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New Village Arts Theatre is proud to announce the performance dates for the VERBITAS residency across three local schools: Carlsbad High School, Sage Creek High School, and Army and Navy Academy. Program creator Blake McCarty writes the original scripts and teaching artist Monique Gaffney co-directs. Professional lighting designers will also support the production: David Romero and Michael Rathbun.

Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State, (ColinQuinnShow.com) a new comedy written by and starring Colin Quinn, currently playing The Minetta Lane Theatre, (18 Minetta Lane), the official opening scheduled for January 22. Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State is produced by Audible, Mike Lavoie, Carlee Briglia, and Brian Stern.

You and a guest will have the opportunity to meet Colin Quinn when you see his Off Broadway show Red State Blue State at Minetta Lane Theater in New York City. 

Set at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre hypothesis that Victorian doctors used vibrators to treat 'hysterical' women (and some men), this play centers around a doctor, his wife, the patients, and their respective households through an exploration of this new invention that has the potential to change everything.

iHeartMedia and Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) announced today the nominees for the 2019 iHEARTRADIO MUSIC AWARDS airing Thursday, March 14 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX, live from Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The event also will be broadcast on iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and iHeartRadio, the all-in-one digital music, podcast, on demand and live-streaming radio service.

Team BWW have compiled the following list of their favourite Twitter users in the UK who post about theatre and the arts. Ranging from independent bloggers and theatre-makers to West End performers who are particularly engaging with their social media accounts.

General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler today announced the next production of Lyric Opera of Kansas City's Explorations Series, Mack The Knife is The Man I Love: A Weill-Gershwin Cabaret which will feature the songs of George and Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill. The 2018-2019 Explorations Series performance, with musical direction by Mark Markham and stage direction by Fenlon Lamb, will showcase the Lyric Opera's Resident Artists, including Kaylie Kahlich, Kelly Birch, Joseph Leppek, and James Maverick, plus Apprentice Artists Ruby Dibble, Jonathan Ray, and Armando Contreras. The performance will be held February 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lyric Opera's Michael and Ginger Frost Production Arts Building.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE), the professional Equity company in residence at the McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd. on the campus of College of DuPage (COD) presents "Defiance" by John Patrick Shanley, directed by BTE Ensemble Member Kurt Naebig, Jan. 31-March 3. There will be a preview Thursday, Jan. 31. Press opening is Friday, Feb. 1.

“THE GREATEST SHOWMAN – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK” – Atlantic Records' RIAA 2x platinum certified, 2x GRAMMY® Award-nominated soundtrack to 20th Century Fox's blockbuster musical film – has earned the title of 2018's best-selling album in the world, in terms of total consumption. Since its release in December of 2017, the soundtrack has proven to be an unquestionable worldwide sensation, with over 4 billion global streams and countless certifications.

Local author and researcher Hattie Beresford will discuss her engaging new history of the Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) of Santa Barbara in a free public talk at Santa Barbara Central Library's Faulkner Gallery on Saturday, January 19. Presented by CAMA, in partnership with the library, the presentation will begin at 2 pm. Seating is limited.

Arthur Miller's 'THE CRUCIBLE' began pre-production on September 1, 2019, with Set Design by Karl Heist and Lighting Design by Ron Nash. Rehearsals began on January 2nd, 2019 with a cast of:

Faith, Fear, Lust, and Longing combust in Arthur Miller's retelling of one of the strangest and most horrible chapters of American history - the Salem Witch Trials. Award-winning director Norman Lewis returns to Las Cruces Community Theatre to illuminate the tale of a repressed town plunged into deadly panic and a family fighting to stand up for the truth at any cost.

Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State, (www.ColinQuinnShow.com) a new comedy written by and starring Colin Quinn, has announced 30 Under 30: $30 tickets for anyone 30 or under. Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State will play The Minetta Lane Theatre, (18 Minetta Lane) beginning January 5 with the official opening scheduled for January 22. Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State is produced by Audible, Mike Lavoie, Carlee Briglia, and Brian Stern.  

In this delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy, four unique Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate-and an impromptu happy hour-and decide it's high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they've lost through the years. Randa, a perfectionist and workaholic, is struggling to cope with a surprise career derailment that, unfortunately, reveals that she has no life and no idea how to get one. Dot, still reeling from her husband's recent demise and the loss of their plans for an idyllic retirement, faces the unsettling prospect of starting a new life from scratch-and all alone. Earthy and boisterous Marlafaye, a good ol' Texas gal, has blasted into Savannah in the wake of losing her tom-cattin' husband to a twenty-three-year-old dental hygienist. The strength of her desire to establish a new life is equaled only by her desire to wreak a righteous revenge on her ex.

Theatre Tulsa's first production of 2019 will be the blockbuster Disney hit Beauty and the Beast.

Dine at The Pandering Pig just once and you'll vow to return again and again. This cozy gourmet restaurant is conveniently located in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of New York City.

Rosannah Deluce has been driving for days. Her car dies in a snowbound corner of Alaska. In distress, she seeks shelter in the only nearby structure, an old barn that is the home of Henry Harry, a man she does not know. She is attired in a wedding gown. She is a runaway bride.

At the end of every 'backstage' interview, BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge asks his guest, 'What is the best bit of advice that you've been given, either personally or professionally, that you still live by?'

It's the last week to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Berkshires Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

Nothing says time to party like the holidays and nothing says holiday party like some good cocktails to keep the evening merry and bright. We've assembled some holiday cocktails with a Broadway theme to keep the spirit of theatre alive in the form of, well, spirits.