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Laughter Shocktober brings dangerously unrehearsed comedy to Nevada City Oct. 8

Laughter Shock, Nevada County’s notoriously unpredictable improv troupe, returns to the Nevada Theatre for one night of unscripted comedy with Laughter Shocktober, Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m.

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Oct 1 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • theunion.com
The Canyon Theatre Guild Opens Political Comedy and Mystery Thriller!

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Oct 1 • 4:15 AM EDT • Politics • santaclaritamagazine.com
Quincy Community Theatre to stage pirate-themed adventure

QUINCY — Quincy Community Theatre will take audiences on a pirate-themed adventure this fall with “Judy Moody & Stink: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt,” running Oct. 22-25. The […]

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Sep 30 • 6:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • whig.com
Chris Koza album release concert Oct. 24

Lanesboro Arts is thrilled to celebrate the release of Chris Koza’s latest album, “Millsmoke on the Skyline,” with a concert at the St. Mane Theatre at 7 p.m. on October 24. Chris Koza is a composer and performer based in Denver and Minneapolis. In his writing, Koza both honors and builds on the vast genre of Americana music. For every song that sounds like it could be strummed from a boxcar clacking slowly across a grassy midwestern plain, there’s a tune sailing from a city rooftop, echoing across a valley of streets and traffic, or a melody twisting and shimmering like a dim frequency deep into the starry night.Both as a solo artist and with his band Rogue Valley, Koza has supported and shared the stage with artists such as Brandi Carlile, Gordon Lightfoot, Ingrid Michaelson, The Jayhawks, Neko Case, Kathleen Edwards, Dan Wilson, and many more. His music regularly appears on ABC’s “General Hospital,” “60 Minutes,” and “Good Morning America.” Koza’s song, “Be Wild,” was also featured in a state of Minnesota tourism campaign.#placement_932485_0_i{width:100%;max-width:550px;margin:0 auto;}var rnd = window.rnd || Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid932485 = window.pid932485 || rnd;var plc932485 = window.plc932485 || 0;var abkw = window.abkw || '';var absrc = 'https://ads.empowerlocal.co/adserve/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=932485;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid932485+';place='+(plc932485++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc = absrc.split("type=js"); absrc = _absrc[0] + 'type=js;referrer=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + _absrc[1];document.write('');Koza’s latest offering, “Millsmoke on the Skyline,” grants the newfound outsider perspective of the rich life and golden fleeting days throughout the rural Midwest. Weaving melody and lyrics into vignettes and narratives set in places where love is powerful, dreams are vast, and life is beautiful.The St. Mane Theatre box office will open at 6 p.m. on the day of the concert. Tickets will be sold in person at the door or can be purchased online at lanesboroarts.org. Seating at the St. Mane theatre is first come, first served. Tickets are on sale now for $25 for general admission or $22 for Lanesboro Arts members.The 2026 performing arts season at Lanesboro Arts is made possible by our season sponsor, Poet Refinery, as well as our concert level sponsors, High Court Pub, Krage Insurance Agency & Preble Farmers Mutual, Stone Mill Clothing & Gifts, E2 Boutique/Amish Experience, and The Cottage House Inn, and community sponsors, VIS Plumbing, Granny’s Liquor, Kingsley Mercantile, Batstone CPA, Clara’s Eatery, IGA, Niagara Cave, and Huntington Electric. This event is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. #placement_932489_0_i{width:100%;max-width:550px;margin:0 auto;}var rnd = window.rnd || Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid932489 = window.pid932489 || rnd;var plc932489 = window.plc932489 || 0;var abkw = window.abkw || '';var absrc = 'https://ads.empowerlocal.co/adserve/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=932489;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid932489+';place='+(plc932489++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc = absrc.split("type=js"); absrc = _absrc[0] + 'type=js;referrer=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + _absrc[1];document.write('');

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Sep 30 • 1:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • winonapost.com
The Color Purple

Temple Civic Theatre will present "The Color Purple" starting Thursday. For information and tickets visit templecivictheatre.com.

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Sep 30 • 10:57 AM EDT • Entertainment • tdtnews.com
Gambit's Best of New Orleans 2026: Entertainment

