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The Founding Members of Black Theatre United (BTU) announce the release of their historic New Deal For Broadway, establishing industry-wide standards and reforms around Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility & Belonging (EDIAB) with a focus on Black individuals in theatre.

Chamber Music America (CMA), the national network for ensemble music professionals, today announced the distribution of $1,290,450 through its six grant programs.

Many theatres feel that if they don’t press forward, then they’ll be sealing their own fate - that leaves many to be faced with seemingly impossible decisions: do we continue streaming and not bring anyone back in? Do we produce a hybrid season? Are our audiences ready to come back?

Created during the Covid-19 pandemic hiatus from live shows, the album is a testament to the power of music and friendship.

The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he completely transformed the role of the Clown in the pantomime with a look as iconic as Chaplin's tramp or Tommy Cooper's magician.

Some of Broadway's brightest young stars will join the Times Square Project this Saturday, August 21, for their last performance before Broadway's reopening September 14th. Dance Molinari will be debuting an original song 'We're Gonna Come Back', performed by the next generation of Broadway.

For Part 2, we're chatting with the pros behind SpotCo., one of Broadway's largest marketing firms, about the details of getting ad campaigns back on their feet, as well as the efforts being made to bring Broadway back as a more diverse and inclusive entity. We also chatted with technicians and artists behind some of our biggest shows about how the long-term effects of the shutdown have impacted their workforces and bottom lines as they work to bring back Broadway.

In addition to a spot on this year’s Reading and Leeds Festival as well as a handful of headlining shows this month in the UK, Boston Manor will be hopping across the pond as the main support to UK pop punk favorites Neck Deep across their run of upcoming North American shows in 2022.

Sam previously shared the album’s title track, “Seventeen Going Under” which saw pick up from, among others, Billboard, Brooklyn Vegan, and Guitar World who called it 'an infectious indie rock lungbuster that is up there with the very best of his repertoire.'

The Tony Award-winning theatre has announced a fresh season of work – on its various stages in the East Village - that explores new rituals of our time from a multiplicity of perspectives and speaks to the epic changes of the 21st century.

WHAT HAPPENED?: THE MICHAELS ABROAD, the world premiere play and the final in the Rhinebeck Panorama, written and directed by Tony Award winner Richard Nelson, will begin performances on Saturday, August 28 at Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College in a very intimate 74-seat configuration.

Among the highlights are Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated adaptation of Dune; Academy Award–nominated director Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle, a visually extraordinary tale about a shy teenager who becomes an online sensation as a pop star.

WILLOW will also play Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas on Friday, September 17th. View all the tour dates here.

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble has announced live performances to celebrate its 20th Anniversary Season. Kicking off a two-year retrospective is a remount of 2003’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” choreographed by Executive Artistic Director Ellyzabeth Adler with the cast and assistant choreographer Kelly Anderson.

Diversity On & Off Stage's board has made the difficult decision to cancel the one-year anniversary event in light of rising Covid-19 cases in the Charlotte area.

Berkshire Theatre Group and Kate Maguire will present Tony Award-winner Stephanie J. Block for two shows only under The Big Tent at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA. Stephanie J. Block is one of a few Broadway performers to garner three Tony Award nominations in just six years.

The title track, which recalls early Hold Steady with its raucous guitars and Bradbury's freewheeling, almost conversational delivery, distills this experience into one frantic, infectiously catchy minute, translating that particularly painful meeting into a blistering takedown of the commodification of art.

A dreamy slice of Americana, 'Nothing Matters (When You're Mine)' features the Rangers' signature harmonies and reflects upon the memories of a relationship gone wrong.

Consisting of like-minded colleagues stemming from the European Union Youth Orchestra, Her Ensemble brings together some of the most in-demand orchestral and chamber musicians in the UK, reinventing the classical concert experience and canon of classical music as we know it.

This sensitive new adaptation by Janice Okoh, with additional material by Paul Robinson, will bring to the stage all the vibrant colour and warmth of the much-loved coming-of age story, which captured the hearts and minds of so many readers on its publication in 2019, when it was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.