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The Japan Art Association has appointed Caroline Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, as International Advisor to Praemium Imperiale. Starting in November 2018, she will preside over the U.S. Nomination Committee, recommending candidates for the Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. Ms. Kennedy will succeed, Ambassador William Luers, former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who served in this role for 18 years and will become an Honorary Advisor.

Since its creation in 2015, JAG Productions focuses on creating theater to engage challenging issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity.

TROIKA Entertainment is thrilled to present KINKY BOOTS, the smash-hit musical that brings together four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Tony Award-winner for Best Score for KINKY BOOTS).  KINKY BOOTS will play the Emerson Colonial Theatre, an Ambassador Theatre Group Venue, May 7 - 12, 2019 as part of the

Save big with Playhouse on Park's special Tuesday matinee of Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest! For our friends who are on a budget, we offer deeply discounted tickets for this show, on November 6 at 2pm.  

WaistWatchers The Musical! is extending its run at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted St., through Monday, December 31, 2018. Produced by Dana Matthow and currently featuring two time Grammy Nominee, multi-Gold and Platinum recording artist, Martha Wash, known for singing the powerful anthem "It's Raining Men," and "Everybody Dance Now," the musical takes a lighthearted and hilarious look at women dealing with their relationship to food, friendship and fitness, while celebrating the transformative power of female friendship on the journey to self-acceptance.

Are you a Young Professional between the ages of 21 and 35? Do you love connecting and learning from your peers in a creative environment? Do you love a night out at the theater? Do you like saving money?! If the answer is yes, then Playhouse on Park is the place for you!

London Musical Theatre Orchestra is proud to announce the initial casting announcement for the concert performance of Girlfriends, composed by Emmy Award-winner Howard Goodall at Bishopsgate Institute, where LMTO are Orchestra-in-Residence.

Following the critically acclaimed release of 'Lost West End Vintage' (highlighted in The Sunday Times as an 'Essential New Release') and 'Lost West End Vintage 2', Stage Door Records are pleased to continue the album series with 'Lost West End Revues' to be released on November 30th 2018.

Sydney Theatre Company is inviting applications from Australia's talented playwrights for the 2018 Patrick White Playwrights Award and expressions of interest for the Patrick White Playwrights Fellowship. The prizes are designed to benefit both emerging and established writers and have a total prize pool of $32,500.

On Today, October 19, 2018 at 8:00pm, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) presents a performance by Jace Clayton aka DJ /rupture in conjunction with the African Americans in WNC & Southern Appalachia Conference. The event features Clayton's latest video The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence, a hand-drawn animation with texts that form part of the script for the live performance, inspired by BMCM+AC's landmark exhibition Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence.

Jack Thorne, the Tony Award-winning book writer of the new Broadway musical, has written the Introduction to a new edition of the Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper novella of King Kong, which has just been released to coincide with the opening of the Broadway musical. Read his full introduction below!

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the nation's premier member organization of independent storytellers, announced today the nominees for the 28th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. Ten competitive awards will be presented to independent features and series. In addition to the competitive awards, Gotham Tributes will be given to actors Rachel Weisz and Willem Dafoe, director Paul Greengrass, and the Gotham Industry Tribute to Jon Kamen.