A. Gentle News

The Todd Londagin Band will perform at The Terrace at Yotel, 570 Tenth Ave at 42nd Street as part of 'After Work Jazz' tonight, June 6, 2014 from 5 to 10 p.m.

Made In China make theatre that playfully explores the paradoxes of modern identity, by crossing the borders between playwriting and performance art. Our latest show, Gym Party, on at Pulse this Saturday, does so by exploring a particularly big, messy and (we think) universal paradox: our often-secret desire to beat the very people we identify with or need to work with. We made Gym Party with the support of Pulse festival, who co-commissioned it, but also with the support of Pulse's audience, who got to experienced a pretty deranged work-in-progress of the show as we were making it last year.

The Todd Londagin Band will perform at The Terrace at Yotel, 570 Tenth Ave at 42nd Street as part of 'After Work Jazz' on June 6, 2014 from 5 to 10 p.m.

Shakespeare & Company's Artistic Director Tony Simotes sets his new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the mysterious bayous of New Orleans just as the Jazz Era in America was exploding. The production features original music, live musicians, a Drama League partnership, and a cast of over a dozen seasoned Company actors and newcomers.

John Waters's (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray) newest book, Carsick, tells the true story of how in 2012 he hitchhiked from Baltimore to San Francisco. GQcalled him to ask how the hell he persuaded all those people—octogenarian farmers, indie rockers, acidheads, Republican politicians, and a cop—to give him a lift. Excerpts below:

NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY is a careful rethinking of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment shot in blazing color, this tour de force offers a masterful recapitulation of director Lav Diaz's longstanding obsessions

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ARC ENTERTAINMENT presents SAVING GRACE B. JONES available on DVD today, May 27, 2014

Next on Onelove is the multi-talented Jimi Frew & Sherry St. Germain with 'Trouble', out today.

Next on Onelove is the multi-talented Jimi Frew & Sherry St. Germain with 'Trouble' set for release today 16th May 2014.

More than 200 New Zealand artists will be coming over to Edinburgh this August; the largest group of leading New Zealand actors, dancers, musicians, writers, Maori performing artists, spoken word and visual artists to have ever performed together outside New Zealand. Eight leading companies will be taking part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, appearing mainly at Assembly Festival and Summerhall.

After a weekend of large houses and enthusiastic crowds viewing enhanced stage readings of four new plays and one new musical, Gentle Passage by Paul Elliot was named the winner of the 2014 Great Gay Play and Musical Contest.

Older & Reckless, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre's celebrated series curated by Artistic Director Claudia Moore, presents OLD & YOUNG AND RECKLESS TOGETHER featuring nine dance artists in four intergenerational works.David Earle, Troy Emery Twigg, Carol Anderson and Paul-Andre Fortier present their work from today, May 15-17 in Edition #32 ofOlder and Reckless.

The sea rules life in the Keys, a 120-mile-long island chain tethered to mainland Florida by U.S. 1.

The award-winning Beau Jest Moving Theatre returns to their roots and The Charlestown Working Theater, with ?their world premiere production of a gentle, new comedy, Apt. 4D. The physical theater ensemble creates a detailed world using movement, language, and a bare stage to evoke the epic hopes and fears three ordinary people experience when a mysterious woman moves in next door.

Overindulgence occurs with both permissive and authoritarian parents for a variety of reasons. It can stem from guilt so they compensate by spending too much on material things, or from a lack of structure – no rules to follow, no chores to perform. No matter the reason, the result of overindulgence is resentment and difficulties later in life. How Much is Too Much? Raising Likeable, Responsible, Respectful Children from Toddlers to Teens in an Age of Overindulgence (Da Capo Press) by Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson and David Bredehoft is an easy-to-understand guide, supported by science, that helps parents and professionals to not only recognize the problem but provides sound advice.

Written and Directed by Mary Zimmerman, and based on the Classic Chinese Fable, the Chicago Premiere of THE WHITE SNAKE is presented May 3 - June 8, 2014 in the Albert. Wonder how The White Snake made it from the script to the stage? Watch interviews with the cast and creative team to get an inside look at the show. Check out the video below!

Written and Directed by Mary Zimmerman, and based on the Classic Chinese Fable, the Chicago Premiere of THE WHITE SNAKE is presented May 3 - June 8, 2014 in the Albert. Check out a first look below!

The Mercury Theatre continues its hugely successful Made in Colchester 2014 season with the UK premiere of the heart-warming, laugh-out-loud comedy You Can Always Hand Them Back.