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Spruce Peak Arts has announced 'Jazz at The Peak', an intimate jazz series curated by Peter Schmeeckle. The three-part series will kick off Wednesday, December 28 at 5PM, with subsequent shows Saturday, Feb 4, 2023 and Saturday, March 4, 2023. Don't miss this intimate après alternative where audiences will join the musicians onstage for a jazz club feel!

The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center is excited to bring live performances back to Stowe with a seven event Winter Concert Series. The series includes options for limited, safe, in-person attendance, as well as livestreaming. Tickets are $25 for in-person attendance or $15 for a livestream ticket.

Spruce Peak Art's 2019 Emergency 1st Responders Soul & Blues Bash on Saturday, November 23 at 7pm, features soulful blues vocals, award-winning musicians (and screen writers), emerging new talent, incredible songwriting, special guests and lots of rockin' attitude!  This incredible night is a celebration of our region's emergency 1st responders who can claim buy one gets one free tickets as a gesture of appreciation.

As part of the New York Musical Festival, Generation Me is absolute perfection in its ability to prove how kindness and cruelty are of the same unfortunate hand. How people, so certain in their anger or jealousy, are sometimes so blind to what really matters: what can you do to help me?

Producers today have announced that OH, HELLO ON BROADWAY has officially recouped its $2.9 million capitalization, just before closing its limited run on January 22. 

OH, HELLO on Broadway has shattered the box office record at the Lyceum Theatre. The show, which stars Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's inexplicably popular alter egos in their acclaimed Broadway masterpiece, grossed $911,602 over nine performances the week ending January 2. The previous record was held by the 2008 production of Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart.

Theatergoers just can't get enough of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland! Once again, OH, HELLO on BROADWAY has extended its engagement by one week to Sunday January 22, 2017. This will now be the final chance for audiences to catch Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's inexplicably popular alter egos in their acclaimed Broadway masterpiece.

Due to wildly popular demand, Oh, Hello on Broadway has extended its engagement by one week to Sunday, January 15, 2017. This will be the final chance for audiences to catch Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's inexplicably popular alter egos, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, in their acclaimed masterpiece.

At long last, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's wildly popular alter egos, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, will make their debuts on The Great White Way!  Performances begin tonight, Friday, September 23, for their acclaimed masterpiece, OH, HELLO on BROADWAY, directed by Alex Timbers, at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).

At long last, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's wildly popular alter egos, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, will make their debuts on The Great White Way!  Performances begin tonight, Friday, September 23, for their acclaimed masterpiece, OH, HELLO on BROADWAY, directed by Alex Timbers, at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).

The single-panel satirist struck again this week with another skewering of the Broadway-bound codgers.

Get in line! The Lyceum Theatre box office (149 West 45th Street) opens today, August 26th, at 10am for tickets to OH, HELLO on BROADWAY.

Get in line! The Lyceum Theatre box office (149 West 45th Street) opens this Friday, August 26th at 10am for tickets to OH, HELLO on BROADWAY.

The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) a production of The Present Company presents HELD: A Musical Fantasy, a poignant story of childhood friends growing apart in a world where reality is fluid and time can stand still, with book and lyrics by Kelly Maxwell and music by Meghan Rose. BroadwayWorld had your first look at the production below!

BroadwayWorld has your first look at NYMF's BREAKING THE MOON, which began performances last night! Check it out!

The Midtown International Theater Festival (MITF) presents Insomnia with music and lyrics by Charles Bloom and book by Theo Wolf. Ovi Vargas directs a cast of seven, including Philip Skinner, Jesse Manocherian*, Anette Michelle Sanders*, Lauren Lukacek*, Chris Brick*, Tyler Milliron*, and Dennis Holland*. Insomnia is being staged at the Main Stage, 312 West 36th Street in New York City from August 2-7, 2016. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

After a sold-out Off-Broadway run, the outrageously-opinionated 70-somethings come to Broadway.

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney announced today that at long last, their wildly popular alter egos Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland will make their debuts on The Great White Way in their acclaimed masterpiece, OH, HELLO on BROADWAY at The Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street).

The Drama League (Executive Artistic Director, Gabriel Shelian-Shanks) gathers today for the 82nd Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony, hosted by 2016 Tony® Award-nominees, Zachary Levi (She Loves Me) and Megan Hilty (Noises Off), in the Broadway Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis Times Square (1535 Broadway). 

The 2016 Drama League Award Nominees for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Revival of a Play, Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Revival of a Musical, and the much-coveted Distinguished Performance Award were just announced this morning at Sardi's, by Aladdin stars Adam Jacobs, Courtney Reed and James Monroe Iglehart. Check out the full list of nominees below!