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Casting has been announced for Max Stafford-Clark's production of Stella Feehily's new NHS play THIS MAY HURT A BIT.Casting has been announced for Max Stafford-Clark's production of Stella Feehily's new NHS play THIS MAY HURT A BIT. Exploring the UK's best-loved and most fiercely debated institution, the production will star acclaimed actress Stephanie Cole (OPEN ALL HOURS BBC, CORONATION STREET ITV, WAITING FOR GOD BBC and PYGMALION at the Chichester Festival Theatre) as Iris - a witty, feisty and independent elderly woman whose socialist values were forged in a kinder age. An unswerving champion of the NHS, she finds herself unexpectedly in its care.

RosettaBooks has released three Oscar Hijuelos works as eBooks, including The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, for which he was the first Latino to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1990, Our House in the Last World, and The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. Oscar Hijuelos recently died at age 62, a huge loss to American literature.

2013 MIDWINTER'S TALES: SIMPLE GIFTS - A Celebration of the Season in Music and Musings, benefiting both Oak Park Festival Theatre and Prevail (formerly Oak Park River Forest Walk In Ministry) will be held at 7 PM, tonight, December 7, 2013, at the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois.

The students of Imagination Stage's Musical Theatre Conservatory (Grades 7-10) take on the energetic classic musical Sweet Charity tonight, December 6-8, 2013 at the Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Avenue, Bethesda, MD. The performance will take place at The Christopher and Dana Reeve Studio Theatre, Metro: Bethesda (10 min). Metered parking in the adjacent public parking garage and parking is FREE on weekends.

William Manchester, the celebrated biographer and historian, recorded real lives and events in a prose style that keeps the reader fully engaged. RosettaBooks has now made three of the bestselling author's well-known works available for download as eBooks.

RosettaBooks, the leading independent eBook publisher, is pleased to release Sun Moon Star, an extraordinary children's story by legendary author Kurt Vonnegut. In a departure from his well-known satirical and dramatic style, Vonnegut delves into the commonplace nativity story, but through an unexpected perspective.

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is happy to announce the release of the 2012-13 Annual Report to the Community, which highlights the defining moments of the season and the community impact of the arts and cultural education organization.

The haunting and lyrical story about family history, community and reconciliation, which won Conrad Richter the 1960 National Book Award, is now available in digital format. The Waters of Kronos has sparked lively debate over the years to how much the story is mirrored to Richter's own life.

Author Morton Freedgood worked first as a public relations writer at the motion picture studios then published short stories in magazines, but he achieved the most success penning crime fiction novels under the alias John Godey. The Snake and the bestselling The Taking of Pelham 123, published by RosettaBooks, will continue to thrill readers with page-turning suspense, now in eBook.

The students of Imagination Stage's Musical Theatre Conservatory (Grades 7-10) take on the energetic classic musical Sweet Charity December 6-8, 2013 at the Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Avenue, Bethesda, MD. The performance will take place at The Christopher and Dana Reeve Studio Theatre, Metro: Bethesda (10 min).

2013 MIDWINTER'S TALES: SIMPLE GIFTS - A Celebration of the Season in Music and Musings, benefiting both Oak Park Festival Theatre and Prevail (formerly Oak Park River Forest Walk In Ministry) will be held at 7 PM, Saturday, December 7, 2013, at the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois.

Young Artists of America, Inc. (YAA), founded in 2011 by operatic tenor Rolando Sanz and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras Music Director Kristofer Sanz, announced today its first performance of the 2013-2014 season, a gala concert version of Jerome Kern's seminal musical, Show Boat, on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club.

Jermyn Street Theatre presents THE POTSDAM QUARTET by David Pinner, directed by Anthony Biggs with designer Cherry Truluck. The show runs today, 29 October - 23 November 2013 with Press Night set for 31 October 7.30pm.

SEATTLE, Oct. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ Author Chris Kohout weaves deeply researched historical figures (Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Winston Churchill) with fanciful technology and creates a rich story of war, betrayal and the melding of man and machine.

The National Portrait Gallery is to stage the first national exhibition of the First World War centenary commemorations in February 2014. The Great War in Portraits (27 Feb-15 Jun 2014) will be the start of a four-year public programme at the Gallery of displays and events, and workshops for young people, it was announced today Thursday 24 October.

RosettaBooks' Crimescape series introduces two new titles as the entire series moves exclusively to Kindle. The Sex Beast by Dr. Katherine Ramsland and Fatal Trust by Kevin F. McMurray are true crime short eBooks sure to fascinate readers with frightening detail, complete with photographs.

New York, NYSusan Page, a nationally renowned counselor and self-help author, covers all the bases from chronic singleness to committed marriage in two of her popular relationship guides, now making their digital debut. Her work has been featured in multiple magazines, including Cosmopolitan and People, and she is a highly sought after speaker, having appeared on CNN, NPR, and several talk shows.

The National Gallery of Victoria will stage the first Australian survey of fashion's most influential photographer Edward Steichen in October. The exhibition Edward Steichen and Art Deco Fashion will feature over 200 of Steichen's original vintage photographs, drawn from the vast Condé Nast Archive through the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, alongside more than forty stunning Art Deco fashion garments and accessories that showcase the glamour and modernity of the period.

Leading independent digital publisher RosettaBooks has licensed United States eBook rights to I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the two most celebrated works of poet, novelist, critic and historian Robert Graves, who published more than 140 works during his long career.

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, and leading independent digital publisher RosettaBooks today announced the publication of JFK's FINAL HOURS IN TEXAS: An Eyewitness Remembers the Tragedy and Its Aftermath by Julian Read, as a hardcover and eBook, respectively. The national media representative for Texas Governor John B. Connally in 1963, Read is one of the few remaining eyewitnesses to the tragedy who was on the White House press corps bus as part of President John Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas on November 22. Now, for the first time, Read describes the agony of that day and the weeks immediately following for those at the epicenter of the tragedy, and the history-changing legacies of the Kennedy assassination for Texas and our nation.