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The Broadway revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF officially opens tonight, December 20, at The Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway). Scroll down to learn more about the cast, plus watch interviews with the company!

Time is running out to vote for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Columbus Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 18. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31!

Time is running out to vote for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Dallas Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 18. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31!

Superstars Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley will co-host the 51st ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS®, Country Music's Party of the Year®, broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena

The New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist and Emmy Award nominated writer Rolin Jones and Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award winning Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong's new play with music THESE PAPER BULLETS!, directed by Jackson Gay, opens tonight, December 15, at Atlantic Theater Company.

A comic bouquet of theatrical fluff that Shakespeare tossed off, as its title suggests, solely to please his audience, Synetic takes the story and gives it the contemporary edge that we've come to know and love. But given its gritty, urban setting and new characters, I strongly advise you re-acquaint yourself with the original plot and then peruse the 'revised' plot offered in the program here.

?Watch out Donna and her morning walk group, Chicago-based sketch comedy troupe GayCo Productions has set its sights on the 'burbs and you'd better believe it's going to be the dom top.

The Tampa Museum of Art and Creative Loafing present Gasp!: The Gasparilla Fringe Festival, a multi-disciplinary performing arts festival, on Friday, April 1, 2016 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Tampa Museum of Art (120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL 33602)

Like a sepia-toned photo from the pages of a family album, Avant Bard's production of HOLIDAY MEMORIES evokes seasonal joys untouched by commercialism and cynicism - two mortal enemies of the true spirit of Thanksgiving and Christmas, in my opinion. Taken from two personal short stories by the iconoclastic author Truman Capote, this stage adaptation deserves to become an annual tradition.

Synetic Theater will continue their 2015/16 Season with their 12th 'Wordless Shakespeare' adaptation, AS YOU LIKE IT. Press opening will be tonight, December 12 at 8 p.m. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the stars below! 

Join us for free staged readings of two of the plays submitted by local playwrights for consideration for next summer's Baltimore Playwrights Festival. Our next Play Development Workshop Reading is today, December 12 at Fells Point Corner Theatre, 251 South Ann Street.

The year is 1985, and the place is New Jersey: hair is big, greed is good, collars are popped, and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in the room. The award-winning teens of Riverdale Rising Stars present THE WEDDING SINGER, the Broadway musical based on the hit movie of the same, for six performances only, now through December 20, 2015 at the Riverdale YM-YWHA, located at 5625 Arlington Avenue (just off of Riverdale Avenue and West 256th Street), in Riverdale, Bronx, NY. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage below!

Voting is fully underway for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Columbus Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 11. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31.

Voting is fully underway for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Dallas Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 11. Nominations were reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting runs through December 31.

The Second City returns to Metropolis Performing Arts Centre with their holiday sketch comedy revue HOLIDAZED December 11- December 31, 2015.

Creative Loafing, Tampa Bay's alternative newsweekly, announced the hiring of a new Arts & Entertainment Editor today. Cathy Salustri, a frequent contributor to CL, was a longtime senior writer at the Gabber Newspaper in Gulfport, and has written for USA Today, Visit Florida, regional magazines and local press. Over the past year she has finished two books, created programming for the Gulfport Historical Society, and spoken across the state about Florida history and culture.  

The McCartney Years is a note-for-note recreation of a mid-1970's Paul McCartney concert, performing at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre January 23, 2016.

Much like the lighting of the National Christmas Tree or the Boat Parade of Lights, Signature's holiday cabarets have become a welcome DC tradition. Fortunately for us, this year's edition stars the incomparable Nova Y. Payton in a heartwarming show that celebrates friends, family and the holiday standards we love.

All the world's a stage for Synetic Theater's 12th silent Shakespeare adaptation, AS YOU LIKE IT, directed by Paata Tsikurishvili with choreography by Irina Tsikurishvili. The witty and resourceful Rosalind, along with her devoted cousin Celia, are forced to flee their lives of luxury for an unfamiliar world - the bleak streets of a rusted urban wasteland. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

The time of year when families gather for reunions, dinners and parties also means the funniest family function around.  Peter Fogel arrives in Boston for two weeks only, tonight, December 9 to December 20, 2015 in Steve Solomon's 'My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm Home for the Holidays!,'  playing at the historic Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA.