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The summer's most acclaimed new play, The Best of Enemies, by Mark St. Germain (author of Freud's Last Session), returns to Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, for a run from October 5 through 16 at the BSC Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. The press opening is Saturday, October 8 at 8pm.

The Television Critics Association (TCA) tonight recognized the top programs and actors of the 2010-2011 television season at its 27th Annual TCA Awards presentation. Nick Offerman, star of NBC's 'Parks and Recreation,' hosted the annual invitation-only event, held at The Beverly Hilton hotel in conjunction with the TCA's summer press tour. The non-televised ceremony bestowed awards in 12 categories to recipients in comedy, drama, reality, miniseries, news and youth programming.

Long before the stage saw puppets having sex and Ugandans confronting Mormons, there was JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA, a joyously foul-mouthed stage musical that's as much of a hilarious guilty pleasure as its title suggests. The Chance Theater in Anaheim Hills is the latest American regional theater to take on this racy, over-the-top show. Due to popular demand--and, frankly, rightly so--this surreal musical's run has been extended through August 14. At the height of its popularity, Jerry Springer's eponymous TV program which inspired this reverent parody cornered the market in shocking reveals, loud on-stage brawls, and outrageous fringe parades. So the idea that this low-brow talk show-slash-circus sideshow has somehow been immortalized into a musical theater piece--specifically an Opera, perhaps the most high-brow of the Arts--attracts nothing less than amusing curiosity.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will add 'Extraordinary Acts of Courage' and 'Home Takeover with Simon & Tomas' to its lineup in August, the network confirmed today.

A new primetime special featuring an intimate look at musical icon Celine Dion will premiere Saturday, October 1 (9-10:30 p.m. ET/PT) on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Paper Mill Playhouse just announced the cast for its season opener, the premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies. Revolutionary newsie Jack Kelly will be portrayed by Jeremy Jordan of Broadway's West Side Story and Rock of Ages. Tony® Award nominee John Dossett will play newspaper giant Joseph Pulitzer. The show begins performances on Thursday, September 15. The official press opening is scheduled for Sunday, September 25.

After closing a record breaking run portraying the Four Seasons of the Tony Award winning, smash hit Jersey Boys, Michael Ingersoll, Shonn Wiley, Michael Cunio and Christopher Kale Jones are bringing their new show Under the Streeplamp to the DeVos Performance Hall stage!

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted tonight to present Honorary Awards to actor James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to philanthropist Oprah Winfrey.

Five-time Tony Award®-winning producer Jon B. Platt (WICKED, BOOK OF MORMON) and the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) announces that the world premiere of the new GAZILLION BUBBLE SHOW, starring international sensation Fan Yang, will debut at PPAC Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 2, 2011.

The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce its line-up for the 2011-2012 season, sponsored by Farmington Bank, featuring some timeless Broadway classics, family entertainment, comedy, and more. Tickets to the shows listed below will go on sale Monday, August 1, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. unless otherwise noted.

According to USA Today, Rosie O'Donnell's upcoming talk show for the OWN network has switched time slots, and thus will change up the overall concept of the show. On the show's new 7PM spot, O'Donnell commented: 'we can't do an hour focusing on autism. It'll be fun, games, entertainment, variety.'

TV Guide Network will give fans an exclusive, intimate look at Hollywood's hottest moms through a new original television series in development, 'Hollywood Moms' Club.'

Dubbed 'The greatest white female singer in the world' by none other than Aretha Franklin, star vocalist Marilyn Maye will make her Provincetown debut at The Art House on August 11th and 12th at 7:00PM featuring Billy Stritch on the piano.

You might want to take note that Kathy Griffin will be making a guest appearance on Joan Rivers' Fashion Police on E! tonight (Friday, July 22), promising to be inappropriately funny and bitingly incisive while hanging out with Joan, George and either Kelly or Giuliana. Griffin reminded her audience at Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall of that last night as she engaged in her trademark repartee before an audience filled with her deliriously attentive fans.

Thandie Newton will play Paulina Salas in Ariel Dorfman's Olivier award-winning thriller Death and the Maiden at the Comedy Theatre from Thursday 13th October 2011.

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today premiere dates for six films to be broadcast as part of the OWN Documentary Club. The films, airing monthly on Thursdays from 9-11 p.m. ET/PT, will round out the 2011 OWN Documentary Club film slate and launch into the new year beginning with 'Life 2.0' August 25, 'Most Valuable Players' September 8, 'Miss Representation' October 20, 'Crime After Crime' November 3, 'One Lucky Elephant' December 1 and 'Louder Than a Bomb' January 5, 2012. The announcement comes on the heals of the network's first OWN Documentary Club film 'Becoming Chaz' garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Nonfiction Special, Directing and Picture Editing.

This summer, Broadway actors Darlene Love, Julia Murney, Anthony Rapp and Matt Dengler star in 'Free to Dream: New Songs for the American Journey,' a concert specially adapted for Colonial Williamsburg. Television personality Willard Scott also lends his recorded voice to the program, which showcases the people and places that make up the fabric of America with musical styles from country, rock and pop to swing and the blues. It is a compilation of pieces by Grammy-winning composer Doug Katsaros and two-time Emmy-nominated lyricist William Schermerhorn. A nine-piece band accompanies the singers.