Design by Dora Sison / Gambit Best Bounce Artist googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1492300'); }); 1. Big Freedia (Instagram: @bigfreedia)2. Ha Sizzle (Instagram: @hasizzlethevoice)3. Subtweet Shawn (Instagram: @subtweetshawn1) Trixie Minx Photo by Sophia Germer / The Times-Picayune Best Burlesque Performer1. Trixie Minx (Instagram: @trixienola)2. Bella Blue (Instagram: @bellablueforever)3. Miss Angie Z (Instagram: @missangiez) Best Casino1. Caesars New Orleans (8 Canal St., 800-427-7247; caesars.com/caesars-new-orleans)2. Treasure Chest Casino (4550 Williams Blvd., Kenner, 504-443-8000; treasurechest.com)3. Boomtown Casino (4132 Peters Road., Harvey, 504-366-7711; boomtownneworleans.com) Best Drag Performer1. Debbie with a D (Instagram: @debbiewithad)2. Katrina Waters (Instagram: @katrinawaters504)3. Laveau Contraire (Instagram: @laveaucontraire) Best Festival (that's still around)1. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (nojazzfest.com)2. French Quarter Festival (frenchquarterfest.org)3. Hogs For The Cause (hogsfest.org) Best Food Festival1. New Orleans Fried Chicken Festival (friedchickenfestival.com)2. Oak Street Po-Boy Festival (poboyfest.com)3. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (nojazzfest.com) Tipitina's Photo by Sophia Germer / The Times-Picayune Best Live Music Venue1. Tipitina’s (501 Napoleon Ave., 504-895-8477; tipitinas.com)2. The Broadside (600 N Broad St., 504-766-0871; broadsidenola.com)3. The Fillmore (6 Canal St., 504-881-1555; thefillmorenola.com) Best Live Music Club1. Maple Leaf Bar (8316 Oak St., 504-866-9359; mapleleafbar.com)2. Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro (626 Frenchmen St., 504-949-0696; snugjazz.com)3. Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St., 504-541-2050; chickiewahwah.com)3. Blue Nile (532 Frenchmen St., 504-766-6193; bluenilelive.com) Best Local Blues Artist/Band1. Little Freddie King (littlefreddieking.com)2. Samantha Fish (samanthafish.com)3. Tab Benoit (tabbenoit.com) Best Local Brass Band1. Rebirth Brass Band (rebirthbrassband.com)2. Hot 8 Brass Band (hot8brassband.com)3. The Soul Rebels (thesoulrebels.com) Best Local DJ1. Paul Lakeway (Instagram: @paul_lakeway)2. DJ Soul Sister (Instagram: @djsoulsister)3. ANTWIGADEE! (Instagram: @antwigadee) Best Local Funk Band1. Dumpstaphunk (dumpstaphunk.com)2. Galactic (galacticfunk.com)3. Big Sam's Funky Nation (bigsamsfunkynation.com) Kaye the Beast Provided Photo by Catherine Debuys Best Local Hip-Hop Group/Artist1. Kaye the Beast (Instagram: @kayethebeast)2. La Reezy (Instagram: @lareezymusic)3. Pell (Instagram: @pellyeah) Best Local Movie Theater1. The Broad Theater (636 N. Broad St., 504-218-1008; thebroadtheater.com)2. The Prytania (5339 Prytania St., 504-891-2787; theprytania.com) googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1492297'); }); 3. The Prytania Theatre at Canal Place (333 Canal St., 3rd floor, 504-290-2658; theprytania.com) Best Local Music Artist/Band1. Robin Barnes & The Fiya Birds (robinbarnesmusic.com)2. Trombone Shorty (tromboneshorty.com)3. Sweet Crude (sweetcrudeband.com) Best Local Rock Band1. The Revivalists (therevivalists.com)2. Better Than Ezra (betterthanezra.com)3. Cowboy Mouth (cowboymouth.com) Best Wedding Band/ DJ1. The Mixed Nuts (themixednuts.com)2. Bucktown All-Stars (bucktownallstars.com)3. Warm Advice (warmadvice.com) Doreen Ketchens Provided photo Best Local Street Performer1. Doreen Ketchens (doreensjazz.org)2. Jourdan Blue (Instagram: @jourblue)3. Sariyah Idan (ariyahidan.com) Best Local Theater Company1. The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans (504-264-2580; twtheatrenola.com)2. Le Petit Theatre (616 St. Peter St., 504-522-2081; lepetittheatre.com)3. The NOLA Project (504-302-9117; nolaproject.com) Best Local Traditional Jazz Group/Artist1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band (preservationhalljazzband.com)2. Kermit Ruffins (@ruffinsbbq)3. Trombone Shorty (tromboneshorty.com) Best Marching Band1. St. Augustine High School Marching 100 (Instagram: @staugmarching100)2. Edna Karr High School Marching Band (Instagram: @theofficialkarrband)3. The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders (therootsofmusic.org) Best Mardi Gras Parade1. Muses (kreweofmuses.org)2. Iris (kreweofiris.org)3. Endymion (endymion.org) 610 Stompers Photo by Chris Granger / The Times-Picayune Best Mardi Gras Dance Krewe1. 610 Stompers (610stompers.com)2. Amelia EarHawts (aecabinkrewe.com)3. The Jamettes (Instagram: @thejametteskrewe) Best Place to See Burlesque/Drag1. The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret (2240 St. Claude Ave., 504-218-5778; theallwayslounge.net)2. The Original Nite Cap (1300 St. Bernard Ave., 2nd floor, 504-224-2854; Instagram: @originalnitecap)3. The Country Club (634 Louisa St., 504-945-0742; thecountryclubneworleans.com) Best Place to See Comedy1. Sports Drink (1042 Toledano St.; sportsdrink.org)2. The Howlin' Wolf (907 S. Peters St., 504-529-5844; thehowlinwolf.com)3. Big Couch New Orleans (1045 Desire St.; bigcouchnola.com) Best Local Comedian1. Ryan Rogers (ryanrogerscomedy.com)2. Mark Normand (marknormandcomedy.com)3. Cyrus Cooper (Instagram: @cyrusjcooper) Best Strip Club1. The Penthouse Club (727 Iberville St., 504-524-4354; penthouseclubneworleans.com)2. Rick’s Cabaret (315 Bourbon St., 504-524-4222; rickscabaretneworleans.com)3. Larry Flynt's Hustler Club (225 Bourbon St., 504-524-0010; neworleanshustlerclub.com) Best Performing Arts Center1. Jefferson Performing Arts Center (6400 Airline Dr., 504-731-4700; jeffersonpac.com)2. Saenger Theatre (1111 Canal St., 504-525-1052; saengertheatreneworleans.com)3. Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts (1419 Basin St., 504-525-1052; mahaliajacksontheater.com) .donate-gambit-article-module-container { text-align: center; padding: 10px; /* background-color: #24da6d; */ background-color: rgb(153, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 20px; } .donate-gambit-article-module-title { font-weight: bold; color: #fff; } .donate-gambit-article-module-copy { color: #fff !important; font-size: 16px; } .donate-gambit-article-module-button { background-color: black; width: 50%; border-color: black; font-size: 16px; } .donate-gambit-article-module-button:hover { background-color: black; } @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) { .donate-gambit-article-module-button { font-size: 14px; width: 100%; } .donate-gambit-article-module-copy { font-size: 14px; } } BECOME A GAMBIT MEMBER AND JOIN OUR KREWE TODAY For more than 40 years, Gambit has covered New Orleans, for New Orleans. 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Sep 29 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • nola.com
Glorious voices cut through Village Theatre’s cluttered ‘Ragtime’

