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Improv comedy greats Stephanie Courtney and Jonathan Mangum will join Hypnotist Extraordinaire Asad Mecci for the combined hypnosis and improvisational comedy hit at the Daryl Roth Theatre.

Dallas Theater Center's Clue, the first production of the 2022-2023 season, begins performances at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. Clue is directed by Daytime Emmy Award-winning Alan Muraoka; who has appeared on Sesame Street, as well as directed, for more than 25 years. Viewers may recognize him as “Alan”, the beloved character who runs Mr. Hooper's store. 

Starring Improv and Comedy Legend Colin Mochrie (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) and Hypnotist Extraordinaire Asad Mecci, HYPROV is now playing a limited engagement at the Daryl Roth Theatre through October 30. Get a first look at footage here!

Rufus Wainwright has created an original score for HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis starring Improv and Comedy Legend Colin Mochrie (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) and Hypnotist Extraordinaire Asad Mecci. 

HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis, the international sensation from the brilliant minds of Improv and Comedy Legend Colin Mochrie (“Whose Line Is It Anyway?”) and Master Hypnotist Asad Mecci, will make its New York City premiere this summer. 

Told through the memory of 20-year-old Linda O'Shea, the play begins when the parish priest overhears Linda's bawdy-but-accurate explanation of “the birds and the bees” to her younger sister, Becky. What follows is a fast-paced chain of events that's both unexpected and hilarious. 

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Salt Lake City Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Salt Lake City Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

The world premiere of Ass, a comedy by successful playwright and screenwriter ELLEN SIMON, will finally open at PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC) on OCTOBER 22 and will run through NOVEMBER 6, 2021. Its original 2020 world premiere was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pioneer Theatre Company’s professional production of AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ is billed as a joyous, feel-good celebration of live theatre, and it doesn’t disappoint. As Equity actors solemnly return to PTC’s stage after an 18-month absence, they elicit tender emotions that eventually explode in elation.

Rowdy and fun, AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' is our joyous celebration of the return of theatre. Closed since March 2020, Pioneer Theatre Company (PTC) opens with Ain't Misbehavin' on September 10, 2021 through September 25, 2021. It will be presented scripts-in-hand, as a concert musical but fully staged with the orchestra on stage.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival is offering its 2014 production of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, directed by Kent Gash and choreographed by Byron Easley for on-demand streaming on the Festival’s website, June 1-26.

Pioneer Theatre Company has turned their building into a Holiday Window Display, showcasing festive holiday scenes that include clever animation and lights.

Starting December 1 and running through December 31, Pioneer Theatre Company, will produce a free series of events as a 'thank you' to the community.

Starting December 1 and running through December 31, Pioneer Theatre Company, will produce a free series of events as a 'thank you' to the community. Let It Show: PTC's Perfectly Pandemic Productions will include specially-designed Winter Holiday themed window displays, which can be enjoyed at SIMMONS PIONEER MEMORIAL THEATRE.

The world premiere of Ass, a comedy by successful playwright and screen writer Ellen Simon, opens at PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY (PTC) on MARCH 27 and runs through APRIL 11, 2020. 

If you were a god who specialized in green and growing things and wanted to try to save the planet, New Jersey aka a?oeThe Garden Statea?? may seem like the natural place to start. In HURRICANE DIANE, the new comedy by playwright Madeleine George, playing at the Old Globe proves that while Jersey may have that nickname it's not a bed of roses.

The Old Globe presents the west coast premiere of Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George, directed by James Vásquez.

Though SCR's admirable new production of the 1963 Broadway musical SHE LOVES ME, for the most part, still has many charming, beautifully-staged, and well-sung moments, it also somehow feels like it is slightly reigned in, as if there was a purposeful attempt to downscale some of its built-in whimsy and spirited vivaciousness---particularly in the first act where emotional expressions all seem to sit in the same middle areaa?? never tipping over to too angry or too sad or too happy or too, well, anything. Now on stage in Costa Mesa through February 22, 2020, the production---directed by the theater's own artistic director David Ivers---is genuinely entertaining, but still needs a huge shot of joy, romance, and pep to make it feel complete.

The Old Globe will present the West Coast Premiere of HURRICANE DIANE by Madeleine George, directed by James Vásquez.