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The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

In response to how the global pandemic has affected the theatrical world, writer/director Lenny Schwartz and producer/director Nathan Suher of IM Filmworks have created Far From Perfect: Life Inside A Global Pandemic. 'What was supposed to be a short-subject, turned into a feature film featuring more than 100 actors from all regions of the country,' said Schwartz, an award-winning playwright and screenwriter.

Ten years after taking to the stage in the one-woman show, Bombshells, Ali Harper is back to delight Christchurch audiences in Joanna Murray-Smith's Songs for Nobodies.

SFIAF 2017 has announced its performance listings. The full Festival lineup with project descriptions is as follows (projects listed chronologically by discipline: dance, music, theatre/ performance art). An online calendar is available here.

In the Dark Times will there also be Singing? The San Francisco International Arts Festival takes Bertolt Brecht's rhetorical question as its theme for 2017 (and beyond) and forms the bedrock of a commitment to develop an artistic platform that addresses the dangerous domestic and foreign policy political abyss currently confronting the United States of America.

San Francisco International Arts Festival is pleased to announce that a limited number of Early Bird Tickets starting at the incredible price of $12.50 will go on-sale for the 2017 Festival at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture at 8:00am on Wednesday March 1 until 11:59pm on March 31. 

The 2017 San Francisco International Arts Festival will feature a brilliant 11 day program co-presented with, and held exclusively at, the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

At a time of anxiety and uncertainty in many parts of the United States, the San Francisco International Arts Festival is proud to announce its 2017 lineup;  an exciting 11 day program featuring over 50 ensembles and individual performing artists from the Bay Area and 14 different countries. It is a program that celebrates diversity, multiculturalism, curiosity and the value of otherness-a commitment that advocates for experiencing the cultural expressions of other societies and civilizations as a way to help understand and embrace them.

Audiences are bound to be awestruck by The Court Theatre's summer musical, Legally Blonde the Musical. The award-winning Broadway sensation, based on the Amanda Brown novel and hit 2001 film of the same name, is a musical comedy that smashes stereotypes and absolutely explodes on stage.

The selection of outstanding plays we have chosen for The Meridian Energy 2016/17 Season give The Court Theatre the opportunity to create some genuinely great theatre and to present our audiences with memories that will be kept alive for a lifetime.

The first ever New Zealand professional production of Disney's Broadway musical MARY POPPINS comes to the stage at The Court Theatre in time for Christmas. 

The first ever New Zealand professional production of Disney's Broadway musical MARY POPPINS comes to the stage at The Court Theatre in time for Christmas. 

With only two shows in Christchurch, tickets to Legendary Divas were always going to be in demand but performer Ali Harper never anticipated one show selling out five weeks before opening on March 1st.

The Court Theatre presents a compelling and heart wrenching International Smash Hit Musical- Blood Brothers.

The End of the Rainbow is a dramatically powerful play that takes you into the last desperate months of Judy's life, as she, with her new husband Mickey Deans at her side, rehearses and performs at the Talk of the Town in London.

Glitz, glamour and the most popular songs from a Broadway icon are all brought to The Court's new stage in SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. David McPhail narrates the musical revue, whilst Ali Harper, Michael Lee Porter and Juliet Reynolds-Midgley romp through the career of Stephen Sondheim, performing songs from WEST SIDE STORY, GYPSY, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and FOLLIES.

Glitz, glamour and the most popular songs from a Broadway icon are all brought to The Court's new stage in SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM. David McPhail narrates the musical revue, whilst Ali Harper, Michael Lee Porter and Juliet Reynolds-Midgley romp through the career of Stephen Sondheim, performing songs from WEST SIDE STORY, GYPSY, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and FOLLIES.

From Saturday 20 November The Court Theatre will be transformed into the Kit Kat Klub for the Press Summer Season of CABARET.