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Ladies and gents, put on your zoot suits and convertible attire, sweep up your hair (or slick it back) and head to the show!

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is an inventive retelling of the timeless story, and a perfect blend of Christmas cheer and theatrical magic. Audiences will be immersed in the nostalgic charm of the 1940's from the minute they enter the theatre - with ushers in red uniforms, live Foley sound effects and real vintage commercials. The Arcade Theatre will be transformed into a New York City radio studio, and the magic will begin a half hour before curtain time when the theatre will come to life with a pre-show glimpse into the world of the mid-1940's.

Desde su estreno en el año 2009 esta comedia musical ya ha sido representado en numerosas ciudades de nuestro país, habiendo sido muy bien recibido tanto por público como crítica. Se trata de una adaptación del cortometraje homónimo de Pepe Macías, acerca del encuentro histórico que tuvo lugar en 1940 entre Franco y Adolf Hitler.

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is an inventive retelling of the timeless story, and a perfect blend of Christmas cheer and theatrical magic. Audiences will be immersed in the nostalgic charm of the 1940's from the minute they enter the theatre - with ushers in red uniforms, live Foley sound effects and real vintage commercials. The Arcade Theatre will be transformed into a New York City radio studio, and the magic will begin a half hour before curtain time when the theatre will come to life with a pre-show glimpse into the world of the mid-1940's.

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is an inventive retelling of the timeless story, and a perfect blend of Christmas cheer and theatrical magic. Audiences will be immersed in the nostalgic charm of the 1940's from the minute they enter the theatre - with ushers in red uniforms, live Foley sound effects and real vintage commercials. The Arcade Theatre will be transformed into a New York City radio studio, and the magic will begin a half hour before curtain time when the theatre will come to life with a pre-show glimpse into the world of the mid-1940's.

Whitton brings a flare of the 1940's to her wishful, singer-songwriter sound. Take the sounds of an alluring Billie Holiday, mixed with the curious intensity of Norah Jones, and eclectic complexity of Regina Spektor, and you'll get the best kept secret in Los Angeles - WHITTON.

Whitton brings a flare of the 1940's to her wishful, singer-songwriter sound. Take the sounds of an alluring Billie Holiday, mixed with the curious intensity of Norah Jones, and eclectic complexity of Regina Spektor, and you'll get the best kept secret in Los Angeles - WHITTON.

Pipeline Theatre Company kicks off their third season with the world premiere of FELIX & THE DILIGENCE, Or A Play About Fishermen in the 1940's, a new comedy by Colby Day, directed by artistic director Daniel Johnsen.

Curt Columbus directs Trinity's season opener; a fast-paced adaptation of the classic 1940 Columbia Pictures film

Promoter Mario Maiolo has extended the September run into October of IN THE MOOD, taking the production to regional areas in New Zealand and Australia, on a thirty plus concert itinerary. This is the first tour Down Under of the sensational all-American celebration of 1940's Swing, which is in its 18th season of sold out performances in America, Canada and Europe.

Though playwright Rachel Crothers was regarded as the toast of the town for many a Broadway season - she had 29 plays debut there in the years between 1906 and 1940 - she's scarcely know by 21st Century playgoers.  Fortunately, the Mint Theater Company has been doing its part to return her name to the limelight; first with their mounting of her clever take on religious fads, Susan and God, and now with a sweeter, more uplifting comedy/melodrama - one that was a finalist for the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama - A Little Journey.

Do the names 'Joe Shepherd' or 'Corey Caldwell' ring a bell? No? Well, I just bet their voices would: Both men have been featured in numerous radio and television commercials, whether as the voice of Brentwood Jewelers (in the case of Corey Caldwell) or as the creator of a Peabody Award-winning program in Washington, D.C. (as Joe Shepherd was).

Think you can't turn back the hands of time? At Rick's Restorations in Las Vegas, Nevada, they do it every day. Customers bring in their own pieces of history; dusty, oddball artifacts beyond repair - perhaps a 1940's Pepsi dispenser or a Prohibition-era slot machine - and come away with a restored collectible that looks and performs like new. What's more, the treasure is often worth a lot more than before.

John Bishop's The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is a deliciously campy send-up of movies, mysteries and musicals - and now, thanks to a top-flight production from Brentwood's Towne Centre Theatre, local audiences can once again revel in the play's cleverly constructed, though thoroughly implausible, plot brought to life by an accomplished cast.

