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Manhattan Theatre Club's presentation of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Airline Highway, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D'Amour (Detroit), directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello (Casa Valentina, Take Me Out), opens tonight, April 23 at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). Let's see what the critics had to say...

Theatre of NOTE continues its 2015 season with the World Premiere of ENTROPY by Bill Robens and directed by Christopher William Johnson.

Fountain Hills Theater will present its 2015-16, 29th season for its three venues, Mainstage, Mainstage Too and Youth Theater as well as our Sizzlin' Summer Stock. Tickets go on sale May 1st, 2015.

Produced by Zodiak NYC, the series premiere of UNEARTHED airs Wednesday, April 29 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel.

A recent Lincoln Center showcase reveals the sense of careful composition behind a visionary American artist.

Theatre of NOTE continues its 2015 season with the World Premiere of ENTROPY by Bill Robens and directed by Christopher William Johnson.

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ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY has just officially opened on Broadway and we're rounding up all the reviews as they come up! Check back for LIVE UPDATES!

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The Kitchen will present the next installment of Synth Nights, its series devoted to the live performance of electronic music, tonight, March 4 with perennial innovator Morton Subotnick and his dynamic multi-media piece, From Silver Apples of the Moon to A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur: V.

The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the complete lineup for the 44th New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), March 18-29.

While some might complement Clandestine-Arts' production of BARE: A POP OPERA for its 'can-do' attitude, there's a difference between the type of youthful inexperience that leads to theater that is exciting and new, and the type of reckless abandon that is at best moderately amusing and at worst incredibly dangerous. That is to say, there's nothing wrong with upstart theater company Clandestine-Arts' creative vision of producing emotion-driven musicals with low budgets, but theater is an incredibly technical art form. Whether the venue is a Broadway 2,000 seater, a high school auditorium, or a hole in the hall black box in Adams Morgan, there is never an excuse for a production so shoddily put together that the audience can reasonably fear for the performers safety, as well as their own; especially not at the admission price Clandestine is charging. At the end of the day, what really seems to be lacking is a sense of adult supervision.

Give a child on the autism spectrum the gift of flight and memories to last a lifetime at Chicago Children's Theatre's Red Kite, Blue Sky, the company's annual multi-sensory live theater experience created just for children with autism and their families, tonight, February 21 through March 4, 2015 at Chicago's Millennium Park.

The Kitchen will present the next installment of Synth Nights, its series devoted to the live performance of electronic music, on March 4 with perennial innovator Morton Subotnick and his dynamic multi-media piece, From Silver Apples of the Moon to A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur: V.

Bestselling author David Blixt ("The Master Of Verona," "Her Majesty's Will") returns with the thrilling fourth novel in his acclaimed Star-Cross'd series. Inspired as both an actor and historian, Blixt takes the real people of Dante's time and blends them with the timeless characters from Shakespeare's Italian plays. The result is a smashing novel of historical fiction, alternately hilarious and harrowing. Set in the year 1328, the city of Verona has just won its decade-long war with Padua, but lost an even longer war with the stars. Heartbroken from the events of "Fortune's Fool" (2012), young prodigy Cesco turns his troubled brilliance to darker purposes, embracing a riotous life and challenging not only the lord of Verona and the Catholic Church, but the stars themselves. Protecting him is Dante's son Pietro, who welcomes the plots and intrigues of the Veronese court, hoping they will shake the young man out of his torpor. But when the first body falls, it becomes clear that this new game is deadly, one that will doom them all. "The Prince's Doom" is available now in trade paperback from Sordelet Ink, and will be released on Amazon Kindle on February 24th, 2015. Sharon Kay Penman, acclaimed author of "The Sunne In Splendour," says of Blixt, 'For anyone who has yet to read David's novels, you are about to hit the literary lottery. Yes, he's that good.' C.W. Gortner (The Last Queen) says, 'David Blixt is a master of historical fiction. Dramatic, vivid, superbly researched, this series captures Renaissance Italy in all its heady glamour and lethal intrigue.' Blixt's previous novel, "Fortune's Fool," was the Editor's Choice of the Historical Novel Society: 'This is one of the most exciting, and satisfying, reads that I have immersed myself in for a long time. David Blixt is a gem of a writer.' Born in Ann Arbor and now a Chicago actor, director, and playwright, David Blixt has been seen on the stages of the Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, First Folio Shakespeare, Northlight, Lifeline, Griffin, as well as the Shakespeare Theatre of DC. He is a longtime Artistic Associate of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, and founding member of A Crew Of Patches Theatre Company. This is his seventh novel.

Give a child on the autism spectrum the gift of flight and memories to last a lifetime at Chicago Children's Theatre's Red Kite, Blue Sky, the company's annual multi-sensory live theater experience created just for children with autism and their families, February 21 through March 4, 2015 at Chicago's Millennium Park.

The incredible talent and empowering storytelling of Broadway will soon be gracing Florida's shores with two star-studded performances of Jason Robert Brown's beloved 1995 musical SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. On Friday, January 23rd, an all-star cast of Broadway favorites will perform this incredible show at Cocoa Beach's DoubleTree by Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront as part of a benefit for the Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce.

Bridget Everett, performing a reprise of her one-woman cabaret show, Rock Bottom (at Joe's Pub for an limited run), has become the darling of the alt-cabaret scene because she occupies the clown/fool/buffoon space to the hilt, creating a hilarious and cathartic experience for those who can take it. Everett has not met a taboo she does not dare to decimate.

Liam Neeson will use his 'very particular set of skills' for the last time in TAKEN 3, the final installment of the TAKEN action-thriller series.

?DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Robert Kushner: baroque. In this exhibition of new paintings, Kushner fuses plant forms with references to the global history of ornament to extend his exploration of the conceptual and political implications of the decorative. A catalogue with an essay by Faye Hirsch accompanies the exhibition.