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The Baltimore Playwrights Festival has announced its upcoming season, featuring Shana Unsettled, Lethal Injection, Following Sarah, and more.

The American director, screenwriter and producer Michael Mann - a total filmmaker and one of the most influential and representative figures in contemporary American cinema - has been designated to chair the International Jury for the Competition at the 69th Venice International Film Festival (29 August - 8 September 2012), which will award the Golden Lion and other official prizes.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces that the company's acclaimed World Premiere production of The Outgoing Tide, by Bruce Graham and directed by BJ Jones, will be presented in association with Galway Arts Festival in Galway, Ireland, July 17 - 21, 2012. Cast members John Mahoney, Rondi Reed and Thomas J. Cox, are set to reprise the roles they originated in the Northlight production.

The New York-based composers' group, Random Access Music, presents the first Queens New Music Festival from today May 10 through May 13, 2012 at the Little Secret Theatre (Studio 104, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens). This 'trailblazing festival seeks to highlight and promote composers, musicians, and ensembles living and creating new music in the borough of Queens.'

Celebrate Brooklyn! today announced its lineup for this year, which begins June 5 with a free concert by reggae icon Jimmy Cliff.

The 39th annual edition of the Chicago area's Bach Week Festival, where Baroque music lovers luxuriate in diverse works of Johann Sebastian Bach, will present a signature blend of solo, concerto, orchestral, and choral performances in concerts tonight April 27, May 4, and May 6 in Evanston.

Bradley Cooper is set to play John Merrick in a production of Bernard Pomerance's THE ELEPHANT MAN at the Williamstown Theatre Festival July 25 to August 5. Scott Ellis will direct and Patricia Clarkson will feature in the cast, according to the New York Times.

The 39th annual edition of the Chicago area's Bach Week Festival, where Baroque music lovers luxuriate in diverse works of Johann Sebastian Bach, will present a signature blend of solo, concerto, orchestral, and choral performances in concerts April 27, May 4, and May 6 in Evanston.

The New York-based composers' group, Random Access Music, announces the first Queens New Music Festival from May 10-13, 2012 at the Little Secret Theatre (Studio 104, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens). This 'trailblazing festival seeks to highlight and promote composers, musicians, and ensembles living and creating new music in the borough of Queens.'

The National Black Touring Circuit's Black History Month Play Festival will present "I, Barbara Jordan," a dynamic look at the first African American woman from the South to be elected to Congress, at the National Black Theatre, 2031 Fifth Avenue through February 26.

Artes de la Rosa will host the World Premiere Screening of It is Rocket Science in Presidio at the 2nd Annual Rose Marine Latino Film Festival. The film will screen on Saturday, February 25th at 7:00 p.m. Directed by Academy and Emmy Award winner Nigel Noble, the film is a short documentary of a Texasborder town physics teacher and her students' unprecedented success in national science and rocketry competitions. Students featured in the film, from the Presidio Rocketry Team, were recently invited to the White House where they participated in the 2nd White House Science Fair this past Tuesday. There, they met President Obama and invited him to the Premiere of the film documenting their journey at Rose Marine Latino Film Festival. A copy of the film was then presented to the Commander-in-Chief. Director Nigel Noble and students from the team will be in attendance at the screening of the film Saturday the 25th.

The National Black Touring Circuit's Black History Month Play Festival will present "I, Barbara Jordan," a dynamic look at the first African American woman from the South to be elected to Congress, at the National Black Theatre, 2031 Fifth Avenue from February 24-26.

The National Black Touring Circuit's Black History Month Play Festival will present "Zora Neal Hurston," written by Laurence Holder, starring Kim Brockington and directed by Wynn Handman from February 10 - 12 at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 43rd Street.

The National Black Touring Circuit's Black History Month Play Festival will present "Zora Neal Hurston," written by Laurence Holder, starring Kim Brockington and directed by Wynn Handman from February 10 - 12 at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 43rd Street.

The National Black Touring Circuit's Black History Month Play Festival will present "Zora Neal Hurston," written by Laurence Holder, starring Kim Brockington and directed by Wynn Handman from February 10 - 12 at the Castillo Theatre, 543 West 43rd Street.

Oscar-winner and Broadway veteran Meryl Streep will be awarded an Honorary Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced today the eight musicals selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New Musicals on Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28 at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

Birmingham Festival Theatre will stage THAT CAMPIONSHIP SEASON, September 15 through October 1, featuring Kevin Van Hyning as Tom Daley, David Seale as George Sikowski, Shawn Reese as James Daley, Brian Webber as Phil Romano, and Edward Miller as Coach.

Birmingham Festival Theatre will stage THAT CAMPIONSHIP SEASON, September 15 through October 1, featuring Kevin Van Hyning as Tom Daley, David Seale as George Sikowski, Shawn Reese as James Daley, Brian Webber as Phil Romano, and Edward Miller as Coach.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced today the eight musicals selected to be part of the 23rd Annual Festival of New Musicals on Thursday, October 27 and Friday, October 28 at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).

For the 44th consecutive year, the capital will be grooving to the beat of the Festival d'ete de Quebec this July.

Think the past nine years were bad? Get ready for this. The ten-year anniversary of the festival brings even more vapid dialogue, poorly developed characters and contrived plot lines as it explodes from six weeks to ten weeks of performances.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is pleased to announce its Sixth Annual Young Playwrights Festival, May 6-8, 2011, with a call for scripts by young writers.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for The Old Globe's 2011 Shakespeare Festival, performed in repertory in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Adrian Noble returns as the Artistic Director of the 2011 Festival and will direct Shakespeare's The Tempest and Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. Ron Daniels also returns and will direct Much Ado About Nothing.

At the heart of the sixth season from Artistic Director Jonathan Church and Executive Director Alan Finch will be 'a Festival within a Festival' celebrating the achievements of playwright Terence Rattigan in the centenary year of his birth.