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Next week, 54 BELOW, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Laura and Linda Benanti, and more! See the full lineup here!

Valentina Kozlova is currently hosting the 14th edition of the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition, with 150 entrants from around the world, dancing for scholarships and company contracts before a jury of international dance figures. 

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Christian Holder, noted as a dancer, choreographer, actor, teacher, costume designer, writer, painter and singer, has died at age 75.

See photos of Norm Lewis, Kate Baldwin and more performing Follies in concert at Carnegie Hall!

Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance concludes Season 24 with The Winter’s Tale, a new production based on Shakespeare’s classic, at The DiMenna Center on June 5 and 6.

The complete cast has now been announced for Transport Group's concert production of Follies. The sold-out event will play one night only—Thursday, June 20, at 8:00 p.m. at Carnegie Hall.

Join CHERYLYN LAVAGNINO DANCE from May 30 to June 6 for their 24th Anniversary Season featuring 'Tales of Hopper,' a series of dance-theater vignettes inspired by Edward Hopper's paintings.

Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance will celebrate the company's 24th anniversary season with the showing of two of Cherylyn Lavagnino's artistic works, Tales of Hopper and The Winter's Tale, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W 37th Street, in New York City.

The VALENTINA KOZLOVA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION, celebrating its 13th year, returns to The Kaye Playhouse, with 200+ young classical ballet and contemporary dancers, ages 9 to 26, from countries around the world.

The VALENTINA KOZLOVA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION, celebrating its 13th year, will return to The Kaye Playhouse. Learn more about the competition!

NYC based cabaret, concert and recording artist Travis Moser continues his City Winery tour with a hometown stop at the brand-new City Winery Pittsburgh on Smallman Street in the Strip District on August 31, 2023 at 7:30pm.

Berkshire Theatre Group (BTG) and Kate Maguire (Artistic Director, CEO) have announced casting for two of its summer 2023 shows: Million Dollar Quartet, a three-time Tony Award–nominated once-in-a-lifetime musical evening back by popular demand with some of the same cast as 2017 and Photograph 51, an intriguing portrait of the race to discover the mysteries of the DNA double helix. 

MorDance will celebrate its tenth anniversary performance season with two groundbreaking world premiere ballets centering themes of activism and humanity. Performances are April 28-29, 2023 at 7:30pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College as part of the CUNY Dance Initiative.

MorDance wil present its Spring 2023 Season with groundbreaking new ballets centering themes of activism and humanity from April 28-29, 2023 at Gerald W. Lynch Theater.

Reviewer Peter Nason ranks his choices for Burt Bacharach's top 50 tunes.

Animation artist Warren Wright has returned with his latest dollcentric tribute to Broadway! This time he's recreating the iconic number 'Turkey Lurkey Time' from the musical Promises, Promises as performed on the 1969 Tony Awards!

On Sunday, November 27 Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance (CLD) will present a reimagined reprise of Mythologies, Lavagnino's (2021) choreographic work inspired by the stories of Ancient Greece, and a first look at CLD's newest theater-dance work in process, The Winter's Tale, based on one of Shakespeare's last great plays.

MorDance presents Works in Progress on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 7:30pm at Martha Graham Studios, 55 Bethune St, NYC. This intimate showing is an opportunity to peer into the creative process and hear from the artists themselves.

Oklahoma International Dance Festival returns for its second in-person dance intensive since its inception in 2020.  The Festival, which will run from July 17 to 31 at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, OK, was formed to educate, enrich, and entertain through the highest quality of dance. 

The Fellowship Cultural Arts Center in Basking Ridge welcomes New Jersey Ballet to the stage for a Mixed Repertory featuring Pas de Deux by George Balanchine and Christopher Wheeldon. The show will run May 14 and 15 for an evening and matinee performance.