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Casting details are announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of King John and A Museum in Baghdad opening in the Swan Theatre this winter.

John Stamos hosted PBS' 39th annual broadcast of A CAPITOL FOURTH, which aired on PBS Thursday, July 4, 2019 before a concert audience of hundreds of thousands, millions more at home, as well as to our troops serving around the world on the American Forces Network. Watch the full broadcast!

After a successful run at The Marsh San Francisco, multi award-winning actorplaywright and Theatre Rhinoceros Artistic Director John Fisher's acclaimed solo show A History of World War II: The D-Day Invasion to the Fall of Berlin will transfer to The Marsh Berkeley. Offering a compendium of facts about WWII from the bungled plot to assassinate Hitler ("A mess! Organized by a bunch of loser bureaucrats!") to the big secret - how the Russians won the war for us ("They did all the work!"), this lauded production also surveys the best books on the topic, as well as the most attractive generals who fought the battles and the hottest actors who played them in the movies. Capturing the Best Actor award from the 2017 United Solo Festival, this highly entertaining work also demonstrates how WWII helped Fisher win boyhood battles with his older brother.

BWW catches up with John Rowe to chat about bringing The John Rowe Show to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Kiss My Aztec! Check out the video! John Leguizamo teams up with Artistic Director Tony Taccone for this musical comedy, following their collaboration on the hit one-man show Latin History for Morons, which received its world premiere at Berkeley Rep before heading to Broadway. Leguizamo will serve as co-writer and co-lyricist only for Kiss My Aztec! - 11 other talented actors will perform in this production. Taccone will also direct.

John A. Emery MD announces his medical memoir, A Surgeon's Life With Bipolar Disorder.

Poet Langston Hughes questions in 1951 through his poem "Harlem;" What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" The legendary poem inspired Lorraine Hansbury to write the award winning drama A Raisin in the Sun eight years later. In 1959, Hansberry became the first African American women to have her play produced at New York's Barrymore Broadway theater in an era when women in general, regardless of ethnicity, were published. Opening in '59 with a primarily African American cast, the play heralded a dramatic change for theater audience in years to come. At Anoka's Main Stage Theater, Lyric Arts presents an outstanding revised thirteenth anniversary production of the play directed by Austene Van, which features a stellar cast, two tiered set designed by Peter Lerohl and lighting designed by Matt McNabb.

Susan Boyle and Michael Ball took the stage at Britain's Got Talent last night, June 2, to perform 'A Million Dreams' from The Greatest Showman. The track was recorded for Boyle's album, TEN.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Kiss My Aztec! John Leguizamo teams up with Artistic Director Tony Taccone for this musical comedy, following their collaboration on the hit one-man show Latin History for Morons, which received its world premiere at Berkeley Rep before heading to Broadway. Leguizamo will serve as co-writer and co-lyricist only for Kiss My Aztec! - 11 other talented actors will perform in this production. Taccone will also direct.

The new movie is getting all the raves, but MusicWorks is bringing the live concert experience for Elton John fans of every age next February 28 at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, May 30, at 10 am.

The John W. Engeman Theater presents AIDA! Performances began on Thursday, May 9 and run through Sunday, June 23, 2019.

On Wednesday night's episode of 'Late Night with Seth Meyers,' John Lithgow was a guest on the show to talk about his Broadway show, 'Hillary and Clinton,' and his film 'The Tomorrow Man.'

Tony and Grammy Award winner John Lloyd Young, (JERSEY BOYS on Broadway and on screen) has created an exciting night of songs from the '50s, '60s and '70s called JUKEBOX HERO.

Four Chords and a Gun is an intense black comedy about the infamous punk band the Ramones written by John Ross Bowie (“The Big Bang Theory”, “Speechless”). The play reveals the drama-filled 1979 recording session that led to The Ramones album, End of the Century, produced by the eccentric gun wielding Phil Spector. The Canadian premier of this sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, always gritty, story of how the world's greatest Punk album came to be is directed by long-time Toronto Star theatre critic and Stratford Festival director Richard Ouzounian. Hey Ho Let's Go! to a play about the Ramones followed by a concert. Not a f***ing musical.

