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BWW catches up with the team behind Bed about bringing the new musical to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced full cast and creative team for their forthcoming production of Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written. 

Karen Peterson & Dancers to celebrate their 32nd anniversary with REPERTORY FAVORITES, a multidisciplinary dance concert on May 27-28, 2023 at The Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center's Lab Theatre.

Despite Juan Carlos Galano's previous exposure to stage plays when he was still in Saipan, the clothing brand Bench hunk model-turned-actor still considers his stint in Ateneo Blue Repertory’s “Zsazsa Zaturnnah: The Musical... 'Yun Lang” as his theater debut. He plays the auto mechanic Dodong, the lead character Ada’s love interest.

 To share a tour de force performance with a wider audience, and encouraged by glowing reviews to-date, La MaMa has extended 'Han!' written and performed by Hyun Ju Baek, directed by Thomas Richards, for one week.  

The Joyce Theater Foundation has announced the opening of its Spring 2023 season with a powerhouse performance from the world-famous Batsheva Dance Company performing in house choreographer Ohad Naharin’s Hora.

Griffin Theatre Company will continue its 33rd season with the Midwest premiere drama HEISENBERG: The Uncertainty Principle by Simon Stephens, directed by Nate Cohen, playing February 23 – March 26, 2023 on Raven Theatre’s Schwartz Stage.

Newfields has announced a new series of outdoor public art installations for The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park that will activate the park and create dynamic opportunities for engagement and exploration.

The Bad Dog Theatre Company present Comedy on Queen Street, an electrifying new winter wonderland comedy pop-up theatre to celebrate the holiday season from December 1st – 30th at the Assembly Theatre (1479 Queen Street West).

The Genesis Foundation today announced the full list of panellists taking part in the second of their Genesis Conversations, in partnership with Bristol Old Vic at the theatre's historic venue on 15 November.

The world's angriest optimist returns to Soho following his two sell-out critically acclaimed smash hit shows, and a brief interruption, to bring his much-lauded Edinburgh Fringe hit to London. 

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this November with a full slate of nightly performances! 

EVERYBODY, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ contemporary riff on a 15th-century morality play, is a creative and chaotic allegory about Christian salvation which is, in the end, an uneven production for the usually consistent Antaeus Theatre Company. 

Director Joseph Walsh has mounted this production fifteen years previously in the UK and Ireland, but he's brought a new production to Central Florida during a year that has been, to say the least, a difficult challenge for both the LGBTQ+ and local theatre communities.

ArtsBridge Foundation recently announced the names of two Georgia high school students who will represent the state at the national 2022 Jimmy Awards.

Garrett Millerick, the world's angriest optimist, returns for another bash at sorting out life's inexplicable complications.

Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, today announces its 2022-2023 season Cultivate/Curate, which features world premieres by Julia Wolfe, Caroline Shaw, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Gordon, John Luther Adams, George Lewis, Ted Hearne, and Martin Bresnick.

Durango PlayFest today announced the three plays that will headline its play development festival, August 4-7, 2022, as well as a community event that rounds out this year's schedule. PlayFest's mission is to bring well-known and emerging playwrights, directors and actors to Durango to incubate new plays, hold events for the community, and culminate the week with staged readings for local audiences.

A new play about the decades-long, tempestuous friendship between Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley will receive an industry reading on Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

The music video was filmed by my constant collaborator and friend Nick Mckk at Splitpoint lighthouse. “Lydia Wears A Cross” is the first single from the new album. The album is a masterclass in songwriting and cements Jacklin’s status as one of the most important songwriters of her time. Plus, check out tour dates!

Theatr Clwyd today announces the cast for their new production of Celebrated Virgins: A Story of the Ladies of Llangollen, created by Katie Elin-Salt and Eleri B. Jones. This inspiring new play, based on the remarkable true sapphic love story of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, opens at Theatr Mix – Theatr Clwyd's temporary theatre village – on 24 May, with previews from 20 May, and runs until 4 June.

The final First Stage production of the 2021/22 season will be THE LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET, a play adapted by Gloria Bond Clunie from the Newbery Medal-winning children's book by Matt de la Peña, with Illustrations by Christian Robinson.

The Band's Visit is an intimate 90 minute musical with no intermission, no big show-stopping numbers, and no 'flash' as we say in show biz. It is a very real performance about a random moment in history, based on the 2007 Israeli film of the same name.

WE SPEAK PEACE features performing artists from Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, and New York City in a one night only event. Led by NYC playwright/poet Galinsky and gallerist/filmmaker Jay Bulger, the eclectic group of performers feel the need to speak out and share right now. 

Jacob’s Pillow has announced the full season lineup for Festival 2022, featuring world premieres, new commissions, 90th Anniversary Season celebrations, Pillow-exclusive engagements, and work developed at the Pillow Lab.