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Washington National Opera today announced its 2021–2022 season featuring a triumphant return to the Opera House stage, four world premiere commissions celebrating the Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary, debuts from acclaimed and rising opera stars, the return to the pit for Principal Conductor Evan Rogister and the WNO Orchestra & Chorus, and more.

Underbelly Festival has announced an upcoming programme of cabaret, circus, comedy, variety, podcasts, and family shows for the Spiegeltent at its brand-new home in Cavendish Square.

The group, who will perform four livestream shows this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday live from Maryland’s MGM National Harbor, plans to offer livestream ticket holders special access to a ticket pre-sale to the fall shows on Monday, May 17th, followed by their traditional fan pre-sale.

Irish Repertory Theatre announced today that they will host virtual screenings of the New York film premiere of The Man Who Wanted to Fly. Directed by Frank Shouldice, The Man Who Wanted to Fly will be screened online on Tuesday May 25 at 7pm ET and Wednesday May 26 at 2pm & 7pm ET.

The world of Promenade Blue represents rebirth and reinvigoration as well as a clarity of purpose. It is vivid and magnetic, buoyed by both light and density due to Nick’s newfound collaboration with co-producer Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, Devendra Banhart). 

Set in a mental hospital in the 1960s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest follows RP McMurphy who contrived to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. He learns this was a mistake, as he clashes with the head nurse, Nurse Ratched.

Having spent much of the past 4 years on the road with US blues guitar juggernaut Joe Bonamassa, gracing stages such as Royal Albert Hall, Red Rocks Colorado and The Greek Theatre LA, Jade is thrilled to be returning to Australia to launch Weather The Storm with shows in Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne in May, June and July.

Traveling Broadway shows performing in Las Vegas, plays, and entertainment on the Strip thrived until March 17, 2020. In the early evening hours, there would be a mandated shut down due to the pandemic. All of the stages in Las Vegas went dark. Las Vegas-based gallery owner Tony Carnevale partnered with architecture photographer John Mastrogiacomo to capture the landscape of the Entertainment Capital of the World during this time which would last more than a year. Carnevale and Mastrogiacomo have released the book Las Vegas Shutdown 2020, filled with an artistic photographic gallery of this unprecedented time.

Former NFL quarterback Jesse Palmer is set to host the surf competition series with sports anchor Erin Coscarelli and the iconic voice of professional surfing Joe Turpel to serve as commentators.

The Fire Island Dance Festival and Hudson Valley Dance Festival, two of the most-anticipated annual charitable celebrations of dance, will take a hiatus this year due to ongoing challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Joyce Theater Foundation in association with the Argyros Performing Arts Center brings three of the biggest talents from American Ballet Theatre downtown for Neo, a world premiere digital duet. James Whiteside and Isabella Boylston take on their first post-quarantine collaboration in the brand-new choreography from Alexei Ratmansky.

The electrifying West End musical phenomenon SIX will reopen at the Lyric Theatre on Friday 21 May, 2021. SIX, by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss is now booking at the Lyric theatre to Sunday 29 August, 2021.

Angus Cerini has been appointed Sydney Theatre Company's new Patrick White Playwrights Fellow, just six months after his gothic two-hander Wonnangatta starring Hugo Weaving and Wayne Blair marked the Company's return to the stage following last year's industry shutdown. 

MJ Rodriguez explains her mental health routine, talks about going back to shooting Pose after COVID-19 and shares what it was like meeting Lady Gaga at the Met Gala.

I thought it was high time to make some mini musical theatre playlists based on Marvel characters, containing anywhere from 5-10 songs.

A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater, Eddie Shapiro’s follow up to his popular Nothing Like a Dame, is available today in hardcover and digital formats on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. A Wonderful Guy is published by Oxford Press.

Stop by and spend an entertaining, informative half hour in the Rumpus Room with “Doris Dear's Gurl Talk” … you never know who might knock on her door!

In a show that may have worn out its Heavenly stage welcome, the Saving Grace of Arizona Broadway Theatre's production of NUNSENSE, is embodied in an ensemble of five artists who render performances that rise above the script. Thankfully, through the ninety-some minutes of show time, a heavenly host of angelic voices lifts the spirit. The show runs through May 16th.

Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced the recipient of the 2021 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and the 2022 Jay Harris Commission, as well as recipients of 2021 WTF Commissions through WTF’s Andrew Martin-Weber New Play and Musical Commissioning Program.

The lives of young people in America’s largest city is the backdrop of the latest student theatrical production at Northeast Community College.