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Award-winning female singers are centerstage for an International Women's Day (IWD) concert celebrating this year's IWD theme, 'Break the Bias.' Working In Concert and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church present Bellissima Opera's International Women's Day Concert at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Oak Park.

The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) today announced that tickets are now on sale for the 2022 CAPA Marquee Awards presented by American Electric Power Foundation. This in-person event at the Ohio Theatre on Tuesday, May 10, is the culmination of CAPA's year-long, educational program designed to celebrate, support, and advocate for high school musical theatre education throughout central Ohio.

With nearly two decades of non-stop touring around the globe, hundreds of thousands of records sold the California quintet has rejoined the label that released the highly acclaimed albums: The Cleansing (2007), No Time To Bleed (2009) and The Black Crown (2011). Plus, check out the band's upcoming tour dates!

Wright State Theatre will stage Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Sweat, as its first play of 2022, running February 3-13th. As if lifted from our own local headlines, this gripping drama takes us into the lives of middle-American industrial workers facing the end of their livelihoods as their factory jobs disappear and their families and friendships struggle to survive. Lynn Nottage has written an exquisite, devastating contemporary tragedy.

Keen Company has announced its first musical commission: a new musical by Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days, Scotland, PA). Keen presented Gwon’s Ordinary Days in Fall of 2018 to great acclaim, including a nomination for the 2019 Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway).

Lorna Shore announces they will be joining the Chaos & Carnage 2022 Touras direct support to Suicide Silence and Carnifex. The tour starts on May 6th in Sacramento and wraps in Los Angeles on June 4th. Lorna Shore will be on tour in support of their highly praised EP, …And I Return to Nothingness.

SYNETIC THEATER has announced the world premiere production of Vato Tsikurishvili’s THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, with choreography by Maryam Najafzada and compositions by resident composer Konstantine Lortkipanidze.

Signature Theatre has announced that special arrangements have been made to stream Everybody Rise: Signature Remembers Stephen Sondheim for free for a limited 72-hour period.

North Star Theater Company will once again partner with Our Lady of the Lake R. C. Church in Sparta to present the family-friendly blockbuster musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Tickets to performances of The Pursued, The Pursuing, The Busy, and The Tired, the world premiere production of Signature Theatre’s flagship education program, Signature in the Schools, are now on sale.

The festival will merge metal, rock, rap, hip-hop, alternative and pop-punk genres for a weekend of performances by I Prevail, Parkway Drive, The Ghost Inside, Blackbear, Simple Plan, Sum 41, 2 Chainz, Rae Sremmurd, Trippie Redd, Tyga, Knocked Loose, The Maine, Princess Nokia, 3OH!3, and many more. Additions to the lineup will come in 2022.

Metropolis' annual fundraising event returns as a Virtual Wine Tasting Fundraiser, including choices of three unique wine and tasting packages on Friday, January 21, 2022.

We Won’t Sleep, a new pop musical based on the true story of Jeannette Rankin, America’s first congresswoman, will hold industry readings by invitation only in New York City on Thursday, December 16 and Friday, December 17.

Four noted pianists-Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, Maja Tremiszewska, Jennifer Elowsky-Fox, and John McDonald-will present a belated New York premiere performance of internationally lauded American composer Larry Bell's 24 Preludes & Fugues at Merkin Concert Hall Friday evening, January 14, 2022, at 7:30 p.m.

The life and music of legendary entertainer Billie Holiday comes to Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill January 27-March 12, 2022.

Trumpeter Jason Palmer returns to Boston to lead his Quintet in a joyous, festive concert of holiday favorites presented by the Celebrity Series! Taking inspiration from Thad Jones and Duke Ellington's magical arrangements of classics, Palmer puts his own twist on Christmas and holiday favorites. Spend a Saturday afternoon with some amazing musicians: this show will be a can't-miss holiday event for the whole family!

The Theater Lab, a District 214 Community Education program, will return to the stage and announce its cast of the classic play, Our Town. The production will be a limited four-performance run, December 10-12, 2021, at Forest View Educational Center in Arlington Heights.

Disney Television Discovers: Talent Showcase has served as a launching pad for new artists, previous members include Lupita Nyong'o, Chadwick Boseman, Ali Stroker, Ginda Rodriguez, Carrie Ann Inaba, Jesse Williams, Alexandra Shipp, Meghan Markle, and more.

August Wilson was always a font of stories. In addition to the 10 plays of his lauded Pittsburgh Cycle, there were books, essays and poems largely about the African-American experience.

Stories from 9/11 survivors and witnesses come to life in “The 9/11 Memorial Performance Project,” to be performed by the Mercer County Community College (MCCC) Academic Theatre & Dance Company on Friday and Saturday, December 10 and 11 at 8 p.m.