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The live stream is free to watch, but a donation to The Actors Fund is suggested. Learn more about the production, and how to watch, here!

Along with the announcement, Mawanga and Bystrom shared their debut single 'Some Day,' which AfroPop Worldwide described as a, 'sweet shuffling, Afropop conversation.'

The Pamela Z, Theofanidis and Wingate, and Beglarian pieces are part of Apollo’s 20x2020 project, launched in 2014 with a mission to commission 20 new multicultural works before the end of the decade.

The first two seasons of the beloved show (13 episodes/season) are now available to download for $19.99 per season, or $2.99 per episode on iTunes and $1.99 per episode on Google Play.

The Actors’ Gang Theater will debut We Live On, a new play based on Hard Times by Studs Terkel, on July 22nd. With additional text by Tim Robbins and the cast and under Robbins’ direction, the live virtual production will be presented in three parts and will run through September 4th. With music by Cameron Dye and David Robbins, this world premiere features 30 accounts of the Great Depression, including those of Dolores Huerta, Dorothy Day, and Cesar Chavez.

In my personal experience, organization guides and advice have always been phrased as a way for you to mimic the success of someone else, rather than explore your own path and needs. Everyone goes through life with different perspectives and experiences, therefore everyone should find organization strategies that compliment their own lifestyles.

Over the past six months leading UK touring theatre company Stockroom has been working with theatre freelancers across the country to produce six extraordinary films that chart the common experiences of non-salaried theatre workers during the pandemic.

What happens when an industry dependent on building stories can’t afford to build them? We take a look into the American lumber shortage and how it’s affected theatres around the country.

Breaking ground is nothing new for Ashley, who was the first trans member of the pit crew in Rupaul’s Drag Race in addition to appearing in fashion campaigns for Diesel, Barney’s, and Calvin Klein.

As Overture Center prepares to reopen and begins to rebuild its future, the six-member executive leadership team will continue to guide the organization under an Overture Center Foundation Board-approved executive shared leadership model.

This instrumental soundscape is set to be the perfect Summer soundtrack, and is available now everywhere you stream music.

While it seems impossible to bring the theatrics of musical theatre to TV screens on a weekly basis, when you get down to it, television provides an insanely wide array of opportunities. However, just like movie musicals, its history is filled with ups and downs, and even nowadays networks struggle to find that balance.

Audiences will meet at Woolwich Common, a hidden London gem, and be guided in groups by a performer encountering nature as they go. A stop at the 19th century St George's Garrison Church will give the audience a chance to enjoy the beautiful ruin and garden, before continuing down towards the river for the final performance at Royal Arsenal Riverside. 

Monumental Theatre Company’s production of 'Songs for a New World' comes at a unique time in our society, and expertly capitalizes on this. With its strong cast and creative team, this adaptation rises to our moment and taps into our emotionality. It brings us the emotional connection and comfort that many of us have missed in the last year, and helps us take our next steps with the knowledge that we’ll be fine.

I once watched Waitress 2007 original film and paused on the moments when the musical number fits the plot, to listen to the original broadway cast recording, imagining how the musical numbers are being performed. When you live more than 9,000 miles away from Broadway, we can only imagine how the musical looks like.

20th Century USA will be performed before as live audience at San Francisco's Phoenix Theatre July 23, 30, 31, and August 1. MET Artistic Director Lewis Campbell directs. 

If you do and can tell it in an engaging way in front of a live audience, then the Palace Theater in Waterbury would like to hear from you. The Palace Theater is currently looking for presenters for its innovative speaker's series 2ND ACT that features stories by people of a certain age (50+) telling their story about their second acts.   

Fueled by the sheer force of the band’s connection and chemistry, Beauty in the Silence makes for a much-needed antidote to fractured times, infusing so much warmth and wisdom and unstoppable joy into each and every track.

In celebrating the reopening of Los Angeles and the easing of public health restrictions, The Music Center has expanded the footprint for its outdoor performance series called Dance at Dusk, part of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, doubling the current seating capacity for guests on its Jerry Moss Plaza.

A panel of the same name featured Founder of Black Music History Library Jenzia Burgos; two-time GRAMMY Award winner Patti LaBelle; NPR Reporter and Editor Sidney Madden; GRAMMY Award-winning, GRAMMY Legend Awards® and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Smokey Robinson; and GRAMMY Award-winning artist Raphael Saadiq.