Benjamin News

The New London Barn Playhouse is presenting RENT on the MainStage for the first time. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Multi-platinum rock band, Staind has released a deluxe edition of their latest album, Confessions of the Fallen featuring brand-new track, “Full Of Emptiness.'​ Along with the brand-new song, the digital only deluxe album also includes the alternate version of the band’s latest single, “Better Days” featuring singer and namesake of LA rock band, Dorothy. ​

Contra Costa Civic Theatre opens its 65th season with HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD performed in repertory from September 7th-22nd, 2024, in El Cerrito, CA.

DePaul University's Blue Demon Theatre will present the world premiere of TURING, a new musical by Timothy L. Michuda and Benjamin Ward. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The award-winning composer, bandleader and keyboardist Robert Glasper will take the stage at the 14th Annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival (PIJF), co-presented by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, on Saturday, September 21, 8:45 – 10:00 pm.

Ben Katzman, underground rock hero and Survivor Season 46 finalist, releases “Buckwild Blindsides,” featuring illuminati hotties’ Sarah Tudzin and Kaleen Reading of Mannequin Pussy. The song is the latest single from his anticipated new album Tears on the Beach, due out August 23rd.

Story Pirates, the media company and podcast for kids, has recently released a new summer music album featuring several Broadway alum. The album, titled Key Change World, includes 12 of the most popular tracks from the podcast, with performances from Stephanie Jae Park, Erika Henningsen, Allan K. Washington, and Nick Blaemire. Listen to the album now!

Pittsburgh CLO's production of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN has been extended due to popular demand. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The cast has been announced for the UK and European tour of The Book of Mormon. Learn more about the cast and find out where to catch the tour here!

The full cast has been announced for the 2024/25 tour of Birdsong. The epic First World War story of love and loss returns to the stage this Autumn in a brand-new production marking the 30th anniversary of Sebastian Faulks’s international best-selling novel. 

Lo que consideramos vanguardia es el impulso de querer transformar el mundo, a través de las artes escénicas, visuales o literarias, las ideas, el conocimiento humano, etcétera, a partir de las sensaciones, las emociones; la vanguardia es un fenómeno cultural de enormes proporciones, aseguró el investigador Luis Rius, quien ayer, en el Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), impartió la conferencia Los ángeles y la vanguardia.  

Benjamin Mitton has announced the release of his new children's book, Trooper's Story: His Journey From Lost to Finding His Forever Home.

The Fluxus Brothers Present: Good Art Bad Art will premiere as part of the Cannonball Festival on September 13th, 18th, and 27th at The MAAS Building.

Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner will premiere as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival on September 16th, 21st, and 22nd at Christ Church Neighborhood House.

As part of our Words From the Wings series, we're chatting with Andrea Grody, who serves as Music Director and Music Supervisor for Suffs. Andrea told us all about her backstage routines, must-haves, and more!

Town Hall Theater's Young Company stages Tom Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD.

New York Live Arts has announced Fall 2024 programming. Learn more about the lineup here!

Christ Church Preservation Trust  has been conducting research to discover the lives and everyday acts of resilience and survival by Black people, both free and enslaved in Colonial Philadelphia Records show funeral services were held for enslaved Africans and African-Americans at Christ Church.

Merola Opera Program continues its Summer Festival season with a fully staged production of Don Giovanni, Mozart’s vivid retelling of the Don Juan legend, with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. See photos from the show!

New York Live Arts has revealed its Fall 2024 programming. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.