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The producers of Parade, Ben Platt, and various cast members, have responded to antisemitic protestors at the show's first preview last night.

The Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre in 1911, stolen in broad daylight, only to be recovered in Italy and returned to Paris on Dec. 31, 1913. Members of the cast and behind-the-scene team of Stealing Mona Lisa are uniting at Theater for the New City with a cake to celebrate the painting’s recovery and return. 

Today's question is: Who has worn the most hats on Broadway- director, producer, writer, actor, etc.? Here are a few folks that could hold a record for the 'number of hats' they've worn on Broadway shows. Part one includes those who have worn four or five hats on Broadway shows and part two will include those who have held even more positions than that!

ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION, founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers. Equity endeavors to advance the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits (health and pension included). Member: AFL-CIO, FIA. www.actorsequity.org #EquityWorks

Legends, laughter, and love take center stage in STG's 2022/23 Silent Movie Mondays series. Audiences will be treated to films from the 1920s and earlier, including Go West on Nov. 21, It on Feb. 13, Exit Smiling on May 8, and Comedy Shorts on July 31.

Legends, laughter, and love take center stage in STG’s 2022/23 Silent Movie Mondays series. 

This spring, the High Museum of Art will present the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the nature-based works of pioneering American modernist painter Joseph Stella (1877-1946), which will feature more than 120 paintings and works on paper that reveal the breadth of the artist's multi-faceted practice.

Mystic Museum of Art will present Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post Covers: Tell Me a Story, organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.

This week I saw productions of two decades-old musicals, each written by one of theatre's great composer/lyricists, which, in their original productions, ran a combined total of nine performances on Broadway.

Yesterday, on International Women’s Day, The Duchess of Cornwall hosted a reception at Clarence House to celebrate the work of The WOW Foundation and to celebrate its 12th annual WOW Festival in London this weekend. As President of The WOW Foundation, The Duchess of Cornwall was met by Jude Kelly CBE, Founder and CEO.

The iconic Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide has delivered another stellar performance, winning a major award at the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) Professional Excellence in Building Awards at the weekend.

Featuring a book by Alfred Uhry and music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, Parade shares the story of Leo and Lucille Frank, and the murder trial that gripped the small town of Marietta, Georgia in 1913. The musical won the 1998 Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original score.

Following the resounding acclaim received for Das Rheingold in February 2021, Melbourne Opera continues its triumphant staging of The Ring Cycle, with the cycle's second opera, Die Walküre, premiering on 9 February 2022.

There's a brief appearance by a group of protest sign carrying suffragettes during a street scene in this Lincoln Center 2018 revival of Lerner and Loewe's classic musical My Fair Lady, and it may be the only bridge between this distinctly old-fashioned early 20th century Edwardian perspective and today's post-feminist world. This revival, nominated for 10 Tony Awards and directed by award winning director Bartlett Sher is a beautiful looking opportunity to experience one of musical theatre's greatest chestnuts.

Liverpool's much-loved Epstein Theatre is entering a brand new chapter with a new management team at the helm. 

“The curtain is about to rise on Plaza Theatrical's new professional Broadway Division,” shared producer Kevin F. Harrington, “as we open Nassau County's only professional theatre this fall!”  

The Denver Art Museum announced the exhibition Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France, set to premiere at DAM Nov. 14, 2021. The exhibition will feature more than 100 paintings made between 1855 and 1913 in the first comprehensive examination of France's stylistic impact on American painting of the period.

South will be performed live following a screening of ADT’s multi-award-winning short film, The Circadian Cycle, directed by Garry Stewart and shot by renowned filmmaker Cordelia Beresford.

Black Broadway Men partnered with Houston CARES, an affiliate of the National CARES Mentoring Movement and LUCILLE’S 1913 to provide much needed supplies, support and food, respectively, to children and families in need.

Pittsburgh Opera will be broadcasting a free concert celebrating works by women composers on its YouTube Channel, on Friday, March 26th at 7:00PM. Called “Women’s March”, the 55-minute concert spans 900 years of classical music composed by women.

Today's Theater Stories features the Booth Theatre! Learn about some of the theatre's best-known shows including Sunday in the Park with George, Next to Normal, Freestyle Love Supreme, and many more!

This week's Theater Stories features the Shubert Theatre! Learn about one of the longest running Broadway shows of all time, A Chorus Line, the incredibly successful production of To Kill a Mockingbird, the star-studded revival of Hello, Dolly! and more.

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) today announced the exhibition Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France, set to premiere at DAM November 14, 2021. The exhibition will feature more than 100 paintings made between 1855 and 1913 in the first comprehensive examination of France's stylistic impact on American painting of the period.

On this day in 1998, Jason Robert Brown's Parade opened on Broadway, in a production directed by Hal Prince.

Earlier this week, some shocking revelations came to light concerning Donald Trump's tax records, including a $70,000 write off for hair styling for The Apprentice. Now Actors Equity Association Secretary/Treasurer Sandra Karas, who has worked extensively with Equity's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, has doubts that such expenses could be tax deductible.