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Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards, written by Jack Thorne, comes to the Studio Theatre from Thursday 12 September - Saturday 28 September, following its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour to the Watford Palace Theatre.

Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards, written by Jack Thorne, comes to the Studio Theatre from Thursday 12 September - Saturday 28 September, following its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tour to the Watford Palace Theatre.

Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards,written by Jack Thorne and directed by Mark Rosenblatt, will receive its world premiere on 31 July 2013 at the Underbelly's new Topside venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before touring to Watford and Sheffield. The show will be designed by Jon Bausor.

Alexander Masters' Stuart: A Life Backwards,written by Jack Thorne and directed by Mark Rosenblatt, will receive its world premiere on 31 July 2013 at the Underbelly's new Topside venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before touring to Watford and Sheffield. The show will be designed by Jon Bausor.

The Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) and Newtown Arts Company welcome the return of a student theater festival to the newly reopened Playhouse after an absence of two years. The BCP Student Theater Festival, produced by Newtown Arts Company and the Playhouse, will feature high schools and middle schools from the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area. The Bucks County Playhouse is located at 70 South Main Street in New Hope, PA.

HighTide Festival Theatre will announce full casting for its 2013 season (see below for full details). Also HighTide is pleased to announce further 'In Conversation' events with writer and director Stephen Poliakoff CBE, and playwright and novelist Michael Frayn. Author and broadcaster Kate Mosse will conduct the conversation with Michael Frayn, whilst television presenter Rick Edwards will hostconversations with Stephen Poliakoff and (previously announced) Roger Michell.

Nominations for the 40th Annual Annie Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced during the awards ceremony which will take place on February 2 at UCLA's Royce Hall.

History Theatre will celebrate the holiday season with the return of The Andrews Sisters - Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne - in Christmas of Swing, a joyful reimagining of a Christmas Eve USO show for soldiers recovering in a V.A. hospital stateside. Get a first look at the show in the photos below!

Luise Ross Gallery's GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS! exhibition will feature Tom Mapp, Gail Gregg, Stan Ries, Jane Terry, John Mattson, Jessica Hines, Gary Monroe, Ed Freeman, Nina Howell Starr, Paul Hasegawa - Overacker, William Ross, Paul Rosin, Olivia Parker, Hai Zhang, J.W. Burleson, Kendall Messick, Savannah Spirit, Karen Zimmerly, Phillip March Jones and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum. It opens June 28 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and runs through August 10, 2012.

For decades, critics have observed that Andy Warhol's influence is dominant in contemporary art, but as of yet no exhibition has explored its full nature or extent. Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major exhibition to do so through approximately 45 works by Warhol alongside 100 works by some 60 other artists. This innovative presentation, structured in five thematic sections, juxtaposes prime examples of Warhol's paintings, sculpture, and films with those by other artists who in key ways reinterpret, respond, or react to his groundbreaking work. The exhibition shows the dialogue and conversation between works of art and artists across generations.

Luise Ross Gallery's GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS! exhibition will feature Tom Mapp, Gail Gregg, Stan Ries, Jane Terry, John Mattson, Jessica Hines, Gary Monroe, Ed Freeman, Nina Howell Starr, Paul Hasegawa - Overacker, William Ross, Paul Rosin, Olivia Parker, Hai Zhang, J.W. Burleson, Kendall Messick, Savannah Spirit, Karen Zimmerly, Phillip March Jones and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum. It opens June 28 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and runs through August 10, 2012.

THE NEWSROOM premieres on HBO this Sunday, June 24th at 10pm and there are plenty of reasons to theatre enthusiasts to tune in - a healthy handful, in fact, if you count the number of major theatrical players involeved with the project.

'Fair is fair!' That is the rebel-rousing cry of sultry 18 year-old Billie Jean Davy and her band of teenage misfits; on the run from the law and in search of truth, justice and a kick-ass haircut! It's the summer of 1985, Corpus Christi, Texas. Local bully, rich-kid, Hubie Pyatt, has maliciously vandalized the brand new Honda Scooter belonging to dirt poor Binx Davey: a purchase made by the 16 year-old trailer park resident with insurance money left to him by his dead father. (Are you in tears yet?!) It's up to big sis, Billie, to convince Hubie's sleazeoid father to cough up the $608 for repairs. Fair is fair, after all! See photos of the musical, which just opened at Cavern Club Celebrity Theater last night, below!

YHWH THEATERS & SHOW PRODUCTIONS presents YAHWEH ON BROADWAY- The Exodus. Directed by Celine Rosenthal, the production will start it's run on Monday, September 26th at 8pm.

The JMK Award comes to the Young Vic for the first time as 2011 winner Cathal Cleary directs rising stars Charlie Murphy (Pygmalion, Abbey Theatre Dublin) and Rory Fleck-Byrne (Cause Célèbre, Old Vic) in Enda Walsh's sensational modern classic.

YHWH THEATERS & SHOW PRODUCTIONS presents YAHWEH ON BROADWAY- The Exodus. Directed by Celine Rosenthal, the production will start it's run on Monday, September 26th at 8pm.

The popular Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series concludes with the London Globe Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Henry VIII, which will be shown in select movie theaters across the U.S. at 6:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, September 15.

Today we are talking to the man who makes all of the magic available to see in the Shakespeare's Globe Film Series actually happen onstage in the first place - such as this week's stunning showing of HENRY IV: Part 2 on August 18 -Shakespeare's Globe Artistic Director, Dominic Dromgoole. In addition to a thorough discussion of all aspects of the unprecedented series of performance captures that have taken place at Shakespeare's Globe so far - seven and counting - we also discuss many aspects of the Bard himself and what productions like HENRY IV: Parts 1 & 2 - both of which he directed - have to say to a twenty-first century audience. Besides that, Dromgoole sheds some light on some of the most memorable moments of his tenure at the Globe, as well as sharing his individual insight into everything from GLEE to Chekhov and, of course, we dissect a number of Shakespeare's most instructive, innovative and unforgettable scenes from many of his finest histories and latter plays, with a focus on HENRY IV and the future for the Shakespeare's Globe Film Series.

The JMK Award comes to the Young Vic for the first time as 2011 winner Cathal Cleary directs rising stars Charlie Murphy (Pygmalion, Abbey Theatre Dublin) and Rory Fleck-Byrne (Cause Célèbre, Old Vic) in Enda Walsh's sensational modern classic.

According to Deadline.com, Broadway veterans John Gallagher Jr. and Thomas Sadoski are on board to join previously announced Jeff Daniels Sam Waterston and Olivia Munn in Aaron Sorkin's HBO series: MORE AS THE STORY DEVELOPS. Sorkin's long-developing drama, set behind the scenes at a nightly cable news show. 'Social Network' producer Scott Rudin will reunite with Sorkin for the project, which will be executive produced by both. Filming on the pilot will not begin until later in the year.