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The Owl & the Pussycat Theatre Co is proud to announce, The Terrible Legend of Victoria Woodhull closes this today, June 19th with a special performance - a live virtual reality recording slated for distribution by VR Home TV. Come join the magic in this cutting edge new medium where Theatre & the Virtual Stage collide in the great beyond.

Electronic music group The Glitch Mob and TheWaveVR, the creator of the world's first social virtual reality (VR) music platform, today announced an upcoming show featuring music from the band's third studio album, 'See Without Eyes'. The free experience launches Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. PST, at which time fans will be able to immerse themselves in an interactive, VR version of the album. A trailer to preview the show is availalable to stream below.

Bay Area Musicals (Matthew McCoy, Founder & Artistic Director, and AeJay Mitchell, Managing Director) has announced the full cast and creative team for the final production of the 2017-2018 season, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.

Singtel today announced that it will contribute S$10 million towards Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay's development of a new medium-sized theatre to address expanding audiences and growing artistic needs. Singtel's contribution is the largest single donation that the national performing arts centre has received since its inception in 2002.

Highlights For Children, Inc. is teaming up with kids' podcast leader, Tinkercast, to unveil a new podcast for kids titled, Highlights Hangout, on June 4. Highlights Hangout is the latest addition to the screen-alternative kids-podcast movement that comes just in time for summer road trip season. An exciting 20-25 minute Highlights Hangout episode will release on the first Monday of each month.

Facebook F8 Developer Conference - Felix & Paul Studios, the EMMY Award-winning creator of cinematic virtual reality experiences, and Universal Pictures today launched Jurassic World: Blue-in conjunction with the launch of the new Oculus Go standalone VR headset.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas today announced complete details for Festival 2018, which opens on June 9 and continues for two weeks through June23 in New Haven, Connecticut.  

From internationally-celebrated novel, to world-premiere stage adaptation, to groundbreaking online event. Late Chilean author/poet Roberto Bolaño's 2666, co-adapted and co-directed by Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls and Chicago-based playwright Seth Bockley, is now streaming.

The acclaimed BBC Big Band will be raising the roof of Darlington Hippodrome on Tuesday 10 April.

BroadwayHD team members joined representatives from Disney Theatrical Group and Universal Theatrical Group at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) conference for a panel.

The latest artful collaboration of Stewart Copeland and Jonathan Moore, the co-world premiere of THE INVENTION OF MOREL, will be presented by the Long Beach Opera at the Beverly O'Neill Theater for three performances beginning March 17, 2018. Actor/director/playwright Jonathan Moore took a few moments of his busy schedule to provide us with a few details on teaming up with the co-founder of The Police.

Amulet Books announced today that actor, singer, and songwriter Andy Mientus has written a middle-grade fiction series called The Backstagers. The first installment, The Backstagers and the Ghost Light, will publish on September 25, 2018. The series will follow the paranormal adventures of a high school stage crew and is based on the award-winning BOOM! Studios graphic novels created by James Tynion IV and Rian Sygh.

On April 22, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present the very first exhibition of Jack Whitten's sculptures: Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017.  

China Broadway Entertainment announces its latest original global musical: Road to Heaven: The Jonathan Lee Musical. Adapted from the novel by internationally acclaimed author Li Xiuwen, the original musical will feature music by one of China's most iconic singer-songwriters Jonathan Lee.

Sherri Nestorowich is a talented and respected artist in the Buffalo, New York area. She has been into art since childhood and took a break to answer a few questions on the art world of Sherri.

ESPN is launching a new SportsCenter show on Snapchat. The show will debut today at 5 p.m. ET, and tomorrow will begin its regular schedule with new shows available twice a day at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays, and once at 5 a.m. on weekends.

BroadwayWorld continues our exclusive content series, in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, which delves into the library's unparalleled archives, and resources. Below, check out a piece by Stephen Bowie, Digital Curatorial Assistant of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, on Revisiting Baker Street: An Interview with Jerome Coopersmith.

We're back in the world of ration books, blackouts and spam fritters, as Nicholas Wright delves into the home front via his adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's 1947 novel. Though there's a certain period chintz about Jonathan Kent's production, darker undercurrents make this a more complex proposition than it first appears.

'I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all,' says Viola de Lesseps, the woman who is destined in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE to win the titular Bard's heart. 'Not the artful postures of love,' she continues, 'but love that overthrows life.' In this most memorable of quotations lies metaphorically, at least the conundrum of translating the 1998 Oscar-winning film to the stage.

In fall 2018, Ringling College of Art and Design will be the first art college and one of the first educational institutions - to offer a degree in the expanding field of Virtual Reality for artists and designers. The Ringling College Virtual Reality Development major, a four-year, BFA degree program, is accepting applications now for 2018-19.