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The Entertainment Community Fund's one-night-only benefit reunion concert of Ragtime, originally scheduled for 2020, will take place on Monday, March 27, 2023 at the Minskoff Theatre. Learn who is starring in the concert, and how to purchase tickets!

The cast of THE BIG ONE-OH! includes two-time Tony Award winner Christian Borle, along with Derek Klena, Patti Murin, Brittney Mack, Michael James Scott, and introduces Jaxon Daniel (as Charlie) and Emmy Woodard. Rounding out the cast are Claudia Bennett, Hatty King, Scott Nelson, Mason Risser, Amber Trottman, Elle Wesley, Riley West, and Emma Rose Williamson

See photos from We Are Here: Songs from the Holocaust at Carnegie Hall featuring powerful performances of music written inside the Nazi camps and ghettos.

Listen to the Ultimate Cast Recording of The Big One-Oh featuring Christian Borle, Derek Klena and more!

The 66th Annual Obie Awards, celebrating and honoring Off- and Off-Off-Broadway will take place on Monday, February 27, 2023 at Terminal 5.

The GRAMMY Award–winning Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have announced a musical journey of discovery, beauty, and inspiration: the 2023–24 season.

Holden Street Theatres, celebrating 20 years in 2023, is proud to present the Australian premiere of Jesus, Jane Mother & Me to play during the 2023 Adelaide Fringe in The Studio at 34 Holden Street Hindmarsh from 11 February to 19 March. Jesus, Jane Mother & Me is Holden Street Theatres' 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Award Winner.

On April 3, 2023, Virginia’s Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre will honor the theatrical icon Chita Rivera with the company’s twelfth Stephen Sondheim Award.

THE GOOD FIGHT: THE FINAL SEASON stars 13-time Emmy Award® Nominee Christine Baranski (“The Gilded Age”), as well as Tony Award® Winner Audra McDonald (Beauty and the Beast), Nyambi Nyambi (“Mike and Molly”), Sarah Steele (“The Good Wife”), Andre Braughar (“Brooklyn 99”), Charmaine Bingwa (“Emancipation”) and Michael Boatman.

Shakespeare & Company has announced the cast of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare's production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Kevin G. Coleman.

Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren is headed back to Broadway to lead the American premiere of ROOM, written and adapted for the stage by Emma Donoghue, based on her 2010 best-selling novel which she also adapted into the award-winning 2015 film.

The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse will present Romeo and Juliet directed by J.L. Reed from February 2nd through March 4th. There will be a $15 General Admission Preview Thursday February 2, 2023, and a $20 General Admission Preview Friday February 3, 2023. Performances run February 4-March 4, with a bonus performance Tuesday, February 14, 2023. There will be a a post show Q&A on Sunday February 12, 2023.

Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond (Romantics Anonymous, Disney’s Vampirina) share the world premiere recording of their NSFW song “F***ing Good”, from the new musical F***ING OTHER PEOPLE. The song is performed by Natalie Weiss (Everyday Rapture, Wicked, American Idol) with orchestrations by August Eriksmoen (Come From Away).  

“Francisco Toledo no sólo tenía grandes cualidades como artista, sino también como líder social que defendió causas muy importantes y también como un ser humano generoso”, así se refiere la directora del Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato (MAHG), Magdalena Zavala, autora de la videoconferencia El Toledo de Magdalena Zavala, la cual el Museo Nacional de la Estampa transmitirá este viernes 20 de enero por su canal oficial de YouTube, a las 19:00 horas. 

This Black History Month, BroadwayHD is honoring Black voices with these incredible stories of music, laughter, and community.

Tickets are now on sale for the Chicago premiere of Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical. See who is starring in the production, and how to purchase tickets!

GRAMMY Award-winners Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn, and Sarah Jarosz are joining forces once more for a very special collaborative tour. Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn & Sarah Jarosz: Together In Concert will see all three artists uniting on stage for a singular evening of songs and stories from across their remarkable catalogues.

25 years ago, on January 18, 1998, Ragtime opened on Broadway at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (now the Lyric Theatre). We're looking back on the beloved musical with video clips from its Broadway past!

The 39th season of the Verdi Chorus continues with the Fox Singers, presented by the Verdi Chorus and the Sahm Family Foundation, in A Serenade To Music for one night only at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on February 25, at 7:30pm. 

Bobby could go on and on about every song from this Off-Broadway gem, but why. You all get the idea that this CD/Album is a must-have for musical theatre fans near and far.