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Do friendship and success go together? Must we look backward to move forward in life? Must artists compromise their ideals for commercial success? The Towson University Department of Theatre Arts, in collaboration with the TU Department of Music, examine these themes and more in the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along, running May 2-11 at the TU Center for the Arts Mainstage.

 Elvis Presley's Graceland® is pleased to announce that actor, voiceover artist, and acting coach Katelyn Nichols will once again lead its Performing Arts Camp in July. Nichols graduated from the University of Memphis, where she earned a BFA in Theater Performance. Now based in New York City, she coaches kids and teens through K. Nichols Studio and regularly records for TV and radio. She was recently the voice of Kohl's and has been seen and heard on ABC, NBC, Lifetime, and in several Off-Broadway festival productions.

April 19 through 27, a hopelessly romantic but comically unfortunate dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, takes Winter Park audiences along on her journey to find the man of her dreams. Originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, the classic Sweet Charity showcases the energy, humor, and heartbreak of life in New York City in the late 1960s.

Dmitri in the Dark is a performance experience that combines a live string quartet playing Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6 alongside contemporary circus artists. Listen once to Shostakovich's quartet performed in almost complete darkness to form your own imaginings about the beautiful yet scathing piece. Rejoin us after an intermission with Russian treats to hear the quartet played again, this time with the lights up and accompanied by physical theater actors, acrobats, and contortionists who will help create a visual version of the story Shostakovich tells us in his music.

Mean girls, Heather, Heather and Heather, rule Westerberg High School in "Heathers The Musical," featuring book, music, and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe, with direction by James R. Taulli at Cal State Fullerton, April 19-May 5 in the Young Theatre on campus.

Juilliard presents its Spring Gala on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. The evening celebrates a year of creativity, process, and innovation and will feature highlights from the 2018-19 school year at Juilliard-the first under Damian Woetzel, who in July 2018 became Juilliard's seventh president.

Premiere Stages at Kean University has announced its 15th anniversary season, featuring four new plays that explore the power and responsibility of legacy.

Original works by University of SC dance students will be in the spotlight as the UofSC Department of Theatre and Dance presents the semi-annual Student Choreography Showcase April 26-27 at Drayton Hall Theatre. 

SDSU School of Theatre, Television, and Film presents the musical Roald Dahl's James and The Giant Peach, running Friday, April 26 - Friday, May 3, 2019 in SDSU's Don Powell Theatre. Music and lyrics are by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, book is by Roald Dahl, and director is Stephen Brotebeck.

The Kent State University Orchestra and Combined Choirs join together to conclude the School of Music's 2018-19 concert season on Sun., May 5 at 3 p.m. in Cartwright Hall's University Auditorium. This annual audience favorite brings together nearly 200 musicians from the Kent State University Orchestra, Kent Chorus, Kent Chorale, and Men's and Women's Choruses. Conductors include Dr. Jungho Kim, Director of Orchestra, and Dr. Scott MacPherson, Director of Choral Studies.

Drama School Mumbai has announced the admissions for the next year's Post Graduate Course in Acting & Theatre Making. The course is an ideal platform for overall training as an actor and a theatre maker.

Columbia University School of the Arts presents seven new plays written by the Columbia MFA Playwriting Students of 2019. The esteemed faculty who have nurtured these students, including Tony©, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as Charles Mee, Lynn Nottage, and David Henry Hwang invite you to experience these innovative new playwrights.

Emerson College, the nation's premier institution for the arts, communication, and the liberal arts, today announced its honorary degree recipients for 2019. On Sunday, May 12, during Emerson College's 139th Commencement ceremony, the college will honor four award-winning scholars, authors, writers, and filmmakers for their contributions and efforts to highlight diverse stories and voices through their work. Award-winning journalist, speaker and author Soledad O'Brien; award-winning scholar and writer Nell Irvin Painter; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy- nominated filmmaker and theatrical producer Jose Antonio Vargas; and the President of Miami Dade College Eduardo J. Padron will each receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees. O'Brien will give the commencement address.

Award-winning choreographers and dancers Camille A. Brown and Juel Lane are the recipients of the second annual Alumni Artpreneur of the Year Awards from their alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), Chancellor Lindsay Bierman has announced. Graduates of the premier UNCSA School of Dance, Brown ('01) and Lane ('02) will each receive $20,000. Brown's award, for creative enterprise, will sustain her New York-based company, Camille A. Brown and Dancers. Lane's award, for a creative project, will be used to create new choreographic work.

St. Edward's University's choice for their spring musical is aptly named. While the words 'spring awakening' invoke images of beautiful flowers or a warm spring day, this musical contains everything but, with central themes of sexuality, religion, abuse, suicide, guilt and repression. I'll be blunt: go see this production. The cast of St. Edwards University blesses the audience with their talent, capturing the heartbreak, hope, and surprising humor that's integral to SPRING AWAKENING, based on the 1891 German play of the same name by Frank Wedekind.

Mills College is proud to join The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and 43 distinguished colleges and universities (full list below) to launch an Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education. 

Kean Stage welcomes The Doo Wop Project to Wilkins Theatre, 1000 Morris Ave., Union, at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14.

The School of Drama at The New School's College of Performing Arts is thrilled to be partnering with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project again this spring for the 2019 Graduating MFA Playwrights Festival.

The Cohen New Works Festival, presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin, returns in a biennial, five-day festival celebrating new, student-created work April 15-19, 2019 on the university campus. The 2019 Festival will present 30 new works, including works of dance, theatre, new plays, installations and site-specific performance work.

The Madison Theatre presents A Chorus Line, winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Pepperdine University Fine Arts Division presents its Pepperdine Chamber Choir and The Pickford Ensemble, conducted by N. Lincoln Hanks, on Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Malibu campus' Stauffer Chapel.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT TIME at Nebraska Wesleyan University Theatre is a fascinating production that I would go see again.

Wagner College Theatre (WCT), the award-winning theatre under the leadership of Department Chair Dr. Felicia Ruff, is proud to present Gilbert & Sullivan's swashbuckling musical, The Pirates of Penzance.

The Backstage Theater Company of Farmingdale State College is presenting their turn back the clock musical parody, 'DISASTER!' spoofing the 70's disaster flicks and highlighting a seismic amount of popular songs from that era ensuring a tidal wave of fun.

Experience opera, vogue dance, fashion, art, the digital world, and more come together in a totally immersive live performance piece, culminating in a never-before-seen mashup. After complimentary dinner and drinks, guests will be fully immersed in ARC 2.0: Contra, featuring a mosaic of different art forms.