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Signature Theatre has announced one-week extension for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, National Humanities Medal-recipient Anna Deavere Smith’s gathering of voices surrounding the 1992 L.A. civil unrest in a complex portrait of a city’s racial anguish.

 TuckShop – the UK’s only specialist production company devoted all things drag - are back in the West End this Christmas with DICK WHITTINGTON, the second of its all drag pantomimes, following the first 2019 sell-out hit Cinderella.

Starting today, November 1, New Yorkers will be able to access Governors Island’s open space, cultural programming, and recreational resources beyond its traditional May through October season for the first time.

Award winning stage star John Owen-Jones (Les Miserables/Phantom) will release the album November 19, complete with some traditional Christmas tracks, some personal favourites and two brand new Christmas songs.

Next month, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Two of the stars have been announced for the Australian premiere of 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL, Dolly Parton's smash-hit West End musical, which will open in February at the Capitol Theatre, Sydney.

Ashland New Plays Festival's 29th annual flagship Fall Festival features four new plays by Thomas Brandon, TyLie Shider, Meghan Brown, and Andrew Lee Creech. This year the festival takes place virtually with livestream readings and talkbacks October 21 through 24 at 6 pm PT each day, with an encore week of on-demand presentations available from October 26 through 31.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company returns prolific playwright Lauren Gunderson (2019’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley) to its Owen and Margaret Wellford Tabor Stage for the regional premiere of her new historical romance of Byronesque poetry and scientific invention: Ada and the Engine.

InterAct Theatre Company will launch its 2021-22 Season with The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh, a “piercing and intimate” play (New York Times) that peers through the past to examine our present moment through the eyes of one extraordinary woman.

Coming home to the theater – even when it means returning to a role he first played more than two years ago – is a surreal experience for Joe Joseph, the thoughtful, reflective and multi-talented University of Michigan graduate now playing Haled in the national touring company of The Band’s Visit, the 2019 Tony Award-winning best musical.

This Sunday, Oct. 17, renowned jazz musician Nat Adderley, Jr. will hit the stage at Parker Jazz Club (114 West Fourth St., Austin, Texas). Nat will appear in concert with his band and special guest Kenny Williams to benefit THE ADDERLEY FOUNDATION, which provides scholarships and financial assistance for underserved students.

Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures will present the worldwide dance musical sensation MAMMA MIA! from October 29-November 14th in the Festival Playhouse of Wright State’s Creative Arts Center.

After wowing sell-out audiences with her highly acclaimed West End tour de force Liza Pulman Sings Streisand, Liza returns with her brand-new show and album The Heart of It. 

 Milwaukee Ballet leaps back into action this month with Connect, the first production of its 2021/22 Season of Inspiration. This contemporary dance program unites three choreographers from around the world for a vibrant celebration of creativity and movement that will take center stage at the Marcus Performing Arts Center October 28-31, 2021.

To mark this year's festive winter season, Shoreditch Town Hall today announces Town Hall Unwrapped, a series of joyfully eclectic events taking over the building's many spaces throughout December.

The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival has been the largest multi-disciplinary arts festival in New York State for years now, and 2021’s 10th anniversary Fringe (September 14-25) – with almost 90% of its more than 425 performances and events taking place in-person – was a leader in reopening the performing arts in Western New York.

The New Vic Theatre will work with three Associate Artists – Khaos Theatre, Quick Duck, and playwright James Morton – across the next year, as part of the theatre-in-the-round's relaunched Kiln Associates programme.

A brand new Christmas show for all the family is coming to the Queen's Hall from 10-28 December, with early bird tickets on sale from 30 September. The Remarkable Robin Armstrong's Extraordinary Christmas Adventure is written by Elijah Young and directed by Mark Calvert.

Psycho Clan, the creative team behind many well-known NYC immersive productions, will present THE DARK HOUSE, a horror experience just in time for the Halloween season.  

TimeLine Theatre Company, acclaimed for presenting plays that explore today's social and political issues through the lens of the past, is thrilled to announce that it will celebrate its 25th Anniversary season with a return to live productions starting in January 2022.

The Lewisville Grand Theater has announced that seasonal favorites, Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis will bring some yuletide cheer to the Lewisville Grand Theater on Sunday, December 12 at 7 p.m.

Helen Hayes Award-winning performer Mason Alexander Park (they/them/theirs) returns to Olney Theatre Center in November to play the title role in Olney's production of the internationally acclaimed rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb and two-time Tony Award nominee Heidi Schreck have announced the Clubbed Thumb Constitution Commissions.

TuckShop – the UK's only specialist production company devoted all things drag - are back in the West End this Christmas with DICK WHITTINGTON, the second of its all drag pantomimes, following the first 2019 sell-out hit Cinderella.

Andrew Thompson's One Hundred Oxen has been awarded the inaugural Hope Prize by Arch468.  He receives a £10,000 commission, having responded to the open call out for a new play that offered a vision of hope in a bid to ensure that hope is not allowed to fade from public discourse.