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Cantando na Chuva (Singin' in the Rain) leads the list with 11 nominations, followed by Romeu + Julieta, Natasha, Pierre e o Grande Cometa de 1812 and Peter Pan with nine. The Reverencia Award is the only theatrical prize in Brazil, aimed at musical theater, that includes simultaneously spectacles of the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The ceremony will be on November 13, at Teatro Alfa, Sao Paulo.

Target Margin Theater (Founding Artistic Director David Herskovits, Associate Artistic Director Moe Yousuf) is proud to present a remount of its acclaimed production, Pay No Attention to the Girl, for a limited three week run (October 25-November 11). The production brings to life interwoven stories about the sexes - their conflicts, their love, their tricks -from various translations / transmissions of The One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Silk Road, MENA (Middle Eastern / North African), and South Asian tales.

SJ Presents an Intimate Evening with Soul Superstars Tyrese and Tamia on Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8 p.m. at Kings Theatre located at 1027 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.

A Workshop reading is being directed by Award-winning Director Yudelka Heyer', Founding Artist Director of Red Soil Productions in alliance with New Theatre Company, WBRP Productions, Adapted for the stage by Claire-Monique Martin.

Harlem 's Underground Rhythm King , Broadway's Omar Edwards, will be bringing his new show HARLEM NIGHTS: The Music, The Song, The Dance back to MIST, Harlem's premier entertainment destination, on Thursday, October 18, 2018. Accompanied by his band, The K 360 Club, Edwards and company take the audience on a musical journey through a pool of sounds from jazz to reggae and back again. Edwards's tap shoes, combined with the seamless instrumentation of musicians, Jarred Barnes on keyboards, Wahkiba Julion on Drums and Shaine Wilson on Bass, provide a unique experience for an audience , in having the cadence and rhythm of Omar's feet , not voice expertly lead the band.

The critically acclaimed Australian production of MAMMA MIA! THE MUSICAL dances into Adelaide's Festival Theatre in just eight weeks, from October 9th.

How many characters can you expect to see in a play set in a small town, on a small stage, with a cast of two? If you guessed two, you couldn't be more wrong. No, when it comes to Popcorn Falls, try ten times that.

In the slew of vibrant, singular experiences that the MOT has put forth in recent years, Antiology is shaping up to join the ranks of greatness.

The Public Theater is currently hosting the New York premiere of Mother of the Maid, written by Emmy Award winner Jane Anderson. Get a first look at the production below!

Andrew Lloyd Webber's music softens the Gothic horror of the original story.

Are you looking for a rollicking good cabaret show and a hearty meal? Are you in the mood for a musical history lesson? How about both? Toby's in Columbia presents AIN'T MISBEHAVIN,' The Fats Waller Musical Show through November 4th, and you should sit right down and buy yourself a ticket.

Theatre Bay Area, the third-largest regional theatre service organization in North America, announced the finalists for the 2018 TBA Awards. The fifth annual TBA Awards Celebration will be held on Monday, Nov. 5 at the Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco). Tickets for the public go on sale Friday, September 28, 2018, through City Box Office.

On Wednesday, September 26 thousands of local students and educators descended on Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York for the second annual WE Day UN.  The youth empowerment event returned to New York to celebrate youth and educators from across the Tri-State area. Taking place during the conclusion of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), WE Day UN is held in partnership with UN Women, UNAIDS and UN Global Compact. WE Day UN celebrates the year-round local and global acts of service taken by thousands of students from across the region.       

EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA Presents 'Modularias' Friday November 2, 2018 at 7:00pm and Saturday November 3, 2018 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm.

This summer, the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall will be transformed into a vibrant Manhattan street corner for the long-awaited Sydney return of In the Heights, the four-time Tony Award-winning musical from one of America's most acclaimed writers and producers, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Moana, Hamilton).

Dorothea 'Polly' Noonan, the real-life central character of Sharr White's new political drama, THE TRUE, was the grandmother of current United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.  If times were different, she might have been in the Senate herself, keeping the seat warm for her.

The Public Theater will begin previews for the New York premiere of MOTHER OF THE MAID September 25 and has been extended a final three weeks through Sunday, December 23.

Tap Dancer/Musician, Broadway's Omar Edwards, will be bringing his new show HARLEM NIGHTS: The Music, The Song, TheDance to MIST, Harlem's premier entertainment destination, today, September 20, 2018. Accompanied by his band, The K 360 Club, Edwards and company take the audience on a musical journey through a pool of sounds from jazz to reggae and back again.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT (celebrating its 25thSilver Anniversary at the theatre) in association with T&D Productions, LLC are thrilled to present Mary Bridget Davies, Broadway's original "Janis" starring in her Tony nominated performance A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN, with choreography by Patricia Wilcox, musical direction by Brent Crayon, and created, written & directed by Randy Johnson. A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN will preview on Friday, September 14, 2018 (with a press opening on Saturday, September 15 at 8pm) and runs through Sunday, October 7, 2018 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada.  

This first-ever collaboration by the pair who have been partners for many years also marks the debut of the Joe Goode Performance Group venturing into producing and presenting outside artists. Girl is the drag-inflected culmination of Fauxnique and electronic musician Kate's longtime fascination with pairing intellectual rigor and critical theory to popular entertainment forms they adore-including music, contemporary dance and film-and letting fly with provocative and even thrilling results; among other elements and questions, Girl will deftly mine the "final girl" horror movie trope as an investigative tool, all as Halloween and the November mid-terms converge on the horizon.