The Last Empress 1998

Experience the poetic modern dance production, DONGPO: LIFE IN POEMS, at The David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center this weekend.

Award winning writer/director/producer Tom Cavanaugh is hosting an open house, staged reading of his new play, BARKLEE at AMT Theater, 354 W. 45th Street, NY, NY on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024, at 7pm.

'Dongpo: Life In Poems' is a poetic modern dance production presented by CAEG and American Dance Festival. Catch the show in Washington DC from 3/8-3/10 and in NYC from 3/15-3/17.

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced Its Autumn/Winter 2023-24 season. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Theatre Royal Stratford East today announces its 2022/23 season. The season includes Anthony Neilson's poignant and comical delve into the nature of mental illness, The Wonderful World of Dissocia, directed by Emma Baggott, which opens in September 2022.

Joe's Pub ends this week on a more chill note with Gary Lucas; Justin Vivian Bond's new show inspired by a Marianne Faithfull song; charismatic performer Susan Werner; country stars Bobby Pinson and RaeLynn as part of the Bob DiPiero Songwriters Series; and swinging, electrifying music, featuring Bernard Purdie along with entertaining stories retold by David Haney. Next week, the volume cranks up with Ryan Raftery's latest hilarious satire IVANKA 2020; the annual celebration of the intersection art and mental health Love is EleMental; Joe's Pub Working Group 2020 member Salty Brine continues their dazzling exploration of pop music with Living Record Collection - THESE ARE THE CONTENTS OF MY HEAD: The Annie Lennox Show; the third in a five-part concert series exploring Shakespeare's women, black female ambition, and music, Whitney White: Think, And Die; the Joe's Pub performance of the tour of MICHA Música In Transit; a concert from multi-award-winning platinum-selling musician Sarah Harmer with opener Chris Pureka; the fascinating coming of age story of a young woman growing up in New York City with Kelli Sae: Disco, Dicks And Dykes!; and BlackIssuesISSUES, an event that is as much a serenade and celebration of Blackness as it is an indictment of a system and society that is so toxic, it renders Blackness a burden.

Joe's Pub has released its schedule for Feb 12-22! Brown Girls Burlesque: Love Got Game - Valentine's Edition (Feb. 12), Isaac Oliver Is Your Valentine (Feb. 13), and Lea DeLaria: f**k Love and more will take to the stage!

Thankfully, when ANASTASIA hit Broadway, it dispensed with anyone immortal or winged, replacing fantasy with the real-world politics that led up to the Romanovs' demise. The added historical context grounds this once-wacky story, and frankly, I would have welcomed even more of it...

The Peace Center presents An Evening with Gladys Knight on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 7:30 p.m.

The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center of Palo Alto presents a sensational line-up for its 2018-2019 Arts & Dialogues series, featuring appearances by internationally acclaimed actors and musicians, in addition to world-class theatre and literature events. Beginning in September and continuing through next spring, the OFJCC will host captivating live performances by household names such as Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin and renowned entertainer Alan Cumming.

Parx Casino, Pennsylvania's #1 casino, announces indie rockers Snow Patrol will perform at the Xcite Center on Friday, September 28, 2018, at 8:00pm. The state-of-the-art Xcite Center will provide an exciting and intimate atmosphere for Philadelphia fans to experience the band's first album in seven years - Wildness, out now via Republic/Polydor Records. The Associated Press calls the new album "a fantastically ambitious collection of songs, one more direct and intimate than many previous Snow Patrol offerings...Wildness signals a triumphant Snow Patrol return." Doors for the show open at 7:00pm. Tickets are $35.00 to $80.00, and are available now by visiting www.parxcasino.com/xcitecenter.

Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) will host Druid, Ireland's most celebrated theatre company, and their critically acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot. Directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes, Druid's production of Samuel Beckett's absurd, anarchic masterpiece will make its regional premiere at the Lansburgh Theatre (450 7th Street, NW) from April 17 through May 20, 2018 before it travels on to Chicago.

See the newly announced lineup for September at Chicago City Winery below!

Rubicon Theatre Company celebrates Black History Month with THE DEVIL'S MUSIC: THE LIFE AND BLUES OF BESSIE SMITH, starring singer and actress Miche Braden of the original Off-Broadway production (named one of the 10 Best Off-Broadway productions of the year by the N.Y. Daily Times). Described by CBC as a, "bawdy, bluesy, boozy rollicking night out at the theatre," the show follows the life, loves and career of blues and jazz singer Bessie Smith, called the "Empress of the Blues." 

Rubicon Theatre Company celebrates Black History Month with THE DEVIL'S MUSIC: THE LIFE AND BLUES OF BESSIE SMITH, starring singer and actress Miche Braden of the original Off-Broadway production (named one of the 10 Best Off-Broadway productions of the year by the N.Y. Daily Times). Described by CBC as a, "bawdy, bluesy, boozy rollicking night out at the theatre," the show follows the life, loves and career of blues and jazz singer Bessie Smith, called the "Empress of the Blues."

???????Double K Film & Theater's INTERVIEW: A New Musical, produced by Dimo Hyun Jun Kim, Soo Ro Kim, Min Jong Kim & Matthew Thomas Burda, will open Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St Clement's for a limited run. The new mega-hit psycho musical thriller from Korea & Japan will begin Previews on February 7, 2017, prior to a February 10th  Opening.

Druid Theatre will remount Martin McDonagh's sensational, award-winning dark comedy, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, at BAM's Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St.) this winter.

Druid Theatre will remount Martin McDonagh's sensational, award-winning dark comedy, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, at BAM's Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St.) this winter.

The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians' Four Winds Casinos are pleased to announce a concert by seven-time Grammy winning icon and legend Gladys Knight at Four Winds New Buffalo's Silver Creek Event Center on Friday, September 16

Hudson Theatre Works, North Jersey's most innovative professional theater company, announces its upcoming spring production and its slate for Playworks, its annual new play reading series.

Hudson Theatre Works, North Jersey's most innovative professional theater company, announces its upcoming spring production and its slate for Playworks, its annual new play reading series.

Rhythm and blues legend Gladys Knight is set to perform tonight, New Year's Eve, at Walt Disney Concert Hall with two performances, at 7:00 PM and 10:30 PM. Knight and her band will perform a full set of fan favorites and greatest hits.

Rhythm and blues legend Gladys Knight is set to perform on New Year's Eve at Walt Disney Concert Hall with two performances, at 7:00 PM and 10:30 PM. Knight and her band will perform a full set of fan favorites and greatest hits.

Long before the devil wore Prada -- 20 years ago, in fact -- the story of the irrepressible Diana Vreeland first commanded the stage of the Globe in a world premiere in 1995. Oscar and Tony Award winner Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King, Lost in Yonkers) now brings "The Empress of Fashion" back in FULL GALLOP. Written by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson and directed by Andrew Russell. Both critics and audiences are loving it, and FULL GALLOP will now add a limited week of additional performances, extending through Sunday, November 1, 2015, in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.