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JULIEN'S AUCTIONS announces property from the Golden Closet Archives - a historic opportunity to own some of Hollywood's mos famous costumes and props.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City continues its 58th season with a Lyric Opera Premiere production of Anton Dvo?ák's rarely performed opera Rusalka, November 7, 11, 13 and 15  at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The production will be sung in Czech with English titles. This is not only the first Dvo?ák opera produced by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City but the first Czech opera for the Company and Kansas City audiences.The production, directed by Academy-Award winning director Eric Simonson, will feature members of the Kansas City Symphony under the baton of Alexander Polianichko and a unique partnership with members of the Kansas City Ballet. One of the highlights of this lush production will be the spectacular lighting and video projections. 

Located in the heart of the fashion district, Urban Stages will present a series of talk backs to accompany, the American Premiere of Oren Safdie's (Private Jokes, Public Places) play UNSEAMLY this October.

The global hit musical Sunset Boulevard based on the Billy Wilder film of the same name featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyrics by Christopher Hampton and Don Black will run at the Bridewell Theatre on Fleet Street, central London from tonight 6 to 12 October in a brand new production.

Critically acclaimed actress Alison Skilbeck brings her one woman show, Are There More of You?, home to SW London for a performance at Omnibus, Clapham, on Friday 6 November, at 7.30pm. Skilbeck received 4 and 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe for her performance, with Broadwaybaby.com stating 'Skilbeck ultimately leaves you spellbound by her powers of characterisation'.

Dzieci Theater Company has announced the World Premiere of their site-specific MAKBET, adapted from Shakespeare's Macbeth and directed by Matt Mitler. MAKBET begins performances today, October 1 for a limited engagement through Sunday, October 18. Press Opening is Sunday, October 4 at 4 PM. The performance schedule is Today - Saturday at 7:00 PM, Sunday at 4 PM. This site specific performance takes place at Sure We Can in Bushwick (219 McKibbin Street, L to Montrose Avenue). Tickets are $10 at the door.

Team Awesome Robot, a new theater collaborative, is pleased to announce the production of Callie Kimball's new playRush directed by Team Awesome Robot's Artistic Director Christopher Diercksen. Rush will be playing a three-week engagement at The Paradise Factory (64 E 4th Street, NY, NY 10003). Performances begin Friday, October 9th and continue through Sunday, October 25th, 2015. Press are invited to all performances.

Amazon today announced the lineup for its fall pilot season which is scheduled to debut later this year exclusively on Amazon Video in the US, UK, Germany and Austria.

Chance Theater is pleased to announce the completion of its $890,000 'Bold New Home' capital campaign. The fundraising drive began two years ago, has received strong support from several prominent community members, and has given the Chance a new theatrical home, which is known as the Bette Aitken theater arts Center, in honor of gifts totaling over $285,000 from community leaders Wylie & Bette Aitken.

Three powerful productions from the Baxter Theatre Centre's Zabalaza Theatre Festival will be showcased at this year's Cape Town Fringe Festival.

BroadwayWorld has just received the news that the 1992 Olivier Award winning play THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE is eyeing a 2016-17 Broadway run, starring two-time Drama Desk nominated actress, singer and impressionist Christina Bianco in the pivotal role of LV.

Milagro announces its 32nd season, featuring a lively lineup of cultural events and groundbreaking new works. From September 2015 to May 2016, Milagro will push artistic and geographical boundaries in its mission to provide extraordinary Latino experiences in Portland and beyond. Producing three world premieres, hosting a multicultural festival for children, and recruiting Latino guest artists from all corners of the U.S., these plans are only the beginning.

The Old Globe opens its 2015-2016 Season with IN YOUR ARMS, a World Premiere dance-theatre musical featuring direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, Godspell, Lincoln Center Theater's The King and I and South Pacific) and original music by Tony Award winner Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once on This Island; two-time Oscar nominee for Anastasia). The production begins tonight, September 16, with an opening slated for September 24, and runs through October 25, 2015.

Nora's Playhouse will present the World Premiere of Laurence Leamer's solo play about Rose Kennedy, ROSE, at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre, 410 West 43nd Street, NYC, beginning November 21st, opening November 29th and continuing through December 13, 2015.  Award-winning stage, film and TV actress Kathleen Chalfant will play Mrs. Kennedy under the direction of Caroline Reddick Lawson. Jane Greenwood is designing the costumes with scene design/projections by Anya Klepikov, lighting by Caitlin Rapoport and sound design by Jane Shaw

The tragic circumstances and attitudes of Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour" may still have some resonance in today's more accepting world but the power and stakes of the piece when set in the unforgiving 1930's feels so much greater than the more progressive 1980's as the current production from The Intiman Theatre Festival updates it to. But even with the change in era and place the piece still hits hard especially in the more than capable hands of director Sheila Daniels.

The Pearl Theatre Company begins its 2015-2016 season with Bedlam Theater Artistic Director Eric Tucker's fresh take on William Shakespeare's classic A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, following a highly successful engagement of the production at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival this summer. Check out photos from the production below!

The Cultch Presents the World Premiere of Tetsuro Shigematsu's Empire of the Son Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre, October 6 - 17, 2015. The performances are located at VANCITY CULTURE LAB AT THE CULTCH (1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC).

The Arts at Millersville's Fifth Season, along with the inaugural new Popular Music Series of Lancaster Symphony Orchestra (LSO), will kick off with a performance for classical and popular music lovers alike, Hollywood Heroes and Villains. This family-friendly, full orchestra performance is a tribute to Hollywood's greatest composers with new and old music favorites from The Hobbit, The Wizard of Oz, Frozen, Star Wars, and Batman. Kids are encouraged to come in costume as their favorite hero or villain and participate in a fun, indoor parade at the start of the show.  Plus, feel like a star when you step into a Hollywood-themed photo booth by PhotOle Photography to capture the fun of the evening. 

Veteran local director Sheila Daniels (A Streetcar Named Desire, Crime and Punishment) returns to direct another American classic for Intiman Theatre: Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, featuring rising local star Hannah Mootz (Tail of Wasps, Bo-Nita) as Martha Dobie, newcomers Tiffany Yvonne Cox (Crumbs from the Table of Joy) as Karen Wright and Jasmine Jean Sim (Dirty, Grand Hotel) as Mary Tilford; and renowned local actor Suzanne Bouchard (Dear Elizabeth, Richard III) as Amelia Tilford.

Boston's 115-year-old Colonial Theatre, where so many notable (and not so notable) Broadway-bound productions worked out their kinks and licked their wounds, will be closing in October for at least a year, its future not determined.