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Centaur Theatre presents the Quebec premiere of the Outside the March (OtM) production of Terminus by Irish playwright, Mark O'Rowe.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that MTV has canceled its freshman comedy series HAPPYLAND, produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan.

Deadline reports that Ansel Elgort has signed on for NOVEMBER CRIMINALS, opposite Chloe Grace Moretz.

Morningside Opera, the NYC-based opera company that most recently presented the acclaimed Here Be Sirens and ¡Figaro! (90210), teams up with all-female orchestral ensemble SIREN Baroque to present, PERGOLESI POWER GAMES, a double-feature of two masterpieces by baroque composer Giambattista Pergolesi at the Alchemical Theater Laboratory (104 West 14th Street – between 6thand 7th Avenues, for two performances only – Friday, January 16th and Saturday, January 17th at 7:30 PM. PERGOLESI POWER GAMES reunites the original cast of Stabat mater (first developed by Morningside Opera in 2012) and expands the evening to include a period chamber ensemble from SIREN Baroque.

Jet City Improv will start off 2015 with the world premier of The Modern Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an improvised play that puts an audience member's mystery in the hands of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective.

Clown Bar is an immersive play in a genre best described as 'clown noir.' redwhite+bluezzArt Productions is presenting the West Coast premiere of this off-Broadway smash hit by Adam Szymkowicz on Thursday nights in January 2015 at redwhite+bluezz @ The Pasadena Playhouse (37 S. El Molino Avenue in Pasadena).

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English Touring Theatre and Theatre Royal Brighton Productions today announced casting for a new touring production of Tom Stoppard's comedy masterpiece, Arcadia, which will be the first major national tour since 1993, and over 20 years since the play has been seen by audiences around the UK.

Morningside Opera, the NYC-based opera company that most recently presented the acclaimed Here Be Sirens and ¡Figaro! (90210), teams up with all-female orchestral ensemble SIREN Baroque to present, PERGOLESI POWER GAMES, a double-feature of two masterpieces by baroque composer Giambattista Pergolesi at the Alchemical Theater Laboratory (104 West 14th Street - between 6th and 7th Avenues, for two performances only - Friday, January 16th and Saturday, January 17th at 7:30 PM. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the production!

Actors Luke Wilson (Old School, The Royal Tenenbaums) and Imogen Poots (The Look of Love) are set to star in the new SHOWTIME one-hour comedy pilot ROADIES

Deerhoof's 13th album was released to accolades bleeding across borders. La Isla Bonita is at once their most punk and commercially accessible record to date, currently reigning at #3 on the CMJ Top 200 Chart, and #5 in the Billboard Top Vinyl Albums.

The University of Texas Department of Theatre and Dance at Austin presents UTNT (UT New Theatre), today, December 3, through the 7th at the Lab Theatre.

Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Executive Director) will present Lesser America's World Premiere of Brian Watkins' (My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer with The Flea) family drama Wyoming, January 15-31 at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue between 9th and 10th Street).

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue picks her best and worst theatre of 2014.

Award-winning composer / performer duo Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell are delighted to announce their return to VAULT in 2015. Blake and Keedwell will open the festival with a one-night-only performance of HOUSE OF BLAKEWELL'S HOUSE PARTY. The acclaimed production, which began life with a sell-out run at VAULT 2014 sees the showtune-loving duo welcome audiences to their Peckham housewarming in an attempt to fit in. Wednesday 28 January will be the last ever chance to join the party.

As of tonight, GOTHAM has clocked in ten episodes. Organized crime wars, underworld underlings with delusions of grandeur, sadistic henchmen, shady real estate deals, unsolved murders – these are just a handful of the daily machinations we have seen so far in the naked city. Maverick detective James Gordon is still trying his best to stay above the dark underbelly of corruption that percolates through nearly every brick in Gotham. So how do things end up during tonight's episode, “Lovecraft,” the fall finale? Gird your loins, here we go!

Theater for the New City will present Lesser America's World Premiere of Brian Watkin's (My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer with The Flea) family drama Wyoming, January 15-31 at Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue between 9th and 10th Street). The production will be directed by Danya Taymor (I Hate f**king Mexicans at The Flea). The cast and creative team will be announced in December.

Mimetic Festival 2014's programme has gone live and a wealth of cutting-edge theatre and cabaret will soon be lighting up the dark tunnels of the Vaults. The festival runs today 18th - Saturday 29th November 2014.

An abandoned, never-before-seen level of one of Melbourne's most-loved bars, The Carlton, will be transformed into a walk-through labyrinth of music and design during Melbourne Music Week from today 14 - Sunday 23 November, 2014. Dubbed Swell, the event reimagines how we attend music gigs with each room boasting a different design aesthetic and music genre.

The Pepperdine University Fine Arts Division presents its Luciana and Daniel Forge Fall Musical, a new production of Into the Woods at 7:30 p.m. Today through Saturday from tonight, November 13 to November 22, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, November 16, at Smothers Theatre on Pepperdine's Malibu campus.