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The world premiere of Rebus: Long Shadows, the latest story in Ian Rankin's legendary detective series, will be told exclusively on stage at Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 20 September to 6 October. Ian Rankin's Rebus novels have dominated the detective fiction market with the subsequent television series ensuring the detective's legendary status. Now, alongside award-winning playwright Rona Munro, Ian Rankin brings his beloved creation to the stage for the very first time.

Universal Open Rocket League – NBC Sports Group and FACEIT's annual esports tournament – culminates this weekend at NBC Sports Group's International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn., as the top Rocket League players in the world compete in a 2v2 tournament for a $100,000 prize pool.

Cinema Audio Society President Mark Ulano, CAS, announced that the organization will honor multiple CAS and Oscar® nominated Production Sound Mixer Lee Orloff, CAS with the Cinema Audio Society's highest accolade, the CAS Career Achievement Award, to be presented at the 55th CAS Awards on Saturday, February 16, 2019, at the Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown – Wilshire Ballroom, Los Angeles, California.

Portland Center Stage at The Armory's 2018-2019 season launches with the Tony Award-winning musical The Color Purple, adapted from Alice Walker's classic novel about the sisterhood, resilience and self-empowerment found in a community of black women living in rural Georgia in the early 20th century. The Color Purple begins preview performances on September 15, opens on September 21, and runs through October 28 on the U.S. Bank Main Stage. Timothy Douglas directs the production, joined by music director Darius Smith, who will bring the Grammy Award-winning score to life.

It may not have the romantic sweep of 'Some Enchanted Evening' or the driving intensity of 'Don't Rain On My Parade,' but so far, the best new theatre song of this young season is a finely-crafted emotional shut-down carrying the unlikely title 'Michael In The Bathroom.'

Adam Webster, Artistic Director of the side project, today announced casting for the side project's world premiere production of OXY, OHIO; Chicago playwright S.J. Spencer's new drama dealing with the opioid epidemic. 

According to Variety, Bryce Dallas Howard is set to play Elton John's mother in Paramount's biopic “Rocketman.”

The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center of Palo Alto presents a sensational line-up for its 2018-2019 Arts & Dialogues series, featuring appearances by internationally acclaimed actors and musicians, in addition to world-class theatre and literature events. Beginning in September and continuing through next spring, the OFJCC will host captivating live performances by household names such as Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin and renowned entertainer Alan Cumming.

Kristin Chenoweth and Andrew Rannells visit Late Night with Seth Meyers to chat all things Broadway, THE BOYS IN THE BAND, RuPaul's Drag Race, and more! Check out the hilarious clips below! 

Netflix announced today an exclusive overall deal with boundary-breaking, award-winning producer and writer Alex Pina, the creative mind behind the most watched non-English show on Netflix, La Casa de Papel (Money Heist).

McDaniel College offers a variety of art, music, theatre, literary, film and other events during the fall of 2018. 

Our team put our heads together to figure out who we'd want to appear in the production! Check out some of our picks below - and join in the coversation on Facebook and Twitter to share your thoughts!

While its original production, as most Broadway shows go, offered the expected big sets, first-rate costumes, and impressive production values, the 2015 Tony Award-winning revival production of THE COLOR PUPLE---currently slaying audiences for a week-long stop at Orange County's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa through June 24---is decidedly more subdued and scaled-down by comparison, allowing the songs, the story, and the cast performances to shine on their own merits instead. The resulting show is a powerful, uplifting one, bathed in a loving, spiritual embrace that shines a light on the struggles, the insecurities, the passions, and the tenacity of African-American women living in the early decades of the 20th Century. I can say without hesitation that this revival production is an excellent way to experience this beautiful, touching, and ultimately triumphant musical.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Robert Zemeckis is in final talks to adapt and direct Warner Bros'. take on Roald Dahl's beloved children's book The Witches.

On Tuesday, Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth hosted the the 39th annual Banff World Media Festival's Rockie Awards Gala Ceremony, which featured a star-studded line-up of award recipients. During the ceremony, Chenoweth invited the head of NBC, Robert Greenblatt, to the stage to accompany her singing 'Bring Him Home' from Les Misérables. Sharing the video on Facebook, she wrote, 'Had the absolute honor of hosting Banff World Media Festival's Rockie Awards last night! Then this happened... thank you to NBC's Bob Greenblatt for joining me on stage to perform #BringHimHome!'

The Gallery at The Sheen Center (18 Bleecker Street, NYC) presents 'LR9: 1957,' a multimedia group exhibition inspired by the Little Rock Nine. Curated by Ajamu Kojo, the exhibition includes oil painting, collage, sculture, found-object art and projected film works by artists including Patrick Earl Barnes, Kimberly Becoat, Paul Deo, Aimee Everett, Chet Gold, Aaqil Ka, Ajamu Kojo, Roni Nicoleand Valincy-Jean Patelli. The exhibition is open to the public through August 3. The Gallery is open daily from 9AM to 11PM. All works on exhibition are available for purchase.

Celebrating its 36th Anniversary, Outfest - the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization promoting equality by creating, sharing, and protecting LGBTQ stories on the screen - today announced the complete programming lineup for the 2018 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival presented by HBO. The nation's leading LGBTQ festival will be held July 12-22, 2018.

During his remarkable career with the Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams earned many nicknames - The Kid, The Splendid Splinter and Teddy Ballgame, but the only nickname that he wanted was “the greatest hitter who ever lived.” In that pursuit, he combined his preternatural gifts with a fierce work ethic to become widely regarded as one of the greatest ever to play the game of baseball and in the process elevated the science of hitting in ways still emulated today.

Acorn DVD features two more collections of star-studded television adaptations from the Queen of Crime, THE BEST OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, Volumes 3 and 4, featuring favorites such as Ordeal by Innocence, Dead Man's Folly and A Caribbean Mysteryand casts led by Geraldine McEwan, David Suchet, and Julia McKenzie with co-stars Jane Seymour, Richard Armitage, Zoë Wanamaker, and Joanna Lumley. Read details below! 

The Play Company (PlayCo), led by Founding Producer Kate Loewald and Managing Director Robert G. Bradshaw, today announces the complete cast for Toshiki Okada's Time's Journey Through a Room, marking PlayCo's third collaboration with Okada, translator Aya Ogawa, and director Dan Rothenberg, May 10 - June 10, 2018. This haunting play, set in post-Fukushima Japan, will star three Japanese born performers, all of whom are now based in New York: Yuki Kawahisa (Honoka), Maho Honda (Arisa) and Kensaku Shinohara (Kazuki). The play is both an intimate examination of how we move forward from life-altering events, and a study of how we experience time, asking whether we can ever be alive to the present moment. 

The Broad Stage continues their collaboration with Red Hen Press for Red Hen Press: At the Kitchen Table with Rinde and Ellen on Sunday, July 22 at 2:00pm in the East Wing at The Broad Stage.

HBO Documentary Films is in production on a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. Academy Award(R) winner Alex Gibney ('Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,' HBO's Emmy(R)-winning 'Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief') directs.

Tom Cruise celebrates the start of filming for the much-anticipated Top Gun sequel with a first look image on his twitter account accompanied by the hashtah #Day1. The star will be returning to the franchise in the role of Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell.

August 21st Stranger Than Fiction presents Tuesday Night Improv at The Players' Ring, located at 105 Marcy Street Portsmouth, NH. Show times are Tuesdays at 8:00pm. Tickets are $14 for general admission. Students, seniors, and Players' Ring members can purchase tickets for $12. To make your reservation visit playersring.org or call 603-436-8123.