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Directed by Darko Tresnjak, 'Anastasia' is not to be missed at Kennedy Center. A strong story with an equally strong cast to bring it to life, coupled with some great music by one of Broadway's best writing teams, makes it a sure bet.

The Animals and Children Took To The Streets twists together retro imagery and animation with cabaret and mime for some elegantly sinister storytelling.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) just announced Tony Award winner Gavin Creel (Hello, Dolly!, She Loves Me) will join two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (Anything Goes, Thoroughly Modern Millie) in a special one-night-only Benefit Musical Performance of My One and Only, the award-winning musical comedy by Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin.

Canadian singer/songwriter/actor/author Alan Doyle will be appearing live in concert at the Capitol Center for the Arts (CCA) in Downtown Concord, NH on Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 7:30PM. He is best-known as the lead singer of folk rock band Great Big Sea. Opening for Mr. Doyle is Whitney Rose.

The Warner Theatre will present its 7th Annual International Playwrights Festival held in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre on October 12 and 13, 2018. The mission of the International Playwrights Festival is to recognize the work of emerging and established playwrights and to build a link between the playwrights, the theatre community and our audiences.

Hancock Whitney Broadway in New Orleans is pleased to announce that the New Orleans engagement of the hit Broadway musical ON YOUR FEET! - based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winning international superstar Gloria Estefan and her husband, 19-time GRAMMY winning producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan - will go on sale Friday, Sept. 28 at 10 a.m.

This morning, Audible, Pottermore, and Warner Bros. announced a new and exciting addition to the Wizarding World! Audible's exclusive Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Makers, Mysteries, and Magic audiobook will be released on November 16th, alongside the opening of the highly anticipated new big-screen adventure in cinemas. The audiobook, which will be performed by Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander), Jude Law (Albus Dumbledore), Zoë Kravitz (Leta Lestrange), Ezra Miller (Credence), Dan Fogler (Jacob Kowalski), and more, pulls back the curtain on one of the most hotly anticipated blockbusters of the year. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Makers, Mysteries, and Magic is available for preorder now exclusively at Audible at www.audible.com/fantasticbeasts. Check out the below video of Dan Fogler introducing the book, then read on for the official press release!

San Jose Stage Artistic Director Randall King announced the company's 36th Season line up. 'Looking toward our 36th Season we will continue our mission of producing powerful, provocative, and profound work that illuminates the human condition. We are excited to bring you an explosively charged  season with award-winning works by theatre's most masterful playwrights - Martin McDonagh, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Tennessee Williams - including two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas, an Obie Award-winning satirical comedy and a newly commissioned world premiere by Luis Valdez.'  

First Run Features is pleased to announce the Los Angeles theatrical premiere of Moynihan, a new documentary directed by Joseph Dorman and Toby Perl Freilich. Following its U.S. premiere at New York's Film Forum on October 3,the Los Angeles premiere will take place at Laemmle's Music Hall on October 12, 2018. 

Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse brings Philip Barry's first Broadway play, 'You and I' to the stage for its first New York revival in 95 years.   The limited run from September 7 to October 7, 2018, will be at the Playhouse home at 220 E 4th Street.

New Stage Theatre, a professional theatre located in Jackson, Mississippi, announces its 2018-2019 SchoolFest Matinee performances, as a part of New Stage's Arts in Education program. We will celebrate our 53rd season, "The Power of Place", with a wonderful variety of great theatre for all ages. "The characters in this season's plays yearn and search for home, redefine place and struggle for identity in the changing worlds around them. A strong impression of place can evoke anger, joy, tears, and laughter. At New Stage Theatre we know there is a place for everyone," says artistic director Francine Thomas Reynolds.

Gingold Theatrical Group presents Chicago, the basis of the long running Broadway musical. Written in 1926 by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Chicago is best known today as the inspiration for the 1975 stage musical Chicago.

Gingold Theatrical Group announces the next presentation of the 13th Season of Project Shaw at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre

RB Productions flies onto the mainstage of the Capitol Center for the Arts on August 3 and 4 with its production of the popular Broadway megahit 'Mary Poppins'. 

Now that the weather has finally cleared up in St. Louis, you'll want to go celebrate The Muny in its 100th year at Singin' in the Rain. Celebrated as one of the most iconic musicals of all time-and perhaps as relatable today in some ways as ever, while we move through the digital revolution-Singin' in the Rain, a comedy set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, tells an amusing story about what can happen when technology changes everything.

The British Museum lent 2,200 objects to 81 venues outside the UK from Toledo, Ohio to Hobart, Australia. In November, India and the World, a history in nine stories opened at CSMVS in Mumbai. Supported by the Getty Foundation and Tata Trusts, this is the first exhibition of its kind, a collaborative partnership between CSMVS, the National Museum of Delhi and the British Museum. Indian objects were selected from collections across India and the British Museum provided global objects to show the interconnectivity of India to the world throughout the centuries. The exhibition received over 200,000 visitors in Mumbai and has recently opened in Delhi.

Barrington Theatre Company's (BSC) 2018 Season opening production 'The Royal Family of Broadway', is a wacky, wonderful, and highly entertaining 1920's era madcap musical romp.

Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, presents the world premiere musical, The Royal Family of Broadway. Performances run through July 7 on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage (30 Union Street).

Pink Martini is coming to Hershey Theatre on Friday, October 12, 2018 at 8:00 PM.

Folk and pop icon Gordon Lightfoot returns to the Capitol Center for the Arts (CCA) in Downtown Concord, NHon Friday, June 22, 2018 at 8PM. The artist is best known for hits like "If You Could Read My Mind", "Sundown", and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

Lights. Camera. Music. Experience the magic of the 2018-19 "At the Movies" series starting this fall at Severance Hall, featuring three classic films: Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Rebel Without a Cause - starring James Dean, and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Film fans, music lovers, and everyone in between will relive the thrills, memories, and adventures of iconic films in high-definition on the giant screen - all with live accompaniment.

Nakkiah Lui latest offering BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN: THE TRADITIONAL OWNER OF DEATH is a hilarious superhero story all of Australia needs to see.

There is no other company in Houston that is better equipped to handle his material, and this production cements that with ease. It is presented with a casual decadence that perfectly captures the world of the black American musician during this time.

Bucks County Playhouse audiences will have the opportunity to revisit one of America's most storied musicals when it presents a world-premiere concert adaptation of Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern's legendary musical, "Show Boat," Saturday, June 23 at 7 p.m.

The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University (CBA), the first international institute devoted to the creation and academic study of ballet, today announced the 27 artists and scholars who will serve as CBA Fellows in the 2018-19 academic year. The group - which represents The Center's largest and most far-reaching cohort yet - features distinguished individuals in a range of disciplines, including scholar Cecile Feza Bushidi, lighting designer Brandon Stirling Baker, choreographer Chase Brock, choreographer, filmmaker, and dancer Pontus Lidberg, and scholar Janice Ross, among others.