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Get full details for jazz programming coming up at at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater. January 17 - January 30.

San Francisco Bay Area's SuperBad Theater Company, a Affiliate Company of Weathersby Productions has announced their 2022 Theater season. The 2022 season will include THE NEW TEACHER (February 19, 2022) and REMEMBERING JAMES- The Life and Music of James Brown (March 19 - August 27, 2022).

Winners have been announced for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards. The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

One of the most respected and celebrated songwriters of his generation, Jason Isbell possesses an incredible penchant for identifying and articulating some of the deepest, yet simplest, human emotions, turning them into beautiful songs of the everyday human condition with thoughtful, heartfelt, and sometimes brutal honesty.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

One of the most respected and celebrated songwriters of his generation, Jason Isbell possesses an incredible penchant for identifying and articulating some of the deepest, yet simplest, human emotions, turning them into beautiful songs of the everyday human condition with thoughtful, heartfelt, and sometimes brutal honesty.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Rhode Island Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center has announce that George Clinton will celebrate his 80th birthday in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey on Friday, January 21, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. Don't miss George Clinton and & Parliament-Funkadelic as they perform timeless classics with special guests yet to be announced. 

Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Orleans Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Let’s stipulate that book writer and lyricist Tom Eyen and composer Henry Krieger were not Sondheim. What they gave us in Dreamgirls was serviceable, not brilliant, the result of a long development process largely aimed at repairing holes in the melodrama. The result: the company that puts on the show has a heavy lift indeed. But I have to say that ArtsCentric proves to have very strong arms.

Hue and Cry will be bringing stripped-back versions of their classic songs to Pyramid's intimate Exhibition Hall next year.

As live performances return to venues throughout Southern California, Irvine Barclay Theatre welcomes a new season featuring an array of renowned performers, from iconic dancers to Grammy-winning artists, the beloved holiday classic The Nutcracker, and Emmy nominee and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, among others.

Canadian sing-songwriter and guitarist Gordon Lightfoot returns to Overture Center on Thursday, June 16, 2022, at 8 p.m. in Capitol Theater. This marks the sixth time the folk-pop artist has graced Overture's stages.

Callous Scrooge, shackled Marley, and the haunting spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future spring vividly to life in People's Light Producing Director Zak Berkman's world premiere adaptation of Dickens' yuletide ghost story.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park continues its season with a second world premiere: NEED YOUR LOVE by writer-director KJ Sanchez.

Less Broadway and more jazz, rock, rhythm & blues, Chelsea Table + Stage is brewing up some fun events in their hip new venue.

The musical Remembering James is continuing its own history: From being commissioned by San Francisco's Boxcar Theatre, to having a national tour from 2019 to retiring from the stage after the Mass Gathering Ban, result of the National Pandemic against COVID-19 Virus.

At one of the country’s oldest residential colleges, student and aspiring journalist Nikki Faletau is on a collision course with Jo Mulligan, the first female Master of the college. Scandals inside the college rarely reach the outside world, as there’s always quiet money to mop up the mess.