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Well-staged and nicely choreographed by Coralie Heiler and Stefania Bertrand, Savoy's Ruddigore was a sweet show, but quite traditional and safe. This production strayed away from the updated modern-day lyric changes that Savoy was always infamous for.

Since 1923, EAG's Annual Memorial Service has brought together members of the performing arts community on an afternoon in November to celebrate the lives and work of our colleagues who have passed away in the previous year. This unique event features music, reflection, and a reading of the names of those being remembered, which is always followed by a heartfelt standing ovation.

Gaelynn Lea, winner of NPR Music's 2016 Tiny Desk Contest, is heading West for two weeks of shows in North Dakota, Montana, Washington, British Columbia, Oregon, South Dakota, Colorado and Minnesota. She will be playing a variety of listening rooms, bars, and theaters.

ENRON is a 2009 play by British playwright Lucy Prebble. The play is based on the financial scandal and eventual collapse of the American energy corporation, Enron, based in Houston,Texas. Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling (Annemarie Alaniz) and his boss Ken Lay (Kayla Johnson) are the main characters along with Skilling's protege Andy Fastow (Caroline Beagles), who rises to become the chief financial officer. Prebble's play is a heady mix of multimedia razzle dazzle, morality play and political satire. To avoid being dry as dust, Prebble has taken complex financial concepts and framed them in terms of the entertainment world: market analysts become a boy band, the Lehman Brothers are presented as Siamese twins, Arthur Anderson is a ventriloquist act, to name just a few. Capitalism is, in general, presented as the tricks and illusions of the sideshow con man. Spanning the years between 1992 and the present, Prebble's play does take some dramatic license. Prebble makes Jeffrey Skilling, Enron's top executive, the main villain, instead of founder Kenneth Lay. Skilling gets the top job because of his vision of the future: Enron won't just provide natural gas; it will trade in energy, the internet, video streaming and even the weather. Skilling makes Andy Fastow the chief financial officer when he comes up with the plan to create shadow companies to disquise Enron's escalating debts as assets. Eventually, the whole corrupt bubble bursts.

EAG has announced that Tony Award winning actor Reed Birney has agreed to make this year's memorial address.

The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County has added six new members to its board of directors and has appointed global finance expert Nathan Slack as Chair. William Parmelee has been named Vice Chair, and Jean Sharf is now Secretary. School Board of Palm Beach County member Debra Robinson and Boca Raton Resort & Club President and Managing Director John Tolbert, have joined as ex-officio board members.

Artistic Directors August Viverito and T L Kolman announce the Los Angeles premiere of Lucy Prebble's notorious ENRON. This hybrid vaudeville/tragic comedy opens May 22nd for an initial six-week run at The Lex Theatre, 6760 Lexington Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038.

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our October 25 #SIP round-up! Yesterday's #SIP came from the casts of MATILDA, ON THE TOWN, and lots of regional shows!

Seventy-five years after Orson Welles' radio production of 'War of the Worlds' panicked a nation, his legend continues to inspire old collaborators and new generations of audio artists

Imagine an electronic implant the size of a watermelon seed that delivers a college education in a 45-minute surgical procedure. In author William David's intriguing novel, Educating Stone, brilliant neurologist Dr. Arthur Anderson develops exactly that and creates milestone that shakes both the medical community and the higher education system.

Fans of the hit ABC Family series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS won't have to wait until October for the next fix of Rosewood when ABCFamily.com launches its weekly webseries 'Pretty Dirty Secrets' starting today, Aug. 28th during the summer finale of 'Pretty Little Liars.'

Fans of the hit ABC Family series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS won't have to wait until October for the next fix of Rosewood when ABCFamily.com launches its weekly webseries 'Pretty Dirty Secrets' starting Tuesday, Aug. 28th during the summer finale of 'Pretty Little Liars.'

The Seacoast Repertory Theatre (the Rep) has named a managing director, a new position, to manage the growth of the Portsmouth creative center.