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Nationally-recognized as one of the nation's leading producers of new works of theatre for young people and their families, The Coterie Theatre's 42nd Season will offer multiple new plays and musicals created to entertain, engage, and serve as memorable experiences for every generation of the family.

Award-winning novelist Margaret Mizushima will celebrate the release of Striking Range, the latest installment of the critically-acclaimed Timber Creek K-9 Series, this Fall. Striking Range (Crooked Lane) will be available where fine books are sold on September 7, 2021.

The new work, to be performed outdoors at Portchester Castle in Hampshire this summer, is a response to a colonial and racist production performed at the castle by French captives in the early 19th century.  With a fresh perspective on the history of Portchester's Black prisoners of war and the Caribbean uprisings, The Ancestors re-examines the past and offers a new voice to the people involved. 

Award-winning director, Zack Travis, has teamed up with stellar actress Salomé Robert-Murphy once again to create their latest short film, 'Whale Talk'. The comedic film, releasing this fall on September 20th, follows a couple who in their struggle to fall asleep, attempt to ease their minds by listening in on a conversation between whales.

Subscription packages and single tickets are now on sale. Learn more about the festival and how to purchase tickets here!

In the tradition of The School for Scandal and The Rivals, Masks and Faces is both a 18th century period caper and a tribute to the backstage world of the theatre, complete with the hapless failed playwright, Triplet, and his hungry family, to real-life writer Colley Cibber, and the ghastly critics Soaper and Snarl……

This hour-long play has had may incarnations, most notably in a 1979 ITV production, starring Richard Briers as 'A' and Dame Judi Dench, a Shaw Society vice-president, as 'Z'.

The award-winning independent short film, 'Sell It To Me a Different Way', is set to premiere on YouTube on July 17th, 2021. It was hot on the film festival circuit this year, winning Best Indie Short at the Europe Film Festival, and awarding Salomé Robert-Murphy with Best Actress at the Metropolis Film Festival.

It was just announced by the Pulitzer Prize organization that Katori Hall's The Hot Wing King has officially won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year's finalists included Circle Jerk by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley and Stew by Zora Howard.

Artistic Director of Collingwood Summer Music Festival Daniel Vnukowski will host Summer Solstice Series this month. The four-part presentation will include Celebrating Robert Burns with R.H. Thomson and Mr. Vnukowski (June 16, 7 p.m. EDT) and more.

Ford's Theatre today announced the launch of The Lincoln Legacy Commissions—a new play development initiative for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) playwrights that explores racial history and social justice in the United States and gives voice to lesser-known historical figures and their contributions to American life. Playwrights Pearl Cleage, Rickerby Hinds, Nambi E. Kelley, Dominic Taylor and Charlayne Woodard comprise the inaugural writers of The Lincoln Legacy Commissions.

SHAW2020 will present this knockabout, battle of the sexes by Bernard Shaw. Village Wooing is a charming two-hander where the characters are simply named 'A' and 'Z'.

On the raw and visceral “Uh Oh,” Children Collide romp and rattle on the mosh-ready stomper. “Ryan and I were walking around a park in Melbourne early 2019 discussing those immediate chord progressions that happen in classic rock songs when he said, ‘I think I have something actually.’

DTC vocalist Alex Reade shares how the track's haunting scenario – depicting a person's out of body experience watching on at themselves trapped in an asylum – represents the agitation and anger she’s experienced feeling forced to pursue a certain path due to external pressure placed on her.

Happy Days, first performed 60 years ago and named by The Independent as one of the best 40 plays of all time, opens at Sydney's Old Fitz Theatre on June 12.

Following the success of the live Q&A in November 2020 which raised over £300,000 for Acting for Others, Lockdown Theatre today announces they will be rescreening For One Knight Only in aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund and partner organisation, the Fleabag Support Fund.

Hampstead Theatre has announced the cast for Alfred Fagon's darkly compelling, The Death of a Black Man, directed by Dawn Walton, former Artistic Director of Eclipse Theatre Company, from 28 May until 10 July 2021. 

Joyous, sexy and heartbreaking, I Want To Know What Love Is is a dizzying ride through love’s collision course. Premiering in 2014, it captivated audiences around the country during two sell-out seasons in Brisbane, a Melbourne season at the 2017 Provocare Festival, and a national tour.

Ashland New Plays Festival will present Craig-Galván's new play Berth Breach/Breech Birth with two live Zoom performances

A few months later, with the world in the grips of the pandemic, their plans changed - CHVRCHES ended up separated by the Atlantic Ocean, Mayberry and Doherty self-isolating in Los Angeles, Cook in Glasgow.

As long as the current standard theatrical canon is taught in schools, young artists will continue to riff on the sanctified artists from their syllabi. Thus, America has seen a recent trend in irreverence toward the works of Anton Chekhov.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, April 17-18, 2021.

The Donmar Warehouse and Wessex Grove announce today they are partnering in a multi-year development deal to support the creation of new stage projects and invest in their life at the Donmar and beyond.

This is the time of year when your shorts and flip-flops are parked next to your snow boots and parka.

Starting April 24 and running until May 2, the spring programming of the 23rd Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival will be in full swing, along with the TD-Blue Metropolis Children's Festival.