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It was a big day for the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, now with its 35th annual event in full swing. 

Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director/Jim Bredeson, Managing Director) today announced that their seventh annual festival of 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes will feature two brand new commissions from Dael Orlandersmith and Arthur Kopit, alongside 6 brand new plays chosen from hundreds of submissions from playwrights across the country. The 2017 Short New Play Festival will be presented on Monday July 24th (7:30pm) at Lucille Lortel Theatre, directed by Craig Baldwin and Evan Yionoulis. Casts will include Tina Benko, Bill Buell, Robert Clohessy, Emily Donahoe, Clifton Duncan, Teresa Avia Lim, Joan MacIntosh, Nadine Malouf, Howard W. Overshown, Alfredo Narciso, and Linda Powell.

Samuel French has assembled a distinguished judging panel including playwrights Jiehae Park, James Hindman, Lauren Yee and Rachel Bonds; Artistic Directors Andrew Leynse (Primary Stages), Jonathan Silverstein (Keen Company), Susan Westfall (City Theatre, Miami), Emily Morse (New Dramatists) and Ciera Iverson (National Alliance of Musical Theatres); and industry professionals John Clinton Eisner (The Lark), Michael Walkup (Page 73), Abigail Katz (Atlantic Theater Company).

Red Bull Theater today announced that their seventh annual festival of 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes will feature two brand new commissions from Dael Orlandersmith and Arthur Kopit, alongside six brand new plays chosen from hundreds of submissions from playwrights across the country. 

Samuel French's Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the nation's premier short play competition, announces this year's top 30 playwrights. Additionally, ticket sales open today for its 42nd Festival.

Registrations are now open for the tenth annual Sharp Short Dance presented by FORM Dance Projects from 14th to 18th November 2017. Aspiring choreographers and dancers aged 21 years and under, are invited to take part in the competitive dance festival for a share in awards, secondments and prizes.

“The All Night Strut has a songbook to die for! It may not be as riotously funny as The Irish and How They Got Way was,” says Maine State Music Theatre's Artistic Director Curt Dale Clark, but I know from experience that the audience will leave the theatre exhilarated!” Clark, who will co-produce the show with Anita Stewart, Artistic Director of Portland Stage, describes the musical revue as “a collection of vignettes, each of which plays out before the next one begins. It is sort of like an evening of short stories that paints a colorful and poignant picture of 20th century America in the years of the Great Depression, World War II, and the post-war.”

In a new interview with EW, director Jerry Mitchell (KINKY BOOTS, LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL) reveals details of the upcoming stage musical adaptation of Garry Marshall's 1990 classic Pretty Woman.

The Group Rep Second Annual SHORT NEW PLAYS FESTIVALThe Group Rep announces its Second Annual SHORT NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL to be held early 2018.  Playwrights with short plays 5 to 15 minutes in length, have two to five characters, can be produced with simple furniture and props, and can be staged in a black box environment are invited to submit.  Plays chosen will receive 6 performances over a two week period with a possible six week extension.  

Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company has selected nineteen new short plays from over 100 entries by emerging and established writers nationwide to present in this year's Museum of Dysfunction short play festival, which will be held June 29-July 1 and July 6-8, 2017. Each play was read blind (with no authorial identification) by a panel of professional writers and the highest scores were chosen and approved by the artistic staff of Mildred's Umbrella.

The 5th Avenue Theatre has announced an incredible seven-show lineup for its 2017/18 season, which includes a mix of regional premieres, contemporary hits, a classic, a national tour direct from Broadway and a thrilling world premiere.

YOU GOT A PROBLEM... has won The NYC INDE FILM AWARDS & The Global Independent Film Awards Film Festivals for 'Best Animation'.

As part of UK/India Year of Culture 2017, Big Dance in partnership with Little Dot Studios and the British Council have opened applications for four new film commissions of Big Dance Shorts for Channel 4, focusing on the creative relationship between the UK and India.

As previously reported, writer-director Richard Curtis and the cast of his beloved holiday film LOVE ACTUALLY are reuniting for 'Red Nose Day Actually,' a short film that will air as part of Comic Relief's 'Red Nose Day Special'

Comedy Central, the number one brand in comedy, joins forces with Superfly, the brains behind Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands co-producer Another Planet Entertainment, to launch Comedy Central Presents Colossal Clusterfest, a jam-packed, multi-format festival experience

Netflix has released the following statement congratulating their first Academy Award winners - the filmmakers behind the short documentary THE WHITE HELMETS.

On today's “LIVE with Kelly,” host Kelly Ripa announced several additions to the 2017 edition of “LIVE's After Oscar® Show.” Hosted by Ripa and guest co-host RYAN SEACREST, the annual telecast will air MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, live, at 9 a.m. EST in national syndication.

On today's “LIVE with Kelly,” host Kelly Ripa announced several additions to the 2017 edition of “LIVE's After Oscar® Show.” Hosted by Ripa and guest co-host RYAN SEACREST, the annual telecast will air MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, live, at 9 a.m. EST in national syndication.

Writer-director Richard Curtis and the cast of his beloved holiday film “Love Actually” are coming together again for “Red Nose Day Actually,” a short film that will air as part of Comic Relief's “Red Nose Day Special” May 25 on NBC and March 24's Red Nose Day in the U.K. on BBC1.

Celebrated PBS documentary series POV has acquired the broadcast rights for JOE'S VIOLIN , an Academy Award nominee in Best Documentary (Short Subject).

YOU GOT A PROBLEM, a new short film by Broadway actor (Grand Hotel) turned director Charles Mandracchia, will be screened at 2017 Katra Film Series - February 11.

White Rabbit SEXCAPADES entices you with eight new works of love, lust, and dirty little secrets, passionately penned by eight funny, fear-free playwrights, the event will include original music by Christopher Palmer, lyrics by Andrew Rothkin, and choreography by Sarah Doudna.

Watching the Ohio State Department of Theatre's '7 Ways to Say I Love You' is, in many ways, similar to sorting through a box of valentines. The show, written by Adam Szymkowicz, comprises seven short stories dealing with the elusive concept of love.

This weekend, February 10 and 11 at 7:30 PM, conductor Randall Craig Fleischer leads guest vocalists Debbie Gravitte, KLea Blackhurst, Ron Raines, Jason Graae, Scott Coulter, and John Boswell in a performance of 'Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert'.

YOU GOT A PROBLEM, a new short film by Broadway actor (Grand Hotel) turned director Charles Mandracchia, will be screened at 2017 Katra Film Series - February 11.