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Artistic Director Daniel Evans today announced that Geoffrey Streatfeild and Claudie Blakley will lead the company of Macbeth - the first Crucible production of the company's autumn season - which opens on Wednesday 5 September and runs until Saturday 6 October.

After an award-winning run in 2011, Casual Violence return to the Edinburgh Fringe to spin new yarns of tragicomedy sketch terror with CASUAL VIOLENCE: A KICK IN THE TEETH, at Just The Tonic @ The Caves - The Fancy Room, 2nd - 26th August 2012, 22:00 (not 14th or 21st).

The Traverse will bring together two of Scotland's mos famous playwrights, David Greig and David Harrower, in a special double bill as one of the Theatre's flagship shows for its 2012 Festival Programme this August. Presented back to back, David Greig's The Letter of Last Resort and David Harrower's Good With People take us from London to Helensburgh, tracing the paths of personal and political destruction in two highly-charged stories.

Magic Futurebox has announced the world premiere of The Pestilence is Coming!: A Super Fun New Musical about How You Will Probably Die Based on the Album by the Minor Leagues, with book by Katharine Clark Gray. Previews will run July 5th - 8th and performances July 11th - 15th and 18th - 22nd at Magic Futurebox at 55 33rd St., 4th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11232 D, N, R to 36th St.

Slide's most famous circus cabaret extravaganza, El'Circo, will present a brand new show this July, El'Circo Blanc. Experience the thrill of a Russian Winter fairytale featuring incredible aerial acts, illusion and soaring vocal prowess every Wednesday night in July (4th, 11th, 18th and 29th) at 7 for 7:30pm.

CPCC Summer Theatre will wrap up its 2012 season with the Broadway smash hit Legally Blonde: The Musical from July 13 to 21 at the Halton Theater, 1206 Elizabeth Ave., CPCC Central Campus, Charlotte.

Two of the country's leading actors will appear in the orchestral performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Usher Hall on 13 August as part of Edinburgh International Festival 2012.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival today announced its programme for 2012. Charlotte Square Gardens will welcome Nobel Laureates, Booker and Pulitzer Prize winners and Poets Laureate as well as a stellar line up of the world's leading writers, poets, thinkers and commentators. With Guest Selectors, the Anobii First Book Award, the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, the gamut of outstanding authors from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith, and a third year of the late night Unbound events, the Book Festival promises a summer of contemplation, inspiration and entertainment.

Beckman Unicorn, the producers of the new stage adaptation of Great Expectations, which has just announced a UK Tour prior to London's West End, have created the first ever Toy Theatre version of the classic novel as part of the international celebrations of the Charles Dickens bicentenary, and a life-size version of it will be on display at West End Live in Trafalgar Square this weekend, 23-24 June.

So who's like a sneak peek of comedian Jason Manford as Pirelli in the current West End production of SWEENEY TODD starring Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball? Check it out below!

Masterworks Broadway continues to make good on its promise to open its vaults with more classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era. Working (1978 Original Broadway Cast), Call Me Madam (Dinah Shore and the Original Broadway Company, 1950) and Desert Song (1959 Studio Cast) will be available as downloads through all major digital service providers and as disc-on-demand with the original cover art, via Arkivmusic.com and Amazon.com.

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA), under the artistic direction of Ben Donenberg, returns after 16 years to The Japanese Garden on the grounds of the VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center Campus with a summer production of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy AS YOU LIKE IT directed by Royal Shakespeare Company artist Kenn Sabberton - July 10 to 29.

Sam Strong will be joining the Melbourne Theatre Company as Associate Artistic Director of the on the 1 January, 2013.

With just over six weeks to go until the start of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Fringe Society have released their updated mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

30,000 new tickets will be released for sale from 9.00am Monday 25 June for JERSEY BOYS - The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons opening at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Friday 13 July 2012.

As part of the current three-play Royal Court at the Duke of York's Season with Posh by Laura Wade, Jumpy by April De Angelis and Constellations by Nick Payne, four of the UK's leading playwrights will direct one of their all-time favourite plays in a series of one-off afternoon readings from 29 June at the Duke of York's Theatre in a special event supported by The Ambassador Theatre Group. Nick Payne, Polly Stenham, Roy Williams and David Eldridge will select their favourite plays and will have less than two days to bring their vision to life with a full cast to be announced for staged readings on Friday afternoons this summer.

The Hudson Village Theatre has announced details of its second summer offering, Back in '59, written and directed by Canadian playwright, producer, director and actor Thom Currie, playing July 11 to 22. Since its birth last year at the Showboat Theatre Festival in Colborne, ON, the high-octane musical has been a sell-out success and now Montrealers can shake, shimmy and roll to chart toppers from the early sixties.

Vital Theatre Company was the recipient of 2012 Best Family Show at the Off Broadway Alliance Awards Ceremony held June 19th, 2012 at Sardi's Restaurant in New York. Check out the photos below of book writer and lyricist for STINKYKIDS THE MUSICAL, Sammy Buck and Vital Theatre Company's Education Director Linda Ames Key accepting on behalf of the company.

West End LIVE is back for its 8th year, playing this weekend 23-24th of June in Trafalgar Square. Check out the full programme below, which features Matilda, Wicked, Les Mis, and indeed every single West End musical currently running in London!

Actor French Stewart and playwright Vanessa Claire Stewart will discuss the premiere of "Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton" at Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood on June 22. Hosted by arts journalist Julio Martinez, the interview will be broadcast on Arts in Review from 2 to 2:30pm.