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For over 100 years, movie houses have hosted a steady stream of people, with dates or friends or occasionally alone, who sit on velvet seats in the dark to witness a story that makes them feel something.  Even in the transition from celluloid to digital, whether dropping popcorn on the floor or donning 3D glasses, movie goers connect to the characters on the screen and take the feelings those films elicit out of the theatre and into their lives.

The Exchange today announced the artists and companies who will participate in its 2015 Orchard Project summer residency program. Twenty-two artists and ensembles (listed below) were selected from a competitive field of nearly 500 applicants to develop their big, new ideas at the Orchard Project. This will be the eighth summer - and the first summer in Saratoga Springs, NY - for the Orchard Project, a laboratory program where theatre artists and companies come to innovate, develop, and refine new shows. Past productions developed at the Orchard Project have gone on to be performed around the globe for over 500,000 people and to win awards from TONYs to Obies to Oliviers.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) announces the 2014 Round 2 recipients of the Leadership U[niversity]-One-on-One program. Through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, grants of $75,000 have been awarded to six exceptionally talented early-career leaders from all areas of theatre for professional development via mentorships at a TCG Member Theatre, with an additional $5,000 honorarium for their mentor. The goal of this program is to strengthen the field by developing the individuals who are the core and the future of theatre.

Perseverance Theatre presents The Blue Bear from February 10-18, 2012 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.

Perseverance Theatre presents The Blue Bear from February 10-18, 2012 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.

Perseverance Theater will present A CHRISTMAS CAROL, a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens and adapted for stage by Gerard Stropnicky, from November 25 through December 24, 2011.

Perseverance Theater will present A CHRISTMAS CAROL, a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens and adapted for stage by Gerard Stropnicky, from November 25 through December 24, 2011.