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Broadway at Music Circus in Sacramento has announced its cast for Something Rotten!, which includes Jackie Burns, Ben Fankhauser, and more!

What did our critic think of SOMETHING ROTTEN at The Naples Players? SOMETHING ROTTEN at The Naples Players follows Nick Bottom as he tries to create the next best play and become more popular than Shakespeare.

The King Center for the Performing Arts has announced two new shows coming to the Space Coast!  Classic Albums Live: The Lithium Experience is an all-new take on the Classic Albums Live experience coming to the King Center on Saturday, December 17 at 8 PM.

Something big, something flashy, SOMETHING ROTTEN! Until August 26th, Theatre Under the Stars will present the musical, SOMETHING ROTTEN, at the Malkin Bowl in Vancouver. Filled with flashy dance numbers, catchy songs, and a hint of inappropriate humor, this show is exactly what you need to brighten your summer.

Shylock, the Jewish moneylender and one of Shakespeare's most controversial characters of all time, Antonio, and Portia face off in this complicated and harrowing 'comedy' that has challenged artists and audiences for centuries.  

Williamstown Theatre Festival is celebrating tonight’s first performance of Most Happy in Concert, Tony Award-nominated director Daniel Fish’s reimagining of Frank Loesser’s critically adored score to the musical The Most Happy Fella, choreographed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, playing through Sunday, July 31 on the Main Stage.

A fresh take on a classic fairy tale comes to the stage as the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas presents its summer musical, 'Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.' Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 22-23, and July 29-30; and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 24 and July 31.

William Shakespeare's joyous and popular comedy Much Ado About Nothing will open at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the professional theatre on the campus of DeSales University. The show previews July 13 and 14, opens July 15, and runs through August 7 in the Schubert Theatre at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts.

Moonlight Stage Productions will welcome audiences to the renaissance for its third musical of its 2022 season when it produces the hilarious Broadway hit “Something Rotten!” at the Moonlight Amphitheatre, July 20 through August 6 at 8 p.m.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (Sonja Kostich, its Chief Executive and Artistic Officer) today announced the full programming for its 2022 Fall Festival, with a host of stars and premieres in the scenic Hudson Valley location.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (Sonja Kostich, its Chief Executive and Artistic Officer) today announced the full programming for its 2022 Fall Festival, with a host of stars and premieres in the scenic Hudson Valley location.

Williamstown Theatre Festival announced today additional casting and creative team members for the 2022 Summer Season, the final two Fridays@3 readings, and fellowships.

Originally scheduled for a 2020 run, The Merchant of Venice 1936 has successfully weathered the pandemic!  It is to premiere in Spring 2023, in a partnership between Watford Palace Theatre and Trafalgar Entertainment, supported by the Royal Shakespeare Company with a research and development period earlier this year. 

Theatre Frisco will present Something Rotten July 29 - August 14, 2022 at Frisco Discovery Center's Black Box Theater (8004 Dallas Pkwy, Frisco, TX 75034).

High School Musical the Musical the Series star and Broadway veteran Kate Reinders will return to the stage on Monday, June 27 to host the 2022 Jimmy Awards. 92 student nominees will perform for a chance to win the Jimmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor and Actress.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park today announced the full programming for its 2022 Fall Festival, with a host of stars and premieres in the scenic Hudson Valley location.

Pride Live, a social advocacy and community engagement organization for the LGBTQ+ community, announced plans to open the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center (SNMVC). 

The Theatre Group at SBCC is excited to announce the first show of the 2022-23 season will be the exuberant musical, SOMETHING ROTTEN! Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, Conceived by Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick.  SOMETHING ROTTEN! will run July 6-23, 2022 in the Garvin Theatre and will be directed by Katie Laris, musical direction by David Potter and choreography by Christina McCarthy.

The cast has been announced for A Medusa Thread. A partnership with NY Classical Theatre and the West Harlem Art Fund on Governors Island in Nolan Park (Building 10B) for FREE -- Saturday, June 25th at noon.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)'s pulls out all the stops with two separate family-friendly pops concerts capping off its 16-day Princeton Festival. On Friday, June 24 at 7pm Broadway's leading lady Sierra Boggess marks her third Broadway POPS! appearance with the PSO performing favorite melodies from shows including Phantom of the Opera, The Music Man, Guys & Dolls, She Loves Me, My Fair Lady, and The Little Mermaid.