ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY & EDUCATION AT ROUNDABOUT Announces 2015 Tony Award Nominee & Current Star of Roundabout’s On the Twentieth Century ANDY KARL To Host fifth Annual Student THEATRE ARTS FESTIVAL The Student Theatre Arts Festival features 10 student groups from Roundabout’s Partner Schools and After School Theatre Programs performing 8-minute excerpts from their school plays and musicals. Monday, May 18 at 6:30pm At the American Airlines Theatre Roundabout Theatre Com

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From the creators of EVERYDAY RAPTURE… COMPLETE CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR SECOND STAGE THEATRE’S PRODUCTION OF WHORL INSIDE A LOOP By DICK SCANLAN and SHERIE RENE SCOTT Directed by MICHAEL MAYER and DICK SCANLAN Additional material by Andre Kelley, Marvin Lewis, Felix Machado, Richard Norat & Jeffrey Rivera Starring SHERIE RENE SCOTT With DERRICK BASKIN, NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER, CHRIS MYERS, RYAN QUINN, DANIEL J. WATTS, and DONALD WEBBER, JR. Performances begin August 4, 2015 May 6,