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What did our critic think of FROZEN at Kentucky Performing Arts?

An interview with The Playwright’s Project 39th Annual Plays By Young Writers Festival director Kandace Crystal on working with these young writers and what to expect from the public performance on February 3rd, 2023.

This February and March, James Conlon directs and curates a series of performances and events across Los Angeles highlighting the music of William Grant Still and Alexander Zemlinsky around the momentous return of Conlon’s Recovered Voices initiative at LA Opera featuring the Los Angeles premiere of Still’s Highway 1, USA and the revival of Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf (Der Zwerg) from February 24 to March 17. 

“BMF” season three stars returning actors Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr. (“Euphoria”) as “Demetrius Flenory,” Da'Vinchi (“All American,” “Grown-ish”) as “Terry Flenory,” Russell Hornsby (Fences, The Hate U Give) as “Charles Flenory,” Michole Briana White (“Dead to Me,” She Hate Me) as “Lucille Flenory,” and more. Watch the video now!

Get a first look at Jess Folley in a new trailer for Burlesque the Musical, the first ever stage adaptation of Steven Antin’s crowd-pleasing movie Burlesque, which starred Christina Aguilera.

Get ready to laugh with three short plays – presented under the banner of “A Night of Comedy” – at Stirling Theatre in February. 

Kelly Green presents 'Seems,' a musical rallying cry for unity in the face of division.

As part of our Words From the Wings series, we're chatting with Nick Gaswirth, who is currently appearing in How to Dance in Ohio! Nick told us all about his backstage routines, pre-show rituals, and more!

Acclaimed author Bob Herpe releases his thrilling new novel, 'The Other Side of Crisis.'

Grammy & Emmy award-winning musician Paul Bogaev, Musical Director of the highly-acclaimed revival of  Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures at the Menier Chocolate Factory & Trevor Nunn’s Fiddler on the Roof, will celebrate legendary songwriters Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits in NO SURRENDER.

What did our critic think of MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Shoreside Theatre, Pumphouse Theatre? What makes any Shakespeare production superb is the director’s ability to recognise the themes within Shakespeare’s text - his extraordinary ability to bring his characters to life by a turn of phrase, a pun, the looks they share, by a breath they take, by the pause they make, the jokes they make.

Kean Stage will present Carolyn Dorfman Dance on Sunday, January 28 at 4:00 p.m. and Monday, January 29 at 10:30 a.m. at Wilkins Theatre.

The Colony Theatre presents Imagine Theatre's World Premiere play, 'The Girl Who Made the Milky Way'.

What did our critic think of A MASCULINE DRAMA at Teatr Wspolczesny Wroclaw? We love to generalize, to put an individual in a common box labeled with all the qualities, or most often with faults, and then, let's close the box and make sure that nothing can come out. Marcin Libera fights with a lot of generalizations in Teatr Wspolczesny Wroclaw's new production.

The song starts with a brief acoustic interlude before bludgeoning the listener with crushing down-tuned guitars and staccato snare sounds, underpinned by thunderous bass drums and piercingly intense vocals. The song laments how people blindly follow the rules to get ahead in life - often without ever really knowing why they are doing it.

This reading series celebrates Black Theater, Writers, and Actors. Featuring 'Topdog/Underdog' by Suzan-Lori Parks and 'Eclipsed' by Danai Gurira. Also, 'Mental Prison' by Ra Wilson, Demetrius Ford, Antoine K. Stroman, Henderson Sealy, and Allen Clark.

Central Indiana Dance Ensemble (CIDE), located in Carmel, takes their first step toward The Ballet Alliance Festival in Spokane, WA on February 13. CIDE will take approximately 25 of their senior level dancers to the Festival during the first week of May.  

Christian McBride announced the upcoming release of But Who's Gonna Play The Melody?, a new album recorded with renowned bassist and composer Edgar Meyer. The album explores the vast variety possible with the pairing of two limitless bassists, encompassing diverse original compositions, American Songbook standards, and familiar classics.

 Following a successful East Bay run and a transfer to San Francisco, Aren’t You…? returns to The Marsh Berkeley, written and performed by Fred Pitts, directed by ShawnJ West, with dramaturgy by David Ford.

New York City's leading chamber choir, Musica Viva NY, presents a one-night only concert on Sunday, March 3, 2024, 5:00 p.m., at Manhattan's All Souls. Performed by 30+ singers, conductor and pianist Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez and organist Trent Johnson, the beautifully interwoven program centers on adaptation—works that repurposed harmonies and melodies by composers of the past.