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The Theater Project is once again reaching out to creative young people - budding Shakespeares and Spielbergs -- in its fourteenth annual Young Playwrights Competition. Winners receive cash prizes and see their work performed by professional actors at the awards ceremony in March of 2016. The submission deadline is January 19, 2016. New Jersey's high school playwrights submit their short plays at TheTheaterProject.org web site, where they will find all the necessary entry guidelines and formatting rules.

No one is ever going to confuse ABC's medieval song and dance event GALAVANT for top-notch musical comedy, but after a promising, yet uneven, first season, this delightfully silly show has hit its stride in Season 2 capitalizing on what made it a modest, surprise success in 2015. The second season, which premieres tonight at 8:00pm ET, seems to have found a far more consistent sense of humor allowing it to fully realize the RIDICULOUSNESS that each character and actor is capable of bringing to the table. For the next five weeks, ABC will air two 30-minute episodes every Sunday, each featuring original songs by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. While this is not exactly the typical Sunday night prestige programming, it is a delightful diversion before TV gets back to being serious for February Sweeps.

Dozens of shows celebrated opening nights over the past twelve months, making 2015 a truly epic year in theatre. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a roundup of some of our favorite Broadway (and even some off Broadway) marquee photos from the past year!

Avi Hoffman, whose recent performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman for the New Yiddish Rep at Off Broadway's Castillo Theatre won consistently rave reviews, will direct Unlikely Heroes, a new play by first time playwright Dr. Charles Gluck.  Hoffman, who will also act in the production, will be joined on stage by a veritable 'Who's Who' of South Florida Theatre - the cast of Unlikely Heroes includes Patti Gardner, Robert Johnston, Margot Moreland, Kim Ostrenko, and Michael H. Small.  The production will run from January 28th - February 21st at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center in Boca Raton.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces the full cast and creative team for Shakespeare's intimate tragedy of heartbreak and revenge, OTHELLO.

Fresh from their hit ABC TV show, Sammy J and Randy have borrowed three million dollars and opened a theme park. What could possibly go wrong? A brand new theatrical adventure from everyones favourite skinny/purple duo and its having its world premiere at the Adelaide Fringe before heading to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW - Adam B. Levowitz, producer, composer and music director's  "The Quentin Tarantino Songbook, Vol. 1: Music from Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown" on Friday, January 22 at 9:30pm.

Home, a new multi-disciplinary production from Physical Lab's Yorgos Karamalegos, will debut in London next month.

Squeals of delight and blood-curdling screams of fright will fill the Allen Theatre as Cleveland Play House's (CPH) Centennial Season continues with a humorous and heartfelt production of Little Shop of Horrors. Hearkening back to its very first productions in 1915 that featured sophisticated marionettes, CPH is bringing the cheeky and blood-thirsty plant Audrey II to life in a production that will be every vocal coach's dream - and every hemophobic's worst nightmare!

The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by AT&T, which will host its 15th edition April 13-24, 2016 in New York City, today announced a new platform, Tribeca Talks: Storytellers, a series of in-depth conversations with leading creators taking place at the Tribeca Festival Hub and other venues.

Paul Gordon and John Caird's chamber musical was performed in Japan, London and across America before arriving Off-Broadway.

Voting information postcards to enable the 116,741 SAG-AFTRA members in good standing to choose the recipients of this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards® for the outstanding film and television performances of 2015 were mailed today.

Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Stacey Mindich will be presented The Commercial Theater Institute's Robert Whitehead Award for "outstanding achievement in commercial theatre producing" at a reception at Sardi's on Tuesday, March 15, 2016.

Helga Heinrich and her four children sail into the thriving seaport of Indianola, Texas, determined to overcome the memory and haunting legacy of her husband and their papa who drowned in a drunken leap from the dock as the ship pulled away from the German port. 'Stein House' (published by iUniverse) is a family saga of German immigrants struggling to survive in a foreign land.

Though it never made it to Broadway, LOVE FROM JUDY was a 1952 West End hit.

Alabama entertainer Taylor Hicks is celebrating the holiday season with a pair of televised appearances that will carry him all over the United States from California to Utah as he spreads holiday cheer to audiences around the world.

DADDY LONG LEGS will become the first ever Broadway or Off-Broadway performance to be broadcast online to the world for free tonight, December 10, 2015.

George Tuthill, a retired architectural engineer, devoted writer, story teller, and author, has completed his new book 'The One Twenty': a gripping and potent tale of history, self-identity, understanding and life.

Joe's Pub at The Public announces the new class of Pub Club, the venue's artist development program dedicated to enhancing the career sustainability and growth of performing artists. In its second year, which commences January 2016, Pub Club welcomes a range of performers - blues/rock singer-songwriter Celisse Henderson, soulful vocalist Stephanie McKay, comedian and producer Trish Nelson, hilarious author and story-teller Isaac Oliver and folk singer-songwriter Kaylyn Marie Scardefield - that represents the diversity and scope of Joe's Pub's nightly programming.

New shows on sale this week at bergenPAC: Joan Baez, Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 8PM and Piff The Magic Dragon, Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 8PM. Tickets go on sale Friday, December 4, 2015 at 11AM at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling bergenPAC's Box Office at 201.227.1030.