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BRIDGE OF SPIES Mark Rylance has won the 2016 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. This is his first Academy Award nomination. 

New York Live Arts recently announced the artists selected for the 2015-2016 Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program. The 2015-2016 Fresh Tracks artists are Melanie Greene, Sarah Lifson, Eli Tamondong, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes and Jonathan Gonzalez, and Georgia Wall and Itamar Segev. These artists will present their works in the Fresh Tracks performance showcase, this weekend, February 5 - 6, 2016, at 7:30pm.

The Chicago production had been denied the right to invite critics due to a standard practice.

Nominees for the 7th Annual Indie Series Awards (ISA7) were announced this afternoon in a special episode of Serial Scoop Now. The ISAs celebrate the best in independently produced scripted entertainment created for the Web. Nominations were announced in 30 categories. Scroll down for the full list!

Since Allie X appeared online in 2014, the Toronto-born, LA-based artist's radio-ready electronic pop and bold visual style have caused waves internationally.

  Playwrights Horizons begins accepting entries today, Wednesday, February 3, for the LIVEforFIVE online lottery for $5 tickets to their New York premiere of FAMILIAR, a new play by Obie Award winner Danai Gurira (the Broadway-bound Eclipsed, In the Continuum, The Convert, Michonne on AMC's "The Walking Dead").  Directed by Rebecca Taichman (Stage Kiss, Milk Like Sugar at PH; The Oldest Boy; Marie Antoinette; Luck of the Irish; Orlando), the play is the fourth production of the theater company's 2015/2016 Season.   

Don't be surprised if you spot the Texas Senator making a campaign stop at Marie's Crisis.

Two decades after its premiere, Sondheim's most controversial musical shouldn't feel as prescient as it does.

Webster Public Relations announces the return of country chart-topper Collin Raye to its roster following a previous partnership for PR representation in support of forthcoming new projects. The Arkansas native is known for over 40 top-charting hits including 'Love, Me,' 'My Kind Of Girl,' 'That's My Story,' 'I Can Still Feel You.'

Grace Gummer will appear as a series regular in the second season of USA Network's hit drama series MR. ROBOT.

VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY presents the World Premiere of Separati at Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, 29 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, from January 28-30, 2016.

Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition of works by Eve Aschheim, Olive Ayhens, Sharon Horvath, Tine Lundsfryd, Janet Malcolm, Susannah Phillips, Elena Sisto and Helen Miranda Wilson.

This weekend, New Regency's THE REVENANT further solidified its #1 position at the global box office by earning more than $223.6 million in just three weeks of wide release.

The Connecticut school's drama directed work with MTI to create a HS version of the script, but there still were complaints.

The Dirty Blondes announce their fifth Play in a Day Festival, The Comments Section, on January 31, 2016 at THEATERLAB (357 W 36th St. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018) as a Guest Production.

HH Productions, LLC, in association with The York Theatre Company will present a special staged reading of the new musical HOWARD, written by Frank Evans (Book and Lyrics) and James Scully (Music), directed by Jennifer Paulson-Lee, conducted by Jeff Saver and musical supervision/arrangements by Scott Cady.  HOWARD will be presented at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center (248 West 60 Street, NYC 10023) on Wednesday, January 27th at 1PM; Thursday, January 28th at 1PM; and Friday, January 29th at 1PM. Limited amount of tickets are available to the public, and are FREE of charge. To reserve tickets please RSVP HowardMusical@gmail.com.

CLICKBAIT is a darkly comic new play about society's attitude to porn and the women who make it for themselves. From the exciting all female writer/director team behind A First World Problem (Milly Thomas and Holly Race Roughan) comes this blistering study of how pornography is changing women's relationship to sex in the 21st Century.

THE ALVING ESTATE, the much anticipated Off-Broadway immersive production by Journey Lab and Deaths Head Theatrical, will run tonight, January 21st, through February 6th at the historic Morris-Jumel Mansion in Manhattan.

Carrollwood Players Theatre, 4333 Gunn Highway, offers patrons a special event in Black Box, featuring the playwriting talents of Mike Cote with his production of Mike's Shorts. Mike's Shorts features an evening of five short plays on January 30 and 31:

Acclaimed comedy screenwriter-director-actress Elaine May (Heaven Can Wait, Primary Colors) is set to receive the Writers Guild of America, West's 2016 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.