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The Shaker Heights High School Theatre Arts Department presents the thirty-fifth festival of new plays, written, directed, performed and co-produced by students, Stages 35: Shaker New Plays Series, March 15, 16, 17 & 18 at 7 PM with a 9:15 PM show on Friday, March 17 in our intimate black box theatre, Stage 3. Six one-act plays will be presented as part of a full season of theatrical events, which began with Urinetown and concludes with Nevermore: A Spring Ensemble Show, in April.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is celebrating the induction of four outstanding artists into the NYFA Hall of Fame during its annual benefit tonight, April 12, 2016, at 583 Park Avenue. The evening's honorees are James Casebere, Faith Ringgold, Anna Deavere Smith, and Zhou Long.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is celebrating the induction of four outstanding artists into the NYFA Hall of Fame during its annual benefit on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at 583 Park Avenue. The evening's honorees are James Casebere, Faith Ringgold, Anna Deavere Smith, and Zhou Long.

Mad Horse Theatre company has mounted a full production of Brent Askari's savvy, subtle, sometimes serious comedy, Digby's Home as its third main stage production of the 2015-2016 season, having first been introduced the work to Portland audience's at the company's BY LOCAL series. The play, which chronicles the return to a small New England town of Digby Preston, a maladroit middle-aged man who has pursued his dreams of being a comedian in Los Angeles, and now comes back for a family visit hoping to repair family relationships and rediscover his place in his hometown. Digby's odyssey proves to be one subtle disappointment after another, and he soon finds the journey may actually be more meaningful than the homecoming, but his stay is not without some resolution.

Mad Horse Theatre Company is proud to present the world premiere of DIGBY'S HOME by award-winning Maine playwright Brent Askari, directed by Christine Louise Marshall. 

Get into the holiday spirit with 'Christmas Music Thru the Years,' a holiday concert to benefit York Little Theatre, at 3 p.m. today, December 12 at the historic Hugh McCall Mansion on Market Street.

Get into the holiday spirit with "Christmas Music Thru the Years," a holiday concert to benefit York Little Theatre, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, December 12 at the historic Hugh McCall Mansion on Market Street. The concert will feature Dr. Robina Santaniello , soprano, Peter Powers, a dean at Messiah College and well-known tenor from the Harrisburg area, Michael Anderson, a local attorney and baritone who has performed many opera roles and won awards for his voice.  Victor Fields, the accompanist, is one of the best pianists in the area and Anna Hallett, a high school senior, will play violin.

TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, and PBS have announced additional participants for the first ever TED TALKS LIVE, a six-night speaker event featuring TED Talks, short films and performances at The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) in New York's famed Theater District.

MAD HORSE THEATRE COMPANY opens its 30th Anniversary Season with an audacious production of LYSISTRATA, by Aristophanes.

MAD HORSE THEATRE COMPANY opens its 30th Anniversary Season with an audacious production of LYSISTRATA, by Aristophanes.

South Portland's Mad Horse Theatre Company closes its 2014-2015 season with a gripping rendition of Jon Robin Baitz's 2011 drama, Other Desert Cities. The play explores the painful bonds and conflicts in a family whose relationships have are strained by differences in political thinking, by the loss of their oldest son, and by their daughter's desire to recount the truth as she sees it. The drama, set largely in 2004 in the bellicose post 9/11 America of George W. Bush, is about the fine line between acting and reality, the dark depths of deception, and the devastating, yet healing consequences of discovering the truth.

The NYU Tisch School of the Arts annual gala honoring Michael C. Hall, Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman, with a special tribute to Mel Silverman, will be held tonight, May 4, at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall.

Mad Horse Theatre Company closes its 29th Season with Pulitzer Prize Finalist OTHER DESERT CITIES, by John Robin Baitz.

Mad Horse Theatre Company closes its 29th Season with Pulitzer Prize Finalist OTHER DESERT CITIES, by John Robin Baitz.

The NYU Tisch School of the Arts annual gala honoring Michael C. Hall, Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman, with a special tribute to Mel Silverman, will be held on Monday, May 4, at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall.

It's an old story: Woman meets man. Woman loses man…and loses him over and over again on a party-line. Luckily, the woman is Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci and the composer of LA VOIX HUMAINE is Francis Poulenc. Together, they made for a fascinating performance at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

South Portland's Madhorse Theatre Company has chosen to mount Kimberly Akimbo, an edgy, quirky, wrenching comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, as their second offering of the season. The five-character tale of a teenager's coming to terms with a strange disease that has caused her to age prematurely, with her damaged and dysfunctional New Jersey family, and with the pangs of first love is etched with colorful characters and occasionally brilliant dialogue and is given a sensitive production by director Nathan Speckman.

Anna Netrebko has agreed to sing with the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in the concert this Sunday afternoon, February 8, replacing Elna Garana, who has withdrawn due to illness

Mad Horse Theatre Company gives theater- goers a reason to bundle up and leave the house on a cold winter's night-a heartwarming production of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's KIMBERLY AKIMBO.