A maximalist staging of this American dream musical offers much to celebrate and even more to debate.

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Sep 29 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Lookingglass Theatre has new leaders, including David Schwimmer as producing director

CHICAGO — Lookingglass Theatre has appointed David Catlin, a longtime ensemble member and a Northwestern University faculty member, and Ericka Ratcliff, most recently the literary manager at Chicago Shakespeare Theater,

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Sep 29 • 11:14 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
America’s founding story comes to Cedar Rapids stage

Revival Theatre Company opens its season Oct. 2 with “1776” at CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids. Ahead of opening night, director Brian Glick discusses youthful casting, fresh pacing, and staging America's founding story.

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Sep 29 • 6:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • thegazette.com
Say What?! This business defied the odds and is managing to reopen on time.

The Say What?! improv group and Shoestring Theatre are ready to open in their new space at Northwest Centre at 13th and Tyler.

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Sep 29 • 5:04 AM EDT • Business • kansas.com
Whimsical debut

New community theatre will perform ‘The Wizard of Oz’ this weekend

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Sep 29 • 12:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • winchesternewsgazette.com
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‘The Attic’ is entrancing

The world premiere of “The Attic: Things I’ve Seen While Lying on My Back,” which is kicking off Goodman Theatre's 101st season, is hard to describe but beautiful—and breath-taking—to watch.

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Sep 28 • 6:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • hpherald.com
Rock singer to perform at Hershey Theatre

The singer’s current tour will help support several no-kill animal shelters and rescues across the country.

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Sep 28 • 3:47 PM EDT • Entertainment • pennlive.com
‘The Saturday Night Live of Arkansas politics’: A Q&A with Gridiron veteran Beth McAlpine

Gridiron, a biennial satirical musical production led by the Little Rock legal community, has been going on for more than 100 years. It returns to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre on Tuesday.

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Sep 28 • 3:33 PM EDT • Politics • arktimes.com
Greenville Country Music Fest back at CCNB Amphitheatre

The Greenville Country Music Fest is set to return to CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park in Simpsonville on April 30 and May 1, 2027.

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Sep 28 • 2:10 PM EDT • Entertainment • greenvilleonline.com
Steve Sweeney to return to Middleborough for comedy show

Comedian Steve Sweeney brings his observational humor to the Alley Theatre in Middleborough for an October show.

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Sep 28 • 4:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • enterprisenews.com
Ken San Jose set for Broadway debut in ‘Evita’ revival

Ken San Jose will star in the upcoming Broadway revival of "Evita" via Instagram/@ kensanjose Filipino American performer Ken San Jose will make his Broadway debut in the 2027 revival of Evita, joining the ensemble of director Jamie Lloyd’s production starring Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón. Previews begin Feb. 27 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York,…

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Sep 26 • 2:43 AM EDT • Entertainment • asianjournal.com
Lompoc Chalks Returns October 2–4 with 40 Artists, Live Entertainment, and a New Meet the Artists Kick Off

The Lompoc Theatre Project is excited to announce the return of Lompoc Chalks, its free, family-friendly street art festival celebrating creativity,

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Sep 26 • 1:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • independent.com
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Grandmaster Flash wants you to understand the science behind hip-hop

Hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash hosts book signing for "Birth of a Culture" at Tara Theatre Sept. 25.

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Sep 25 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • uatl.com
Things to do. Dwight Yoakam, Oktoberfest, Celtic Thunder, symphony

Autumn means fun things to do in the Canton area, including Oktoberfest downtown and in North Canton, as well as Dwight Yoakam at Palace Theatre.

