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Jeffrey Seller and Lexus Broadway in Austin presented by Texas Performing Arts announce a digital lottery for HAMILTON tickets will begin in conjunction with the show's first performance (May 28) in Austin at Bass Concert Hall.

Full casting has been announced for Pride Films and Plays' Chicago Premiere of CASA VALENTINA, by Harvey Fierstein, one of the giants of gay writing and stagecraft of our time. CASA VALENTINA, which premiered on Broadway in 2014, was nominated for that season's Tony Award® for Best Play. Pride Films and Plays Artistic Associate Michael D. Graham will direct.

National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019.

The Wheeler Opera House has announced the line-up for its third annual summer series, Sunset Sessions. Performances will feature amazing music, spoken word, comedy and more.

La MaMa presents Bach & Bleach, an original music-theatre production by Netherlands-based violist Esther Apituley. The work, presented in a new production directed by Erwin Maas, will be seen for the first time in English and is set to a text by Ko van den Bosch. Bach and Bleach will be seen in its American premiere and takes place at La MaMa Experimental Theatre located at 66 East 4th Street.

MICHAEL MAO DANCE begins its 26th year with a program of major Mao dances, including 1994-DSCH, along with other works to music by Kurt Weill, and Taiko drumming, May 24 & 25 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street.

WICKED, one of Las Vegas' most popular musicals, will return to The Smith Center onSept. 11-29. Tickets for the return engagement start at $54 and go on sale May 24 at TheSmithCenter.com.

 Following its inaugural hit holiday tour across North America in 2018, Simon Painter, Tim Lawson and MagicSpace Entertainment announced today that they will once again bring together the world's greatest entertainers for a spellbinding and incredible holiday production in A MAGICAL CIRQUE CHRISTMAS.

The game is afoot! Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying lens and join your Naked Girl sleuths as they read their favorite tales of whodunits, capers and thrillers! Naked Girls Reading Presents Mystery Edition at 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 21, 2019 at the DC Arts Center.

Following the phenomenal success of its UK tour in 2016, Menopause The Musical is back at the Belgrade Theatre this June with another hysterically funny celebration of women and "the change". Fully armed with a fabulous all-female cast, this hilariously hormonal show sets its scene in an ordinary department store, where the sale of a black lace bra stimulates an unlikely camaraderie between four strangers.

ComedySportz Chicago (CSZ) will commence Pride Month with the company's very first ComedySportz Chicago Pride Month featuring a series of performances,and a Pride Weekend celebration with CSZ's LGBTQIA+ cast members from June 7 - 22 at ComedySportz Theater Chicago, 929 W. Belmont Ave.

The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street at the corner of Elizabeth Street in NYC) presents Time for Three for one night only, this Friday, May 17 at 8PM in the Loreto Theater. 

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica presents the final concert of the 2018-2019 season with violist Richard Yongjae O'Neill, its artist in residence. On Sunday, May 26 at 2:00 pm, O'Neill performs a program called L.A. Masters with works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Brahms with Jennifer Frautschi (violin), Jesse Mills (violin), Fred Sherry (cello), and Orion Weiss (piano).

"1964 . . .THE TRIBUTE" is back! Celebrity Attractions presents "1964" for one night only, Friday, July 12 at 8 p.m. at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 17 at 10 a.m.

On June 7 and 8 at 6 PM, the legendary Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program at New York Live Arts will showcase the work of the current five selected emerging choreographers: Emma Rose Brown, J. Bouey, Liana Conyers, Collin Ranf, and Dolores (Lola) Sanchez.

On Friday, June 14, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson visits with his new novel FALL, a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller-Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick-that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.

Learn all that Hoff-Barthelson Music School's Early Childhood Program has to offer by attending an Open House on Friday, June 7, 2019, from 10:00 to 11:30 am! Children ages 6 months to 5 years and their adults are invited to join in the fun of a music and movement class at 10:30 am, followed by a brief Q & A with faculty, and a reception during which you can socialize with other families.

Honeck-Moss Productions presents "In The Works." This exciting series was conceived as an opportunity for composers to try out new work in front of an audience and see how it plays in a supportive environment. It is also an opportunity to create community among the composers and their performers.

Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced the repertoire for MAD HOT BALLET: Desert Dream. The company's annual million-dollar fundraising gala takes place on June 12, 2019 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 

Atlanta's Synchronicity Theatre will produce Hands of Color, a new play by Kimberly Monks and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, June 7 - 30, 2019. For tickets and information, please visit synchrotheatre.com or call 404-484-8636.