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Filmmakers and creative technologists will vie for up to $150,000 in project funding at Black Public Media's PitchBLACK Forum, April 26 and 27, the largest pitch competition for Black, independent filmmakers and creative technologists in the United States.

THE ART OF THE BRICK—a captivating exhibition featuring intriguing works of art by renowned contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya—debuts the Art of the Brick Lounge, an interactive activity center where guests can explore their own artistry after experiencing Sawaya’s work. THE ART OF THE BRICK has also announced that it will extend its run in San Francisco, with tickets now on sale through Monday, September 5, 2022. All tickets include access to the Art of the Brick Lounge. Adult ticket prices start at $22, and $19 for children ages 2–12, with VIP ticket options available. Tickets are available online at www.artofthebrickexhibit.com. 

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park today announced the full programming for its 2022 Summer and Fall Festivals, with a host of stars and premieres from Dance, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Culinary Art Worlds in the scenic Hudson Valley location.

Choreographer Dam Van Huynh is presenting a new solo work, In Realness, an unflinching take on personal and global political issues that combines movement and vocal expressionist sound in response to social inequalities.

Tap City, the NYC Tap Festival, the American Tap Dance Foundation's week-long tap dance festival, will return Monday, July 4 through Sunday, July 10 with special events, performances, ATDF tap dance awards, workshops and residencies. The TAP CITY Festival week, celebrating its 22nd year, will return LIVE for the first time since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts has announced its line-up of shows for its 2022-2023 Subscription Series. Get the schedule and find out how to get tickets. Back by popular demand, multiple series genres will be available on a season ticket basis including Broadway, Curtain Call, Jazz, Cabaret, Chamber, and Family series.

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings her latest innovative project to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Saturday, April 23 at 8:00 p.m. Titled EDEN, the program explores our individual connection to nature and its impact on our world and features Ms. DiDonato’s frequent collaborators Maxim Emelyanychev leading Italian chamber orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro. Fusing music, movement, and theater, the program includes works spanning from the 17th to the 21st century by Handel, Gluck, Wagner, Mahler, Ives, and Copland, as well as the New York premiere of Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman’s The First Morning of the World, commissioned specifically for this project.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE), the professional Equity company in residence at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC), wraps up the 2021-2022 Season with “Naperville,” written by Mat Smart and directed by BTE Member Kurt Naebig. New York Theatre Review calls it a “valentine to the heart and soul of the American suburbs.” There will be a Preview performance 8 p.m., Thursday, April 28. Press opening is 8 p.m., Friday, April 29. Performances run through May 29.  

Tin's oratorio To Shiver the Sky receives its world premiere in May 2022 with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, the United States Air Force Band, and ModernMedieval.

In April, Sao Paulo’s Theatro Municipal presents two operas by Plinio Marcos: Navalha na Carne and Homens de Papel. Both productions are the first operas specially commissioned by the theater. Presented in a double bill, they bring iconic texts from Brazilian dramaturgy, which focus on existences seen as marginal, both in the 60s, when these plays were written, as today.

THE DJANGO, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, is celebrating the next generation of jazz with a special concert series this month. During the month of May, The Django welcomes rising stars as part of its new Next Gen Series.

LA MACCHINA DEI SOGNI al TEATRO ALBERTINO Il nuovo musical della compagnia I Sognattori in scena dall'8 al 10 aprile e dal 22 al 24 aprile

Trevor Lloyd as John Wilkes Booth leads the talented cast in telling this scary, pertinent tale.

Comedy. Romance. Poetry. Whimsy. Julia Rodriguez-Elliott directs a rare revival of Metamorphoses, the multiple award-winning theatrical event by MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Mary Zimmerman (Argonautika).

Chicago early-music ensemble Third Coast Baroque will mark its pandemic-delayed return to full-scale mainstage productions with 'Lucifera: Illuminating the Darkness,' a new project conceived and headlined by mesmerizing mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, with the period-instrument Third Coast Baroque Orchestra, led by its Argentina-born, Vienna-based music director Rubén Dubrovsky conducting from the colascione, a lute-like instrument rarely seen in North America.

Today, Stockholm artist Miynt has released a brand new single, 'Lonely beach,' the title track from her forthcoming debut album.

Blending classic psych-rock with Miynt's cool, haunting vocal, 'Lonely Beach' takes us further into the sonic textures splayed across the collection of songs comprising the full-length, Lonely Beach. The album will be available this fall on limited edition 12' vinyl. Pre-order now. Listen to the new single now!

In celebration of Céline Dion’s birthday on March 30, Tony Award-winning producer Eva Price (Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!) has announced that Titanique – the irresistibly funny and irreverent new musical send-up of the blockbuster film Titanic, featuring the songs of pop icon Céline Dion – will open off-Broadway this summer at The Asylum Theatre (307 W 26th St.)

Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, “Shining Girls” follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions were put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault. The series also stars Phillipa Soo, Amy Brenneman and Jamie Bell. 

PLAYLIST G & G al TEATRO GRECO UN GIOVANE MUSICAL PER UN RIPASSO SOSTANZIALE DELLA STORIA DELLA COMMEDIA MUSICALE ITALIANA