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Earlier this month Elvis Perkins released his new album, Creation Myths via MIR/Petaluma Records.

HERE will present the premiere of Flight by Anonymous Ensemble on Friday, October 16 at 1pm as part of #stillHERE: Online, HERE's expanded online programming. Flight brings together performers and audiences from anywhere in the world in order to investigate expansive global issues and tiny revelatory moments in real time.

On November 14, 2020, LA Opera will present the company premiere of The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme), a 1780 opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who is widely regarded as the first Black classical composer known to history.

The Hollywood Commission, chaired by Anita Hill and founded by Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw, today released the third report from the first-of-its kind, industry-wide worker survey.

Maybe Sammy in Sydney has been named the winner of the Michter's Art of Hospitality Award as part of The World's 50 Best Bars 2020.

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills will not open its two indoor theaters a?" the Bram Goldsmith and the Lovelace Studio theaters a?" prior to September 1, 2021, but will be presenting a robust mix of virtual programs.

Playhouse on Park's 12th Main Stage Season opened with the film of the play KENNEDY: BOBBY'S LAST CRUSADE by David Arrow. This panel discussion is a continued conversation about the life and work of Robert F. Kennedy, precipitated by the filmed play.

While LA Opera awaits its cue to return to live performances onstage, the company has turned to creating an array of online content through the LA Opera At Home initiative, which will soon expand to include a series of exciting new Digital Shorts commissions as well as a November 14 stream of The Anonymous Lover by Joseph Bologne, the first known Black classical composer. Since the launch of LA Opera At Home in March, these popular online offerings have accumulated more than 740,000 views to date.

The acclaimed Peabody Award-winning Apple Original comedy series 'Dickinson' will officially return for its second season on Friday, January 8, 2021.

 First Stage begins its 2020/21 Virtual Season of Plays  with THE QUEST FOR SOLOMON’S TREASURE, an exciting new historical adventure web series that will stream exclusively for First Stage audiences.

UNT Theatre is offering free admission to its upcoming virtual performances of a?oeThe Diary of Anne Franka?? to commemorate the legacy of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Colorado Ballet received a $500,000 matching grant for the company's Relief & Recovery Fund that was launched after canceling all fall 2020 productions, including The Nutcracker, to help offset losses of nearly $4 million in revenue. A generous couple, who have requested to remain anonymous, will match all donations made to Colorado Ballet between October 1 and November 15 at a 2:1 ratio up to $250,000, tripling the impact of each dollar donated during this timeframe. If the organization is able to raise $250,000 by November 15, the total amount raised for Colorado Ballet's Relief and Recovery efforts will become $750,000.

Playhouse on Park's 12th Main Stage Season opened with KENNEDY: BOBBY'S LAST CRUSADE by David Arrow. The play was produced and filmed at the Theatre at St. Clements in NYC for Playhouse on Park audiences. Playhouse on Park is thrilled to extend the play through October 11.

Playrights' Arena's artistic director Jon Lawrence Rivera will world premiere MARCH, inaugurating the Los Angeles LBGT Centera??s innovative new live theatre series, GARAGE THEATRE on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Performances for audiences (in their individual vehicles) will take place in the unique, experimental space of an underground parking structure located below the Centera??s Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood.

Center Theatre Group has announced the immediate launch of their newest venue, the Digital Stage, currently housing its ever-expanding library of education, community outreach and Art Goes On videos. Center Theatre Group has welcomed Casey Nicholaw, Phylicia Rashad and Paula Vogel, as its latest Associate Artists.

The Nordic International Film Festival (NIFF), the largest Nordic film festival outside of Europe, has announced its lineup for its 6th year.

The Guilford Performing Arts Festival (GPAF) has named six Connecticut performing artists as recipients of its 2020 Artistsa?? Awards. Each awardee will get a $2,500 grant and a feature slot in the next festival, scheduled for September 2021. The recipients and their award-winning proposalsa?"three in dance and one each in drama, music and spoken worda?"are:

While LA Opera awaits its cue to return to live performances onstage, the company has turned to creating an array of online content through the LA Opera At Home initiative, which will soon expand to include a series of exciting new Digital Shorts commissions as well as a November 14 stream of The Anonymous Lover by Joseph Bologne, the first known Black classical composer. Since the launch of LA Opera At Home in March, these popular online offerings have accumulated more than 740,000 views to date.

Grammy-nominated fiddler Bruce Molsky, “widely regarded as one of the best living practitioners of Appalachian old-time fiddling” (WBUR), joins international classical violinist Rachel Barton Pine for a special musical and social gathering at the intersection of classical and old-time music. 

The annual list of The World's 50 Best Bars, sponsored by Perrier, will be unveiled as part of a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday, 5th November.