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Ahead of her New England tour, which begins May 3 in Northampton, MA, Jenny Owen Youngs shares a live performance video for “Next Time Around” from Avalanche, her first full-length solo album in over a decade and Yep Roc Records debut. Following her May tour run, she will join Fruit Bats for two New York dates on their summer tour. A complete list of dates is below. Watch the video here!

Beginning May 20, The Nash will be closed for renovations as it begins construction on its $2.5 million facilities project announced earlier this year.

What’s up with all these therapists’ offices masquerading as beauty parlors? Women walk into these places as broken shells of themselves and often walk out feeling on top of the world. Sure, they get their hair and/or nails done, but they get so much more than just that. They’re renewed.

Stephen Schwartz's 70s musical Pippin makes a triumphant return with a note perfect casting at Drury Lane's concert version, with Fosse-inspired choreography and costumes given a disco pride vibe. Alex Newell's vocals do not disappoint, Jac Yarrow is a fine lead, while Patricia Hodge is a poignant Berthe.

Magic Castle Live on Stage, May 18 at the United Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, is the first public show put on by Hollywood's Academy of Magical Arts. But good luck getting a ticket for the sold-out show.

Join your favorite fairy tale princesses as they take center stage in DISENCHANTED, the acclaimed musical opening this October at The Queens Theatre. Watch as these iconic characters shed their glass slippers and tiaras to set the record straight in this uproarious, uncensored, and irreverent show.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will close its 53rd season with the World Premiere of a new musical tribute honoring Stephen Sondheim, Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Goodspeed Musicals will welcomes Tony award-winning playwright, composer and lyricist Rupert Holmes for a special talkback. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The producer Larry Klein honored the memory of Leonard Cohen with a 2022 tribute album that had a hushed sensibility and taste, as well as an impressive array of vocalists. Hoping to continue that feel, he began work on an equally fine performance version with the same title, “This is Now: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen,” which played two nights with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center over the weekend. 

Multi-platinum, GRAMMY-nominated Icelandic rockers KALEO have announced their North American “Payback Tour,” which will see the group headlining amphitheaters across the continent through the fall. KALEO recently celebrated their 10th anniversary by delivering a stunning live performance before 250 of their biggest fans at the Archeological Park of the Colosseum, Rome, and in the shadow of the world-famous amphitheater. See the dates here!

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, April 29, 2024.

I caught QTP’s penultimate production of their veteran play, Project S.T.R.I.P. starring Dilnaz Irani, Harssh Singh, Keith Antony Sequeira, Neil Bhoopalam and Shruti Sridharan, on an Easter weekend at the Prithvi Theatre of Mumbai, India.

Those of us who keep an eye on the comings and goings of singers at major opera houses around the world, have known that Friday’s debutant, Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian, was going to be one to watch. And it was. No worries about whether her voice would translate from Europe’s smaller houses to the Met’s enormous hall: Grigorian may have been singing Puccini’s Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly this time around, but she’s a well-schooled Lady Macbeth and Turandot as well, bringing a notably large voice with her. She survived the Met’s notoriously short rehearsal time for revivals (particularly for the second cast of the season). Lastly, she even made it through the final curveball, when tenor Jonathan Tetelman became ill and standby Chad Shelton had to take over as Pinkerton; he did well considering the circumstances, but he was no match for her.

Molière in the Park's re-imagined version of Molière's The Miser, translated and adapted by David Chambers, and directed by Molière in the Park's Founding Artistic Director Lucie Tiberghien, begins performances this weekend!

What did our critic think of BITCH SLAP! at SF Oasis?

Mother Play officially opened on Broadway on April 25 at the Hayes Theater. Check out photos of the cast and VIPs at the after party here!

The training program Camp Broadway Indonesia (licensee of New York-based Camp Broadway) will send five students to perform at The New York Pops Birthday Gala, following their debut in 2023. The five chosen youth performers will go on the prestigious Carnegie Hall stage on April 29 to perform with Broadway stars as part of the international Camp Broadway Ensemble, honoring music icon Clive Davis.

The Palace Theater will present its 20th Anniversary 2024-2025 Webster Bank Broadway Series, with six exciting titles.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM), a 127-year-old nonprofit providing music therapy and education to New Yorkers across all five boroughs, will hold its fourth-annual Open Stages music festival on May 11, 2024 from 3-7 p.m.

With special guests, laughter and music, Lea DeLaria is back! This time, she’s doing it at brunch! Catch the first of her new brunch series at 54 Below starting May 12th and June 2nd at 1 pm featuring guests Gabe Ebert (Matilda) and Alexis Michelle (RuPaul's Drag Race). Read a conversation with DeLaria about the new show and what's coming up next.

Watch as Broadway World's Richard Ridge interviews the company of Mother Play on Broadway!

The nominations for the 77th Annual Tony Awards were announced this morning by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry. Follow us throughout the day, as we'll bring you Tony nominee reactions!

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Luke Hemmings has released his highly-anticipated new EP, boy, via Arista Records. The record co-produced with longtime collaborator is a concise and cohesive 7-track coterie of songs, each offering a new sense of maturity, growth, and humanity for Hemmings. Listen to the EP here!

Texas duo Hovvdy has released their anticipated self-titled double album, Hovvdy, via Arts & Crafts. Hovvdy’s fifth album is a statement piece that finds the band at the height of their powers, broadening the scope of their songwriting and adding new wrinkles to their sound, creating something wholly unique and exhilarating, as evidenced by the album’s diverse singles. Listen to the album here!

Japanese rock band FLOW, known for countless anime song contributions, will launch their largest-ever and first five-continent tour in its history. See how to purchase tickets at the Fisher Theatre!