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Due to a serious family illness, director/choreographer Luis Perez has had to withdraw from the upcoming Reagle Music Theatre production of CHICAGO.

More than 30 local students from the Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) will travel to Walt Disney World during the April school break to perform for Disney audiences and participate in master classes with Disney performers, choreographers and directors.

Tickets are now available for The Un-Common Young Performers' Production of 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying' being presented at the Orpheum Theatre, Foxboro on April 5-7, 2013.

Berkshire Theatre Group Company Member, CJ Wilson, has been cast in Broadway's The Big Knife.

The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group owners Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner are slated to open The Berkshire Room and the second location of West Town Bakery inside the ACME Hotel Company (15 East Ohio Street) in River North in early June.

ImprovBoston is set to welcome American writer, journalist, songwriter and theatre historian Jeffery Sweet for his one-man show You Only Shoot The Ones You Love.

Despite differences in language, culture and dramatic DNA, actors from Sofia, Bulgaria have some important commonalities with actors here.

Happy Medium Theatre's production of Bert V.

The Irish musical ensemble Celtic Woman returns to America for an expansive four-month concert tour, which began on February 21 in Worcester, MA and following on the heels of the group's sold-out Christmas Celebration tour.

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What I love best about the UMass Amherst Theatre department shows is the originality each brings to the productions.

In this week's School in the Spotlight, we feature the Theatre Department of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA! Read about their programs below and scroll down to see photos from the 2012-2013 production season!

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Shakespeare & Company's groundbreaking Shakespeare in the Courts program, which leads adjudicated young people in an exploration of Shakespeare's plays, is celebrating its 13th year.

The best-selling book comes to life in the musical satire, SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, on the Colonial stage tonight, March 14 to March 16 at 8pm.

Sisters for Peace and WAM Theatre will host a free screening of the PBS Documentary 'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide' at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center this Friday, March 15 at 7pm as part of the March Berkshire Festival of Women Writers.

Huntington Theatre Company in association with Jonathan Reinis Productions and WGBH present the hit public-radio series and podcast Selected Shorts on Tour: "Tales of Springtime, Sex & Baseball" at the Boston University Theatre June 8 at 4pm and 8pm.

Broadway In Boston has announced the upcoming 2013-2014 Lexus Broadway Season which will include ten spectacular theatrical productions at the Boston Opera House, the Citi Performing Arts Center Emerson Colonial Theatre, the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre and the Charles Playhouse.

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time when the show last played Boston in 2010, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return once again to the Boston Opera House for a limited six week engagement August 7 - September 15.

Springfield Central High School student Courtney Stewart was named Massachusetts's 2013 Poetry Out Loud Champion Sunday at Boston's Old South Meetinghouse.

The Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) will present Opera for Kids: Little Red Riding Hood on Sunday, March 17, at 1:00 p.

Broadway In Boston has announced the upcoming 2013-2014 Lexus Broadway Season which will include ten spectacular theatrical productions at the Boston Opera House, the Citi Performing Arts Center Emerson Colonial Theatre, the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre and the Charles Playhouse.

A ferocious satire in which a society dealing with its own form of PTSD adopts out traumatized veterans in a manner somewhere between the ASPCA and the Foster Parents Plan.

Three-time Grammy-nominee Boston Baroque, under the direction of Martin Pearlman, one of this country's leading interpreters of Baroque and Classical music on period and modern instruments, has announced its 40th anniversary season program for 2013 - 2014.

18-time Grammy winner, Polka King, Jimmy Sturr, will perform live at The Colonial Theatre with his orchestra on April 7 at 2pm.