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Sep 24 • 5:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • indeonline.com
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Announces Pricing of First Lien Notes and New 1L Term Loan Facility

LEAWOOD, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC) (the “Company,” or “AMC”), announced today that it has…...

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Sep 23 • 2:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • investor.amctheatres.com
Seattle Symphony and Seven Lions team-up marks an orchestra first

Dance music titan Seven Lions has headlined the Gorge Amphitheatre and thrown a Sodo block party. But this year he's felt the Seattle embrace more than ever.

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Sep 23 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Upcoming fall events at The ARC

Re-opened under the management of Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) last fall, The ARC - Home of the Historic Masonic Theatre, located at 255 Main Street in downtown Winona, has

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Sep 23 • 12:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • winonapost.com
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Hola México Film Festival returns to Los Angeles

It's the 18th annual edition of the largest Mexican film festival outside of Mexico

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Sep 22 • 5:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumnews1.com
Seattle’s Grand Illusion Cinema to take over Varsity Theatre

The Grand Illusion plans to reopen its new home in the University District in late November or early December and to show movies every day of the week.

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Sep 22 • 3:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. 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🗞️ Today’s front pages: a never-ending derby, Mourinho’s theatre

A football- and news-packed Tuesday, September 22 gets underway, with the derby fallout still fresh.So let’s take a look at how the front pages of the main sports newspapers shape up this Tuesday......

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Hayden Panettiere remembered at Malibu memorial service

Hayden Panettiere attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's new film 'Blonde' at TCL Chinese Theatre on Sept. 13, 2022, in Hollywood, California. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)Hayden Panettiere was celebrated over the weekend at a memorial service held in California, her representative confirmed to ABC News.Around 80 friends of the late Nashville star, who died on Aug. 16 at the age of 36, gathered in Malibu on Saturday to share "an evening of music, memories, laughter and tears."“We wanted to honor Hayden in the best way we knew how—with as much love as possible," Panettiere's representative, Kasey Kitchen, said in a statement with a group of the actress's friends, who jointly organized the memorial.The statement continued, "It was a beautiful and intimate ceremony where friends came together to celebrate her life and honor the beautiful, magnetic light and love she infused into the world.”Panettiere's Nashville co-star Connie Britton and other celebrities, including Evan Ross and Ruby Rose, were photographed attending the memorial.Panettiere died after she was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest at a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment.The actress's official cause and manner of death have not yet been announced.An investigation into her death has expanded from South Carolina to Los Angeles, and investigators are focusing on the role drugs may have played in her death, sources told ABC News last week.Kitchen, Panettiere's representative, said in a statement on Sept. 15 that her death "remains under investigation pending toxicology results.""As we await the answers we are all seeking, may we also remember Hayden for the incredible legacy she leaves behind — the light she shined on mental health and postpartum depression, and the voice she gave to those who felt unseen and unheard," Kitchen said. "The answers we are all seeking will come."Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Using drag, Beatrice L. Thomas shares her reproductive health experiences

AmaZing Theatre presents her laugh-out-loud solo performance ‘Black Benatar vs. The Cistem’ once only on September 26 at 3 PM.

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From vaudeville to Broadway, Palace Theatre has evolved for 100 years

The historic Palace Theatre is hitting the century mark this year! Celebrate with special events through early December.

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Sep 20 • 5:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • dispatch.com
Abracadabra, It’s Magic! Appearing at Lobero LIVE, Oct. 11

Lobero LIVE and Terry Hill present Milt Larsen’s It’s Magic! for two shows, 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11 at the Lobero Theatre. It’s Magic! the

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Russia’s elections are more than political theatre

For the Kremlin, parliamentary elections remain a mechanism for political participation, feedback and legitimacy.

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Redrawing Madison's map, Cap City's charming song cycle, Reunion to close

In this week's newsletter, Reunion will close in Spring Green, Madison's Capital City Theatre debuts a delightful song cycle, a murder mystery rec and more.

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Costume exhibition celebrates 50 years of city's 'spaceship-like' theatre

To mark the anniversary of the seven-sided theatre constructed from tubular steel, some archive costumes go on display.

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Fox Theatre expands haunted tours this fall

This fall, the Fox Theatre will expand its Haunted History Tours throughout September and October, offering additional opportunities to explore the stories, legends and reported paranormal activity associated with the

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'Marisol' review: José Rivera's apocalyptic fight for a new generation

Open Fist Theatre Company presents a revival of José Rivera's "Marisol," directed by Amanda Weier, at Atwater Village Theatre.

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Limeliters will bring folk harmony and humor to the Latchis

BRATTLEBORO — The legendary Limeliters will perform at the Latchis Theatre on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m., bringing their signature folk vocal sound to the Main Theatre.

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Adam Hendey Band makes R.I. debut at Blackstone River Theatre Saturday

CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., will present an evening of traditional and contemporary Celtic music featuring The Adam Hendey Band on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m.

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Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Dark Tower’ TV series still ‘very much on the table’ (exclusive)

Where does Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Dark Tower’ TV series stand? ‘The development process on it has been epic,’ he explains.

