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Talk about baptism by fire! That's what Gustavo Dudamel--that wunderkind of the classical conducting world--faced as he reached the podium of the Met for the first time Friday night. Not only was he conducting Verdi's great opera, OTELLO, but he was doing so with a last-minute substitute in the title role. The result: All went well with the Met's production of the masterwork.

The Courthouse Arts Centre presents STORIES BY THE FIRE: THE CAROLE NELSON, running Dec. 15 at 8:30 p.m.

Playwright Matthew MacKenzie returns to The Theatre Centre with the world premiere of AFTER THE FIRE, directed by Brendan McMurtry-Howlett and featuring Sheldon Elter, January 10-19, 2019 for nine performances only. AFTER THE FIRE is being presented at the same time one year after the world premiere of MacKenzie's award-winning Bears took Toronto by storm.

ODC/Dance, San Francisco's internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company, is pleased to present the world premiere of World's on Fire, an evening-length work that tackles issues of kinship, belief, suffering, love, and the will to survive. Performances run March 7-10, 2019 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.   

The Courthouse Arts Centre presents STORIES BY THE FIRE: THE CAROLE NELSON, running Dec. 15 at 8:30 p.m.

In September 2018 award-winning physical theatre company Gecko marks the opening of Battersea Arts Centre's theatre programme in the newly refurbished Grand Hall with Missing, the original run of which was interrupted by a disastrous fire of the Grand Hall in March 2015. Missing is part of the venue's celebratory Phoenix Season.

PIE SHOP PLAY opened with a splash on at the Paradise Factory on East 4th Street on Friday July 20th. The new play written by Alice Pencavel and directed by Sivan Battat is a maximalist theatrical event to tell the story of two sisters, Agnes and Kitty, who find their big dreams derailed when a disaster strikes their pie shop. Part of the second annual Corkscrew Festival of new work.

Jed Bernstein, Producing Director of Theatre Aspen announced today that 20% of single ticket sales from the performances of Our Town on July 23rd through 26th will be donated to Aspen Community Foundation's Community to Community Fund to benefit those affected by the fire that has ravaged the mid-valley communities.

In September 2018 award-winning physical theatre company Gecko marks the opening of Battersea Arts Centre's theatre programme in the newly refurbished Grand Hall with Missing, the original run of which was interrupted by a disastrous fire of the Grand Hall in March 2015. Missing is part of the venue's celebratory Phoenix Season.

This week, Fridays' debut of its new Fire-Grilled Meats marks a milestone for the brand with more than half of its menu undergoing a complete overhaul, a strategic move that has resulted in up to 15 percent sales increase within those elevated categories. The brand is on track to enhance its entire menu front-to-back by the end of 2018.

Make no mistake about it, these reindeer games from The AlphaNYC Theater Company are definitely for adults only.

Louisa May Alcott's much-adored novel, Little Women, now lights up the stage in this AlphaNYC Theater Company production at The Roebuck Theater at Times Square Arts Center.

Composer Ray Leslee (Standup Shakespeare, Avenue X) and playwright, actor, HBO Def Poet, Brian Dykstra, have teamed up with Musical Director Kimberly Grigsby (Amelie, Spiderman, Spring Awakening) to present a workshop presentation of a new musical based on the comedy by Moliere. The script-in-hand readings will take place Thursday Nov 16th at The Lark Play Development Center and Friday, November 17th at Manhattan Theatre Club Studios. The presentation will be directed by Margarett Perry.

The Lakewood Playhouse is proud to present its 5th ANNUAL Special JOINT PRESENTATON with its very own LAKEWOOD INSTITUTE of THEATRE ALICE IN WONDERLAND for 9 SHOWS ONLY! The famous story by Lewis Carroll is adapted for the stage for an amazing adventure for the entire family!! The Show will run from NOVEMBER 2nd through the NOVEMBER 12th and be performed on Thursdays,Fridays & Saturdays at 7:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm - With a SPECIAL PERFORMANCE on Wednesday, November 8th at 7:00pm.

Tony Award winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal), Erin Davie (Sunday in the Park with George, Side Show, Grey Gardens) and Drama Desk honoree Danny Gardner (Dames at Sea) will join Tony Award nominees Brandon Uranowitz (Falsettos, An American in Paris) and Christiane Noll (Ragtime, Chaplin, Jekyll & Hyde)  two-time Nightlife Award winner Scott Coulter  and more took part in for Town Hall's Broadway by the Year Series last night.

Have you heard about Kate Quinn's brand-new novel THE ALICE NETWORK yet? It just came out on June 6th from William Morrow // HarperCollins, and the publisher was nice enough to treat BroadwayWorld readers to a special excerpt!

Tony Award winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal), Tony Award nominee Alex Brightman (School of Rock), Erin Davie (Sunday in the Park with George, Side Show, Grey Gardens) and Drama Desk honoree Danny Gardner (Dames at Sea) will join Tony Award nominees Brandon Uranowitz (Falsettos, An American in Paris) and Christiane Noll (Ragtime, Chaplin, Jekyll & Hyde) and two-time Nightlife Award winner Scott Coulter for Town Hall's Broadway by the Year Series on Monday, June 19 at 8pm.

'There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.' -Gertrude Stein

With much pretending at being someone who may or may not have been there - and tons of fun puns in this toiling word-play of a French farce - our minds are sent into a dizzying dervish of delight as the four main characters battle it out over who was a true genius and what the meaning of meaning amounts to once those geniuses have left the room.

The world premiere of The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein will be presented at HERE from May 10 - 28.

Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw, under the leadership of Artistic Director David Staller, continues its 11th Season with its 118th concert presentation with J.M. Barrie's Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, last night at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre (2537 Broadway at 95th Street).

Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw, under the leadership of Artistic Director David Staller, continues its 11th Season when it presents its 118th concert presentation with J.M. Barrie's Alice Sit-By-The-Fire on Monday, November 21 at 7pm, at Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre (2537 Broadway at 95th Street).

The students from the WTCAE's Summer Arts Program will present Disney's Alice In Wonderland JR., in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre August 19 & 20.

Closing out Crowded Fire's 2016 season of new and contemporary plays is the Bay Area premiere of Young Jean Lee's THE SHIPMENT co-directed by Artistic Director Mina Morita and Resident Artist Lisa Marie Rollins. THE SHIPMENT, which took New York by storm in 2009 caused Time Out New York to call her 'one of the best experimental playwrights in America.' As characterized by The New Yorker, Young Jean Lee 'does whatever she can to get under our skin-with laughs and with raw, brutal talk that at times feels gratuitous, and is meant to.'