Nickelodeon is set to launch the reimagined iconic family game show, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader, with a week of premieres beginning Monday, June 10, at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT). Hosted by John Cena, who also serves as executive producer, the new series follows the original premise of kids helping adult contestants put their knowledge to the test with questions taken directly from an elementary school curriculum. New episodes will continue to air Monday, June 17, through Wednesday, June 19, at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT), before moving to its regular Monday timeslot on June 24 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT).

The John W. Engeman Theater presents AIDA! Performances began on Thursday, May 9 and run through Sunday, June 23, 2019. Check out videos from the production below!

Last week, acclaimed singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin brought out his idol and friend John Mayer to a packed crowd that went wild. The two performed Alec's fan-favorite song “Death Of A Hero” and then John's classic “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” during night 1 of Alec's two back-to-back sold-out shows at LA's El Rey Theatre. Watch the LIVE performance video for “Death Of A Hero”HERE.

Tickets go on sale today, May 15, for White Snake Projects' I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams, the newest opera from creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs, premiering September 20-22 on the Robert J. Orchard Stage of Boston's Emerson Paramount Theater. Composed by Jorge Sosa, the opera explores immigration, dislocation, and transformation in America. In conjunction with the premiere, White Snake Projects has launched the new multi-year community engagement initiative SING OUT STRONG, designed to foster the creation of new songs on themes arising from the company's mainstage operas. Also in the works is a collaboration between White Snake Projects and Juventas New Music Ensemble, a Boston-based incubator for promising musical pioneers that has had a season-long focus on American voices, perfectly dovetailing with the opera and the SING OUT STRONG initiative. The two organizations partnered earlier this month on Juventas's "Voices of America" concert, an evening of new music that shared stories of immigrants and refugees and included a special preview of excerpts from the opera. Tickets for I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams can be purchased here.

Susan Boyle has released a cover of 'A Million Dreams' from The Greatest Showman, featuring Michael Ball and The Rock Choir.

People's Light presents Caryl Churchill's A Number, starring Tony Award nominee John Dossett (Broadway's Gypsy opposite Bernadette Peters) and Nathan Darrow (House of Cards, Gotham). In the near future, three identical sons confront their father over past misdeeds, with shocking consequences. From one of the world's most inimitable playwrights comes a 'stunning' (The New York Times) and suspenseful exploration of identity, parenthood, and the ethics of human cloning. Tickets range from $21.50-$53. To purchase, call 610.644.3500 or visit www.peopleslight.org. People's Light is located at 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, PA 19355.

Actors' Playhouse presentS John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Doubt, A Parable from May 15 - June 9, 2019 at the Miracle Theatre.

RudduR Dance announces that its founder, artistic director, and choreographer, Jamaican-born Christopher Rudd, has been named a 2019 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.  Formerly of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Cirque du Soleil, and Carolina Ballet, Christopher blends contemporary ballet with theatricality and aerial artistry to create provocative experiences that address social and political landscapes.

Broadway star Sierra Boggess, best known for her portrayal of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera on both Broadway and the West End, will be joining the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra for an evening of classic Broadway, Disney and Star Wars favorites conducted by Music Director Finalist John Devlin. The performance, titled Once Upon a Time, will be held at the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling, WV on Friday, April 26th, 2019 at 7:30 PM.

There are few singer-songwriters who have it all - brilliant lyrics, superb melodies and harmonies, killer performance chops, sophistication, humor, theatricality, insight into the human condition and an abundance of heart. Luckily for us, two of them happen to be longtime pals who have even written songs together. But they have never shared the stage for an evening of story and song…until now!

Comedians John Mulaney and Pete Davidson will visit the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) on Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 7P.