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With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences.

From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes this smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines).

The Operation Mincemeat musical remains set to start its six-week extension at Southwark Playhouse on the 14th January 2022 amidst Warner Bros. delaying their Operation Mincemeat film release starring Colin Firth from 7th January to April 2022.

Author Linda S. Browning has announced the release of her new cozy mystery, OTTER BE A CRIME. Leslie & Belinda are back solving a suspicious death involving yet another water-logged corpse.

Chance Theater, Anaheim's official resident theater company, presents a staged reading of a new show called Crimson Lit: Scarlet Letter Setlist as part of the 2021 OTR New Works Series. This new musical adaptation of The Scarlet Letter will have music and lyrics by Jill Sobule and book and lyrics by Krista Knight.

Move over Hamilton and Six. There’s a new historical musical in town and it’s creating ripples. After a sold-out debuting run at the New Diorama back in pre-covid times and another one in 2020 at Southwark Playhouse, SplitLip’s Operation Mincemeat has just returned to Elephant and Castle once more before coming back again next year. It almost looks like the West End needs to take notice ASAP.

This October, descend into the House of the Exquisite Corpse, a horror peep-show, puppet-theater anthology. Peer through keyholes, cracks, and hidden doors to discover surreal worlds that will terrify and amaze. Learn all about it.

The year is 1943 and we're losing the war. Luckily, we're about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. 

From the creators of Broadway's record-breaking musical comedy sensation, The Producers, comes 'Young Frankenstein' a monster of a hit musical based on Mel Brooks' classic comedy film masterpiece. This wickedly inspired re-imagining of the legend of Frankenstein is the story of the bright young doctor Frankenstein (that's Fronkensteen) who travels to Transylvania to complete the masterwork of his grandfather by bringing a corpse to life.

Michael Jackson is not dead! He is alive and well, somewhere in Poland! The corpse found at the Neverland estate, in fact, belonged to his doppelganger, fully responsible for all paedophile acts that the King of Pop is wrongly accused of.

Join Benjamin Ross Nicholson, PhD (pending) as he guides you through Deathless and Taxless: A Corporate Exorcism, both a didactic lecture concerning the mysterious figure of the “Man in Business Suit Levitating” (an avatar of the corporation) and a collaborative ritual exorcism to remove the corporation from the cavity of your corpse.

Singin' in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Coward meets Noel Fielding, Operation Mincemeat is the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that won us World War II. The question is, how did a well-dressed corpse wrong-foot Hitler? 

Los Angeles based instrumental death/doom metal band, Sordes Dominum, has officially released their new single, 'Exillium' on all streaming platforms today, including Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music - listen to the song, and watch the music video, on YouTube HERE.

Exquisite Corpse Company will extend performances for their World Premiere of Zoetrope, written by ECC writers-in-residence Elinor T Vanderburg, Leah Barker, and Emily Krause, directed by Porcia Lewis and Tess Howsam.

Exquisite Corpse Company will present the World Premiere of Zoetrope, written by ECC writers-in-residence Elinor T Vanderburg, Leah Barker, and Emily Krause, directed by Porcia Lewis and Tess Howsam. The production will be presented LIVE with socially distanced seating for a limited audience at 134 Vanderbilt Ave Brooklyn, NY 11205, May 1-23.

Ahead of the announcement of the 2021 The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner, BroadwayWorld is excited to spotlight each of this year's finalists. Learn more about Frances Poet and read an excerpt form her play, The House of Shades.

As the Playwrights Realm continues its pandemic pivot to being a full-time playwrights service organization, the company announces the 2021 edition of one of the Realm's long-standing programs: the INK'D Festival of New Plays, the culminating event of its Writing Fellowship Program, annually awarding four early-career playwrights nine months of financial and professional resources.

Exquisite Corpse Company will present the World Premiere of Zoetrope, written by ECC writers-in-residence Elinor T Vanderburg, Leah Barker, and Emily Krause, directed by Porcia Lewis and Tess Howsam. 

Listen up, Atlanta!  Actor’s Express is undertaking an exciting new Covid-friendly podcast project. It’s a new serial drama podcast called Crossroads.  BroadwayWorld caught up with producer/director Amanda Washington to talk about the project.

Clubbed Thumb has announced programming for early 2021 and new additions to the Clubbed Thumb staff. First up, a short documentary series created by Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship alumnae Kate Eminger, Kate Hopkins and Caitlin Sullivan titled Eat Your Feelings.

Park Theatre has plans to re-open its doors in the New Year, with socially distanced shows in both auditoria: a revival of comedy thriller CORPSE! in Park90 from Thursday 7 – Saturday 30 January.

From Mean Girls to SpongeBob the Musical, we have seen so many amazing movies and TV shows adapted for the stage

Stay inside and curl up with your favorite movies to get you in a cozy mood with Freeform’s “Kickoff to Christmas” programming event, starting on SUNDAY NOV. 1. 

Grab your popcorn and your (CDC approved) Halloween masks because Freeform is brewing up another year of spine-chilling October programming.

Last Friday, Secret Machines shared Awake in the Brain Chamber, the band's first new full-length album released in 12 years.