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THE TRAP DOOR THEATRE is proud to present The Locketeer Adapted from The Numbered by Elias Canetti, Adapted and Directed by Catherine Sullivan

Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit musical School of Rock - The Musical will welcome seven new cast members to the class on Tuesday, January 30, 2018. Rocking their way to Broadway will be Montgomery Lamb as 'Katie' the bassist, Jim Kaplan as 'Lawrence' the keyboardist, Sarah Walsh as 'Marcy,' Iggy Rosado as 'Mason,'Madalen Yarbrough Mills as 'Sophie,' Madison Elizabeth Lagares as 'Shonelle,' and Katie Greendorfer as 'Madison.' Current cast member Gabrielle Greene will assume the role of 'Tomika.'

THE TRAP DOOR THEATRE is proud to present The Locketeer Adapted from The Numbered by Elias Canetti, Adapted and Directed by Catherine Sullivan

The Locketeer is an adaptation of Elias Canetti's play from 1956, The Numbered wherein a nameless future state claims its power by imposing life spans on its citizens. This competition for status causes social paranoia and a tragicomic refusal of facts. The adaptation will be devised with the ensemble.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit School of Rock The Musical, which recently celebrated its second anniversary on Broadway on December 6, 2017, has just released its photos of the new cast, featuring Justin Collette as Dewey Finn and Analisa Leaming as Rosalie Mullins.

School of Rock celebrated two years on Broadway yesterday, December 6, 2017. BroadwayWorld was there to celebrate with the cast and crew, and you can check out photo coverage here!

Grammy and Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard (composer of the film and Broadway productions of ONCE) has shared a new breakup song 'Setting Forth' off his new album 'Between Two Shores,' which will be released January 19th.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit musical School of Rock The Musical will celebrate two years on Broadway, on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. The musical began preview performances at the Winter Garden Theatre (1654 Broadway) on November 9, 2015 and officially opened, to rave reviews, on December 6, 2015.

Next week, Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents J. Michael Zygo on Sunday, November 26th. Come hear an incredibly diverse mixtape of music from Once, Rock of Ages, Big River, The Who's Tommy, The Bridges of Madison County and others, as well as some originals, chronicling a life of making music and making it to Broadway!

ABC Talent and Casting presented the 2017 ABC Discovers: Los Angeles Talent Showcase at the El Portal Theatre for the Performing Arts in North Hollywood, California.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit musical School of Rock - The Musical will welcome four new adult cast members to the show this November.

The first book about Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut's first national park unit and the only one dedicated to American painting, will be authored by Xiomaro, the park's Visiting Artist, in a deal he signed with Arcadia Publishing. About 150 of Xiomaro's photographs will be accompanied with captions that, he explains, 'tells the big story of a small park.' The 60-acre site, nestled in Wilton and Ridgefield, is where J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), the father of American Impressionist painting, lived and created iconic works now seen at the Met, the Smithsonian and other world-class museums.

Mark A. Schlegel, aged 57, a longtime resident of Oradell, NJ passed away on Sunday, August 13th. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Mark graduated from Plymouth High School in Indiana, and received a communications degree from DePauw University in 1981.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Broadway Performers in "The Songs of Michael Radi' on Monday, October 16th at 9:30pm.

It is a simple premise: Two candidates in a pharmaceutical drug trial fall in love, but is their chemistry real, or induced? This scientific debate is the subject of Lucy Prebble's THE EFFECT, now in its New England Premiere at Gloucester Stage Company. Under the direction of Sam Weisman, the play stars Lindsay Crouse as Dr. Lorna James and Brad Hall as Dr. Toby Sealey, a pair with a past, along with Susannah Hoffman and Mickey Solis as the volunteers who may have a future. Both relationships contribute talking points on either side of the discourse that fuels the drama, but the playwright leaves enough doubt to allow the viewer to wrestle with the conclusion.

An urban oasis for one-of-a-kind entertainment, eclectic dining and luxury shopping, NEWCITY, 1457 N. Halsted, announced today it will host free, weekly outdoor concerts throughout the summer. Taking place within the beautifully landscaped plaza of Chicago's newest lifestyle destination, NEWCITY's summer concerts will be free to guests every Thursday evening 7 - 9 p.m. from June 29 - August 31.

The Hollywoodreporter.com reports that Netflix's Sense8 has been cancelled after two seasons.

Take a deeper look at the second season of Sense8, featuring more action, more heart, more amazing locations, and even more clusters.