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We sat down with founder and director Austin McCormick of Théâtre XIV to chat about the reopening, Nutcracker Rouge, and what’s to come.

Ice Theatre of New York performed during opening weekend at The Rink at Rockefeller on Friday, November 5, 2021 for a private event by Chanel to celebrate its fragrance Chanel No. 5, featuring a performance by guest artist and social media sensation Elladj Baldé.

 The company's success in remaining strong during the pandemic will be on display as it takes the stage with five premieres that were created during the past year and a half.  

FRIGID New York will present the 13th Annual The Fire This Time Festival at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery), January 17-February 6, 2022. Performances will also be available to livestream from home. 

Parsons Dance arrives at The Joyce with four dazzling new works, including two David Parsons premieres: The Road, set to “Peace Train,” “Trouble,” and more iconic songs by Yusuf/Cat Steven; and Balance of Power, a solo created for the Parsons dancer Zoey Anderson, in collaboration with percussionist Giancarlo de Trizio.

At the risk of confounding the average thinker, the playwright may lean on bookish details to justify her academic focus. Nonetheless, she's a gifted storyteller who can weave an arcane chalk talk on cosmology as a way to unfurl a theatrical yarn about a multidimensional protagonist.

Author of one-man shows, Tom Frueh, returns to Midtown Manhattan club with a new musical.

Audiences who are interested in attending the San Francisco International Arts Festival's diverse and innovative programming, but who don't have the time, energy, or resources to get to Fort Mason now have a way to join in via the festival's virtual program.

A new play, DEATH BY SCHOOLING examines the collision between the intellectual accomplishments of worldwide culture and the demands of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Is the teaching of these accomplishments being removed from education because CRT calls these accomplishments racist?

The West End hit production of TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL today announces over 200,000 new tickets for sale which will be released later this week taking booking at the Aldwych Theatre to 18 December 2022.

Within the attic of an insane asylum, in a time and place of little importance and for reasons unknown, eight women of history convene to discuss the business of their lives - shells of people who once embodied greatness, now pieced together by moments of nostalgia and hysteria. When all that was has been stripped away, these women are brought together to test their fate in the final act - that of survival. The absurdity of the world in which they live forces them to be as they always were, but spiral further and further down the rabbit hole of insanity - to simultaneously be and not to be.

The Joffrey Ballet's Ashley Wheater MBE, The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director and Greg Cameron, President and CEO are pleased to announce the addition of four dancers to the Joffrey roster for the 2021-22 season: Brian Bennett (Lanham, Maryland), Blake Kessler (Jacksonville, Florida), Yuchan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Miranda Silveira (Barcelona, Spain). With these new company members, The Joffrey Ballet has expanded to 43 dancers representing 13 countries.

As part of the announcement, the Philadelphia native unveiled the album artwork for Expensive Pain, which was created from an original painting by renowned artist Nina Chanel Abney.

Chocolate Ballerina Company, a contemporary community-based dance organization that supports the hidden talents in youth and adult artists of color, is holding open auditions for the company's first ever all-Black THE NUTCRACKER. Pre-professional and professional dancers of all genders, ages 7-23 years old, are welcome to audition for Chocolate Ballerina Company on Saturday, September 18.

The Book of Mormon, the smash-hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, resumes its UK and European Tour at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on 12 October 2021, and will return to the Prince of Wales Theatre in London to continue its seven year sold out run from 15 November 2021.

The Yard's autumn season will include two new theatre premieres by emerging and established artists; ATHENA by Gracie Gardner will open the season, providing a platform for director Grace Gummer following her National Theatre Women of Tomorrow Directors Award.

The Circle is a four-week social media competition in which new contestants enter The Circle, where they flirt, befriend, piss off, and compete in challenges against each other on a unique social media platform to earn the ultimate cash prize as top influencer.

“[…]that season, billed as 'The Romans' - consisting of timely productions of Julius Caesar and Coriolanus - opened last weekend at the quad at Santa Fe Preparatory School (1101 Camino de Cruz Blanca), proving itself to be well worth the wait.“

The Joffrey Ballet opens its inaugural season at the Lyric Opera House and marks its return to live performances with Home: a Celebration.

The International Shakespeare Center presents Pivotal Relationships in Shakespeare: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; a close examination, discussion and demonstration about the intricacies of the central relationship in the Scottish play with a diverse group of actors and directors who have examined the relationship in production.