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Tom and Agnes are kidnapped, Red doesn't get his target, Ressler and Mr. Kaplan admit mistakes, Liz is alive, and Alexander Kirk is WHO?

The world premiere of Philip Ridley's KARAGULA is one of the largest productions ever staged Off-West End. PIGDOG's experimental and formally playful work aims to help transform how the industry interprets accessibility, equality and gender politics. With this in mind, Karagula has been cast with true diversity -- in terms of age, gender, race and ability.

Bank of America continues its program to preserve culturally important works of art, announcing a request for grant applications from global art institutions. Applications for the 2016 Bank of America Art Conservation Project are welcome from all nonprofit cultural institutions with art requiring conservation. The deadline for submissions is Friday, June 3, and applicants can learn how to apply online at http://museums.bankofamerica.com/arts/Conservation/Apply.

Mary J. Davis / MBL Productions will present the World Premiere of A PERSISTENT MEMORY by Jackob G. Hofmann, directed by Jessi D. Hill. A PERSISTENT MEMORY will begin performances on Friday, May 27th and celebrate its opening night on Wednesday, June 1st running through June 19th, 2016 at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street). BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below!

Dear Readers, if you read my review for Part One of "The Brothers K", still playing at Book-It Repertory Theatre then you'll know the difficulties I had watching it what with all the onion cutting going on in the theater. Well last night with the premiere of "The Brothers K, Part Two: The Left Stuff" the onions were there in force along with tons of dust, pollen and cats. Must have been the case as the tears were flowing all night long. With just more of the same goodness from Part One, Part Two solidified just how good this story and this production is.

Now celebrating its 38th year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.  Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception.  Festival attendees can walk the Mile on Fifth Avenue between 82nd Street and 105th Street while visiting seven of New York City's finest cultural institutions, which are open free to the public throughout the evening.  The Museum Mile Festival's opening ceremony takes place at 5:45pm at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street).  Traditionally, the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and other city and state dignitaries open the Festival.  Details on the Festival's offerings can be found at MuseumMileFestival.org.

Warehouse Theatre is pleased to announce the next production in its 2016 Season, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner and directed by Kristofer Green.

Is the best way to find a Russian criminal to steal a Presidential candidate's entire campaign account? Raymond Reddington and Scottie Hargrave (Famke Janssen) think so, and Tom Keen wants to help. The FBI isn't so sure, especially when it turns out that the FBI's in charge of the robbery.

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and Volkswagen Group of America announce the appointment of the first round of six-month fellows at MoMA PS1.

Dominique Le?vy is pleased to announce the gallery's representation of artist Pat Steir, who first gained recognition in the early 1970s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. Steir's innovative pour technique, exemplified by the artist's Waterfall canvases, positioned her at the forefront of American painting in the late 1980s. Bridging the sensibilities of Eastern philosophy, Abstract Expressionism, and Conceptual art, Steir's five-decade practice puts into play a new framework of space and perception.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and The Playroom Theatre present Practical Playwriting: How to Write for Commercial Production, on Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 10:00am - 5:30pm at The Playroom Theater, 151 W. 46th Street, 8th floor, NYC 10036. The workshop is one of a series of TRU BEGINNINGS workshops, opportunities for early development of new work. For more details and to download an application, please visit http://truonline.org/events/practical-playwriting/

Though he opposes the policy, Kushner serves on the board of an organization that supports sanctions against Israel.

Marriages, births, and relationship struggles will be served up for two hours every week in the all-new time slot for SISTER WIVES from 8PM-10PM ET/PT on TLC.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights hosts an exciting week May 9-15, launching the third and final year of the Paula Vogel Mentors Project with their annual fundraising event, Write On, on Monday.

The Curing Room, David Ian Lee's powerful play, which caused a huge stir at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and subsequently played a limited season at the Pleasance Islington, will return to London this summer with a four-week run at the Vaults Theatre, Waterloo from tonight 4 - 29 May, with a press night on 4 May.

Zeitgeist Stage Company presents the Boston area premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's A GREAT WILDERNESS, set in a gay conversion camp in Idaho. A gentle Christian counselor takes on one final camper before his retirement, but the boy wanders off into the woods, setting in motion a physical search for him and soul-searching for the adults in his life. The plot gets lost in the woods with the missing boy, resulting in a very different play than anticipated.

Following the successful release of his inaugural solo album Ordinary Man and first-time showcase as a solo artist at Florida Music Festival, multi-talented founding member of the groundbreaking vocal band The Edge Effect, Solomon Jaye is excited to announce the official debut of his “Love You Now” music video. T

In 2006, then Washington National Opera Artistic Director Placido Domingo announced that the Opera would take on their first complete cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). In the subsequent years, the opera produced the first three of the four-some, but not in quick succession. As the opera and the nation suffered an economic downturn, the complete cycle was never realized. Until now.

On Thursday, May 12 Michael Solomonov, Philly's James Beard Award-Winner, Best Chef Mid-Atlantic and owner of the highly acclaimed Zahav, will partner with Michelin-starred chef, Saul Bolton to produce an intriguing tasting of modern Israeli cuisine rooted in recipes from Solomonov's critically lauded book, 'Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking' that just named Book of the Year at the April 25th James Beard Awards.

Author Gijsbert J.B. Sulman says he realized not all narratives in the Bible were true stories, so he set himself on a course to find out what really happened. The product of his research and effort is his new book, 'Facts, Fiction, and the Bible: The Truth behind the Stories in the Old Testament' (published by Balboa Press AU).