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The Chelsea Music Festival has revealed that tickets and season passes are on sale for its 17th annual season, featuring 17 New York Premieres, 1 World Premiere, and a week of concerts, visual art, and culinary events in New York City.
Opera Philadelphia will present the Philadelphia premiere of THE BLACK CLOWN, a music theater work set to Langston Hughes' poetry, with bass-baritone Davóne Tines in the title role at the Miller Theater.
The New York City Gay Men's Chorus will present Beyond the Rainbow, a choral concert featuring works by Scott Hoying and Ash alongside songs by Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston, and Annie Lennox, for three performances in April.
The Chelsea Music Festival will present its 17th annual season, titled Every Story Counts, from June 20–27, 2026, featuring concerts, visual art, and culinary events celebrating American stories.
Town Hall Theater and The Champlain Philharmonic have announced its Spring Concert, conducted by Music Director Matt LaRocca.
Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced its 2026/2027 Season — a celebration of 1927, the year John Ringling moved the 'Greatest Show on Earth' to Sarasota.
In the premiere of RED HARLEM at Company of Angels, director Bernadette Speakes’s production offers some frequently dynamic staging which is brought down by a mixed bag of acting performances and the heavy-handed messaging of Henderson’s script.
Copious Love Productions and Gaisma Theatre Group will co-produce the world premiere production of Chicken Tinders, a new musical with book and lyrics by Scott Zenreich and music and lyrics by John Gregor.
The 2026 Africana Arts & Humanities Festival, set for March 27-28 at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, will explore 250 years of Black life and culture.
Music at the Odyssey will host a one-time performance of John Snow's THE POETRY IN MUSIC, exploring the intersection of verse and melody.
Shriver Hall Concert Series will continue its 60th anniversary and 2025-26 concert season this March with performances by the Isidore String Quartet with pianist Jeremy Denk and soprano Golda Schultz with pianist Jonathan Ware.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City has received a grant from The Missouri Humanities Council to support their new touring program, LANGSTON HUGHES: A LYRICAL LIFE.
Company of Angels will present RED HARLEM, a new play based on the historical engagement between the Soviet Union's Communist Party and Black American actors during the Great Depression.
Experience the fusion of jazz and poetry as Lakewood Cultural Center hosts ASK YOUR MAMA, featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet, this February.
International Literary Properties, the global company that invests in, acquires, manages, and enhances literary and theatrical intellectual properties, revealed the closing of a new credit facility from Fifth Third Bank.
International Literary Properties has revealed two new appointments to its senior leadership team.
Submissions are currently open for Royal Family Productions ‘s 2026 artist fellowship in partnership with Ann Hairston, honoring the legacy of her father, William R.
Passage Theatre, the only professional theatre company in Trenton, will open David Robson's Muleheaded, or Zora and Langston Write a Play, a world premiere.
Royal Family Productions has announced a 2026 artist fellowship in partnership with Ann Hairston, honoring the legacy of her father, William R.
West Coast Black Theatre presents 'Black Nativity' in their annual 'Christmas card to the Community.
