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MerleFest, presented by Window World, is proud to announce new artist additions for MerleFest 2019: Brandi Carlile, Dailey & Vincent, and The Brother Brothers. The annual homecoming of musicians and music fans returns to the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, April 25-28. 

From stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of December 10, 2018!

Clara Young, age 15, will be performing in Manhattan Youth Ballet's production of Knickerbocker Suite 10th Anniversary Celebration by Rose Caiola at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, December 8-16.

Second City's SHE THE PEOPLE at Woolly Mammoth delivers some sorely needed cathartic joy in the heart of the nation's capital. The Second City improvisational theatre troupe is famed for producing the likes of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, and Stephen Colbert, so you can be sure that when their name is involved you are in for high quality laughs. The stellar all female cast of Second City's SHE THE PEOPLE had me in stitches. I wouldn't be surprised to see any one of them follow in the footsteps of other Second City prodigies. And if you're one of those people who think women can't be funny, do us all a favor and buy yourself a ticket to SHE THE PEOPLE ASAP.

David Byrne's American Utopia album, released earlier this year on Todomundo / Nonesuch Records, has been nominated for Best Alternative Album at the 61st Grammy Awards. American Utopia earned David his highest charting album ever, entering at No. 1 on the Top Current Album Chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 and topping both Rock and Alternative Album Charts, as well as achieving career-best spots internationally. American Utopia features Byrne's Top 10 single, “Everybody's Coming To My House,” which he and his band performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Oprah Winfrey sits down with actress, activist and New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Union and her husband NBA superstar Dwyane Wade for a conversation about their unique path to PARENTHOOD in an all-new special entitled, 'Oprah at Home with Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade & Their New Baby' airing Today, December 8 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer,Anderson East, is nominated for “Best American Roots Performance” for his song “All On My Mind” at the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards. The awards ceremony will be broadcast on CBS live from Los Angeles' Staples Center on Sunday, February 10 at 8:00pm ET/7:00pm CT.  

FOX (7.762 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 2.2, #1) snagged the demo crown last night thanks to its 'Thursday Night Football Pre-Game' (6.381 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.7, #3) and 'Thursday Night Football' (8.038 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 2.3, #1).

Funk legends Chromeo debut their video for “Don't Sleep” starring 90s icon Robin Givens (Never Heard, Riverdale, The Bold and the Beautiful) and featuring French Montana and Stefflon Don today—watchhere.

 British standout artist RATIONALE has shared his new EP High Hopes today via Warner Bros. Records. Building on the singer's genre-bending debut album, the EP features the infectiously danceable new single 'High Hopes,' as well as the previously released Caribbean-inspired dancehall track 'One By One,' co-produced with friend and collaborator Bastian Langebaek (Jack Garratt, Jessie Ware). Other collaborators on the EP include Starsmith (Ellie Goulding, Clean Bandit) on the title track and George Moore (Yebba) on 'Kindred.'

The 2019 Writer's Guild Awards nominations have been unveiled. The 2019 Writers Guild Awards will be handed out Sunday, Feb. 17, at the Beverly Hilton. See the full list of nominees below!

Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti will make her London concert debut this summer! Tony Award-winner and five-time Tony Award nominee Laura Benanti, the highly celebrated stage and screen actress, makes her London debut performance in 2019 at Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square. The show which is produced by Club 11 London and Tony Award-winning Brian Zeilinger & Jack Maple for Take Two Theatricals will take place on Sunday 30 June 2019 at 6.30 pm. Tickets for the show are available from www.club11.london

For the week ending Nov. 30 (week #10 of the 2018-2019 broadcast season), THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT (3.83m) beat its closest competitor by +1.22 million viewers and had its largest live plus 3-day delivery in viewers since the week ending April 20. THE LATE SHOW also delivered more than 3.5 million viewers every first-run week this season.

NBC (5.681 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.1, #1) held off the demo competition on Tuesday thanks to a new 'The Voice' (8.840 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.4, #1) and 'A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special' (4.101 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T4).

Last night Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats performed on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" for a second time this year. Watch the late night television debut of "Hey Mama" here!

8x Grammy nominated Atlantic recording group Death Cab for Cutie has announced details of a Spring 2019 headline tour in support of their critically acclaimed ninth studio LP, “Thank You for Today.” The tour announcement comes accompanied by a remix of “Summer Years” from none other than Ben Gibbard's Postal Service bandmate Jimmy Tamborello (listen here). In his first ever remix of a Death Cab for Cutie song, Tamborello infuses the track with a pulsating beat and his characteristic electronic elements.

Comedy Works Entertainment presents Paula Poundstone at Paramount Theatre in Denver on Friday, May 3rd at 7:30pm. Tickets range from $35.00 to $55.00 plus applicable fees and go on sale Friday, December 7th at 10:00am at ParamountDenver.com or charge by phone at 866-461-6556. Starting Monday, December 10th tickets will also be available for purchase at the Pepsi Center Box Office and Dick's Sporting Goods Park box office, or Paramount Theatre box office (event days only).

The Second City has been laughing at love and its infinite scroll of side effects for decades. In the world-famous comedy company's latest laughter-inducing undertaking, IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, THE SECOND CITY takes shots at heartbreak, missed connections and the mire of human relationships. Your friends, your parents, even your blind date will find something achingly familiar to laugh at, thanks to comedy's newest generation of writers and performers...who all fit squarely into the "it's complicated" category!

Comedy legend Louie Anderson will grace the stage of Union County Performing Arts Center next month for a one-night-only performance. Anderson is one of the country's most recognized and adored comics, named "One of 100 Greatest Stand-up Comedians of All Time" by Comedy Central. His career has spanned over 30 years.

Following are honoree, presenter, performer and production credits for THE 41st ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS, an entertainment special to be broadcast Wednesday, Dec. 26 on the CBS Television Network.