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Today we will explore the humble beginnings of the musical theatre meme, and follow its path into the mainstream.

There’s a lot to mourn this year, and an  uncertain path ahead of us to rebuild.

Boston Baroque has announced the release of an upcoming concert documentary film introducing the X-tet, Boston Baroque's new period string chamber ensemble.

MassOpera will present a live virtual fundraising concert event Valentine’s Day Songs and Shout-outs on February 14th at 2pm via Zoom.

On Thursday, February 4, at noon, the BSO NOW concert streaming platform will launch the first of four archival programs, featuring artists who enjoyed especially close relationships with the orchestra.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre today announces the continuation of its series of conversations about new plays, BPT Talks.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and the Coolidge Corner Theatre have teamed up to take an in-depth look at how some filmmakers have reimagined Shakespeare’s work to create compelling cinema that is as relevant today as it was four hundred years ago.

Known as the nation's foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound today announced the release of Robert Carl: White Heron, led by conductor Gil Rose and performed by the intrepid Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP).

Toronto's Why Not Theatre brings A Brimful of Asha, an honest and heartwarming portrayal of generational and cultural clash, to ArtsEmerson's digital venue this March.

The New England Musicians Relief Fund (NEMRF) has launched an initiative to reach $500,000 in donations by March 13, 2021, the one year anniversary of when COVID-19 shut down the entertainment industry in Massachusetts.

MVYRADIO announced that Matt Smith will join the station as the new host for their long-running program, The Local Music Café.

Now in its 11th year, the Provincetown Theater in partnership with The Provincetown Playwrights’ Lab will present the annual 24-Hour Plays on Presidents’ Day weekend.

Before the shutdown, the final piece I reviewed for Broadway World was Boston Ballet’s rEVOLUTION which included Glass Pieces, a hypnotic embrace of the geometrics of a theatre space by Phillip Glass and Jerome Robbins.

Boston folk scene veteran Dinty Child and special guests, Alisa Amador and Beane, gathered at Cambridge's legendary Club Passim on January 17th for a very special live stream concert.

The BSO NOW streaming platform—launched in November—will present its first-ever livestreaming event from Symphony Hall on February 12, at 8 p.

Joseph Allen, Commissioner and Chair of the Task Force on Safe Work, Safe Schools & Safe Travel for The Lancet and Assistant Professor of Exposure Science at the Harvard T.

On Thursday, February 11, 2021 at 7pm ET, Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik, will launch Finding Home: Music from the Suitcase in Concert, a five-episode docu-recital series filmed at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, MA, based on Kutik’s 2014 album Music from the Suitc

Hub Theatre Company of Boston will return to the virtual stage this winter with the world premier of Trent England’s Solitaire Suite, directed by local favorite Daniel Bourque.

Boston Baroque has introduced its Resource Library, a digital archive of  performance sources, including program notes written by Boston Baroque Founder and Music Director Martin Pearlman, orchestration charts, and more, for free on its website.

JM Productions and its youth “Rising Stars” program announce an on line singing competition for students in 6th to 12th grade.

The historic Strand Theatre in Boston will be the host of a free COVID-19 testing site.

Boston Lyric Opera gives an arthouse cinematic treatment to Philip Glass’ opera The Fall of the House of Usher, debuting January 29 exclusively on BLO’s operabox.

The Handel and Haydn Society is set to celebrate one of the Baroque period's greatest composers with Glories of the Baroque: Vivaldi.

Composer Huang Ruo joins American Repertory Theater Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus for a conversation about his music, recent projects, and his A.

Broadway On Demand streamed the riveting final, as Harvard pulled off the last of an incredible string of wins over A Cappella legends: (1) CARA-nominated Ivy rival Yale; (2) 2-time ICCA Champion Berklee; (3) 2-time South Asian National Champion Rutgers; (4) renowned Pitch Perfect 2 star UPenn; and