Harry Truman News

Get a front row seat to history! Act II Playhouse presents Looking Over the President's Shoulder by James Still, on stage Oct. 22-Nov. 17 in Ambler.

After three years of development, beginning immediately after the 2016 Presidential election that left the democratic constituency of the United States in a state of shock, the new immersive comedy Convention will make its world premiere this summer at Brooklyn's very own Irondale (85 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217), located just steps from BAM.   Convention will begin performances Friday, June 7, and play a strictly limited engagement through Saturday, June 29. An opening night has been set for Thursday, June 13 at 8:00pm.  

Stratford's Square One Theatre presents Joanna McClelland Glass' 'Trying' now through M ay 19, 2019.

Trying, described as 'a portrait of generational reconciliation' (NY Daily News) replaces Lungs as the next stage production of Square One Theatre's 29th season.

Trying, described as "a portrait of generational reconciliation" (NY Daily News) replaces Lungs as the next stage production of Square One Theatre's 29th season.

Arizona Theatre Matters announces a call for actors, directors and playwrights, for their first annual We Ain't Done Yet Theatre Festival at the Phoenix Center for the Arts, 9am-10pm November 9, 2019.

On Tuesday January 22nd in a limited engagement Producing Artistic Director and Founder of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City Damron Russel Armstrong will take the stage at the Bruce R Watkins Cultural Heritage Center 3700 Blue Pkwy, Kansas City, MO 64130 as Chief Butler of the White House Alonzo Fields.

Dubbed The First Lady of the World by Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt held the post of First Lady of the United States from March 1933, when her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as President until April 1945 when he died during his fourth term in office. She was thus the longest serving First Lady in the history of the United States.

World-renowned opera singer and Broadway star Alyson Cambridge will perform a special holiday solo concert, accompanied by pianist Michael Fennelly, at Carnegie Hall's beautiful Weill Recital Hall on Sunday, November 25 at 7:30PM.

The free weekend event Living the Great War featuring living historians, educational programs, World War I-era vehicles and replica WWI aircraft, a program focused on Harry Truman's military career and a pair of documentary screenings about John J. Pershing and The Hello Girls highlight August events at the National WWI Museum and Memorial.

As a special bonus in its 22nd season, First Folio Theatre (Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. & Rt. 83.) is bringing back Ronald Keaton's hit one-man show Churchill, May 2 - 6. This show had its Illinois premiere at First Folio, before moving on to extended runs the Greenhouse Theatre Center in Chicago followed by a six-month run Off-Broadway at New World Stages in NYC.

Theatre Artists Studio's production of Joanna McClelland Glass's TRYING is a triumph of direction by Judy Rollings and performances by Alan Austin and Vanessa Benjamin. The show runs through February 4th.

In 1947, Harry Truman was president, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, the first Polaroid camera was introduced and a UFO landed in Roswell, New Mexico. Oh yeah, and The Elmwood Playhouse, in Nyack, New York first opened its doors! Since then Elmwood has staged over 367 main stage productions, and had over 250,000 audience members have passed through their doors.

To maximize traveler's time and money, hotels are creating on-property exhibits that are dedicated to entertaining and educating guests from a U.S. historic corridor in Chicago to a local Wild West culture display in Texas.

Jason Tramm and the Morris Choral Society welcome acclaimed pianist Michael Fennelly who will perform Beethoven's exquisite 'Choral Fantasy, Op. 80' this Saturday May 20th at the Dorothy Young Concert Hall at Drew University. Mr. Fennelly will perform the famed concerto which Beethoven himself premiered in 1808 in in lieu of Italian pianist Cristiana Pegoraro, who is indisposed.

Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce six exceptional books as the 2017 finalists for The Chautauqua Prize, now in its sixth year

DECADES Network, the multicast TV network from Weigel Broadcasting Co. and CBS Television Stations, marks the January 20, 2017 Presidential Inauguration with a historic look back at inauguration speeches spanning from President Kennedy through President Obama.

HISTORY has today launched THE OBAMA YEARS - A NINE-PART ORAL HISTORY. This is an incredible compilation of commentary from President Barack Obama and 23 members of his administration.

DECADES Network, the multicast TV network from Weigel Broadcasting Co. and CBS Television Stations, marks the January 20, 2017 Presidential Inauguration with a historic look back at inauguration speeches spanning from President Kennedy through President Obama.