Mark Twain News

Onassis USA announces the Eureka Commissions, an initiative catalyzing forward-looking, exploratory, interrogative work within a new cultural landscape irrevocably changed by COVID-19 and a society grappling with social and racial injustice.

KPFK Radio's Arts in Review, Los Angeles's longest-running radio showcase on live theater and cabaret, presents its annual Holiday Drama Marathon, featuring the AIR Repertory Players under the direction of Irene Arranga, highlighted by the premiere of the What Child Is This?  

From Saturday, December 18 through Sunday, December 27, the Hangar Theatre Company will host a virtual experience, Seasonal Story Jam & Hootenanny. This family-friendly event features holiday music from The Burns Sisters streamed from the Hangar Theatre & Hangar artists performing a variety of both classic and contemporary short stories and poems.

Since April, East Lynne Theater Company has been presenting 'Tales at Home,' virtually, and 'Tales in the Backyard,' live, and for the holidays, its 'Yuletide Tales.'

An all-star lineup joins the new Amazon Original Yearly Departed, a comedy special to memorialize a year that somehow still isn't over yet.

Papa Rosko’s newly released song and accompanying music video “NooZies” is a critical look at the news media landscape in the United States.

Three-time Drama Desk nominee Parallel Exit presents ELEVATOR PITCH - a free online physical comedy video series for the whole family. Each episode lasts as long as an elevator ride: 60 seconds or less, offering bite-sized physical comedy from the comfort of your device.

Holocaust Museum LA will present the debut of 'Recalling a Lost World: David Labkovski Brings the Stories of Sholem Aleichem to Life,' a new virtual exhibit that features Labkovski's vibrant illustrations inspired by the stories of leading Yiddish author and playwright Sholem Aleichem.

Live theatre may not be going on this October, but that isn't going to stop these recently graduated MFA actors!

Centenary Stage Company's Fringe Festival continues October 22 through October 25 with Tevye Served Raw: Garnished with Jews. See the Tevye stories performed as the man who wrote them intended! Discover what's not in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF -- plus hilarious stories and sketches by the man they called 'the Jewish Mark Twain'.

William Elliott Whitmore will release his eighth full-length album I’m With You on October 16th.

Parsona??s Nose Theater (PNT) known for introducing fun, condensed, broad-stroke, professional presentations of classic comedies by Shakespeare, Molière, Goldoni, Shaw, Belasco, Grimm, Hans Andersen, Goldsmith, Perrault, Boucicault and others, has expanded its  Radio Theater of the Air  podcast series.

Chico Theater Company presents Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Performances take place October 1-17.

Conejo Players presents The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Performances take place Friday, October 9 at 8pm, Saturday, October 10 at 2pm & 8pm, and Sunday, October 11 at 2pm.

Centenary Stage Company's Fringe Festival continues October 22 through October 25 with Tevye Served Raw: Garnished with Jews. See the Tevye stories performed as the man who wrote them intended! 

Last night, the fifth night of the Creative Art Emmys wrapped up this year's virtual ceremony.

Mark Twain's 'The Diaries of Adam and Eve', is a uniquely American theatre piece, funny, beautiful, and deeply moving. David Birney has crafted a light-hearted look at the world's first love story through the eyes of America's greatest humorist, Mark Twain, whose Garden of Eden bursts with wit, laughter and the lyric poignance of the first love and the first loss.

William Elliott Whitmore will release his eight full-length album I’m With You on October 16.

Norm Lewis and Bruce Sabath are among the major names participating in a production called Brotherhood/Sisterhood that will debut on YouTube this Sunday at 6:00 PM. It is the opening night of the Bach Virtuosi Festival.

Tace means 'shhh' in Latin,' explains Jon Snodgrass about the title of his long-awaited new album. 'I think people need to listen more, including me. It’s my version of Mark Twain's 'Never miss a good chance to shut up.'