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Eine Stadt und ihre Geschichten: Mit Stadtgeschichten, der Bu?rgerproduktion 4.0 erforscht das Landestheater Niedero?sterreich die Stadt St. Po?lten historisch, geografisch und literarisch. An unterschiedlichen Schaupla?tzen in der Altstadt zeigt das Bu?rgertheater mit u?ber 55 Bu?rgerinnen und Bu?rgern unter der Regie von Renate Aichinger Szenen, die spezifische pra?gende Zeitabschnitte St. Po?ltens beleuchten, herausragende Perso?nlichkeiten portraitieren und geht Themen auf den Grund, die die Stadt momentan bescha?ftigen.

From May 7 - June 4, 2016, SpeakEasy Stage Company will proudly present the Boston Professional Premiere of DOGFIGHT, a powerful new musical about unexpected love, loss, and brotherhood, based on the 1991 film starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Casting Society of America has acknowledged the issue of potentially illegal workshops and will establish a committee to investigate this problem. In late March, The Hollywood Reporter launched an investigation into the problem of pay-to-play workshops, and the issue has since come into the public eye.

This is an amusing story of the age-old tale of Boy-Meets-Girl and the complications which ensue wrapped around one of Cole Porter's magical scores. Terrific Cole Porter songs include It's De-Lovely, Friendship, I Get A Kick Out Of You, All Through The Night, Anything Goes, You're The Top and Blow, Gabriel, Blow.

According to The Daily Herald's entertainment section, the Utah Valley Symphony is set to perform THE SECRET GARDEN alongside some performers who have Broadway, Disney, and more on their performing resumes.

After releasing the last episode of web series HORACE AND PETE, actor Louis C.K. sent out an email to his fans, announcing that he is cancelling the web series. 

HAMILTON's Renee Elise Goldsberry, along with fellow Schuyler sisters Phillipa Soo and Jasmine Cephas-Jones, performed a curtain call rap informing audience members about the ways they can support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at Hamilton...and at the end, they bid a goodbye to their now-former king, Jonathan Groff. Check out the video here!

Go inside the rehearsals for The Knights of Music's upcoming UK tour, which will feature the music of Elton John, Tom Jones, Mick Jagger, The Beatles, and many more!

In a Q&A with The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Stevens discussed his post-Downton Abbey life, including his upcoming role as The Beast in the 2017 live-action remake of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. 

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) presents the return of singular jazz sensation, Ce?cile McLorin Salvant on May 1 at 7pm in the Chan Shun Concert Hall. Hot off her 2016 GRAMMY win for Best Vocal Jazz Album, Salvant shares bold new works from the record For One to Love - a heartfelt collection of songs, many of which are written by Salvant herself, that reveal new dimensions of this young vocalist's artistry.

Among this year's nominees for Outstanding Musical Production by a Large Theater are WAITRESS and NATASHA, PIERRE, AND THE  GREAT COMET OF 1812, both at American Repertory Theatre. Tony winner Jessie Mueller and Denee Benton also each received nods for their respective performances. 

The acclaimed Calidore String Quartet caps their artistic residency at Stony Brook University with a Carnegie Hall debut performance on Tuesday, May 10th at 8 p.m. in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. The concert propels the quartet into their next high-profile residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II, slated to begin in the 2016 fall concert season. CSQ is the first North American ensemble to be awarded the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni fellowship. This Carnegie recital will feature string quartet works by masterful composers, including two late works by Mozart and Mendelssohn - Mozart's String Quartet in D Major, K. 575 and Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80 - and an early yet radical chamber work by Hindemith, String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22. Tickets start at $35 and are available via CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, at the box office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue or online at www.carnegiehall.org.

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT whisks the fabulous Roaring Twenties, that golden era of glamour and music, up and out of the history books and brings it to life in a dazzling new production from esteemed director Chip Gallagher and the Virginia Musical Theatre. Featuring classic Gershwin tunes, this new favorite from Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro is based on a classic 1927 Gershwin musical but reimagined for the modern era. The musical first debuted on Broadway in 2012 and has since made waves on both national and global stages with a 2014-2015 U.S national tour and a successful run at the Stage Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

HAMILTON: THE REVOLUTION, co-authored by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, was released earlier this week. The book's popularity has so far matched the show's popularity itself, delighting readers around the world and selling out on Amazon. But today, Amazon has released a special offer: a free audio version of the book, widely known as the Hamiltome, with a 30-day free trial of Audible. 

'Jane Eyre' is a musical drama based on the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte - it premiered on Broadway in 2000 and received five Tony Awards, including 'Best Musical'. The Barn Players' presentation of the musical opens today, Friday, April 15th and continues through Sunday May 1st at the Barn Players Theatre, 6219 Martway in Mission. The play is rated 'PG' and features husband and wife, Alisha and Matt Richardson, in starring roles; Alisha as Jane Eyre and Matt as Rochester.

Master vocalist and Symphony Siren Diva N'Kenge (Motown: The Musical and Sondheim and Sondheim) comes to Sarasota, FL for the first time debuting with conductor Jack Everly at the Sarasota Symphony for the exciting The Beat Goes On show, set for tonight, Friday and tomorrow, Saturday, April 15 - April 16, 2016 (8:00pm).

Actors' Summit Akron's Professional theater's 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning play Talley's Folly, by Lanford Wilson opens tonight. A dessert reception with the director and cast follows the performance on opening night. The show runs until May 1.

Gettysburg Community Theatre, the non-profit 501c3 organization located in the original Elks Lodge building at 49 York Street within the first block of Lincoln Square in historic downtown Gettysburg, presents an all-youth cast production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical The King And I with special permission from the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization in NYC. The production is performed at GCT Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm, weekends, beginning today April 15, and continues through May 1, 2016. Tickets can be ordered online at www.GettysburgCommunityTheatre.org or by calling 717-334-2692.

A totally make-believe man who dresses properly for any occasion might seem unusual, but then, there's also the landscape painter who wears a lighted minor's lamp and only paints at night. These characters define 'Moon Over the Brewery' as not the ordinary play about family dynamics. Possum Point Players present Philadelphia playwright Bruce Graham's 'mostly' comedy beginning today, April 15, and continuing April 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets, $18 adults and $17 seniors and students, may be purchased on line at possumpointplayers.org or by calling 302-856-4560.

Ebony Jo-Ann, a 'Blackgold' acclaimed Blues vocalist, multiple award winning Broadway, film and television actress, and social activist, is in residence during the month of April at Ashford & Simpson's Sugar Bar, 254 W. 72nd St. in New York, for the first time since 2011, to reprise Nuttin' But the Blues, the Sugar Bar's weekly Blues series, which she co-created with the late Nick Ashford. Check out a preview here!