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North Carolina Theatre has announce the full cast for its first production of the 2022-23 season, Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling. Directed by Lauren Kennedy, performances run from November 4-November 13 at A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.

In another first this season for Lyric Opera of Chicago, the company will present the 1886 five-act version in French of Verdi’s epic masterpiece Don Carlos — a tour-de-force experience for opera lovers — for five performances only, November 9–25, 2022.

Star of musial theatre, cabaret, film and television, TREVOR ASHLEY will star exclusively as Pharaoh, in this dazzling new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, for the strictly limited Sydney season from February 2023. New seats will be released for sale on Friday 7 October 2022.

Ambassador Theatre Group Productions has announced a UK and Ireland Tour of the pantomime MOTHER GOOSE, starring Ian McKellen as Mother Goose, John Bishop as Vic Goose and Mel Giedroyc as the Goose.

The musical expertise of lyricist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schonberg is gloriously presented in DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING. Global Musical theatre stars Michael Ball, John Owen-Jones, Rachel Tucker, Bobby Fox, David Harris, Sooha Kim, Suzie Mathers, and Marie Zamora perform some highlights from Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, La Révolution Française, Martin Guerre and The Pirate Queen.

The Sanderson Sisters have made their long-awaited return in Hocus Pocus 2! Read on to find out which Broadway have run amok in the Hocus Pocus movies. With the recent news that a Broadway-aimed Hocus Pocus musical is in the works, BroadwayWorld has compiled a list of all of the Broadway connections in the Hocus Pocus movies.

This collection of 10 ballads by the likes of Kern, Mercer, Kern & Mercer, Kern & Harbach, Kern & Fields, the law firm of Hammerstein, Hart, Rodgers & Romberg, and even Turman Capote is the collection of ballads you didn’t know you needed.

What began with an encounter between director Josephine Barton and Kurdish Iranian musician Marouf Majidi in 2017 in Helsinki has culminated in a converted factory space in Newham and Dido’s Bar, a story of immigrants fleeing war and persecution and finding love in foreign lands.

Read reviews for the Off-Broadway stage premiere of The Kilbane's soaring and dynamic indie rock musical Weightless, opening tonight at WP Theater (2162 Broadway), for a limited engagement through October 16th, 2022.

What did our critic think of TITANIC THE MUSICAL at MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER? Something epic has set sail once more at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Remounted after having to close early due to a COVID-19 outbreak last April, this show has been years in the making. It's the company's single largest production in their 70-year history, and Titanic the Musical is every inch a spectacular, tremendous achievement.

Ananda Xenia Shakti's new music video celebrates the Indian festival of Navratri. Filmed on location in India, the music video is out now.

Tiresias the Oracle (aka Evan Silver) will be presenting UNDERWORLD Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 7:30PM at 3 Dollar Bill in Brooklyn, NY.

Chloe braided the organic fluidity of R&B with the clear-eyed intensity of golden-era pop, heralding her arrival as an effusive young star. In her four years since graduating from NYU’s Clive Davis Institute, Chloe has quickly become a sought after songwriter, frequently co-writing with artists such as Normani and Dua Lipa.

Opening night of Tony Danza's 54 Below run was full of surprises, heart, Dad jokes and great music.

Set in a music club, teetering on the edge of belonging, Dido's Bar is a new immersive theatre and music production opening at The Factory in London’s historic Royal Docks on 23 September (Press Night 28 September) before touring to Manchester, Leicester, Portsmouth, and Oxford. Production photos were released today.

Theatre Horizon in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania has announced their 2022-23 season of programming, which features two professional regional premieres and the return of a seasonal tradition, the Theatre Horizon Holiday Concert.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts' calendar just got fuller with freshly added shows for the 2022–23 season.  Learn more about the full lineup here!

PRIMARY STAGES' 38th Anniversary Gala will honor long-time collaborators Charles Busch and Carl Andress (The Confession of Lily Dare; The Tribute Artist) with the 2022 Einhorn Mentorship Award. The event will take place on Tuesday November 15, 2022, at 6pm at Sony Hall.

BIRDLAND THEATER will present singers Stacy Sullivan and Todd Murray in the new show “I’m Glad There Is You – The Musical Romance of Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee” on Monday, October 31 at 8:30 PM.

Overall--especially in this tighter, revised version lifted from London’s West End production that’s much zippier than the original--there is no denying that YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is a witty, super funny, and genuinely enjoyable musical comedy that earns plenty of laughs and smiles along the way.