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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas in Blanche and Beyond September 24-26, 2008 in the Terrace Theater. The one-man show is adapted and directed by Steve Lawson from the correspondences of Tennessee Williams between 1945 and 1957, and is a sequel to A Distant Country Called Youth, staged during the Center's Tennessee Williams Explored festival in 2004. This production is part of Prelude 2008: Arts Across America. Language and content for Blanche and Beyond is intended for mature ages, high-school age and above.

Renowned actor Delroy Lindo returns to Berkeley Repertory Theatre with the play that netted him a nomination for the Tony Award - but this time, he's in the director's chair. Following last year's triumph with Tanya Barfield's Blue Door, Lindo takes on August Wilson's African-American epic, Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Staged in the state-of-the-art Roda Theatre, this show begins previews on October 31, opens November 5, and closes December 14. Joe Turner is produced in association with the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, thanks to executive producers Wayne Jordan and Quinn Delaney and Felicia Woytak and Steve Rasmussen. BART and Wells Fargo are the season sponsors for Berkeley Rep's 41st year of fearless theatre.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas in Blanche and Beyond September 24-26, 2008 in the Terrace Theater. The one-man show is adapted and directed by Steve Lawson from the correspondences of Tennessee Williams between 1945 and 1957, and is a sequel to A Distant Country Called Youth, staged during the Center's Tennessee Williams Explored festival in 2004. This production is part of Prelude 2008: Arts Across America. Language and content for Blanche and Beyond is intended for mature ages, high-school age and above.

The 92nd Street Y Theater has announced their fall lineup.

It was announced today that the upcoming previously announced revival of West Side Story will begin previews on February 23, 2009 with an official opening slated for March 19, 2009.

The former home of the Von Trapp family, who became famous with the film The Sound Of Music, will be turned into a hotel to be officially opened sometime in July in Saltzburg, Austria.

Senior studnts of Sheridan College's musical theatre program offer a touching tribute to Jerome Kern.

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The New York Times reports today that City Center's Encores! will be spinning off 'Encores! Summer Stars' which will kick things off from July 9 to July 29th with Gypsy starring Patti LuPone. Author Laurents, who wrote the book and directed the show on Broadway will direct.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed Tuesday the 79th Academy Awards poster design, which features dozens of the most memorable and quotable lines from motion pictures, including a handful of films adapted from Broadway hits...

Peter Nero and the Philly Pops close out their 2005-06 season with one of their most popular concerts.

Best remembered for his starring role on the television series 'Friends,' for which he earned an Emmy nomination, David Schwimmer is getting ready to make his Broadway debut in a revival of Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He will be playing military lawyer Lt. Barney Greenwald. I had the opportunity to sit down with Schwimmer during rehearsals.

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Richard Thomas will portray Tennesee Williams in Blanche and Beyond on August 8th at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, MA

- MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) has announced the lineup for the 35th anniversary season of its famed 'WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE' (WIP) literary series. Under the direction of Steve Lawson, WIP's eclectic five-event program will celebrate the best in drama, literature and song with tributes to Tennessee Williams, Kurt Weill, Cervantes' Don Quixote, George S. Kaufman and an appearance by opera great (and first-time author) Renee Fleming.

Nearly 100 years before Pacific Overtures premiered on Broadway, an operetta was inspired by Japanese relations with the west

The lavish, new production of Rodger's & Hammerstein's The King & I, starring Sandy Duncan and directed by Baayork Lee, will grace the stage of Boston's Wang Theatre for one week only, when it opens on Tuesday, October 12 and plays through Sunday, October 17, 2004. Press night is scheduled for Wednesday, October 13 at 7:00 PM.