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If hotels rooms could tell stories, what stories might they tell? Would they be stories of love or heartbreak, or something completely different? If you've ever thought of those questions, or are looking for a fun, entertaining night of theatre, then Des Moines Playhouse's production of 'Plaza Suite' is the right show for you. On Friday, July 16, the show opened to a packed tent as part of the Playhouse's summer Tent series. And from the audience's reactions, this was just the comedy they needed this summer.

“If I Could Choose” focuses on the spirit of radical self-love and acceptance. “It says I would never want to be anyone anywhere else. I want to be me because that is the most me I can be,” says band frontman Jared Molyneux of the track.

What do Dua Lipa and a French comedy from the 18th Century have in common? Absolutely nothing. They might do in a different adaptation of Pierre de Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Chance, but not in Quentin Beroud and Jack Gamble’s.

Full principal casting includes the legendary Kat B as Simple Simon, Zoe Curlett as Fenella Fleshcreep, Julie Jupp as Fairy Fusia, Ellie Ruiz Rodriguez as Jill Higginbottom, Rochelle Sherona as Jack Trot, Tony Whittle as Councillor Higginbottom and Clive Rowe as Dame Daisy Trott.  

These are exciting times for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) as patrons enjoy their summer productions performed on the Outdoor Stage at the bucolic campus of Saint Elizabeth University. We had the pleasure of seeing 'Snug.'

For the first time, Olivier-Award winner Clive Rowe and Hackney panto veteran Tony Whittle will co-direct and star in Hackney Empire’s 2021 pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk which will run from 20 November to 2 January 2022.

With his upcoming album, Iraddenda, released under the name The Moscow Coup Attempt, he’s looking to do the exact opposite – he wants to tap into the imagination of listeners, and have the music inspire the visuals.

Boubil and Schoenberg's musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo is a beast. Dramatic, passionate and a firm favourite with many Musical Theatre lovers for its emotional music, historical setting and tragic but redemptive storyline.

This is a funny original musical about a princess, a unicorn, and a friendly troll with hygiene issues. Fun for the whole family with plenty of singing, sparkles, and smelly-foot hilarity!

In true repertory fashion, nine of the ten actors who perform Quill's 'Twelfth Night' are also presenting 'The Bottom Show,' featuring the rude (in this case, very rude) mechanicals from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Pittsburgh Public Theater will welcome audiences to an extraordinary week of pop-up performances of Neil Simon's BAREFOOT IN THE PARK…IN THE PARK at the newly opened Allegheny Overlook Pop-Up Park, located on Fort Duquesne Boulevard in downtown Pittsburgh.

Giant Ledge Production Co. has announced a diverse lineup of Jazz artists scheduled to play at its summer pop-up gallery at 17 Frost Street.

Pittsburgh Public Theater will welcome audiences to an extraordinary week of pop-up performances of Neil Simon's BAREFOOT IN THE PARK...IN THE PARK at the newly opened Allegheny Overlook Pop-Up Park, located on Fort Duquesne Boulevard in downtown Pittsburgh.

Laced with catchy riffs and a chorus meant to be sung surrounded by your best friends, “Buzzing” is the band's first new song since the release of their single “Caffeine Company” in the fall of 2020.

Sitting at the intersection of musical and opera, Mark Neikrug's A SONG BY MAHLER combines theatre and music into a new form.

This Summer, the St Helens Theatre Royal will reopen its doors to safely welcome audiences once again. With a variety of offering available, families are catered for by top Producers, Reece Sibbald Productions, with a tropical adventure pantomime, Treasure Island.

The infectious track comes complete with a high adrenaline visual that finds the two performing in their garage, goofing around at home, and transported to a psychedelic night club. 

Just by hearing the title, you've probably got the familiar bops of Little Shop of Horrors running through your head.

The team of Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Zippel, and Emerald Fennell have created a new version of Cinderella that's actually quite fun, sometimes lovely, and consistently catchy.

Consider This Theater Company’s production of The Odd Couple (now onstage through Sunday, July 18, at Mills-Pate Arts Center in Murfreesboro) on opening night showed great promise during Act One, only to be overwhelmed by poor blocking choices and lackluster pacing in Act Two (which, in reality, is a combination of acts two and three in the original script that first bowed on Broadway in 1965).