The Shakespeare Theatre Company announced today that American Express has selected it as one of 12 recipients of the American Express Performing Arts Fund grant for 2006. The Shakespeare Theatre Company will use the grant to expand and enhance its programs to attract new audiences.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company opens its 2006-2007 season with Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston and directed by Kjetil Bang-Hansen. Written following Ibsen's maddening experiences with censorship, An Enemy of the People depicts how society often deliberately and ruthlessly ostracizes its truth-tellers.

New Performing Arts Center Will Transform Shakespeare Theatre Company into a Destination Theatre While Providing Performance Spaces for Local, National and International Artists

Artistic Director Michael Kahn and the Shakespeare Theatre Company Board of Trustees announced that Academy and Tony award-winning actor Kevin Spacey will receive the 19th Annual William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre (the Will Award) in recognition of his distinguished work in classical theatre.

Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn announced the Theatre's 2006-2007 season, a line-up that includes Shakespeare's Richard III, Titus Andronicus and Hamlet as well as Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston) and George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (in a world premiere adaptation by Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig).

Tickets have now gone on sale for Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross, which opens at the Comedy Theatre 15 Feb 2007, following previews from 3 Feb - booking to 28 April 2007. Directed by Matthew Warchus, the cast includes Roger Allam (Bernard), Frances De La Tour (Bertha), Mark Rylance (Robert).

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, by Richard Alfieri, is to close one week early on 24 Feb 2007, at the Haymarket Theatre.

Early on in The Shakespeare Reviews it is asked: who was William Shakespeare? Widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the only author to have his own number in the Dewey Decimal System (822.33 if you must know), surprisingly little is known about his life.

It is reported that The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, starring Jessica Lange , will open at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Ave 13 Feb 2007, following previews from 31 Jan - booking to 19 May 2007 Jessica Lange, had played Amanda Wingfield for Bill Kenwright in the 2005 Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie.

Tickets for the Metropolitan Opera's first live high-definition broadcasts into movie theaters will go on sale. As part of the company's efforts to build a larger audience around the globe, the Met is launching "Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD," a series of six performances to be broadcast live via satellite into movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada, with select titles broadcast in the United Kingdom.

The IMAX Theatre is offering a film extravaganza this holiday season at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.