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Listen to Sara Bareilles on The Story Pirates Podcast season 5!

Last night, the GRAMMY Awards aired live on CBS and Paramount Plus. Winners included Beyoncé and Kim Petras making history, plus Lizzo, Viola Davis, Sam Smith, Harry Styles, Bonnie Raitt, Samara Joy, Willie Nelson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more.

Tonight, February 5, the 65th GRAMMY Awards air on CBS, and of the 86 categories, Broadway fans care about just one- Best Musical Theater Album. Lucky for us, the winner has been announced ahead of the broadcast, as a part of the Premiere Ceremony hosted by Randy Rainbow. Listen to the Grammy-winning album now!

Concord Theatricals has secured exclusive worldwide stage licensing rights to Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles. This tender and funny Broadway hit is now available for performance by professional and amateur theatres.

The film adaptation of Bizet's classic opera, Carmen, will hit theaters this spring starring Academy Award-nominee Paul Mescal and 'In the Heights' star Melissa Barrera.

Nationally recognized playwrights Idris Goodwin, Lauren Gunderson, Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang, Drama Desk winner Samuel D. Hunter, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Zora Howard, Antoinette Nwandu, Octavio Solis, and Lloyd Suh will select the winning plays for ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence, a playwriting contest for teens.

The full cast and creative team has been announced for the brand new Kander & Ebb musical, NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Plus, check out a new trailer of the cast in action!

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the upcoming immersive production of Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre. This production will run from 3 March 2023 with opening night on 14 March 2023. Tickets are initially on sale through to 2 September 2023.

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College is proud to announce the opening of 'In The Heights,' a story of a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts announces summer camps are on sale now. Week-long camps in June and July at the arts center's AdventHealth School of the Arts are available for students of varying ages and skill levels in a range of performing arts featuring musical theater and comedy.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), presents the second half of the twelveth season of Great Music in a Great Space under the direction of Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and Organist.

Con un programa que integra obras de los compositores europeos Franz Schubert y Frédéric Chopin, el pianista de origen japonés Naoya Seino ofrecerá un concierto el próximo viernes 3 de febrero a las 18:00 horas en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes.  

ASÍ QUE PASEN 30 AÑOS es un recorrido a ritmo de copla, bolero, canción iberoamericana y teatro musical.

Producer Jeffery Seller and the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center have announced the single ticket on-sale date for HAMILTON. The tour will perform at the Center May 9-21, 2023 as part of the 2022-23 Kimberly-Clark Broadway Across America - Fox Cities series. Single tickets for the production go on sale to the general public on Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

Con un concierto en el que rememoraron al escritor Pablo Neruda y a los compositores Blas Galindo, Manuel M. Ponce, Modesta Bor, Morten Lauridsen, así como a Jorge Córdoba, el Coro de Madrigalistas de Bellas Artes, del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), instancia de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México, inició sus actividades en el marco de su 85 aniversario. 

On January 27th, Vital Shift, LLC. presented Melissa Kelley's How Do We Get There from Here at Columbus Dance Theatre. Melissa Kelley explores who we are, who we want to be, and how we get there from here through an evening of song and story. Check out photos from the evening here! For more information about the show or to book a performance at your venue, contact Melissa at melissa@vitalshift.life

Next week, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. A recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present, promoting an ongoing engagement with their work.

Rise Above began its annual Board of Directors meeting this month with a monumental achievement; adding Tony Award Winning Producer, Tyler Mount, to its Board of Directors. 

BIRDLAND THEATER will present Nicolas King – the celebrated pop and jazz vocalist on Thursday, February 9 at 8:30 PM.

A digital lottery has been announced for HAMILTON tickets in conjunction with the show’s first performance (February 7) in Knoxville at the Tennessee Theatre.  A limited number of tickets will be available for every performance for $10 each.