat Generation," in a staged reading for eight performances only.

As first reported in The Hollywood Reporter, actor Daniel Radcliffe has officially landed the role of beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the upcoming indie film KILL YOUR DARLINGS.

Stage Left Studio and Cheryl King Productions have added performance dates for their new edgy comedy FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY: 12-step Walk Up, starring Drama Desk Award-nominee and celebrated monologist Frank Blocker.

Daniel Radcliffe, the 'Harry Potter' star who will end his stint in Broadway's HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at the end of this year, reportedly already has his sights set on another role.

Stage Left Studio and Cheryl King Productions have added performance dates for their new edgy comedy FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY: 12-step Walk Up, starring Drama Desk Award-nominee and celebrated monologist Frank Blocker.

Stage Left Studio and Cheryl King Productions have added performance dates for their new edgy comedy FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY: 12-step Walk Up, starring Drama Desk Award-nominee and celebrated monologist Frank Blocker.

Stage Left Studio and Cheryl King Productions have added performance dates for their new edgy comedy FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY: 12-step Walk Up, starring Drama Desk Award-nominee and celebrated monologist Frank Blocker.

Today, R.E.M. posted two videos for their brand-new song 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong' on their official website www.remhq.com. R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and co-director Dominic DeJoseph (who has directed previous films for R.E.M.) recruited actress Kirsten Dunst to star in one of the videos for 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong.' Dunst is a Golden Globe-nominated performer who has starred in such movies as Sophia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Marie Antoinette, and the Spider-Man trilogy. She recently received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in the current film Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that Matt McGrath will appear in the role of Frank ‘N' Furter in The Old Globe's upcoming production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show. McGrath appeared on Broadway as the Emcee in Sam Mendes' hit revival of Cabaret and in the international tour of Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs' The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets directed by Robert Wilson. He has also appeared Off Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Itch and A Fair Country at Lincoln Center Theater. McGrath replaces the previously announced James Barbour, who has departed the production.

Detroit-based physical theatre company, The Hinterlands, will present their original, site-specific, psychedelic Western, Manifest Destiny! (there was blood on the saddle), at the historic Jam Handy Film Studio August 4-6 and August 25-27 at 8:00 PM.

Detroit-based physical theatre company, The Hinterlands, will present their original, site-specific, psychedelic Western, Manifest Destiny! (there was blood on the saddle), at the historic Jam Handy Film Studio August 4-6 and August 25-27 at 8:00 PM.

Hailed as the grandfather of punk and the godfather of the beat generation, Burroughs was a bartender, a private detective, a factory worker, an exterminator, a heroin addict, and a writer.

William Lee, a writer, publicist, drummer and aspiring artist influenced by the works of William S. Burroughs, has created an online gallery of works, dedicated to this infamous artist.

Hailed as the grandfather of punk and the godfather of the beat generation, Burroughs was a bartender, a private detective, a factory worker, an exterminator, a heroin addict, and a writer.

Joe's Pub Releases Schedule for December 23rd through January 1st including AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!, SCREAM ALONG WITH BILLY: A VERY NICO CHRISTMAS, JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF JACKIE HOFFMAN'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY, OUR LADY J: THE GOSPEL OF DOLLY, and SANDRA BERNHARD.

Joe's Pub Releases Schedule for December 23rd through January 1st including AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!, SCREAM ALONG WITH BILLY: A VERY NICO CHRISTMAS, JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF JACKIE HOFFMAN'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY, OUR LADY J: THE GOSPEL OF DOLLY, and SANDRA BERNHARD.

Joe's Pub Releases Schedule for December 23rd through January 1st including AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!, SCREAM ALONG WITH BILLY: A VERY NICO CHRISTMAS, JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF JACKIE HOFFMAN'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY, OUR LADY J: THE GOSPEL OF DOLLY, and SANDRA BERNHARD.

Joe's Pub Releases Schedule for December 23rd through January 1st including AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!, SCREAM ALONG WITH BILLY: A VERY NICO CHRISTMAS, JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF JACKIE HOFFMAN'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY, OUR LADY J: THE GOSPEL OF DOLLY, and SANDRA BERNHARD.