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Warner Chappell Music (WCM) today announced that it has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with Australian multi-hyphenate Eddie Perfect. The songwriter's work recently made its Broadway debut in two highly anticipated musicals: King Kong and Beetlejuice. King Kong, based on the classic 1933 film, opened at the Broadway Theatre in October of 2018, and Beetlejuice, based on the 1988 Tim Burton flick, recently opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.

ROMEO and JULIET coming Off-Broadway in a World Premiere Jewish adaptation this June 2019 at the Center for Jewish History (15 west 16th Street New York NY 10011). Adapted and directed by David Serero, who is also starring as Romeo, this unique production. One family is Sephardic and the other one is Ashkenazi, featuring classic Ladinos and Yiddish songs as well as some others surprises...

L.A. based sister duo Ceraadi, newly signed to Roc Nation/Island Records with over 1.6 million Instagram followers, and currently making their way across the country on Fresh Empire's Spring Break Jump Off: The Playlist Edition weekend tour of the U.S., spice up the mix with the release of “Loyal,” their label debut song, and the first new track from their upcoming EP due this summer. On their new release and signing to Roc Nation/Island Records, Ceraadi states, “If you're loyal to me, I'll be loyal to you. “Loyal” is about being able to trust someone. Trusting that what we say is what we mean. It's something we “NEED” in a relationship. It's a 50/50 thing.  In previous relationships, we both have found out that the person was dating multiple people.  It hurt a lot. Why couldn't they have been loyal or even honest enough to break up with us beforehand?  It's something everyone goes through. Like stop playing games! Do you want to be with us or what?! Haha!”

Filmmakers from the U.S., Lebanon, Palestine, and the United Kingdom have been selected for the 2019 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah. At the Directors Lab (May 27-June 18), filmmakers will rehearse, shoot, and edit key scenes from their scripts, working in an immersive, hands-on environment with support from accomplished advisors to build their craft as directors and make key discoveries in collaboration with their actors and key crew. Immediately following, the Screenwriters Lab (June 20-24) provides the opportunity to process the insight gained from the Directors Lab through one-on-one story sessions with screenwriter advisors, and find inspiration and guidance for continued development of their screenplays.

Top celebrity auctioneer Erin Ward has helped raise more than a million dollars for GLAAD this year, the latest haul for the LGBTQ advocacy group coming during Saturday's celeb-packed GLAAD Media Awards. Now the fundraiser has her sights set on creating opportunities for the nation's girls at the Girls Inc. of New York City Annual Spring Gala at Cipriani Broadway on Wednesday.

THE LAWS OF HUMAN NATURE Author, Robert Greene, and UK-based composer Ilan Eshkeri are Tom Needham's special guests this Thursday at 6 pm on WUSB's THE SOUNDS OF FILM.

Brit-soul contemporary Mullally returns today with a stunning acoustic performance video for his emotive balled “Think About You” – a track produced by Grammy-nominated duo Rice'N'Peas, the brains behind G-Eazy hit, “Some Kind Of Drug,” and Bazzi's smash, “Beautiful” ft. Camilla Cabello.

Shattering the previous record of most all-time Billboard Music Awards wins, Drake took home 12 awards tonight, including Top Artist - the most of the evening, bringing his total to 27, now the most of any artist ever! Airing this evening from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas at 8pm ET/PT on NBC, the "2019 Billboard Music Awards" opened with a spectacular world premiere performance by global superstar Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie, followed by a show-stopping medley of today's biggest hits from show host, Kelly Clarkson. The night was full of legendary, nostalgic, and never-before-seen performances, celebrating this year's biggest and best in music!

Ford Theatres presents an immersive experience: Last Whispers - Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and a Falling Tree, on Friday, June 14 at 8:00pm. Last Whispers is simultaneously a spatially-designed sound composition and a film -- an invocation of languages that have gone extinct and an incantation of those that are endangered.

The LOCKN' Music Festival, nestled in the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Arrington, Virginia, provides the ultimate atmosphere for live music. Now you could win the ultimate LOCKN' experience as the personal guest of the festival's producer, Peter Shapiro!

Come spend your July 4th weekend at the High Sierra Music Festival in Northern California and meet Jim James!

GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced today that star of the Broadway LBGTQ-themed musical phenomenon "The Prom," Caitlin Kinnunen, will perform the show's LGBTQ youth anthem 'Unruly Heart' with the NYC Youth Pride Chorus at the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday, May 4, 2019.

dick clark productions today announced Sirius XM's Sway Calloway, Sofia Reyes and Jaymes Vaughan as the hosts of "BBMAs Red Carpet Live," the official pre-show for the "2019 Billboard Music Awards," exclusively on Twitter.

Purchase College, SUNY will hold its 47th annual commencement ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY.  Degrees will be conferred upon more than 1,000 graduating scholars representing dozens of majors and several countries.

Santigold has announced the 10 Years Golder Tour to commemorate the recent 10th anniversary of her self-titled debut album. She will be performing her debut album in its entirety as well as songs from throughout her career including her latest mixtape-style album I Don't Want: The Gold Fire Sessions(Downtown). Several dates have sold out on the tour which kicks off next Tuesday, April 30 in Denver. Today, Naeem (FKA Spank Rock) who guests on “Shove It” on Santigold's classic debut and Amanda Blank who toured as Santigold's support on the tour for that album have been announced as support for this 10 Years Golder Tour.

Radio Disney is throwing a real-time live party for its most passionate fans, evolving music's biggest event for families to the newly rebranded 'ARDYs: A Radio Disney Music Celebration' (for the past six years known as the 'Radio Disney Music Awards'). Actress, singer, songwriter, Hollywood Records and Republic Records recording artist Sofia Carson (Disney Channel's 'Descendants,' Freeform's 'Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists') is set to host the exciting music and star-filled event. For the first time, it will be a live telecast, originating from Los Angeles, on SUNDAY, JUNE 16 (8:00 p.m. EDT/re-airing at 8:00 p.m. PDT), on Disney Channel and in DisneyNOW, with a simulcast on Radio Disney. Multiple Emmy® and Producers Guild Award nominee Casey Patterson Entertainment ('Lip Sync Battle' and 'MTV Movie Awards') will executive produce the show.

Los proximos 6 de mayo en Madrid y 13 de mayo en Barcelona, seis de los mayores nombres del Teatro Musical en nuestro pais homenajearan a Pasek y Paul y a su carrera con el concierto DESDE MI VENTANA.

DREAMERS will release of LAUNCH FLY LAND on April 26. LISTEN here, downloads are available upon request. To date the band have shared the single 'Die Happy' and album track 'Insomniac.'

The Intercept, together with U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein (“The Shock Doctrine”) are proud to present “A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a 7-minute animated film featuring art by award-winning illustrator Molly Crabapple (“Brothers of the Gun”), co-written by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Avi Lewis (“This Changes Everything”) and co-directed by Kim Boekbinder and Jim Batt. The film is narrated by Ocasio-Cortez.

Today, Netflix released Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce, which presents an intimate look at her historic 2018 Coachella performance that paid homage to America's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Interspersed with candid footage and interviews detailing the preparation and powerful intent behind her vision, Homecoming gives a peek into the process and emotional physical sacrifices it took to conceptualize and execute a performance of that magnitude that became a cultural movement. This stand-alone Netflix original is now available globally on Netflix.