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Enter a fantastical winter wonderland beyond all imagination at Disney On Ice presents Frozen! The heartwarming, Academy Award-winning tale you love is now LIVE and skating into your town. You'll be magically whisked away into the wintery world of Arendelle, where you will be dazzled by amazing special effects and astonishing skating. Sing and dance along to your favorite songs, including 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' and 'Let It Go.' Join royal sisters Elsa and Anna, the hilarious snowman Olaf, huntsman Kristoff, his loyal reindeer Sven and the mystical trolls as they journey to discover that true love is ultimately the most magical power of all!

Pan Pan Theatre has announced the participants for its third International Mentorship & Bursary programme. The participants are: Amy Conroy, Paul Curley, Kate Heffernan, Hilary O'Shaughnessy and Martin Sharry. Internationally acclaimed theatre maker, writer and performer Tim Crouch, will work as a mentor with these artists, developing early-stage ideas for performance projects.

After an extensive tour across the U.K., including a sensational season in London, and fresh from a sold-out run at the prestigious Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis earlier this spring, Max Stafford-Clark's acclaimed revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Olivier Award-winning play, OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD, will play a strictly limited engagement at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, September 13 - October 26, 2014.

The 55th Dublin Theatre Festival will stage 27 world-class productions across 21 different venues in Dublin city and suburbs this September and October. As always the range of work will be eclectic, bold and diverse, offering spectacular, large-scale presentations, intimate performances and theatrical firsts to appeal to both seasoned theatre-goers and first-time audiences alike.

The new musical Bel-Ami will receive its world premiere at Charing Cross Theatre on 19 February 2014. The production is a fresh take on the classic Guy de Maupassant novel by award-winning composer Alex Loveless. Presented by the London College of Music (LCM) it will run 19 February - 1 March 2014.

Rocker Joan Jett, Cheryl Freeman (The Who's Tommy), Ariana Groover (Bare), Steve Gouveia (Jersey Boys), Emma Hunton (Next to Normal), John Arthur Greene (Matilda), Preston Truman Boyd (Big River), Eric Michael Krop(Godspell), Michael Lanning (Bonnie and Clyde), Sarah Schmidt (Jersey Boys),Jeremy Schonfeld (Drift), Andrew Berlin, Sarah Grace, Aisha Jackson, Greg Kamp, Megan Rice join Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis (Jekyll & Hyde), Eden Espinosa (Wicked),Lena Hall (Kinky Boots), Tony Vincent (We Will Rock You/American Idiot), Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis, Lesli Margherita, Tituss Burgess, Donnie Kehr and more all took part in ROCKERS ON BROADWAY 20 - Celebrating 20 Years (1993-2013) at SoHo's (le) Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NYC) on Monday night. BroadwayWorld was there for the special concert event and you can check out photos from the star-studded arrivals below!

Aria Entertainment in association with Goldstone has announced the launch of the new show Divas Through the Decades which will launch at London's Ashcroft Theatre tonight, 18th October 2013.

Timberlake Wertenbaker, Roy Williams and David Edgar join Simon Stephens for 'Turning the Page: Creating New Writing (1945-2013)' at the University of Reading on Friday 13th -Saturday 14th September 2013.

Out of Joint will return to London's St. James Theatre, following their acclaimed 25th anniversary of OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD, with Stella Feehily's ambitious new play about the NHS - THIS MAY HURT A BIT. Exploring the UK's best-loved and most fiercely debated institution, the production will run from Monday 12 May 2014, following a UK tour.

Aria Entertainment in association with Goldstone has announced the launch of the new show Divas Through the Decades which will launch at London's Ashcroft Theatre on 18th October 2013. Divas Through the Decades is a celebration of female music legends; from Judy Garland to Etta James, Adele to Beyonce and beyond! It is a feel-good show performed by a group of wonderful singers. Click below to get a sneak peek of the show!

Aria Entertainment in association with Goldstone has announced the launch of the new show Divas Through the Decades which will launch at London's Ashcroft Theatre on 18th October 2013.

Join the Wiley authors presenting, reading and signing books at this year's SXSW. See the full list of authors below.

TheatreSquared will open Stephen Karam's bold, award-winning comedy Sons of the Prophet for a limited run in Northwest Arkansas in its first production since its critically acclaimed New York debut. Winner of multiple awards (including the 2012 Lucille Lortel and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Play) and a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Sons of the Prophet is a contemporary comedy-drama that is 'soul-piercing' and 'explosively funny' (The New York Times).

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Olivier Award-winning play, Our Country's Good, Out of Joint will present a series of staged readings of Timberlake's work. This will include the acclaimed play Three Birds Alighting on a Field, which will be directed by Max Stafford-Clark, and The Grace of Mary Traverse directed by Blanche McIntyre. Out of Joint will also present the world premiere of Timberlake's new play - Jefferson's Garden.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Olivier Award-winning play, Our Country's Good, Out of Joint will present a series of staged readings of Timberlake's work. This will include the acclaimed play Three Birds Alighting on a Field, which will be directed by Max Stafford-Clark, and The Grace of Mary Traverse directed by Blanche McIntyre. Out of Joint will also present the world premiere of Timberlake's new play - Jefferson's Garden.

TheatreSquared will open Stephen Karam's bold, award-winning comedy Sons of the Prophet for a limited run in Northwest Arkansas in its first production since its critically acclaimed New York debut. Winner of multiple awards (including the 2012 Lucille Lortel and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Play) and a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Sons of the Prophet is a contemporary comedy-drama that is 'soul-piercing' and "explosively funny" (The New York Times).

The puritanical killjoy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night finally has his say in I, Malvolio, a one-man deconstruction of one of classic literature's most misunderstood characters. By British scribe Tim Crouch, I, Malvolio, presented by The New Victory Theater, is a hilarious, charged and often unsettling rant from a complex man full of pride, passion, rage and humiliation. I, Malvolio will run at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, from January 11 through January 20, 2013.

St. James Theatre, the first newly-built theatre complex in central London in 30 years, will open to the public in early August 2012, rising from the site of the former Westminster Theatre at 12 Palace Street in the heart of Victoria. David Gilmore, Artistic Director, today announced the theatre's first season of work.

Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London.

Based on real events and encounters, MIXED UP NORTH is an inspiring and eye-opening story of an attempt to unite young people from ethnically divided communities in a Lancashire mill town. Produced by Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre Bolton, the play will run in the unique Wilton's Music Hall in London.