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The Baxter Theatre Centre presents The Market Theatre production of The Year of Magical Thinking, a play by Joan Didion, based on her memoir and starring celebrated South Africa actress Dorothy Ann Gould

The Baxter Theatre Centre presents The Market Theatre production of The Year of Magical Thinking, a play by Joan Didion, based on her memoir and starring celebrated South Africa actress Dorothy Ann Gould

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company proudly announces the lineup for its 27th season that opens with the Bay Area premiere of Dominique Morisseau's homage to Motown, DETROIT '67. The West Coast premiere of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, adapted by Simon Block, follows.

'Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant,' - Joan Didion Ahead of its world premiere tonight at this year's New York Film Festival, Netflix debuts the trailer and key art for JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD. The documentary launches globally on Netflix on October 27.

Netflix announced today two original documentaries Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold and Voyeur to premiere at the 55th New York Film Festival, and launch globally on Netflix later this year.

One of the failings of human beings is the hesitance to visit those who have lost loved ones. We wonder about the right thing to say when the actual requirement is to be present and to listen. That's all that's asked of audience members for 'The Year of Magical Thinking,' Joan Didion's adaptation of her own award-winning memoir into a one-woman play, now at Arena Stage.

ESPN/ABC's week 6 college football schedule is highlighted by two prime time, in-conference, ranked matchups when No. 23 Florida State travels to No. 10 Miami (8 p.m. on ABC) and No. 1 Alabama is at No. 16 Arkansas (7 p.m. on ESPN) on Saturday, Oct. 8.

ESPN/ABC's college football schedule for week 4 includes No. 4 Michigan, No. 5 Clemson and No. 7 Stanford in conference play and two ranked matchups of SEC teams.

As previously announced, iconic stage and screen actress and Academy Award and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner returns to Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater to star in Joan Didion's one-woman drama The Year of Magical Thinking, adapted from her 2005 bestselling memoir of the same title.

ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and the Longhorn Network will combine to continue that commitment and televise a total of 137 Little League baseball and softball World Series games, beginning August 1.

ESPN's college football game schedule for this week will showcase eight of the top 14 ranked teams highlighted by No. 23 Cal at No. 5 Utah in a showdown of unbeaten Pac-12 squads

ESPN's college football game schedule for this week will showcase eight of the top 14 ranked teams highlighted by No. 23 Cal at No. 5 Utah in a showdown of unbeaten Pac-12 squads

'Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.' Those were the first words written by author Joan Didion after the sudden death of her husband of nearly four decades. Didion's powerful memoir of love and loss, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, will unfold upon the stage of the Roxy Regional Theatre's theotherspace for four evenings, February 23 - March 3.

Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave is in final rehearsals for a special benefit reading from Blue Nights, an evocative memoir by acclaimed author, and close friend, Joan Didion.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine announced today that Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave will perform a reading of Blue Nights, the evocative memoir by Joan Didion, at a special benefit performance at 8 p.m. Monday, November 17, at The Cathedral (1047 Amsterdam Ave, NYC).

The board of directors of Penobscot Theatre Company has announced that Artistic Director Bari Newport has been named producing artistic director, and Mary Budd, who had served as the theatre's interim managing director since February, has been named executive director.

Perhaps the power of American Players Theatre can be determined by an audience's silence when exiting the Touchstone Theater after a Sunday evening performance, the haunting quiet almost reverent appreciation for what had transpired minutes before. In Spring Green, Sarah Day illuminates the stage in an approximately one hour forty five minute no intermission performance. APT's one woman play retells award winning author's Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, a play she adapted in 2007 and based on her memoir from the year after her husband John Gregory Dunne died in 2003 A time when Didion simultaneously coped when her daughter Quintana suffered from septic shock, often lying n the hospital's ICU hovering between life and death.

The Whipping Man performs January 29 - February 16 in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex. It is recommended for ages 13 and up due to mature subject matter. Tickets can be purchased online at www.SyracuseStage.org, by phone at 315-443-3275, or in person at the Syracuse Stage Box Office at 820 East Genesee Street. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more at 315-443-9844.

The Whipping Man performs January 29 - February 16 in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex. It is recommended for ages 13 and up due to mature subject matter. Tickets can be purchased online at www.SyracuseStage.org, by phone at 315-443-3275, or in person at the Syracuse Stage Box Office at 820 East Genesee Street. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more at 315-443-9844.