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The ASPECT Foundation for Music & Arts continues its third New York City season of illuminating performances today, January 23, 2019 at 7:30pm with Classical Vienna at Bohemian National Hall. The program features the acclaimed Orion String Quartet in Haydn's String Quartet Op. 50 No. 2 and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 performed with clarinetist Alexander Bedenko.

Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman - the critically-acclaimed new play recently named to an industry-leading 25 Best-Of-The-Year lists - will welcome many new cast members beginning Tuesday, February 19, with Brian d'Arcy James leading as Quinn Carney.

As 2018 comes to a close, we are reflecting on those we have lost in the Broadway and theatre communities throughout the year.

The ASPECT Foundation for Music & Arts continues its third New York City season of illuminating performances on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 7:30pm with Classical Vienna at Bohemian National Hall. The program features the acclaimed Orion String Quartet in Haydn's String Quartet Op. 50 No. 2 and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 performed with clarinetist Alexander Bedenko.

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents Two Mile Hollow by Leah Nanako Winkler

The award-winning Echo Theater Company cleaves unwaveringly to the cutting edge, bringing three galvanizing premieres from acclaimed playwrights on the forefront of American theater to L.A. audiences in 2019.

Atlantic Records has announced the release of 'DEAR EVAN HANSEN (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING) - DELUXE ALBUM,' a newly expanded edition of the GRAMMY-winning companion to the Tony® Award-winning musical. 'DEAR EVAN HANSEN (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING) - DELUXE ALBUM' is available digitally tomorrow, Friday November 2nd with physical release to follow.

NYU Skirball will present the world premiere of choreographer luciana achugar's Brujx, today, October 19  and Saturday, October 20 at 7:30 pm, as part of  On Your Marx, NYU Skirball's FREE, two-week celebration of philosopher Karl Marx. Brujx ritualizes the labor of the dancers, exposing and transcending it to unearth the powerful and primal magic brujx within them.

Apollinaire Theatre Company is thrilled to announce our 2018/2019 Season

NYU Skirball will present the world premiere of choreographer luciana achugar's Brujx, on Friday, October 19  and Saturday, October 20 at 7:30 pm, as part of  On Your Marx, NYU Skirball's FREE, two-week celebration of philosopher Karl Marx. Brujx ritualizes the labor of the dancers, exposing and transcending it to unearth the powerful and primal magic brujx within them.

TODAY was the number-one morning show for the 2017-2018 season, topping ABC's “Good Morning America” in A25-54 and marking its third straight season win in the key demo. TODAY also won the season in A18-49, its 25th straight season win. Additionally, TODAY narrowed the total viewer gap with GMA versus the previous season by 59%, to just 59,000 viewers, the narrowest gap separating the shows in six seasons.

Taking these words to heart, NYU Skirball will present On Your Marx a *pay-what-you-think-it's-worth, two-week commemoration of the great philosopher Karl Marx's 200th birthday, featuring theater, dance and choral performances. Admission to all performances is free: however, audiences will receive an invoice detailing the cost of every element of the production (supply). They are then free to determine the worth of the production and donate accordingly (demand) thus enabling the artists to "earn money in order to live and write."

NBC has won the primetime ratings week of June 11-17 in the key demographic of adults 18-49, led by the “America's Got Talent,” the week's #1 primetime telecast on the Big 4 networks; “World of Dance,” tied for #2; and “American Ninja Warrior,” tied for #4; according to “live plus same day” figures from Nielsen Media Research.

It's that time once again as Music Hall once again presents one of the most influential and innovative Dance Companies in America, Complexions Contemporary Ballet-Sunday, Jun 17 at 4PM on the Main Stage, which will close out The Detroit Music Weekend celebration.

Isabella Rossellini's Link Link Circus, 7 Fingers' REVERSIBLE, The Reduced Shakespeare Company, Manual Cinema's Memento Mori; acclaimed jazz & blues artists Madeleine Peyroux, John Beasley, Billy Childs, The Stanley Clarke Band, Etienne Charles, Freddy Cole, Corey Harris & Guy Davis and the return of Hiromi: Solo; classical artists Vox Luminis, Olga Kern, Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Jeremy Denk, Lucia Micarelli; an Artist-in-Residence Series featuring violist Richard O'Neill; eclectic world artists Nobunto, Kinan Azmeh CityBand, Alash, Ranky Tanky and the return of David Broza; Kybele Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico; diverse family programming featuring Pacifico Dance Company, Aaron Nigel Smith's Family Reggae Bash, and The Story Pirates; plus partnerships with Sotheby's Institute of Art - Los Angeles, KCRW, Red Hen Press and National Geographic Live are among over 40 attractions announced for the 2018-2019 Eli & Edythe Broad Stage at The Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center season. 

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) will soon present LOG CABIN, the world premiere of a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison (Marjorie Prime, Maple and Vine, Doris to Darlene at Playwrights; 'Orange Is the New Black'). Directed by Tony Award and Obie Award winner Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park, The Qualms at Playwrights; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Parisian Woman), LOG CABIN will be the sixth and final production of the theater company's current 2017/2018 Season.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has awarded multi-discipline creative artist Lin-Manuel Miranda the 18th Monte Cristo Award. An alumnus of the O'Neill, Miranda's first professional production was at the O'Neill's National Music Theater Conference with In The Heights in 2005. A gala dinner featuring a conversation with the honoree was held last night, Monday, April 30, 2018. Check out photos from the event below!

The annual B.B. King Homecoming Festival will return this year to Fletcher Park in Indianola while work continues on an expansion of the museum that bears King's name. Featured at this year's festival on June 2nd will be Tito Jackson and the B.B. King Blues Band. Jackson, well known for his role with the Jackson 5 and The Jacksons, teamed up with the B.B. King Blues Band in 2017 to become their new lead singer. The band is comprised of many of King's former band members who still perform together, so event goers will likely see familiar faces.

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents the US Premiere of this viciously funny and unforgettable play about first love, teenage lust, and nature vs nurture.

Actor's Express will co-produce A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath with Aurora Theatre. Fifteen years ago, Nora Helmer made the shocking decision to leave her husband and family, setting out on a new independent life.

Schimmelpfennig's play about the failure of liberal intellectuals to confront the historic danger of extremism was written in 2015 in a German context, and it's universal relevance has only become more striking in 2017. Winter Solstice is a portrait of liberal impotence in the face of blind conviction.  Will these well-meaning dedicated people take action when facism is entertaining them in their living room?