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The Dan Schay New Works Festival comes to a close this weekend. The festival was renamed in honor of Dan and his dedication to providing new experiences for playwrights, actors and our community. The Dan Schay New Works Festival is a platform for artists to launch their new works. Each work is performed as a staged reading. If you wish to support the Dan Schay New Works Festival you can do so in memory of Dan HERE. It has been a festival season that would have made Dan proud, we hope that you join us for the last shows of the season!

Dan was dedicated to providing new experiences for playwrights, actors and our community through the New Works Festival each year. It is in his honor that tradition is continued by presenting the work of five playwrights and three young playwrights. The New Works Festival is a platform for artists to launch their new works. Each work will be performed as a staged reading.

Dan was dedicated to providing new experiences for playwrights, actors and our community through the New Works Festival each year. It is in his honor that tradition is continued by presenting the work of five playwrights and three young playwrights. The New Works Festival is a platform for artists to launch their new works. Each work will be performed as a staged reading.

Ben Tyler's YOU CAN'T KILL A STORY: THE MURDER OF DON BOLLES is not only a moving and truly theatrical memorial to Don Bolles but it is also a compelling tribute to the power and imperative of a free and unfettered press,

In honor of Theater Works' late Executive Director, the Fourth Annual New Works Festival will be named after Dan Schay. Dan was dedicated to providing new experiences for playwrights, actors and our community through the New Works Festival each year. It is in his honor that tradition is continued by presenting the work of five playwrights and three young playwrights beginning Friday, July 8 in the McMillin Theater of the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts. The New Works Festival is a platform for artists to launch their new work. Each work will be performed as a staged reading.

Next up on the Main Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present the New Jersey premiere of Bill Cain's Equivocation. When the Bard and his troupe of players receive a royal commission to dramatize the events surrounding the infamous Gunpowder Plot, the artist must confront the demons of his past, his present, and his obligations to the truth and artistic integrity. Equivocation was described in Variety as "one of the most bracingly intelligent, sizzlingly theatrical American plays in a decade."

Cathy Dresbach and Matt Zimmerer are the fire and ice of this stirring and well-staged and finely cast production by Theater Works of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Actors Theatre's first-ever No Sweat (For You) Summer Season heads into the final four weeks with two plays and three cabaret-style concerts surrounding the main productions of The Book Club Play (through Aug. 17) and The Cottage' (through Aug. 10) at Black Theatre Troupe, 1333 E. Washington St. in Phoenix.

Actors Theatre's first-ever No Sweat (For You) Summer Season heads into the final four weeks with two plays and three cabaret-style concerts surrounding the main productions of The Book Club Play (through Aug. 17) and The Cottage" (through Aug. 10) at Black Theatre Troupe, 1333 E. Washington St. in Phoenix.

In taking on Wallace Shawn's blistering one-man play, The Fever, well-known Valley actor Mike Lawler battles personal guilt for his good intentions toward the dispossessed without the courage to join the struggle. Actors Theatre presents The Fever tonight, July 16 at Black Theatre Troupe, 1333 E. Washington St. in Phoenix as part of the No Sweat (For You)' summer season.

Sally Jo Bannow will perform a musical celebration of one of the world's most beloved body parts when she takes the stage in The Boob Show at 10 p.m., Friday, July 18, 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 20 and 7 p.m. on Friday, August 3 as part of Actors Theatre's "No Sweat (For You)" summer season.

In taking on Wallace Shawn's blistering one-man play, The Fever, well-known Valley actor Mike Lawler battles personal guilt for his good intentions toward the dispossessed without the courage to join the struggle. Actors Theatre presents The Fever July 11 and 16 at Black Theatre Troupe, 1333 E. Washington St. in Phoenix as part of the No Sweat (For You)" summer season.

Kyra Sedgwick and Len Cariou star in a reading of Joni Fritz's 'In The Car With Blossom And Len' today, December 16th at Ripley Grier Studios in New York City.

Kyra Sedgwick and Len Cariou will star in a reading of Joni Fritz's "In The Car With Blossom And Len" December 16th at Ripley Grier Studios in New York City.

Tony Award-Winner Len Cariou returns to 54 Below, where he will be performing selections from George and Ira Gershwin. Cariou will be performing Dec 11, 13, and 14. For more information, please visit http://54below.com/artist/len-cariou/.

Theater Works at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts announces its first NEW WORKS Festival taking place during the month of August. Patrons can see original scripts brought to life through moving performances, as they are read on stage for the first time.

Theater Works at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts announces its first NEW WORKS Festival taking place during the month of August. Patrons can see original scripts brought to life through moving performances, as they are read on stage for the first time.

The Collegiate Chorale presents Song of Norway by Robert Wright and George Forrest tonight, April 30, 2013 at 6:30pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, NYC.

The Collegiate Chorale announces the addition of Anita Gillette, Jim Dale, and Joe Mohan to the line-up for the upcoming performance of Song of Norway by Robert Wright and George Forrest on April 30, 2013 at 6:30pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, NYC.

Actors Theatre and Desert Foothills Theater present 14 performances of "The Wallace & Ladmo Show" at the Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe, from June 1-17. The show is part of Actors Theatre's new Summer Stage lineup.