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The holidays, for many of us, are for family, food, and good cheer. They are also a time where tradition plays a major role. From favorite dishes around the holiday table to annual visits to see Santa Claus at the mall, traditions help ground us and connect us to a time when things were simpler. And nothing screams holiday traditions like the annual viewing of Christmas classics like the Claymation staple, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. But this year, that tradition is being brought to technicolor life on stage at the Titusville Playhouse in a new and exciting production of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, a stage musical based on the classic Christmas special.

SF Sketchfest announces the initial lineup for the 20th Anniversary comedy festival taking place January 7-23 in venues across San Francisco.

Multi-platinum party-starter Saweetie has served up a brand new single entitled “Icy Chain” today. Saweetie has recently collaborated with artists from Gwen Stefani to David Guetta, Dua Lipa to Wiz Khalifa, and Mulatto to G-Eazy. She recently hosted the MTV EMAs. Listen to her new single now!

Last night, Trouble In Mind opened on Broadway! Check out all of the reviews in our roundup below, and stay tune later today for coverage from the big night! Plus, check out photos from the North American Tour of Hairspray, new Moulin Rouge! production photos, Mrs. Doubtfire's Good Morning America performance, and more!

iTheatrics has restructured its company and expanded its focus to support the creation of original musicals that amplify voices currently underrepresented in theatre in complement to its work adapting Broadway and West End musicals for licensing by Music Theatre International and Concord Theatricals.

HBO has released the trailer for The Gilded Age, featuring Deneé Benton, Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon, Christine Baranski, Michael Cerveris, Claybourne Elder, Linda Emond, Katie Finneran, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, Taylor Richardson, and Douglas Sills.

The Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall has announced its Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale, giving patrons the chance to enjoy great deals with up to 50% off shows! The sale starts Sunday, November 21 at 10 a.m. and ends Monday, November 29 at 11:59 p.m. 

Theatre Arlington's 49th season will offer great musicals, family-friendly children's programming, prize-winning dramas, hysterical comedies and the return of a favorite holiday show – all on the brand-new, state-of-the-art Arlington Tomorrow Foundation Theatre stage. Debuting in the newly renovated lobby, Theatre Arlington's Club Series will feature the return of Club Cabaret along with the new Comedy Club and Play Reading Club.

For more than 50 years The Sound Of Music has been delighting audiences all over the world and will come back to the StoryBook stage for another visit this holidays season.  The Sound of Music won the hearts of audiences worldwide, earning five Tony Awards and five Oscars.

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER is playing at the Titusville Playhouse November 19-December 19, 2021.

The Green Room 42 has announced their line-up for the next week. Located inside YOTEL Times Square (570 Tenth Avenue, Fourth Floor), The Green Room 42 is Broadway's newest, most spacious, and funkiest cabaret club.

Ragtime opened last night, featuring a cast of Nashville stage veterans and a sizable coterie of performers, heretofore unknown to local audiences, who are certain to become fast favorites. Taking a brief respite from their hectic schedules of rehearsals, fittings, photo calls, more rehearsals and getting to know one another, four of those newcomers – Shelby Denise Smith, Wood Van Meter, Kortney Ballenger and Steven McCoy – took the time to answer our questions to tell you why you need to score those tickets for Ragtime now if you haven’t already.

La Jolla Playhouse has announced the first four productions of its 2022/2023 season. The season will also include a re-imagined classic to be co-directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley, the Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse, and Helen Hayes Award winner Will Davis, as well as a new musical.

Lea Michele chatted with Marc Tumminelli on the Little Me: Growing Up Broadway podcast for a special episode in which she recounts her early days on Broadway, the upcoming Spring Awakening reunion concert, her new album and so much more.

Family secrets are revealed in STARDUST + THE MISSION, a spellbinding two-part theatrical performance opening at Chapel Off Chapel from 17 February before a six-month national tour. Featuring two powerful yet forgotten true stories from Australia's past, audiences will meet two ordinary individuals, whose extraordinary lives still reverberate to this day.

This last Monday, the weekly fun at Jim Caruso’s Cast Party continued with a full list of singers and a packed house eager to cheer.  Pop/tv/theater star Nicole Scherzinger showed up while in town rehearsing for the “Annie” movie, and leading lady Melissa Errico caused some musical theater swooning! 

The Green Room 42 has announced their line-up for the next week. Located inside YOTEL Times Square (570 Tenth Avenue, Fourth Floor), The Green Room 42 is Broadway's newest, most spacious, and funkiest cabaret club.

MAX (Media Art Xploration) will present MAXlive 2021: THE NEUROVERSE, the organization’s first New York City-based arts festival, produced in association with New York Live Arts. THE NEUROVERSE teams artists with scientists that push the limits of mind and machine through groundbreaking interdisciplinary works.

Following a 19-year journey, the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts today announced the biggest names in music, dance and comedy will share the stage for the celebration of the arts center's highly anticipated completion with the debut of Steinmetz Hall, an acoustically perfect concert hall in January 2022, and Judson's, a cabaret-style space in May 2022. 

Broadway's Peggy Lee Brennan (Grease) and TikTok's Alex Corallo and Austin Michael (Mama Mia) hit the stage November 4th for the Off Broadway premiere of Mike & Mindy's Wild Weekend Jam at the Players Theatre (115 MacDougal Street - Between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets).