Tina Martin

The Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) today announced programming plans for the continuation of its Year of Excellence & Resilience, a celebration of Black achievement that launched this January.

WORLD Channel, the award-winning broadcast channel and multiplatform outlet dedicated to bringing diverse content to public media audiences, invites viewers to join acclaimed documentarian Stanley Nelson and author A'Lelia Bundles — the great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker — for a special online screening and discussion on Monday, August 10.

WORLD Channel invites audiences to take a trip across the country, as the acclaimed series Local, USA returns with the premiere of States of America. Created, directed and produced by Brad Barber, States of America takes viewers on a tour of America, exploring the country one state and one life at a time through a series of short vignettes. Local, USA: States of America premieres on Monday, July 6, at 9 p.m. ET on WORLD Channel, worldchannel.org and on the WORLD Channel YouTube.

Executive Producer Marni Freedman, in association with the San Diego Memoir Writers Association (SDMWA), announce the winners of the 5th Annual San Diego Memoir Showcase Competition.

La rondine will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Runtime is approximately 2.5 hours. Opera San Jos presents six performances of this opera, opening in San Jos 's California Theatre on November 11, 2017, closing November 26, 2017. The California Theatre is at 345 S. First Street in downtown San Jos .

Part history lesson, party fantasy, all-around study of when the American dream goes disastrously wrong, NextStop Theatre's aim is ambitious with Assassins and they not only hit the target, they nail the bullseye.

Spaceworks has announced that, as part of Gowanus Open Studios 2017, 25+ artists with studios at Spaceworks Gowanus will open their spaces to the public, October 21 & 22.

Spaceworks has announced that, as part of Gowanus Open Studios 2017, 25+ artists with studios at Spaceworks Gowanus will open their spaces to the public, October 21 & 22.

La rondine will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Runtime is approximately 2.5 hours. Opera San Jos presents six performances of this opera, opening in San Jos 's California Theatre on November 11, 2017, closing November 26, 2017. The California Theatre is at 345 S. First Street in downtown San Jos .

Atlantic Theater Company recently announced its 2017-2018 Amplified Reading Series selections, presenting six bold new plays throughout Atlantic's season with an expanded rehearsal process for more meaningful engagement with the material and the playwright.

BILLY ELLIOT runs through October 8 at the Spreckels Theatre, and the critics are weighing in!

San Diego Musical Theatre in co-production with California Ballet Company presents the award-winning musical, Billy Elliot at the Spreckels Theatre.

San Diego Musical Theatre (SDMT) and California Ballet Company (CBC) announced today the complete cast and creative team for their upcoming co-production of Billy Elliot. This Tony Award-Winning musical includes music by Elton John, with book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Billy Elliot features direction by Neil Dale, who makes his San Diego directorial debut, music direction by Don LeMaster, and choreography by California Ballet Company Associate Artistic Director, Jared Nelson. Performances run from September 22 - October 8, 2017, at the Spreckels Theatre. Press opening is Today, September 23, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.

San Diego Musical Theatre (SDMT) and California Ballet Company (CBC) announced today the complete cast and creative team for their upcoming co-production of Billy Elliot. This Tony Award-Winning musical includes music by Elton John, with book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Billy Elliot features direction by Neil Dale, who makes his San Diego directorial debut, music direction by Don LeMaster, and choreography by California Ballet Company Associate Artistic Director, Jared Nelson. Performances run from September 22 - October 8, 2017, at the Spreckels Theatre. Press opening is Saturday, September 23, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced its 2017-2018 Amplified Reading Series selections, presenting six bold new plays throughout Atlantic's season with an expanded rehearsal process for more meaningful engagement with the material and the playwright.

On October 19, NextStop Theatre Company, near Reston Town Center, will open the Tony Award-winning musical Assassins by Stephen Sondheim.

On Saturday September 9, 2017, NextStop Theatre Company, a professional black-box theatre near Reston Town Center, opened the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. In the play, audiences experience a New York City dinner party that becomes a powder-keg of prejudice and identity politics surrounding Muslim assimilation in America.

Thinking himself worldly and experienced, Don Alfonso decides to relieve his young friends, Ferrando and Gugliemo, of their faith in sexual fidelity. He challenges them to a bet, promising that within 24 hours their fiancees will prove unfaithful. Outraged, they accept, but find the challenge too painfully revealing and too difficult to withstand. Dressed in clown's clothes, these young men break their own hearts and the hearts of their fiancees. A comedy that is a tragedy underneath is the perfect stuff for the uncanny genius of Mozart, so clearly revealed in this dazzling score.

NYU Skirball Presents 50th Anniversary of JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW with Boss Hog, Man Forever, Dave Harrington Group, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, September 8 & 9

San Diego Musical Theatre (SDMT) and California Ballet Company (CBC) announced today the complete cast and creative team for their upcoming co-production of Billy Elliot. This Tony Award-Winning musical includes music by Elton John, with book and lyrics by Lee Hall. Billy Elliot features direction by Neil Dale, who makes his San Diego directorial debut, music direction by Don LeMaster, and choreography by California Ballet Company Associate Artistic Director, Jared Nelson. Performances run from September 22 - October 8, 2017, at the Spreckels Theatre. Press opening is Saturday, September 23, 2017, at 8:00 p.m.