Do the names 'Joe Shepherd' or 'Corey Caldwell' ring a bell? No? Well, I just bet their voices would: Both men have been featured in numerous radio and television commercials, whether as the voice of Brentwood Jewelers (in the case of Corey Caldwell) or as the creator of a Peabody Award-winning program in Washington, D.C. (as Joe Shepherd was).

Do the names 'Joe Shepherd' or 'Corey Caldwell' ring a bell? No? Well, I just bet their voices would: Both men have been featured in numerous radio and television commercials, whether as the voice of Brentwood Jewelers (in the case of Corey Caldwell) or as the creator of a Peabody Award-winning program in Washington, D.C. (as Joe Shepherd was).

In the roughly five years between November of 1935 and December of 1940, the team of Rodgers and Hart opened nine new musicals on Broadway.  These included revolutionary shows like On Your Toes, which changed the use of dance in musical theatre, and the underappreciated Pal Joey, which brought new sophistication to the characters and themes that could be featured in a musical.  There were also popular hits like Babes In Arms, The Boys From Syracuse, Jumbo and Too Many Girls that introduced classic American songbook entries like 'My Funny Valentine,' 'The Lady Is A Tramp,' 'Falling In Love With Love,' 'My Romance' and 'I Didn't Know What Time It Was.'

Think you can't turn back the hands of time? At Rick's Restorations in Las Vegas, Nevada, they do it every day. Customers bring in their own pieces of history; dusty, oddball artifacts beyond repair - perhaps a 1940's Pepsi dispenser or a Prohibition-era slot machine - and come away with a restored collectible that looks and performs like new. What's more, the treasure is often worth a lot more than before.

IN THE MOOD takes a retro look at a time like no other in our nation's history: the 1940's. A time when music and dance moved the nation's spirit, set a mood that inspired a future filled with hope, promise and prosperity and helped to win a war. Come experience the swing, rhythm, jazzy, brassy, sentimental and romantic music of this important time in history as it takes the Progress Energy Center's Mahaffey Theater stage on Sunday, March 13, 3 PM.

IN THE MOOD takes a retro look at a time like no other in our nation's history: the 1940's. A time when music and dance moved the nation's spirit, set a mood that inspired a future filled with hope, promise and prosperity and helped to win a war. Come experience the swing, rhythm, jazzy, brassy, sentimental and romantic music of this important time in history as it takes the Progress Energy Center's Mahaffey Theater stage on Sunday, March 13, 3 PM.

Wonderful Town is a musical with a book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which is itself based on the collection of short stories by Ruth McKenney of the same name.

In honor of Black History month, we're going to have an upbeat Movie Party that's full of style, dance and blow-away songs from one of those rare major studio films that featured an all black cast. Join Minnesota Public Radio as the Movie Maven, Stephanie Curtis, hosts the top-talent 1940's film 'Stormy Weather' at the Fitzgerald Theater on Saturday, February 26th at 7:30 p.m.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, continues its Winter 2011 season with the debut of acclaimed French jazz vocalist, RAQUEL BITTON. Accompanied by an eight-piece band, Ms. Bitton's show 'A Little Bit of Paris' features the songs of Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Charles Trenet and others from France in the 1930's and 1940's. To coincide with her engagement at Feinstein's, Ms. Bitton's film 'Piaf... Her Story... Her Songs' will air on PBS / WNET 13 on February 13 at 12:30 PM. Both shows take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, continues its Winter 2011 season with the debut of acclaimed French jazz vocalist, RAQUEL BITTON. Accompanied by an eight-piece band, Ms. Bitton's show 'A Little Bit of Paris' features the songs of Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Charles Trenet and others from France in the 1930's and 1940's. To coincide with her engagement at Feinstein's, Ms. Bitton's film 'Piaf... Her Story... Her Songs' will air on PBS / WNET 13 on February 13 at 12:30 PM. Both shows take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

Rising Action Theatre is honored to present the South Florida Premiere of the Tony Award-winning Grey Gardens, the Musical. Based on the highly acclaimed 1975 Maysles Brothers film documentary, it is the story of Jackie Kennedy's relatives 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter 'Little Edie' and the overgrown, crumbling East Hampton mansion they shared for decades. Set at the Grey Gardens mansion, the musical follows the progression of the lives of the two Edies from their original social status as wealthy and polished aristocrats in the 1940's to their eventual existence as penniless eccentrics in a crumbling home. But, the real focus is clearly on the unending psychological struggle between a mother and a daughter. The story is joyous, heartwarming, sad, and funny.