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A music video of the song a?oeIa??ll Be Damneda?? from the new musical Heartbreakers in Hell has been released.  Heartbreakers in Hell features a book and lyrics by Benjamin Halstead (Nikola Tesla Drops The Beat) and music by Joey Contreras (In Pieces, Forget Me Not).

Songwriter and musical theatre composer Joey Contreras has released a music video for his new single 'Another New York Love Story' featuring Leslie Hiatt, which is available for streaming on all platforms.

The Axelrod Performing Arts Center is introducing the Anne & Sheldon Vogel Virtual Concert Series, Thursday evenings at 7 pm, beginning on July 16, streaming on Facebook Live. Co-produced by Remember Jones and Andrew DePrisco, this summer series includes a lineup of Broadway stars, American Idol alumni, and up-and-coming young artists.

After beating Stage 2 Hodgkin's lymphoma when he was a sophomore at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Broadway and Television actor Rob Morean is back as Executive Producer and Host of 'Band Together: Lights Up on Broadway.'

'Hale Center Theater Orem will stream 'Songs of Hope' with Hale@Home, featuring Six Time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald, and more than a dozen other Broadway stars, and local favorites!

The 13th season of New York Theatre Barn's signature New Works Series will launch on Monday, February 3rd, 2020, with exclusive pre-premieres of the new musicals Johnny & the Devil's Box and Burned. New York Theatre Barn serves as a home for new musicals during incubation.

This February, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond celebrating Valentine's Day. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents A Broadway Valentine's Day on February 14, 2020 at 9:30 and 11:30pm.

Now onstage through Mother's Day (Sunday, May 12) in a much anticipated and gleefully subversive production from Nashville Opera, The Cradle Will Rock remains hard to define: It could be described as a work of art whose meaning, its very raison d'etre, can be bent to suit any conceivable justification. Variously, Blitzstein described his 1937 work as a 'play in music' or an 'opera for actors' and its history clearly paints it as either or even as both.

It's another busy weekend in Nashville - but when is Music City not packed with events, festivals, affairs? - and we're back with our Critic's Choice recommendations to have you cut through the theatrical flotsam and jetsam and find a cultural opening that's a good fit for your harried lifestyle. Nashville Opera opens its staging of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock at Noah Liff Opera Center, Way Off Broadway Productions unveils its version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Music Valley Event Center, Street Theatre Company invites you to the see their staging of Lynn Nottage's Sweat at their new venue on Elm Hill Pike and Nashville Rep continues its celebration of 10 years of The Ingram New Works Festival at Nashville Children's Theatre.

Entertainment Weekly reports that Syfy has canceled the creepypasta-inspired horror anthology TV show Channel Zero. 

In anticipation of the gala 30th anniversary celebration of The First Night Awards, Tennessee's best and brightest in live theater were revealed tonight as First Night's Top Ten of 2018 - reviewer and critic Jeffrey Ellis' annual recognition for theater in the Volunteer State - were announced during a Facebook Live presentation from Nashville.

Here's hoping you had a splendid Thanksgiving holiday weekend and that you're settling in for another action-packed season of events and shows to make Christmas 2018 sparkle even more! Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap for your entertainment pleasure, thanks to the efforts of theater companies all over Middle Tennessee. Here's our calendar for November 26, 2018, to help you plot your course through the end of the year...

This is an upbeat, lighthearted musical revue that flows breezily through nearly thirty tunes from "Minnie the Moocher" to "White Cliffs of Dover" to "As Time Goes By."

Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap, including a whole slew of holiday favorites, for your entertainment pleasure, thanks to the efforts of theater companies all over Middle Tennessee. Here's our calendar for November 12, 2018, to help you plot your course through next February...

Looking ahead, you'll find a number of new productions on tap for your entertainment pleasure, thanks to the efforts of theater companies all over Middle Tennessee. Here's our calendar for November 5, 2018, to help you plot your course through the end of the year...

Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents The All Night Strut!, an energy-filled musical revue in the Stackner Cabaret November 9, 2018 - January 13, 2019.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater is pleased to welcome Katherine Thomas to the cast of the The All Night Strut! running November 9, 2018 - January 13, 2019 in the Stackner Cabaret.

After a month-long online search for rising, up-and-coming talent - Hannah Pyper Dalley, Preston Taylor, Emily Woods and Tucker Abney were selected as the four additional performers to be added to the lineup of the upcoming 'Joey Contreras with Natalie Weiss & Special Guests' concert in Provo, Utah. 

Award-winning New York songwriter Joey Contreras is bringing his blend of contemporary musical theatre and pop music to Provo, Utah for one night only.