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The first stage production of THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, based on the Dreamworks animated feature, will premiere next month at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its mission of developing new works in the Bay Area with the World Premiere of The Prince of Egypt, a soaring celebration of the human spirit and one of the greatest stories ever told: the saga of Moses, his Pharaoh brother Ramses, and the indomitable people who changed them both forever. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at Diluckshan Jeyaratnam as 'Moses' below!

Windy City Playhouse announces an expansion in programming with a world-premiere immersive theatrical production, 'Southern Gothic,' premiering February 7, 2018 and running through April 1, 2018 as a stand-alone production following the 2017 season.

Kick off this fall in the best possible way, by finally finishing your comedic plays, standup routines, sketches, solo shows and screenplays with the industry's top comedy expert Steve Kaplan (best-selling author of "The Hidden Tools of Comedy") - who returns to NYC after teaching his Comedy Intensive workshops around the world to thousands of students in London, Munich and Tel Aviv.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its mission of developing new works in the Bay Area with the World Premiere of The Prince of Egypt, a soaring celebration of the human spirit and one of the greatest stories ever told: the saga of Moses, his Pharaoh brother Ramses, and the indomitable people who changed them both forever.

The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills announced today that a premiere screening and panel celebrating the SHOWIME comedy series Episodes will conclude the PaleyLive Summer Season today, August 16, 2017 at 7 p.m. The program will feature a screening of the Season Five premiere, a panel conversation and audience Q&A with the cast and creative team.

SHOWTIME is giving viewers nationwide an early opportunity to sample the season premieres of the network's hilarious comedy series EPISODES and DICE for free, ahead of their debuts on Sunday, August 20th at 10 p.m. and 10:30pm ET/PT, respectively.

Kick off this fall in the best possible way, by finally finishing your comedic plays, standup routines, sketches, solo shows and screenplays with the industry's top comedy expert Steve Kaplan (best-selling author of "The Hidden Tools of Comedy") - who returns to NYC after teaching his Comedy Intensive workshops around the world to thousands of students in London, Munich and Tel Aviv.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents "*CARDED by Theatreworks USA" today, August 1st at 9:30pm.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents "*CARDED by Theatreworks USA" on Tuesday, August 1st at 9:30pm.

The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills announced today that a premiere screening and panel celebrating the SHOWIME comedy series Episodes will conclude the PaleyLive Summer Season on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 7 p.m. The program will feature a screening of the Season Five premiere, a panel conversation and audience Q&A with the cast and creative team.

SHOWTIME has released the official trailer and key art for the fifth and final season of its acclaimed comedy series EPISODES, which will premiere on Sunday, August 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. EPISODES stars Matt LeBlanc in his four-time Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning role playing a fictionalized version of himself.

Author/Professor Patrick Hickey, Jr. will discuss the industry and his anthology, 'For The Love of Games: Cult and Classic Game Developers Discuss Projects That Influenced And Entertained Millions,' at Borough Con, May 26 at 2:30 p.m. at St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Pkwy, Queens, NY.

SHOWTIME has announced the summer premiere dates for two of its hit series: Season five of RAY DONOVAN will debutSunday, August 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and EPISODES will return for its fifth and final season Sunday, August 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

'That's really niche.' Those words from one of the night's emcees, Feinstein's/54 Below Programming Director Jennifer Ashley Tepper, were technically used in reference to Linda Lavin's propensity to play love interests for superheroes. But, really, they could've been used to describe BROADWAY BOUND: THE MUSICALS THAT NEVER CAME TO BROADWAY, which played at the aforementioned venue March 21.

Tennessee Williams' memory play, The Glass Menagerie, was a timely choice for Sacramento Theatre Company to revive this season. In today's political climate fraught with worry, the average American can relate to Tom Wingfield, who is living in a country on the precipice of war and trying to provide for his mother and sister while putting his own wanderlust on hold.

The Mountain Play - Casting is complete for the Mountain Play's production of HAIR In Concert, which will be presented as part of the Magic Mountain Play Music Festival commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the first ever outdoor rock festival - the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival. HAIR In Concertwill take place on Saturday, June 10, 2017. www.MountainPlay.org  

The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, today announced the lineup for the second annual television festival, Tribeca TV, featuring a mix of world premieres of some of the most talked-about new series/

Aaron Sorkin, the Emmy-winning creator of The West Wing and Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Social Network, is set to receive the Writers Guild of America, West's 2017 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement

Musical Theatre Guild, the winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle Margaret Harford Award for sustained excellence in the theatre, continued their 21st Anniversary Season with the award-winning Off-Broadway musical THE SPITFIRE GRILL.  The one-night-only concert took place at Glendale's historic Alex Theatre on Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 7:00 PM. Scroll down for photos!