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The Tennessee Theater: A Grand Entertainment Palace by Jack Neely
Knoxville has a Theater District? by Oren Yarbrough
Knoxville has a Theater District? A brief history of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part One of Four
Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee by Lucile Deaderick
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SPRING AWAKENING Comes to the Roxy Regional Theatre
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The Orpheum Theatre Group reveals new season of touring Broadway shows coming to Memphis
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World Theatre Day 2023: History, Significance, Celebrations
World Theatre Day was first celebrated by the International Theatre Institute (ITI), the world's largest performing arts body, in 1961. Since then, the day is being marked by centres of ITI and ...
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World Theatre Day 2023: Global Message For Humanity To Honor The Art Form
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Florida Studio Theatre gets third chance to stage world premiere play ‘Paralyzed’
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St. George Theatre marks 2 decades of world-class entertainment at glamorous gala: Soul diva Dionne Warwick dazzles sold-out crowd
“In 1987, I restored a theater in D.C. and Dionne Warwick opened that theater. The St. George Theatre is ... to be part of the world of Staten Island. “Tonight is like being in the living ...
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All the world’s a stage – or should be
Here in Britain, we have had, for four centuries, the greatest of creativity in drama and theatre performance ... But women like her were commonplace, and not only at that time.
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'Letters From Home' will stop at The World Theatre as part of 50-state tour
Both performers have a history of working with Crane River Theater ... small ones like Kearney. We’re really grateful that they’re coming here. And performing at The World Theatre is ...
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Director of Great Lakes Theater’s latest ‘As You Like It’ says it’s ‘Shakespeare’s happiest play’
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The only 2020 cast member to return, besides Johnson, is Walter Murray. Cooper’s script poses the question of what would it be like in the white-picket-fence world of the Nelson family and their ...