John Blair News

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company reveals the cast for the free Shakespeare on the Common production of THE WINTER'S TALE, running from July 16 to August 4.

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publishing of Shakespeare's First Folio, Hub Theatre Company of Boston will close its season with Lauren Gunderson's The Book of Will, directed by Elliot Norton Award winner Bryn Boice.

Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio with Hub Theatre's production of 'The Book of Will' directed by Bryn Boice. A story of friendship and legacy, filled with love, loss, and Shakespearean shenanigans. Running from October 27 to November 12, 2023, at the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre. 'Pay-What-You-Can' tickets available.

An event four hundred years in the making! To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publishing of Shakespeare's First Folio, Hub Theatre Company of Boston will close its season with Lauren Gunderson's The Book of Will, directed by Elliot Norton Award winner Bryn Boice.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC) and Steven Maler, Artistic Director, announce the complete cast and creative team for this summer's production of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth on the Boston Common.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's Stage2 Series presents two performances of a science fiction take on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet on Friday, May 12 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, May 13 at 2:00 pm at The Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road, Boston.

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) hosted the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards on the evening of Saturday, January 18 at the Hollywood Palladium. A full list of winners is below.

Muruwari* woman and playwright Jane Harrison's new work, The Visitors, will premiere in January, 2020. This world premiere play, directed by Moogahlin Artistic Director, Bunuba* man Frederick Copperwaite, will transport audiences to the shore of Gadigal land at a pivotal moment in history. As the tall ships drop anchor in 1788, seven senior law men meet. Should these strangers be welcomed, or should they rise as one and resist? Presented by Sydney Festival, Moogahlin Performing Arts and Carriageworks, The Visitors is a powerful, imaginative response to the beginnings of modern Australia.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) announced today the lineup of free Engagement Events surrounding the world premiere of 33 1/3 a?' House of Dreams. The REP's Engagement Event series includes community-focused conversations, actor talk-backs, musical performances and other activities intended to deepen the audience's engagement with the plays onstage.

Twenty-five years ago, Lorena Bobbitt's name was splashed across newspaper headlines and television screens nationwide when she was charged with attacking her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, with a kitchen knife. A two-hour “20/20” documentary reports new details in the infamous case and features a new interview with John, in which he shares new details about the 1993 events, what he went through in the aftermath of the attack and his life now. “20/20” airs on Friday, Jan. 4 (9:00–11:00 p.m. EST), on ABC. The episode kicks off eight weeks of two-hour “20/20” programming featuring brand-new interviews with key players in the biggest newsmaker stories in recent American history. Each documentary takes a look at these cases through a modern lens, challenges original perceptions and sheds new light on each story.

Canadian Comedy Award-winning Rapp Battlez makes its OFF-JFL premiere at the Katacombes on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:59 p.m., and then joins Just For Laughs outdoor programming with two performances on the Loto-Quebec Stage on Wednesday, July 25 at 10 p.m. and Friday, July 27 at 8:30 p.m. Co-hosted and co-created by brothers Miguel Rivas (The Beaverton) and Freddie Rivas (Confederacy of Dunks), the wildly popular sketch comedy smackdown gives some of Canada's most talented sketch comedians a platform to square off against each other for comedic, tete-a-tete rap battle supremacy. 

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???????Now celebrating its 5th year presenting free Shakespeare in the streets of Park Slope, South Brooklyn Shakespeare (SBS) has announced its 2017 production: Five FREE performances of Shakespeare's Macbeth in Park Slope, with opening night serving as the main event of Park Slope Fifth Avenue's Summer Stroll #2 performed on Fifth Avenue at 18th Street (7/29), plus four performances staged outside The Old Stone House (8/2, 3, 4 & 5).

Just in time for Halloween, Secrets of the Dead investigates why vampires have such a hold on our imagination, and whether the undead might still lurk among us.

Just in time for Halloween, Secrets of the Dead investigates why vampires have such a hold on our imagination, and whether the undead might still lurk among us.

Just in time for Halloween, Secrets of the Dead investigates why vampires have such a hold on our imagination, and whether the undead might still lurk among us.

Now, to celebrate today's (November 26) release of Walker's lost studio session from 1970, and his first solo guitar record with vocals, 'Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?', on Delmore Recording Society, he is proud to announce that he will be making his first NYC area live performance in seven years (and only show this year) on 12/18 at Union Pool in Brooklyn.

Now, to celebrate today's (November 26) release of Walker's lost studio session from 1970, and his first solo guitar record with vocals, 'Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?', on Delmore Recording Society, he is proud to announce that he will be making his first NYC area live performance in seven years (and only show this year) on 12/18 at Union Pool in Brooklyn.

Peter Walker is an American original, as eclectic and enigmatic as the songs he writes.

Peter Walker is an American original, as eclectic and enigmatic as the songs he writes.