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A theatre group has vowed to make their production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus more obviously racist in the hopes of highlighting the Bard’s alleged bigotry.

Broadway shows including The Phantom of the Opera have posted closing notices as tourism has failed to bounce back in New York City in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Democrat-controlled city is currently in the midst of a

French female warrior Joan of Arc has been cast as a gender-neutral character with “they/them” pronouns at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has cancelled the production of a play mid-run, with the writer claiming she pulled her own play after “Black womxn” artists were “verbally abused and diminished.”

Theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber said in an interview published Wednesday he is prepared to be arrested if the British government does not lift all coronavirus restrictions.

A woman from Ventura, California, got a wallet back she lost 46 years ago thanks to an employee remodeling the historic Majestic Ventura Theater.

A dinner theater company in Minnesota has cancelled its upcoming production of the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Cinderella over concerns that the cast was too white.

Tennessee announced Friday that it would start reopening amusement parks and theaters, as well as lift capacity restrictions on restaurants and shops beginning next week.

“Trolls World Tour” has earned more money in its three weeks as a pay-per-view offering than the original did in theaters over five months.

Acre — Oded Kotler made his way discretely through the crowd taking in the acrobats and clowns performing at a festival in Acre, an ancient city along the Mediterranean in northern Israel.

A nurse in Kissimmee, Florida, is being hailed a hero for saving the life of a man who crashed his car into her home on Thursday. 

The Arena Stage theatre in Washington, D.C., is set to host an 11-hour reading of the Mueller report to an audience of lawmakers and activists.

A group of New York City theater companies is set to hold a 24-hour reading of the Mueller Report this weekend at an event called “Filibustered and Unfiltered: America Reads the Mueller Report.”

Delta and Bank of America pull sponsorship from Julius Caesar.

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has said British theatre is “hideously white” and will not survive unless more resources are funnelled to black and Asian drama students and performers.

A play depicting Jesus as a transgendered woman has opened in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The work has caused controversy before, but the playwright insists it teaches the Lord’s message and reminds the audience what Jesus was ‘really like’. ‘The Gospel According

On August 5, police in Antioch, Tennessee, killed a 51-year-old suspect who allegedly opened fire in a movie theater. The suspect was armed with a hatchet and a gun.

Ballerina Misty Copeland has become the first black dancer to lead a major U.S. ballet production.

While a national debate regarding religious satire and the First Amendment remains ongoing, a group of free speech advocates and artists hoped to become a part of the discussion next month.

The events of Saturday night came as a surprise to the police and law-abiding citizens of Ocoee, Florida, as a horde of some 900 black teenagers — including even middle-school students — rushed the movie theater at the West Oaks Mall.