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American Players Theatre head Brenda DeVita to step down in 2029

DeVita’s announcement comes at a high point for the classical repertory company in Spring Green, which won the 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award in June.

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Radio on the Lake Theatre unveils 2026-27 season featuring ‘War of the Worlds,’ ‘Casablanca’

The locally based theater company's 7-show lineup opens Sept. 27 with “The Maltese Falcon” in person at Dunham Tavern Museum and on the radio at WBWC 88.3 FM.

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Arts Weekend Haywood celebrates creative spirit of Haywood County

The arts take center stage Sept. 18–20 during Arts Weekend Haywood, a countywide celebration bringing together the Haywood County Studio Tour, local galleries, artist demonstrations, exhibitions, live theatre, music and

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Margaret Cho returns to political comedy with ‘Choligarchy’

The San Francisco native is bringing what she calls her “most blistering and brutally honest show yet” to Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

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Maya Cinemas closes at Campus Pointe; Galaxy Theatres takes over

Maya Cinemas at Fresno's Campus Pointe permanently closed. Galaxy Theatres will take over. Regal @ El Paseo for sale.

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Stand-up comic Ali Saddiq talks storytelling and return to Tower District in Fresno

The stand-up comic was on the phone with The Bee in advance two performances, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Tower Theatre.

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Mystery Science Redux at the Majestic This Weekend

The noble art of cracking wise at bad movies is one of the last of our culture's great oral traditions to be co-opted by professionals. But co-opted it was, in the late ’80s, by Mystery Science Theatre 3000, which at its best was humblingly brilliant TV.

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London Theatre Drops Duke of York Name After More Than 130 Years

A historic theater in London’s West End is getting a new name after more than a century as the Duke of York’s Theatre. Owners ATG Entertainment said renaming the playhouse as the Tom Stoppard Theatre ...

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“The Democracy Plays” Bring Politics the to Rosendale Theater

“The Democracy Plays” presents five short works about local government, immigration, reproductive rights, political fatigue, and civic action at the Rosendale Theatre September 17–20.

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Arts and Entertainment Agenda, Sept. 11 to 17

Solo Flights underway, Sept. 8 to 13 Solo Flights has returned to Theatre Aspen for its seventh year, bringing a week-long celebration of new one-person performances Sept. 8 to 13. The annual developmental festival features...

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HOMETOWN ENTERTAINMENT: Play about Marion’s history to be performed at Lincoln Theatre

New play tells the story of Smyth County’s past 250 years.

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Marion Theatre celebrates 85 years of film and entertainment tonight in Ocala

The Marion Theatre celebrates its 85th anniversary with a screening and after-party on Sept. 10, 2026.

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Things to do. Minerva 2nd Friday, 'Fiddler on the Roof,' game show

Fun things to do in September in the Canton area include downtown Minerva's 2nd Friday festivities and "Fiddler on the Roof" at Players Guild Theatre.

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'August: Osage County' is an A+ production

Although no play or production is perfect, “August: Osage County” and Sierra Theatre Company’s production of it come pretty darn close. The playwriting—concept, characters and dialogue—is dynamic, smart and real

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As the midterms loom, Trump returns to his happy place: on stage in the theatre of the absurd

President’s quest in self-mythology stops off in Dallas for a Republican convention where fans indulged his lies and revelled in his jokes

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These small Seattle theater spaces are making big moves

How new energy at Theatre Off Jackson, Annex Theatre and Seattle Open Arts Place is reinvigorating Seattle’s fringe theater scene, and why that matters.

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Syracuse City Ballet Bringing 'Dracula' to Rome's Capitol Theatre

Syracuse City Ballet will present "Dracula" at The Capitol Theatre in Rome this fall.

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Syracuse City Ballet Brings 'Dracula' to Rome's Capitol Theatre

Syracuse City Ballet will present "Dracula" at The Capitol Theatre in Rome this fall.

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Journey tribute band at Blackmon on Saturday

Area residents wanting some high-powered musical entertainment should journey to the Blackmon Amphitheatre for the latest Surry Arts Council Summer Concert Series show.

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Martin Herlihy departs 'Saturday Night Live'

Martin Herlihy attends the premiere of 'Roommates' at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on April 13, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Sep 9 • 12:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • kmaland.com
Quantum Theatre names next artistic director as founder prepares to retire

Katie Brook to take over as artistic director of Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh, succeeding founder Karla Boos who is retiring after 36 years.

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World premiere: Shakespeare’s comeback story debuts in I.C.

Scott Carter's new play 'I, Will' imagines Shakespeare's comeback at age 44. Why is the Emmy-winning HBO producer's world premiere launching at Riverside Theatre? He explains it in a Q&A with The Gazette.

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The Gothard Sisters kick off Blackstone River Theatre's fall season

CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., will present an evening of contemporary Celtic music featuring The Gothard Sisters on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m.

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Did New Film Unit Just Shift AMC Stock’s Investment Narrative?

AMC Entertainment Holdings recently launched Leawood Films, a film distribution unit based in Los Angeles and Leawood, Kansas, aiming to bring more small and mid-sized movies into theatres worldwide while relying on fully financed projects to limit production risk. The new distributor uses AMC’s excess screen capacity and past concert-film marketing experience to secure theatrical placement for filmmakers who might otherwise struggle to find backing, while leaving most downstream revenue and...

