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In order to continue the over 100 year tradition of movies shown in darkened rooms to live audiences, astonished and applauding with popcorn on the floor, the Lake Worth Playhouse is presenting its 10th LDUB Film Festival in the Stonzek Studio.

In celebration of Black History Month and beyond, the Kravis Center is inviting people to enjoy a series of engaging experiences including music, stories, discussions and more created and presented by NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Arts Center). 

NSB NOW will run from March through May 2021 culminating with an end-of-season staged performance to be shared digitally.

Palm Beach Dramaworks Producing Artistic Director William Hayes and Actors’ Playhouse Artistic Director David Arisco are pleased to announce that their companies are joining forces on a virtual coproduction of The Belle of Amherst, William Luce’s one-woman play based on the life of Emily Dickinson.

On Friday, February 12th, Sarasota Opera opened its 2021 Winter Opera Festival with a fully staged production of Gioachino Rossini's The Happy Deception (L'inganno Felice) to a live audience filling 25% of the seating capacity of the Sarasota Opera House.

Bowen McCauley Dance Company, an award-winning contemporary dance company with a legacy of community engagement, announces changes to its previously announced 25th Season schedule, due to COVID-19-related restrictions.

The Kravis Center has announced a gift of $1.727 million by the late Marjorie Fink, a long-time supporter of the Kravis Center and a resident of Palm Beach. Her donation will help ensure its readiness to have the strongest possible reopening this fall.

The Kravis Center has announced Broadway is back in West Palm Beach with their 2021/2022 Kravis On Broadway series lineup. The series is headlined by winner of six Tony Awards DEAR EVAN HANSEN, the acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY, and the heartfelt COME FROM AWAY. 

Victor Fernandez, who leads schoolwide general music instruction at Beacon Cove Intermediate in Jupiter, is the Palm Beach Symphony 2020 Instrumental Music Teacher of the Year. Fernandez has also been recognized as the 2017 School District of Palm Beach County Dwyer Award Winner and more.

Palm Beach Photographic Centre today announced that the nonprofit organization's 26th annual and first virtual FOTOfusion next week will spotlight photojournalist Maggie Steber, who will receive this year's prestigious FOTOmentor Award.

 Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, an all-encompassing sanctuary for modern luxury, is celebrating Valentine's Day Weekend (February 12-14) with sizzling offers for romantic couples, hopeful lovers-to-be, and anyone seeking to wallow in splendid comfort. The lush hotel is located on the campus of the Design Center of the Americas, immediately off the Griffin Road exit of I-95.

This class will explore the craft of stage acting with an emphasis on developing believable characters through class exercises, individual work with the instructor, as well as scene work with other students.

The holiday of Purim has often been called “the Jewish Carnavale,” with the joys of song, laughter and drama folded into one, like tangy, fruit-filled hamantashen. That’s just the recipe for a Yiddishe Taam that the Yiddishkayt Initiative will be serving up at its first annual International VIRTUAL YI Love Yiddishfest – Purim Edition, Feb 25-28.

Dave Lawrence, President & CEO of the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, welcomed 100+ online visitors to this season’s second CULTURE & COCKTAILS this week. The fun theme of this season’s series of “Conversations” is Cool People Doing Neat Stuff!

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Jan McArt, stage actor with a career spanning six-decades, has died on Sunday Morning in Boca Raton.

Old School Square has announced the postponement of its Broadway Cabaret series. Read their full statement here:

Mary Csar, Executive Director of the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum today announced that the nonprofit organization is launching a new weekly virtual lecture series, Boca History 102. 

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts presents hot jazz, love songs, enchanting Spanish coplas and more musical moments—special experiences that make unique Valentine's Day gifts. Tickets are on sale now to this line-up of cabaret-style concerts presented in the intimate Rinker Playhouse.

The Coral Springs Center for the Arts today announced that ABBA MANIA, the world's number one touring ABBA tribute concert, is coming to the Center later this month, bringing live music back to the state-of the-art performing arts center located at 2855 Coral Springs Drive (33065).

The Palm Beach Institute for the Entertainment Arts (PBIEA) will be celebrating Black History Month, by bringing the original play - INTERSECTION OF LINCOLN AND PARKS - to the Institute's stage.

The deadline to submit a nomination for the prestigious Randolph A. Frank Prize for the Performing Arts is Monday, February 15. 

Fatima NeJame, president and chief executive officer of the world-renowned Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC), today announced that the nonprofit organization’s 26th annual and first virtual FOTOfusion will spotlight photojournalist Maggie Steber, who will receive this year’s prestigious FOTOmentor Award.

The Off Broadway Palm Theatre is proud to bring you the world premiere of Til Theft Do Us Part playing now through March 6, 2021. This laugh out loud comedy is written by Southwest Florida resident and Broadway Palm favorite Victor Legarreta.

On such a somber and momentous occasion as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Yiddishkayt Initiative founder and CEO Avi Hoffman feels its important for the organization to be part of the education of the community related to keeping the remembrance of The Holocaust and the lessons to be learned from it alive.

National Medal of Arts honoree and violin virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman performs Beethoven on Sunday, January 24 at 3 p.m. in a concert livestreamed from the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.