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DACAMERA announces the lineup of emerging professional instrumentalists, vocalists and composers selected to join its Young Artists Program for the 2019/2020 season. The fellowship program is designed to provide career-expanding experiences and training to the next generations of artists, encouraging them to create music for the community throughout their careers. Through the Young Artists' involvement, DACAMERA is able to offer young students and neglected audiences exposure to great music and talented performers, using music as a vehicle for scholastic exploration and inspiration.

'DANCERS DEMAND ACTION,' a dance performance aligning art with activism, will take place at The Joyce Theater on November 11 at 7:30pm. The show is a collaboration between nine New York-based dance companies who are volunteering their time and creative energies to enable a portion of the proceeds to support Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a partner organization of Everytown for Gun Safety.

DACAMERA of Houston, together with Rice University's Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance and Holocaust Museum Houston, presents The Music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a free performance by pianist and DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg with DACAMERA Young Artists on Thursday, Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m., at Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline Street. The performance will be preceded by a panel discussion featuring Rothenberg in discussion with Patrick Summers (Houston Grand Opera music director) and Jeremy Eichler (critic, essayist and author of the forthcoming book Time's Echo: War, Modern Music and the Soundscapes of Memory). The performance and panel discussion are part of the Boniuk Institute's ongoing efforts to promote religious tolerance and literacy.

The Long Haul is Tony nominee Norbert Leo Butz's first original album. Butz has always been one of the more unconventional, versatile voices in contemporary musical theatre, and this album gives him a new chance to shine as both a singer and as a songwriter. It's a pleasant, bluegrass and country-tinged set of songs that doesn't break new ground but is a perfectly enjoyable album overall.

For more than two decades, Norbert Leo Butz has made a name for himself as one of New York's most versatile and accomplished stage actors.

It's never too early to think about Halloween, and who better to celebrate the fast approaching holiday with than the denizens of Dr. Frank N. Furter's home-sweet-castle in Richard O'Brien's beloved cult classic, The Rocky Horror Show.   Entr'Acte Theatrix is inviting audiences to come do the Time Warp againa?? when they present 'Rocky' in the Fieldhouse at Old School Square from September 13th through September 22nd.   

Theatre Baton Rouge's production of 33 VARIATIONS is a theatrical delight. Written by Moises Kaufman and directed by Shannon Walsh, it is a mixture of a biographical play about Ludwig van Beethoven, and a 21st Century music scholar hoping to understand the origins behind his Diabelli Variations. It is a powerful exploration of obsessive artistic drive, the limitations of time, and the bonds of family.

point2production, a division of Schaumburg On Stage, is proud to present Shrek the Musical at the Mainstage Theater at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles March 22nd to 24th and March 29th to 31st. Having enjoyed great success as a premier youth and young adult theater company in the Northwest Suburbs for more than 20 years, Schaumburg On Stage expanded their programming to include community and professional family entertainment in the summer of 2017. After presenting several successful productions in Elgin, point2productions is now planning to take St. Charles by storm with its first production at Pheasant Run.

The Shaker Heights High School Theatre Arts Department presents the thirty-seventh festival of new plays, written, directed, performed and co-produced by students, Stages 37: Shaker New Plays Series, March 13, 14, 15 & 16 at 7 PM with a 9:15 PM show on Friday, March 15, in our intimate black box theatre, Stage 3. Six ten-minute plays will be presented as part of a full season of theatrical events, which began with Pippin and concludes with As You Wish: A Spring Ensemble Show, in April.

Team BWW have compiled the following list of their favourite Twitter users in the UK who post about theatre and the arts. Ranging from independent bloggers and theatre-makers to West End performers who are particularly engaging with their social media accounts.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival will present a new production of The Sound of Music beginning November 15, 2018, directed by ASF Artistic Director Rick Dildine. The Sound of Music features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (suggested by "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp.)

Entr'Acte Theatrix audiences are in for a fiendishly delightful treat beginning October 25th when Delray Beach's Crest Theatre @ Old School Square will host Charles Addams' wonderfully bizarre cast of characters known as The Addams Family - just in time for Halloween! The award-winning musical will run through November 4th.

BrightSide Theatre, Naperville's only professional theatre performing in the historic downtown district, opens their 8th Season - Dreamers & Schemers -with this family friendly musical -  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  Performing at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth Street in Naperville November 23 - December 9. Tickets are on sale now at www.brightsidetheatre.com, or by phone at 630-447-TIXS (8497). The press performance is Friday, November 23 at 8pm.

Charles Addams' ghoulishly clever and devilishly satirical Addams Family cartoons first began appearing in the New Yorker magazine in 1938, and his characters captured the hearts and the humor of the American public almost immediately. A close knit, loving family, with a few odd quirks - and a definite affinity for the bizarre and macabre - the Addams Family has appeared in a number of film and television adaptations since their debut, however The Addams Family - A New Musical Comedy is based on Addams' cartoons, rather than any of the characters as they were portrayed in film or on television.

Entr'Acte Theatrix audiences are in for a fiendishly delightful treat beginning October 25th when Delray Beach's Crest Theatre @ Old School Square will host Charles Addams' wonderfully bizarre cast of characters known as The Addams Family - just in time for Halloween! The award-winning musical will run through November 4th.

Theaterlab announces its upcoming season-Homecoming-running September 12 through December 14, 2018 at its Midtown home (357 West 36th Street). Featuring six shows and the program Celebrate the Artist, Homecoming explores the notion of homes, both inherited and created, and examines what it means to return to a seemingly familiar space within an increasingly unfamiliar world

The Hit Broadway Musical Hairspray is making a big, bold appearance at the Legacy Theatre! This upbeat and powerful show opens July 6th and runs through August 5th.

The Hit Broadway Musical Hairspray is making a big, bold appearance at the Legacy Theatre! This upbeat and powerful show opens July 6th and runs through August 5th.

The Hit Broadway Musical Hairspray is making a big, bold appearance at the Legacy Theatre! This upbeat and powerful show opens July 6th and runs through August 5th.

Hero Theatre announced today that Adam Rodriguez (Criminal Minds, Jane the Virgin) will host the The Super Sabado Show, a live comedy event. It will be presented on April 14, 2018 at 8pm at The Rosenthal Theater at Inner-City Arts in Los Angeles.