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Sep 9 • 4:31 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Vallejo’s Empress Theatre amps up entertainment offerings, dining

“The idea is simple: there should be something happening often enough that people throughout Vallejo, Solano County, and the greater Bay Area can make the Empress part of their regular week,” says the Empress Threatre.

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Sep 8 • 6:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • timesheraldonline.com
TRUE Community Credit Union Highlights Business Services

Airdate: September 8th, 2026 TRUE Community Credit Union Highlights Business ServicesSeptember 8, 2026Purple Rose Theatre to Present World Premiere by Devin ScillianSeptember 8, 2026Dr. Grant Brown on Autumn Vaccine RecommendationsSeptember 8, 2026Silver Maples of Chelsea Hosting Jackson Art Association Member ShowcaseSeptember 8, 2026Jackson County Genealogical Society Hosting Cemetery TourSeptember 8, 2026Otterbein SeniorLife Jackson Dedication &…

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Actor Says Theatre Fired Him from “Bright Star” Over His Adult Entertainment Past

An actor says he was fired from an upcoming production of Bright Star just before rehearsals began after the theatre learned about his past work in adult entertainment.

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Sep 8 • 3:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • onstageblog.com
Stevie Wonder announces fall tour

DETROIT — Motown icon Stevie Wonder has announced fall tour dates, including a pair of concerts at Detroit's Fox Theatre. The tour marks the 50th anniversary of his 18th studio

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‘Here There Are Blueberries’ heads to Broadway, Rupert Grint returns in ‘Cursed Child’ and more theater news

"Here There Are Blueberries" and other productions are headed to Broadway and theater in New York City.

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Sep 7 • 8:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • amny.com
Dancing in the streets to celebrate the Arcada’s 100th

From “Twist and Shout” to just “The Twist,” they were dancing in the streets Sunday when hundreds gathered in downtown St. Charles to celebrate the landmark Arcada Theatre’s 100th anniversar...

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‘A Few Good Men’ and a Benjamin Button musical highlight fall theater slate

Promising fare also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Broadway and Brian Cox at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre.

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Theatre Cedar Rapids prepares to “break a leg” with makeover

After a year of construction and renovations, Theatre Cedar Rapids’ will unveil some of the first improvements in its $9.5 million “Dream Here, Do Here” capital campaign in November.

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ARTSwego series returns with variety across 2026-2027 season

OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego’s ARTSwego Performing Arts Series will bring the campus and community another robust lineup of performances exploring various themes in history, culture, music, dance and the environment.The season opens Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre with “Magdalen.” This one-woman play written by Erin Layton is inspired by the true stories of women and girls who labored in Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries during the mid-20th century. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. kAm~? }@G] d 2E f A]>][ (2E6C>2? %962EC6 H:== H6=4@>6 z:?8D #6EFC?[ 2 s2==2D\32D65 7@FC\A:646 G@42= 8C@FA AC2:D65 7@C :ED 5J?2>:4 2 42AA6==2 A6C7@C>2?46D[ 3=6?5:?8 C9JE9> 2?5 3=F6D[ ;2KK[ 8@DA6= 2?5 A@A H:E9 EC25:E:@?2= G@42= 7@F?52E:@?D] %96 ~DH68@ w:89 $49@@= r92>36C $:?86CD H:== @A6? E96 A6C7@C>2?46] p5>:DD:@? 7@C 2== z\`a DEF56?ED :D 7C66 E92? E96 #:492C5 p] $9:?6>2? u@F?52E:@?]k^Am#placement_726068_0_i{width:100%;margin:0 auto;}var rnd = window.rnd || Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid726068 = window.pid726068 || rnd;var plc726068 = window.plc726068 || 0;var abkw = window.abkw || '';var absrc = 'https://ads.empowerlocal.co/adserve/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=726068;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid726068+';place='+(plc726068++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc = absrc.split("type=js"); absrc = _absrc[0] + 'type=js;referrer=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + _absrc[1];document.write('');kAm%96 D6C:6D 4@?E:?F6D u63] ad 2E f A]>][ :? (2E6C>2? %962EC6 H:E9 y@5J $A6C=:?8^%:>6 {2AD6 s2?46] %96 }6H *@CA2?J FD6D 49@C6@8C2A9J[ >65:2 2?5 4C@DD\5:D4:A=:?2CJ D2? 3@5J 2?5 E96 6?G:C@?>6?E] qJ 4@>3:?:?8 52?46 H:E9 E@A:4D @7 6?G:C@?>6?E2= D4:6?46[ G:DF2= 2CE[ >FD:4 2?5 >65:2[ E96 4@>A2?J 6I2>:?6D DFDE2:?23:=:EJ[ 4=:>2E6 ;FDE:46 2?5 E96 4@??64E:@? 36EH66? A6@A=6 2?5 E96 ?2EFC2= H@C=5]k^AmkAmp#%$H68@ 4=@D6D :ED D62D@? H:E9 {:>:?2= q=F6[ 2 AC@;64E:@? 2?:>2E:@? 3J {@D p?86=6D\32D65 EC2?D5:D4:A=:?2CJ 2CE:DE xD236= q62G6CD[ 7C@> pAC:= a E9C@F89 pAC:= b_[ a_af]k^AmkAm%96 D:E6\DA64:7:4 H@C< H:== 36 AC@;64E65 @?E@ 2 H2E6CD4C66? 7=@2E:?8 @? v=:>>6C8=2DD {28@@? 7C@> fib_\`_ A]>] 52:=J] q62G6CD H:== 4@?5F4E C6D62C49 2E ~DH68@ E9:D 72== E@ 56G6=@A E96 2?:>2E:@?[ H9:49 H:== 5C2H :?DA:C2E:@?D 7C@> E96 F?:G6CD:EJ’D F?:BF6 =2:?2= q=F6 :D AC6D6?E65 :? A2CE?6CD9:A H:E9 E96 4@?4FCC6?E “w*s#~$i p (@C=5 w6=5 3J (2E6C” 6I9:3:E:@? :? %J=6C pCE v2==6CJ[ H9:49 H2D 4@\4FC2E65 3J q62G6CD 2?5 82==6CJ 5:C64E@C s2G2?2 #@36566] %96 {:>:?2= q=F6 AC@;64E:@?[ w*s#~$ 6I9:3:E:@?[ 2?5 C6=2E65 82==6CJ AC@8C2>>:?8 2C6 7C66 2?5 @A6? E@ E96 AF3=:4]k^AmkAmp5>:DD:@? E@ 2== @E96C p#%$H68@ 6G6?ED :D 7C66 7@C $&}* ~DH68@ DEF56?ED]k^AmkAmu@C @E96CD[ E:4AFD r6?E6C 3@I @77:46 @C @?=:?6 2E k2 9C67lQ9EEAi^^E:42E:@?[ G:D:E k2 9C67lQ9EEAi^^@DH68@]65F^2CEDH68@Qm@DH68@]65F^2CEDH68@k^2m]k^Am googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-2978731'); });

