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My Fair Lady, featuring Manna Nichols and Nicholas Rodriguez, is currently curring at Arena Stage through January 6, 2013. BroadwayWorld brings you backstage photos below!

My Fair Lady, featuring Manna Nichols and Nicholas Rodriguez, is currently curring at Arena Stage through January 6, 2013. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the curtain call below!

This fairly innocuous take on a classic tale is likely to be a hit with audiences seeking a fun night out.

My Fair Lady, featuring Manna Nichols and Nicholas Rodriguez, is currently curring at Arena Stage through January 6, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at highlights from the show below.

My Fair Lady, featuring Manna Nichols and Nicholas Rodriguez, is currently curring at Arena Stage through January 6, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the show below.

It was a dark and stormy -- and 50-Shades-of-Grey-kind-of -- night. If that opening sentence piques your interest, you're going to love David Ives' play VENUS IN FUR opening the 2012-2013 season over at TheaterWorks Hartford. If not, you might want to stay home.

Take a first look at the talented cast of My Fair Lady, featuring Manna Nichols and Nicholas Rodriguez, in rehearsal at Arena Stage below!

Based on George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical My Fair Lady follows the transformation of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into an aristocratic lady through lessons in manners, language and dress. After directing the production at the 2011 Shaw Festival, Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith reunites with members of her original design team, along with noted Canadian actor Benedict Campbell who reprises his role as Henry Higgins, to bring a completely fresh interpretation to audiences in D.C. As previously announced, Manna Nichols makes her Arena debut as Eliza Doolittle, and Nicholas Rodriguez returns as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, leading a cast that features many D.C.-area actors. My Fair Lady became the best-selling production in the Shaw Festival's 50-year history and runs at Arena Stage November 2, 2012-January 6, 2013 in the Fichandler Stage.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full company for My Fair Lady, directed by Artistic Director Molly Smith.

Cynical, angry artist Mark Rothko (Jonathan Epstein) hires a young idealistic assistant, Ken (Thomas Leverton) to work with him on his newest commission: a series of four murals to hang in the newly constructed Four Seasons Restaurant in Manhattan. A smart dialogue about painting and about American society unfolds with the teacher-student relationship transitioning. Ken's hopes that Rothko might be a friend, or even a mentor to replace the father he discovered murdered at a young age are dashed with every stroke of paint, however. The master's vision for companionship extends only to the relationship between the paintings. The end result is always the same for him: tragedy. Rothko is struggling with the futility of life and with putting his brilliance on the walls of a commercial enterprise where its full meaning of the color red might or might not be comprehended by the capitalists dining beneath it.

TheaterWorks will present The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean.

TheaterWorks presents the Connecticut premiere of RED by John Logan. RED is a raw and provocative exploration of an angry but brilliant artist - master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. In well-wrought language, John Logan creates a totally convincing portrait of Rothko as a visionary. A superbly taut and compelling drama, this Tony Award winning play imagines a series of confrontations between Rothko and his young assistant, Ken.

Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, RED is described as 'a raw and provocative exploration of an angry but brilliant artist - master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. In well-wrought language, John Logan creates a totally convincing portrait of the artist as a visionary and deftly defines the exhilaration of the act of painting.'

TheaterWorks presents the Connecticut premiere of RED by John Logan. RED is a raw and provocative exploration of an angry but brilliant artist - master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. In well-wrought language, John Logan creates a totally convincing portrait of Rothko as a visionary. A superbly taut and compelling drama, this Tony Award winning play imagines a series of confrontations between Rothko and his young assistant, Ken.

Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program comes to the University of Washington for the first time next month with a production of Don Pasquale at Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.

The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean is set in South Side Chicago in the late 1950's just as the Civil Rights Movement begins. This rich African American family drama looks back at a changing world and forward to a future suffused with new understandings.

Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, RED is described as 'a raw and provocative exploration of an angry but brilliant artist - master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. In well-wrought language, John Logan creates a totally convincing portrait of the artist as a visionary and deftly defines the exhilaration of the act of painting.'

A mother and daughter struggle with transitions in their life and with living with each other in Philip Hayes Dean's play THE STY OF THE BLIND PIG, getting a rare run on stage at TheaterWorks, Hartford.

TheaterWorks will present The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean.

The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean is set in South Side Chicago in the late 1950's just as the Civil Rights Movement begins. This rich African American family drama looks back at a changing world and forward to a future suffused with new understandings.