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Check out the full list of winners for the Lortel Awards, and more!

Mario Cantone will host this year's Lucille Lortel Awards, which are being presented as a virtual broadcast and benefit for The Actors Fund on Sunday, May 3, at 7pm. The online event will bring together theatre performers, industry veterans, and fans worldwide in a celebration of Off-Broadway.

Before Hamilton propelled Lin-Manuel Miranda to superstardom, he was a successful Broadway star that was not as well known outside of the community.

This weekend in live streaming: Benanti presents #Sunshine Songs, The Prom cast reunites, and so much more!

Campsite Media House, a full-service production company based in Orange County, CA, received its first Webby nomination for “The Sound of Passion: Mario Andretti,” a branded film produced for MagnaFlow, starring racing legend Mario Andretti.  The four-minute film, a nominee for Video: Long Form (Branded Entertainment), is cinematic and poignant, creating a connection with the viewer through authentic, powerful storytelling. 

HBO and RAI have renewed the drama series MY BRILLIANT FRIEND for a third season, it was announced today by Francesca Orsi, EVP HBO Programming and Eleonora Andreatta, Rai head of Drama.

Over 1,000 people from 21 different countries tuned in via multiple platforms on Saturday evening to honor a pair of Houston's most dedicated philantrophists and an iconic advocate for young stars.

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 5pm PST, Pacific Opera Project (POP) presents an interactive watch party for a rebroadcast of POP's 2019 critically acclaimed season opening production of Mozart's The Magic Flute (#SuperFlute), set in classic video games from the early 1990s.

While the theatre community continues to adjust to a spring without Broadway, what would have been the 2020 Awards season approaches... with some major adjustments already in place. Which ceremonies will go on (digitally) and which have postponed or canceled entirely? We've got the full list!

Mario Cantone will host this year's Lucille Lortel Awards, which are being presented as a virtual broadcast and benefit for The Actors Fund on Sunday, May 3, at 7pm. The online event will bring together theatre performers, industry veterans, and fans worldwide in a celebration of Off-Broadway.

Golf Alpha Bravo, the adopted moniker of Australian singer and guitarist Gab Winterfield (Jagwar Ma), just announced the release of his debut album The Sundog LP, out June 12 via his own Treasured Recordings label. The album features 11-tracks filled with his is a unique brand of Surf Blues--a siren to a childhood of growing up on the coast of Sydney Australia: an eternal loop of surf, skate, Frusciante and Hendrix… and the occasional Mario Kart tournament. 

New Japan BGM Philharmonic Orchestra has released a virtual performance of the famous Mario music. But that's not all! This performance is perfectly timed for people to wash their hands to.

During the shutdown, we're taking the opportunity to look back at some memorable productions. Here, Dick Bird discusses his career with BroadwayWorld, and gives us some fantastic insights into designing the Royal Danish Theatre, Teatro Real Madrid and Scottish Opera's co-production of a modern classic: John Adams' Nixon in China.

As Covid-19 quarantine continues, audiences turn to live streaming concerts and online entertainment options, and Norwalk's Magnolia Room at BJ Ryan's is set to present a lineup of live-streamed Youtube Premiere concerts every Saturday at 8 pm EST through the end of May. Each show was previously performed at The Magnolia Room, but never before available online.

During the current pandemic, KPFK's Arts in Review, Southern California's longest-running radio showcase on live theater and cabaret, will be airing short plays, produced by local small theatrical stages. This week we will be airing excerpts from Story Salon over 90.7fm, home of Pacifica Radio for Southern California.

What started out as a fun project during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic quarantine on our private Facebook group evolved into something emotional, nostalgic, and uniquely unifying amidst a very dark and isolated period in humanity. Now, more than a decade after their closing night, 44 cast members of the Broadway revival of 'A Chorus Line' share what brought them all together 'again'. It was... 5, 6, 7, 8.

School is back in session at Bayside High as Saved by the Bell returns to television! Check out the first trailer for the series!

On Friday, May 22, 2020, GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases CARTHAGE, an album featuring six striking pieces by composer James Primosch, on Navona Records. Internationally recognized and prolific, Primosch is the 2020 winner of The Virgil Thomson Award for Vocal Music from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Noted theatre artist Diane Rodriguez, born June 22, 1951, in San Jose, CA, died today, April 10, 2020, in Los Angeles, of cancer.