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Will AMC’s New Leawood Films Distribution Arm and Tokenized Share Dispute Change AMC Entertainment’s (AMC) Narrative?

In August 2026, AMC Entertainment Holdings launched Leawood Films, a low-risk film distribution arm based in Los Angeles and Leawood, Kansas, designed to fill excess theatre capacity by focusing on fully financed small and mid-sized titles while respecting traditional PVOD and SVOD windows. Around the same time, CEO Adam Aron’s public clash with Robinhood over tokenized AMC shares highlighted rising tensions between traditional equity markets and emerging digital trading products, raising...

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Maddie Scott and her friend, Makena Trentacoste, in April 2026, just after a local choir/theatre group sang "Happy Birthday" to her at Radio Bar in Baton Rouge.

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Theater preview: Fall 2026

Court Theatre's 2026-2027 season doesn't start until December, but in the meantime, enough shows are opening in September alone to keep you out at the theater almost every night. Besides

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Kent’s Theatre Battery puts on world premiere play ‘Jar of Fat’

Sara Porkalob and Seayoung Yim rejoin forces on this world premiere play, an absurdist take on beauty culture and thinness, premiering at Theatre Battery.

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HOMETOWN ENTERTAINMENT: Classic rock supergroup The Players bringing decades of hits to Wytheville

The Players bring decades of rock hits to the Millwald Theatre September 17.

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15 plays and musicals to see: The ultimate SoCal fall theater list

This fall's Southern California theater offerings include New York successes such as “The Outsiders,” “Oh, Mary!” and “Purpose,” and the long-awaited L.A. area premiere of “Passing Strange.”

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Former Salem Grand Theatre managers owe $100K in rent, owners say

The owners of the historic Grand Theatre say former managers, Alex and Andrew Hussey, also owe more than $100,000 in back rent.

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To The Ceiling Entertainment Faces Unpaid Artist Claims

To The Ceiling Entertainment is out at Salem’s Grand Theatre amid unpaid artist claims and more than $100,000 in alleged back rent.

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New Swan Theatre houses first-ever New Swan Science Faire

The UCI New Swan Shakespeare Center collaborated with AirUCI and UCI Office of Research to host the inaugural New Swan Science Faire on Aug. 27. The event was free and open for everyone to attend. Students, families, scientists and performers gathered at the library gateway plaza outside of the New Swan Theatre to spread AirUCI’s […]

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Best of Santa Cruz County entertainment, arts & food events this weekend, Sept. 3-6

With the long weekend nearly here, check out things to do around Santa Cruz County, with a recommendation from Lily Belli and a specially curated list from Lookout's BOLO events calendar.

