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Welsh National Opera brings Spring 2022 Season to Milton Keynes which features Mozart's Don Giovanni and Janáček's Jenůfa. The Company's critically acclaimed new production of Puccini's Madam Butterfly which opened in Autumn 2021 will also be performed during the Season.

The Metropolitan Opera today announced its 2022–23 season, which features seven new productions, the most in ten seasons. Opening Night is September 27 with the company premiere of Cherubini’s Medea, starring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role alongside tenor Matthew Polenzani in David McVicar’s new staging, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

Temptations Moves and Music Magnified in Broadway National Tour. AIN'T TOO PROUD - THE LIFE and TIMES of the TEMPTATIONS is captivating Broadway's Musical Lovers. Don't miss this gifted cast and Tony Award winning Musical. Direct from Broadway company are Marcus Paul James as Otis Williams and Elijah Ahmed Lewis as David Ruffin. The cast features James T Lane as Paul, Jalen Harris as Eddie Kendricks, and Harrell Holmes Jr. as Melvin Franklin. The National Tour is currently running till 2023. For more info visit www.Ainttooproud.com

I highly recommend seeing Footloose at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. We are still in a time of uncertainty, and this production will make you forget all of that. It brings positive, uplifting, and light songs that will be stuck in your head when you leave the theatre!

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (CDT) brings audiences the hit Broadway musical, FOOTLOOSE. Based on the hit film that captured the hearts of America, FOOTLOOSE is filled with dazzling choreography, electrifying music and a moving story that brings an entire community together.

La Mama Theatre is set to present Yellingbo, an ingenious, darkly witty drama from acclaimed local playwright, Tee O’Neill, (BARASSI The Stage Show). The production will run at the new La Mama HQ, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton from March 9th through the 20th. The show explores the limits of Australians’ generosity in the context of today’s refugee crisis. 

Theater Works and the Tolleson Elementary School District are collaborating on an afterschool theater program for students in second through eighth grades.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has announced the lineup of shows for its 2022-23 season, including the first in its new state-of-the-art Rouse Theatre. The 2022-23 mainstage season will feature eight shows, several of which the Playhouse will stage at venues around Greater Cincinnati in the fall of 2022 as construction of the Rouse Theatre is completed. 

Red Bull Theater today announced that submissions are now open for Red Bull’s 12th ANNUAL SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL, six brand new 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes inspired by this year’s theme: “Alchemy,” that will be selected through an open submission process.

Hulu has announced that Love, Victor will end with its previously announced season three. The Love, Simon spinoff starring Michael Cimino will premiere all eight episodes of its final season all at once. The series also starsRachel Hilson, Anthony Turpel, Bebe Wood, Mason Gooding, George Sear, Isabella Ferreira, James Martinez, and Ana Ortiz.

The Tony Awarded Musical from Maury Yeston ( Music and Lyrics) and Peter Stone ( Book) brought back on stage at the beautiful Landestheater Linz, one of my favorite modern theatres in our hemisphere. A show with many different stories, full of tragedy and sadness, all about a supposed to be, unsinkable ship, created to write history. History was written on April 14, 1912, but not how J.Bruce Ismay ( Karsten Kenzel) hoped. It went out to become a historical tragedy, remembered even after more than a hundred years as the fatal collision with an iceberg, and many lost souls in the Atlantic Ocean.

The San Francisco–based Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association presents Kronos Festival, Kronos’ seventh annual music festival, at SFJAZZ Center on April 7–9, 2022. 

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Stephen Burdman, the Founder and Artistic Director of NY Classical Theatre, was recently honored by the Shakespeare Theatre Association as the recipient of the organization's Sidney Berger Award.

Two years off of the Birdland stage didn't do anything to John Pizzarelli expect make him more more vital and more enjoyable than ever.

Stephen Burdman, the Founder and Artistic Director of NY Classical Theatre, was recently honored by the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) as the recipient of the organization’s Sidney Berger Award.

Contra Costa Civic Theatre continues its live, in-person Main Stage season with an uproarious look at the state of the American theatre, Jane Martin's Anton in Show Business. Directed by CCCT's Executive Artistic Director Marilyn Langbehn and featuring an all-female cast playing multiple roles (including men), Anton in Show Business plays for 9 performances from March 4-20.

Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown,” “Miss Saigon,” “Yellow Rose”) leads the cast as “Sam.' other voices in the cast include Jane Fonda, Flula Borg, Lil Rel Howery, Colin O'Donoghue, John Ratzenberger, Adelynn Spoon, and Whoopi Goldberg.

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene today announced that musical theatre icons Chip Zien and Sierra Boggess will lead the cast of the acclaimed musical Harmony by the legendary Barry Manilow and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman in March 2022. At the helm will be

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.