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Theater 2020, the only professional theater troupe in Downtown Brooklyn, once again proves itself as a force to be reckoned with with this lovely production of Into the Woods; theirs is a force that brings with it the power and influence a dramatic performance ought to have.

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Today visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, Pharrell Williams announced his newest venture – SOMETHING IN THE WATER, a multi-day music festival and cultural experience on the beach in his hometown of Virginia Beach.

BWW Review: Wicked at Popejoy Hall

EXPERIMENTING WITH KATZ a new comedy written by David Adam Gill and directed by John Robert Tillotson will have a limited engagement run Thursday, September 27th thru Sunday, October 14th at TheatreLab

EXPERIMENTING WITH KATZ a new comedy written by David Adam Gill and directed by John Robert Tillotson will have a limited engagement run Thursday, September 27th thru Sunday, October 14th at TheatreLab, 357 West 36th Street, NYC. The production, spotlights the coming out process and its repercussions (both the serious and absurd), and is produced by the New Ambassadors Theatre Company and Julia Botero. http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/events/experimenting-with-katz/   

The 29th Street Playwrights Collective has announced INDEPENDENCE DAY: An Old Play to Pay New Debt, written by John Robert Tillotson, as the recipient of the 2018 Michael Warren Powell Memorial Reading. The reading was named after the late founder of Circle in the Square Rep.

The Recording Academy will honor its 2018 Special Merit Awards recipients with 'GRAMMY Salute To Music Legends®,' an awards ceremony and live tribute concert on Saturday, July 14, 2018, at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, the Meters, Queen, and Tina Turner. Additional Special Merit Awards honorees to be celebrated include Bill Graham, Seymour Stein, and John Williams, who are this year's Trustees Award honorees, and Tony Agnello and Richard Factor, who are the Technical GRAMMY Award recipients. Also being honored is Melissa Salguero, this year's recipient of the Music Educator Award. Led by GRAMMY®-nominated industry icon Greg Phillinganes as musical director, the tribute concert will feature rare performances by honorees and never-seen renditions by those they've inspired. Currently scheduled to appear are eight-time GRAMMY winner Herb Alpert, who will honor Blaine; past GRAMMY nominee Micky Dolenz, who will be honoring Diamond; GRAMMY winner Sammy Hagar, who will pay tribute to Graham; 13-time GRAMMY winner and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Harris; past GRAMMY nominee Ledisi, who will salute Jordan; and three-time GRAMMY winner Trisha Yearwood, who will pay tribute to Harris. Presenters for the evening include actress Angela Bassett and GRAMMY winner Henry Rollins. Additional performers and presenters will be announced shortly. Tickets for the event will be on sale via Ticketmasterbeginning today. 

What seemed like an impossible task, the Artemis Women In Action Film Festival (AWIFF) has chosen the winners from its staggering number of entries this year. Filmmakers who featured strong female characters entered this cause célèbre from around the world, an increasing record for the fast-rising festival, geared to honor female action and empowerment heroes to movie enthusiasts everywhere. With films about women overcoming great odds, saving lives, stopping wars, and other socially relevant themes, every film in the festival, ranging from dramas to documentaries offers their audiences something unique and engaging.

The Village Playwrights presents Valentine's Gay -- Romance Our Way, a staged reading of 10 minutes plays on Wednesday February 14, 2018, 8 pm to 10 pm at the LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC.

29th Street Playwrights Collective presents The UN-Auguration, an Evening of American Voices, short plays by New York City playwrights inspired by and commenting on the State of Our Nation. The staged readings will take place on Monday, January 29, at 7pm, at The Bernie Wohl Theater, 647 Columbus Ave. Topics range from climate change to gun control, the opioid epidemic to Trump's White House, Women's March to plumbers, and all kinds of views of life in our modern world.

The Recording Academy announced its Special Merit Awards recipients today, and this year's Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, the Meters, Queen, and Tina Turner.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that a WICKED day-of-show drawing for a limited number of seats will take place inside Block 37.

Tony winner Judith Light (Broadway's The Assembled Parties & Other Desert Cities; TV's Transparent, Ugly Betty ) will join Roberta Colindrez (Fun Home; TV's I Love Dick ), Zachary Spicer (The Good Catholic), Carson Meyer (SPF-18; TV's Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors ), and John Ortiz (Kong: Skull Island; TV's Togetherness ) in the upcoming indie drama MS. WHITE LIGHT.