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This year's 14th Annual Blues From The Top Festival features its finest music lineup yet, with a reunion by renowned Blues-Americana group, Trampled Under Foot!

On this week's LIP SYNC BATTLE NBA All-Star Chris Paul takes it back to 1983 with New Edition's "Candy Girl" as his LA Clippers teammate DeAndre Jordan and Houston Rockets forward Josh Smith watch from the balcony.

Pentangle Arts and ArtisTree are thrilled to announce the opening of their collaborative stage production of CATS The Musical. The show runs from April 29th to May 8th, 2016, and features local and professional talent. Both organizations are thrilled to offer this rare opportunity to see CATS The Musical in the Upper Valley -- before it returns to Broadway this summer! The music is composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the story is based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot. CATS ran on Broadway from 1982 to 2000, making it the fourth longest-running show in Broadway history.

BWW Interview: Poet & Writer Celeste Lawson

Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Simpkins and Managing Director Justin Ball, announces the 2016 summer season of musicals and plays Gypsy; Big River; Quartet; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; and the new musical, Judge Jackie:  Disorder in the Court.

Coming off of their Obie Award winning production of A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Great Lakes at City Center in January and the critically acclaimed Heartbreak at The Bushwick Starr in May, New Georges announces their final production of 2015, the World Premiere of HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS by Trish Harnetiaux (If You Can Get to Buffalo with Incubator Arts Project) at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn; www.bricktheater.com) as part of The Brick's Resident Artist program, tonight, December 3-19.

Coming off of their Obie Award winning production of A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Great Lakes at City Center in January and the critically acclaimed Heartbreak at The Bushwick Starr in May, New Georges announces their final production of 2015, the World Premiere of HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS by Trish Harnetiaux (If You Can Get to Buffalo with Incubator Arts Project) at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn; www.bricktheater.com) as part of The Brick's Resident Artist program, December 3-19.

Lauren Marcus, recently seen in Two River Theater's world premiere production of Be More Chill, takes over the role of Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Sharon Playhouse. Anneliese van der Pol was unable to continue with the production due to a family emergency.  Check out a first look at the cast in action below!

Little Shop of Horrors runs tonight, August 13, through August 30 at Sharon Playhouse.

Lauren Marcus, recently seen in Two River Theater's world premiere production of Be More Chill, will take over the role of Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at Sharon Playhouse.  Anneliese van der Pol was unable to continue with the production due to a family emergency.

Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Simpkins and Managing Director Justin Ball, will present TV's Disney Channel star of "That's So Raven" Anneliese van der Pol as Audrey in the award-winning musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors on the Mainstage from August 13-30.

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce the addition of Halestorm , to the 2015-16 Season. Halestorm will perform Monday, October 5 at 7:30 p.m.

At this year's Frieze Art Fair New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to present a special program, My Way, curated and organized by Michael St. John, and featuring Will Boone, Katherine Bradford, Dennis Dawson, William Eggleston, Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin, Leo Gabin, Marc Hundley, Harmony Korine, Beverly McIver, Alex McQuilkin, Joe Ovelman, William Pope.L, Borna Sammak, Josh Smith, Dash Snow, Michael St. John, and Henry Taylor.? We will also be presenting works by Elliott Hundley, Josiah McElheny, Josephine Meckseper, Matthew Ritchie, and Matthew Ronay, among others.

At this year's Frieze Art Fair New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery is delighted to present a special program, My Way, curated and organized by Michael St. John, and featuring Will Boone, Katherine Bradford, Dennis Dawson, William Eggleston, Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin, Leo Gabin, Marc Hundley, Harmony Korine, Beverly McIver, Alex McQuilkin, Joe Ovelman, William Pope.L, Borna Sammak, Josh Smith, Dash Snow, Michael St. John, and Henry Taylor.? We will also be presenting works by Elliott Hundley, Josiah McElheny, Josephine Meckseper, Matthew Ritchie, and Matthew Ronay, among others.

Sharon Playhouse, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Simpkins and Managing Director Justin Ball, has announced initial casting and creative teams for its 2015 Season with the musicals My Fair Lady, Merrily We Roll Along, and Little Shop of Horrors on the Mainstage; Ed Dixon's new play Georgie: The Life and Death of George Rose and True Love on Stage 2 in the Bok Gallery. The Youth Theatre will present the Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher.

Southern Rep Theatre has announced details for its upcoming production of BOUDIN: The New Orleans Music Project. Southern Rep teamed up with WWOZ 90.7 FM and a volunteer Story Krewe to ask locals all over New Orleans to answer the question, 'How has New Orleans music saved your soul?' The stories they collected form the basis for this original musical production celebrating the people, the music, and the magic of New Orleans.

NYU Steinhardt's Program in Vocal Performance presents A Man of No Importance, the award-winning musical, this weekend, February 5-9, 2015. The show features book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. John Simpkins directs.

In THE FOREVER NOW, seventeen contemporary paintings stir up mixed feelings--and drum up big questions about the state of contemporary art.

NYU Steinhardt's Program in Vocal Performance today announced it will present A Man of No Importance, the award-winning musical, on February 5-9, 2015. The show features book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. John Simpkins directs.

Brooklyn's acclaimed Brave New World Repertory Theatre kicks off its new season with an updated production of The Miser by Moliere, presented over three weeks (today, January 6-21) at the Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope.