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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas in Blanche and Beyond September 24-26, 2008 in the Terrace Theater. The one-man show is adapted and directed by Steve Lawson from the correspondences of Tennessee Williams between 1945 and 1957, and is a sequel to A Distant Country Called Youth, staged during the Center's Tennessee Williams Explored festival in 2004. This production is part of Prelude 2008: Arts Across America. Language and content for Blanche and Beyond is intended for mature ages, high-school age and above.

On September 24-26th 2008 at 7:30 the Kennedy Center will present Blanche and Beyond, starring Richard Thomas. It is adapted by Steve Lawson from the letters of Tennessee Williams.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas in Blanche and Beyond September 24-26, 2008 in the Terrace Theater. The one-man show is adapted and directed by Steve Lawson from the correspondences of Tennessee Williams between 1945 and 1957, and is a sequel to A Distant Country Called Youth, staged during the Center's Tennessee Williams Explored festival in 2004. This production is part of Prelude 2008: Arts Across America. Language and content for Blanche and Beyond is intended for mature ages, high-school age and above.

For the first time under the leadership of Artistic Director Bonnie J. Monte, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present the American classic A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

Berkshire Theatre Festival will present 'Noel Coward in Two Keys' by Noel Coward and directed by Vivian Matalon with Maureen Anderman, Casey Biggs, Gian Murray Gianino, and Susan Kellerman from Aug 12 - Aug 30.

This fall, Tony Award nominated actor Keith Carradine (The Will Rogers Follies, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 'Nashville,' 'Dexter') returns to the New York stage in the New York premiere of Anthony Horowitz's acclaimed thriller, MINDGAME. Ken Russell, the celebrated director of the films Tommy, Woman In Love and The Boyfriend, makes his New York stage directorial debut with MINDGAME.

Berkshire Theatre Festival will present 'Noel Coward in Two Keys' by Noel Coward and directed by Vivian Matalon with Maureen Anderman, Casey Biggs, Gian Murray Gianino, and Susan Kellerman from Aug 12 - Aug 30.

Berkshire Theatre Festival announces the following change in the 2008 schedule. 'Noël Coward in Two Keys' by Sir Noël Coward, directed by Vivian Matalon, will replace the previously announced Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' as the fourth Main Stage production.

The 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has been awarded to Judith Thompson for her critically acclaimed play Palace of the End, marking the first time a Canadian writer has received the prestigious playwriting award's highest honor. Thompson received $20,000 and a signed and numbered print by artist Willem de Kooning at a special 30th Anniversary ceremony on Monday, March 10th at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas where Ms. Blackburn first became involved in theatre.

'I Do, I Do' at the American Theatre Company of Chicago tries updating the time period without updating the entire book; has some awkward results as the dialogue seems a bit lugubrious.

Theatre and daytime television stars are coming out to support Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS at the 21st Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction to be held on Sunday, September 23 from 10AM - 7PM in Shubert Alley.

The Ogunquit Playhouse has announced that Maxwell Caulfield and James Beaman will star in its production of La Cage aux Folles.

WHO: Catonsville Theatre Company WHAT: Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy WHEN: Through April 15, Fridays & Saturdays at 8PM and Sunday, April 15 at 3PM. WHERE: CCBC Catonsville's Barn Theatre HOW MUCH: $15, $12 for Students, Seniors and Alumni, $10 Children under 10.

Beloved Baltimore/DC actor, Bryon Predika, passed away on January 6, 2007.

Tony winning actress Judy Kaye will return to her Broadway Triumph, SOUVENIR, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, by Stephen Temperley, for a limited engagement Thursday, October 12 to Sunday, November 12 at the Brentwood Theatre.

The Houston Shakespeare Festival will open its 32nd season July 29 with The Tempest, starring septuagenarian actor Ken Ruta

Keith Carradine and Brian D'Arcy James will succeed Jonathan Pryce and Norbert Leo Butz in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on July 20th, while Richard Kind will join the cast on August 3rd and Sherie Rene Scott returns on June 20th

Bruce F. Winston remembers his 'musical theatre mentor' Harold Rome, the composer/lyricist of Call Me Mister, Fanny, I Can Get It for You Wholesale and more

A Conversation With One Of the Stars of Karoline Leach's TRYST