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TheatreSquared, a regional professional theater at Fayetteville, welcomes three renowned American playwrights as Artists in Residence, including one from southeast Arkansas.

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Alexander "Xander" Gold always dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler. He first fell in love with the high-flying, theatrical sport at his Uncle Jimmy's home. As a young boy, Gold watched professional athletes from two rival organizations battle it out in the squared circle as his uncle flipped between television channels on Monday nights.

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a hilarious, incisive satire that takes on the world of professional wrestling—while, in the process,  powerbombing racism, xenophobia, and the American appetite for spectacle—opens at TheatreSquared on April 13 and will run through May 8. 

Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Connecticut Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

The Playhouse on Park production of "The Revolutionists" in 2019. The playhouse has planned a busy summer, with a staging of the drama "Kill Move Paradise," about violence against Black men, in Bushnell Park in June and a new Connecticut Shakespeare Festival (featuring "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the Sondheim musical "into the Woods") in July and August at Auer Farm in Bloomfield.

Imagine Hercule Poirot poking around Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh Public Theater’s new production, he does just that. The legendary literary sleuth Poirot is reincarnated to solve a Steel City murder. “North of Forbes,” a new commission by local playwright Tammy Ryan, is based on Agatha Christie’s first novel. It will stream from 7 p.m. Thursday through 10 p.m. Sunday as part of PPT’s Public PlayTime benefit series, “Classics N’at.” Benton Greene portrays Poirot. Christie’s 1920 ...

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) continues its 2020-21 virtual season with Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams, directed by Dexter Singleton. All performances will be presented online, beginning on Thursday evening February 18 at 7:30pm, and continuing through Sunday, February 21 at 2:00pm. CRT presents this one act play as part one in a three-part series by Tennessee Williams. The remaining one acts are: This Property is Condemned which opens March 18th and, ...

Written by Connecticut Repertory Theatre Prev Next Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) continues its 2020-21 virtual season with Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams, directed by Dexter Singleton. All performances will be presented online, beginning on Thursday evening February 18 at 7:30pm, and continuing through Sunday, February 21 at 2:00pm. CRT presents this one act play as part one in a three-part series by Tennessee Williams. The remaining one acts ar...