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Trinity Rep' presents the world premiere of Social Creatures by Jackie Sibblies Drury - a remarkable new playwright and graduate of the Brown MFA playwriting program. BroadwayWorld has new photos of the cast in action below!

Dig yourself out of the depths of winter doldrums with Trinity Rep's world premiere of Social Creatures, a strangely beautiful, beautifully strange 'dramedy' about the end of the world as we know it. Like nothing Trinity Rep audiences have seen before, this world premiere play was commissioned in 2010 from Jackie Sibblies Drury - a remarkable new playwright and graduate of the Brown MFA playwriting program.

Trinity Rep' presents the world premiere of Social Creatures by Jackie Sibblies Drury - a remarkable new playwright and graduate of the Brown MFA playwriting program. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.

Dig yourself out of the depths of winter doldrums with Trinity Rep's world premiere of Social Creatures, a strangely beautiful, beautifully strange 'dramedy' about the end of the world as we know it. Like nothing Trinity Rep audiences have seen before, this world premiere play was commissioned in 2010 from Jackie Sibblies Drury - a remarkable new playwright and graduate of the Brown MFA playwriting program.

America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, Music Mountain will celebrate its 84th Anniversary Season starting June 16th, with a 12-week schedule featuring seventeen Chamber Music concerts, a twilight series of Jazz, Big Band and Country Music concerts, a unique evening devoted to Gilbert & Sullivan and the first ever Folk Music Jamboree. '2013 is going to be another great year at Music Mountain," stated Music Mountain's board president Nicholas Gordon. "The season opens with the extraordinary cellist Matt Haimowitz in a sonata program [and] continues with wonderful quartets and impressive assisting artists. Our theme this year is 'Seldom Played Works by Celebrated Composers'; an example of this is the Bartok Piano Quintet (July 14), which has never been performed before at Music Mountain and the Dohnanyi Piano Quintet # 2 in E Flat Major (August 10), last played here in 1941."

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston veers away from traditional Christmas fare and presents Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's CHINGLISH, his 2011 play about an American businessman trying to cash in on the growth potential in China. Miscommunication and mistranslation are the order of the day; bad for business, but good for laughs.

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston presents CHINGLISH, by David Henry Hwang and directed by Larry Coen, November 30 - December 23, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at rehearsals below.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the opening production of their 2012 Season, and General Director Brian Dickie's last season with the company, with Shostakovich's Moscow, Cheryomushki. Performances are April 14, 20, 22, and 25 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presents the opening production of their 2012 Season, and General Director Brian Dickie's last season with the company, with Shostakovich's Moscow, Cheryomushki. Performances are April 14, 20, 22, and 25 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) announces the final artistic teams for their upcoming 2012 Season. The season opens April 14 with Shostakovich's Moscow, Cheryomushki, followed by the concluding opera in COT's "Medea" trilogy, Handel's Teseo; and in September COT will present a new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Chicago Opera Theater's 2012 Season will be presented at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

Christopher Durang's dark, absurdist, comedy plays at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, RI through June 5, 2011

Directed by Tony Estrella, Howard Brenton's play controversial play PAUL makes its American debut at the Gamm Theatre in Pawtucket, RI

Brian Dickie announced the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) season for 2012, his last season as General Director.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Irish singer/songwirter Jack Lukeman, and an amazing classical string trio of young NYC siblings, are slated to perform on the Pier 17 stage at The Seaport as part of a free sunset concert the includes the summer's only major pyrotechnics show visible from both lower Manhattan and Brooklyn! FireworksScheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, June 13, the concert and fireworks wrap up the annual Children's Day at South Street Seaport (daytime activities noon - 5 p.m.).

Chicago Opera Theater's second opera of their 2009 Spring Festival Season is La Tragédie de Carmen, a 90 minute adaptation of Georges Bizet's Carmen by Marius Constant, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Peter Brook. La Tragèdie de Carmen runs May 2nd through May 15th at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

Chicago Opera Theater's second opera of their 2009 Spring Festival Season is La Tragédie de Carmen, a 90 minute adaptation of Georges Bizet's Carmen by Marius Constant, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Peter Brook. La Tragèdie de Carmen runs May 2nd through May 15th at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.

On March 31 and April 1 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the Nashville Symphony will host the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, presented every two years by the League of American Orchestras. This highly anticipated two-day event - held in Nashville for the first time - is designed to bring talented conductors to the attention of American orchestra leaders.

On March 31 and April 1 at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the Nashville Symphony will host the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, presented every two years by the League of American Orchestras. This highly anticipated two-day event - held in Nashville for the first time - is designed to bring talented conductors to the attention of American orchestra leaders.

Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian extracts fine performances in the premiere production of Zakiyyah Alexander's play

Muse of Fire, the dynamic one-man play that explores the influence of legendary classical music conductor and teacher Charles Bruck, makes its Chickago premiere at Theatre Building Chicago (1225 W. Belmont Ave) with performances February 14 - March 23.