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Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum continues its mission to resist and struggle against the forces of inequality and injustice by presenting socially conscious classics that speak to today. A new version of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, freely adapted by artistic director Ellen Geer and co-directed by Geer and Melora Marshall, joins Theatricum's 2019 summer repertory season beginning Saturday, June 22.

Amid grisly acts of discrimination, violence, and prejudice, comes an inspiring event celebrating solidarity and the union of people across all races, religions, and backgrounds. On Saturday, June 22nd experience the energizing and eclectic sounds of SPIRIT: an Evening of Song, Story & Spirit Benefitting the Pico Union Project.

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will present a festival of Chinese Dance featuring it students who have worked with the Company every Saturday in Metuchen, New Jersey. The annual concert will be in the Bickford Theatre in the Morris Museum on Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2pm.

Not Here Right Now...the Hilariously Touching Tale of a Tall Man in Tight Spaces Finding Clarity and Avoiding A Quarter-Life Crisis in Southeast Asia, All While Wearing Strappy-Velcro Sandals (Except to the Wedding of the Century) is showing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 20th, 27th and 28th at the Broadwater Theater. 

In Lauren Yee's comic fairy tale, The Hatmaker's Wife brings the past to bear on the future as an old couple, Hetchman the hatmaker and his long-suffering wife, tell their story to the couple who has just moved into their old apartment. As the wall shares the magical tale of an old hat-maker and his long-suffering wife time and space bend to redefine the idea of family, home, and true love itself.

Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes will take place as part of Stonewall 50 at La MaMa, a month-long celebration of World Pride with exciting voices from around the globe and down the block, featuring multiple generations of queer performers as they pose questions, honor legacies and ignite the present.

Beck Center for the Arts is announcing that Scott Spence is directing his 100th Beck Center production, a feat rarely achieved by artistic directors, with Matilda the Musical.

June at St Helens Theatre Royal promises an exciting action-packed month full of music, comedy, dance and family entertainment. Regal Entertainments kick off the month with their hilarious, brand new comedy musical Achy Breaky Bride from Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 June. 

The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host its Summertime Saturday Puppet Show Series on five Saturdays from July 13 to Aug. 10, 2019, featuring an exciting variety of puppet styles. Each show will be performed twice, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. All performances will take place at the Ballard Institute Theater located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs.

Following a SOLD-OUT inaugural event featuring NPR's Sam Sanders in January, Nevada Public Radio and Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas invite quiz contenders for a second round of trivia, conversation and cocktails - Nevada Public Radio's Trivia Night featuring Imagine Dragons drummer Daniel Platzman. The event will take place on Wednesday, June 26, 2019 beginning at 6 p.m.

The Board of Directors and Artistic Director, David Leidholdt, are announcing Millbrook's opening production of the ground-breaking Tony Award-nominated musical, A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, with book and lyrics by Willie Reale and music by Robert Reale, opening June 7, on the Ryan Main Stage. 

59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) is welcoming the comedy icon Rita Rudner in the NYC premiere of TWO'S A CROWD, with a book by Ms. Rudner and Martin Bergman, music and lyrics by Jason Feddy, and direction by Mr. Bergman.

This youth month the South African State Theatre will be showcasing the 11th edition of the annual Youth Expressions Festival (YEF) that will feature fourteen exciting works created by our country's dynamic youth, under the theme "Express Yourself!" The two weeks festival will run from 16 to 30 June.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Made in Puerto Rico with comedian Eli Castro on Friday, November 8, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Today, Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken has proclaimed June 1, 2019 as Washington Pavilion Day. The Washington Pavilion continues to be the region's home for the arts, entertainment and science.

Broadcast from the National Theatre in London, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare's famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Antony & Cleopatra comes to The Ridgefield Playhouse in HD on the big screen Sunday, June 16 at 12pm, part of Atria Senior Living Classical Series with support from Whistle Stop Bakery, underwritten by Jeanne Cook, Liz & Steven Goldstone, and Sabina & Walter Slavin.

The Ridgefield Playhouse and Atria Senior Living Classical HD Series present an encore in HD screening of Gounoud's Romeo et Juliette on Sunday, June 30 at 4pm. The electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new production of Gounod's opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher's new production, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Elliot Madore sings Mercutio and Mikhail Petrenko sings Frere Laurent.

On Sunday, June 9, from 3-5 PM, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will host a last-look reception and informal artist talk to mark the closing of the winter/spring exhibition, Interior Monologues.

LA MAMA - the 2018 Tony Award winning theater - will present the world premiere music drama from South Korea, 13 FRUITCAKES, written and directed by BYUNGKOO AHN, as part of the STONEWALL 50 festival at the Ellen Stewart Theater (66 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan, June 13-16. 

Farmers Alley Theatre presents the Five Time Tony Winning Musical, FUN HOME, running June 7-23 at our original location in downtown Kalamazoo.