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A Month of Live Entertainment at Danville’s Village Theatre

A Month of Live Entertainment at Danville’s Village TheatreA variety of live entertainment is coming to the historic Village Theatre in the weeks ahead, with performances ranging from live music

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Palace Theatre supporters celebrate 100 years as entertainment venue

Like many kids growing up in Greensburg over the past 100 years, The Palace Theatre has meant a lot to Mayor Robb Bell. He and a group of friends from the Northmont neighborhood would walk over to the theater on Saturday mornings. They’d pay a nickel to watch cartoons in

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SPIRITED AWAY: LIVE ON STAGE Joins Fathom Entertainment’s Studio Ghibli Fest 2026

GKIDS and Fathom Entertainment have announced that SPIRITED AWAY: Live On Stage will join this year’s Ghibli Fest lineup. Coming to US theaters in its original Japanese with English subtitles for two nights only on October 1 and 8, the live theatre capture was filmed during the hit production’s 2022 run. Presented by Toho Co., […]

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Comedy Shows and More at Hershey Entertainment Venues Sept. 2026

Summer concert season at Hersheypark Stadium presented by Penn State Health wraps up with one final show this month! Popular comedians also take the stage at Hershey Theatre in downtown Hershey, Pa., while hockey action returns to GIANT Center. Learn more about the events coming to our sweet destination in September down below!

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Sep 1 • 10:17 AM EDT • Entertainment • stories.hersheypa.com
Take this quiz to test your knowledge of science on stage

Check how much you know about physics at the theatre

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Sep 1 • 9:30 AM EDT • Science • physicsworld.com
All the major entertainment venues opening in metro Phoenix

The year has had major entertainment openings already, including the Arizona Boardwalk Big Wheel and Harkins Theatres 4D experience with more to come.

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Sep 1 • 8:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • azcentral.com
AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) Could Be 3% Undervalued Following Leawood Films Launch

AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) has launched Leawood Films, a new distribution arm aimed at putting more small and mid-budget movies into theatres worldwide by using AMC’s existing marketing reach and screen footprint. AMC Entertainment Holdings shares last closed at US$2.64, with a 90 day share price return of 27.54% and a year to date share price return of 63.98%. However, the 1 year total shareholder return declined 6.05%, and longer term total shareholder returns over three and five...

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Sep 1 • 7:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
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Theatre is bringing physics to new audiences but what is the definitive science play?

Chris Sinclair explores the plays that are bringing physics to new audiences

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Sep 1 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • physicsworld.com
AMC Entertainment Creates Leawood Films with the Aim of Having More Movies Distributed to the Big Screen

AMC Entertainment has announced the creation of Leawood Films, a new film distribution company headquartered both in Los Angeles and AMC Theatres home base of Leawood, Kansas. It will focus on bringing additional movies to theatrical audiences in the U.S. and across the globe, leveraging its marketing ability and the prominence of its exhibition network, […]

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Aug 31 • 5:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • boxofficepro.com
AMC Theatres Gets Into Distribution Business, Launches Leawood Films

AMC Theatres, the world's largest exhibitor, is getting into the distribution business launching Leawood Films, a label for small and mid-sized films.

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Aug 31 • 4:30 PM EDT • Business • deadline.com
AMC Entertainment Creates "Leawood Films" With the Aim of Having More Movies Distributed on to the Big Screen

LEAWOOD, Kan., August 31, 2026--AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMC), the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States and in the world, today announced the creation of Leawood Films, a new film distribution company headquartered both in Los Angeles and AMC Theatres home base of Leawood, Kansas. It will focus on bringing additional movies to theatrical audiences in the U.S. and across the globe, leveraging its acclaimed marketing ability and the prominence of its exhibition network,

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Aug 31 • 4:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
AMC Entertainment Creates “Leawood Films” With the Aim of Having More Movies Distributed on to the Big Screen

New distribution venture will focus solely on films fully financed by their filmmakers, or already completed films, leveraging AMC's…...

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Aug 31 • 12:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • investor.amctheatres.com
Comedian Tom Segura set to return to Wichita’s Orpheum Theatre

Stand‑up comedian Tom Segura will bring his latest tour to the Orpheum Theatre in November, marking a return to the historic downtown venue.

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Aug 31 • 11:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • ksn.com
Dolly Parton honored at Redford Theatre with 'Steel Magnolias' screening

Fans remembered her not just for her music but for her kindness and efforts to make the world better.

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Aug 30 • 4:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • detroitnews.com
Dolly Parton fans treated with tribute movie

The Redford Theatre featured a showing of Steel Magnolias in honor of the late singer

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Aug 30 • 4:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • detroitnews.com
“Fee Free Tuesdays” introduced by AEG Presents Las Vegas

AEG Presents Las Vegas is offering live entertainment fans an all-new weekly deal they’re calling “Fee Free Tuesdays” for performances at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, Resorts World Theatre ...

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Aug 29 • 1:46 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
HOMETOWN ENTERTAINMENT: Live music, theater and Sunday outdoor event fill weekend calendar

Paddle race and live theatre among this weekend's entertainment offerings

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Aug 27 • 5:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • wdbj7.com
Paranormal Activity: Nightmare Entertainment

More of a Broadway scream machine than a drama, Paranormal Activity opened Tuesday in its New York premiere at the August Wilson Theatre, where the title burns in blazing letters across a midnight-blue show curtain. The screaming starts even before the performance begins because extremely loud rock music continuously blasts through the already twilit auditorium...

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Aug 25 • 8:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • nystagereview.com