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Modfest, Vassar College's annual exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries, will consider the concept of Adapting, February 1 11, 2018. Throughout these two weeks, artists will examine different perspectives of what this can mean in our ever-changing world through written and spoken words, visual arts and performance.

Skylight Music Theatre Artistic Director Ray Jivoff today announced the full cast, creative team and band for Zombies from The Beyond, an out-of-this-world musical comedy written and composed by Milwaukee native James Valcq. Zombies from The Beyond will be presented February 2-18, 2018 in Skylight's beautiful Cabot Theatre.

For several years, the Orange County Playwrights Alliance has presented a summer staged reading event at Newport Theatre Arts Center in Newport Beach. This year's event features four new one-act plays from local dramatists who have produced across the country - an eclectic playbill of one-acts set in America and overseas.

Last night at a community ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Toronto Fringe Festival announced its largest show line-up in its 29-year history. In addition to the announcement of expanded programming at the brand new Fringe Club at Scadding Court.

Seeking Refuge, winner of the Paul O'Sullivan Prize for best script for a new musical submitted to the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, has its world premiere July 7 at the Randolph Theatre.  

What just may be her last live performance in her beloved hometown, Aretha Franklin will headline a free outdoor concert which includes some of the most popular Detroit bred musical acts from R&B to Rock, to Hip Hop, to Techno and even Country and Gospel.  On Saturday June 10 in the center of the Detroit Entertainment District, bookended by a Friday June 9 Tribute concert to the Queen of Soul starring a bevy of selected celebrity vocalists and backed by the Detroit SuperBAND at Music Hall.

At the most recent BROADWAY BY THE YEAR presentation on March 27, at its usual home of the Town Hall, the 1940s was the sent-up decade from which the evening's performers sang. At a time in the country that currently bears striking and cryptic similarity to that grim period of global history, the resonance of the evening's selections rang eerily. Additionally, they also demonstrated how little the relationship between culture and society has changed over the last seven decades.

Tony Award Honoree Ben Davis (Violet, A Little Night Music, La Boheme), Lesli Margherita (Matilda, Dames at Sea), Kendrick Jones (Shuffle Along, The Scottsboro Boys) & Drama Desk Award-nominee Daniel Reichard (Original Cast of Jersey Boys) will join previously announced Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba (Bullets Over Broadway, Curtains, Contact), multi-award winning Nightclub star Klea Blackhurst & Steve 'The Whistler' Herbst at Town Hall's Broadway by the Year Series on Monday, March 27 at 8pm, 'The Broadway Musicals of the 1940s,' which will highlight the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kurt Weill & Leonard Bernstein.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Broadway rock opera, 'Jesus Christ Superstar' recounts the last days of Jesus Christ from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene. After Jesus has an outburst in a temple, Judas turns on him.

Tony Award-winner Chuck Cooper will headline New York Theatre Barn's developmental presentations of Boy Meets Girl tonight, February 15, 2017 at The Cell.

Tony Award-winner Chuck Cooper will headline New York Theatre Barn's developmental presentations of Boy Meets Girl on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at The Cell.

It's here at last! Season 2 of the hit web-comedy THE RESIDUALS will air exclusively here, on BroadwayWorld throughout the summer. Check back every Tuesday for a new episode, plus tune in on Thursdays for exciting episode extras! More importantly, check back later today to watch the Season 2 premiere, 'Networking'!

Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET), Frederick's largest producing non-profit theater, launched a Capital Campaign in September of 2013 to raise funds for an additional performance venue and alterations to the existing facilities. On January 10, 2015 MET celebrated the completion of the Stage2: The Greene Space venue and numerous other capital improvements with a ribbon cutting ceremony, hours of free activities for families, and an evening of comedy and music. Scroll down for phots from the ribbon cutting!

Alumnae Theatre continues its 2014-2015 season with Sharon Pollock's Governor General's award-winning play Blood Relations January 23-February 7, 2015.

The Ensemble Theatre kicks off its youth theatre production, The Last Prince of Soulville by Broderick Jones, September 21 -- October 12, 2013.

Magic Theatre will launch its 47th season with a legacy revival production of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Buried Child. The production is directed by Producing Artistic Director Loretta Greco and will run September 11 - October 6, 2013 at Magic Theatre, Fort Mason Center, Building D, 3rd Floor. Press Opening is Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 8pm.

'Marvel's Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.,' is an action-packed, fun-filled animated series starring Marvel's strongest super heroes - Hulk, She-Hulk, A-Bomb, Red Hulk and Skaar. In this first Marvel produced Hulk animated series, this Gamma group forms an unlikely family living under one roof, battling evil villains and proving to the world they are not monsters - they are Hulk-sized heroes. The series premieres with a special two-part episode on today, AUGUST 11 (11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., ET/PT). Immediately following, a brand new episode of 'Marvel's Avengers Assemble' (12:00 - 12:30 p.m., ET/PT) airs in this special super-sized Marvel Universe block on Disney XD.

Disney XD announces August 2013 Programming Highlights!

Shakespeare Orange County begins its 2013 summer season with Shakespeare's TWEFLTH NIGHT or WHAT YOU WILL, July 19 - August 3, 2013 with a preview tonight, July 18, 2013. Directed by Thomas F. Bradac and Alyssa Bradac, TWELFTH NIGHT performs at the Festival Amphitheatre in Garden Grove, California.

Back by popular demand for Shakespeare Orange County's twenty-second anniversary season celebration are 'Pay What You Will Thursdays' at Garden Grove's Festival Amphitheatre. Audience members can make a 'donation of their choice' for tickets to the remaining Thursday evening performance of TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL and MACBETH at the Festival Amphitheatre in an outdoor setting with performances staged under the night sky.