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BroadwayWorld has teamed up with Broadway alum Ilana Levine, who makes her entrance onto the podcast stage with her new show Little Known Facts. Ilana's unique brand of celebrity interview, 'Podcast Verite,' is unfiltered, raw, honest and uniquely funny.

Mega-musical Hamilton has revolutionized the way Americans learn about American history since it opened on Broadway in August 2015, and has been smashing every expectation by grossing $100 million per year to sell-out crowds at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. And now you can hear the creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, like you've never heard him before on four new exclusive episodes of The Hamilcast -- Hamilton's unofficial podcast.

Maestro Louis Scaglione, President and Music Director of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO), is thrilled for WHYY-TV Producer Karen Smyles, who received the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy award for a program about PYO.

Presented by Arts Brookfield and curated by WNYC's John Schaefer, New Sounds Live returns to the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place (230 Vesey St.) from Friday, October 6 to Friday, October 13, 2017 with an unforgettable exhibit of artistic and musical mastery.

Presented by Arts Brookfield and curated by WNYC's John Schaefer, New Sounds Live returns to the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place (230 Vesey St.) from Friday, October 6 to Friday, October 13, 2017 with an unforgettable exhibit of artistic and musical mastery.

Music nonprofit LiveConnections' 2017-18 concert series, which features collaborative concerts especially for adventurous music-lovers, dares to ask a bold question: Can music build community?

Mercury Rising, the Mercury Theatre's £8.9m refurbishment and extension project, has received unanimous approval from Colchester Borough Council's planning committee. The project aims to modernise and transform our much-loved theatre, safeguarding its future for the whole community.

'Baskerville' blends campy comedy into a fast paced Sherlock Holmes mystery.

Psycho Clan, the creative team behind the NYC Halloween institution, Nightmare Haunted House (in the lower east side for 13 years) in association with Studio 153 announces THIS IS REAL, a heart pounding horror experience by Nightmare Haunted House creator Timothy Haskell. This intimate and unnerving simulated abduction allows for only 8 people to participate at a time. Performances begin on September 8th, 2017 for an open-ended run and take place in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn (an area of NYC one would likely be taken to if they actually were abducted) at 153 Coffey Street, between Ferris and Conover Street.  Performances are Tuesdays-Sundays at various times, with tickets ranging from $95-$110.  Visit www.thisisreal.nyc for complete details. 

Music teacher Dimitri Kauriga, of Southampton, PA who taught more than 30 years at Philadelphia High School for Girls, had many supporters in the audience when he was named as the grand prize winner in the Fourth Annual Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO) Ovation Award in a surprise presentation.

The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra's 2016-17 season was one to be applauded. After such an exciting year of music education and performances, the talented musicians will perform their final concert of the season on Sunday, June 4 at 3 p.m. in Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Friendship and puberty, past and present, angst and passion. What could be better fuel for a rock musical?

The talented young musicians of Tune Up Philly (TUP), The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO)'s community engagement program ensemble, will perform at Temple Performing Arts Center (TPAC) on Saturday May 27, 2017 presenting its 7th Annual Festival Concert at 1 p.m. This event is free and will be held at TPAC located at 1837 North Broad Street, Philadelphia.

It will be an exciting afternoon for the gifted young musicians of Philadelphia Young Musicians Orchestra (PYMO), the beginning to intermediate-level full symphonic orchestra, who will present their Inaugural Festival Concert on Saturday May 27, 2017 at 4 p.m.

Arts Brookfield's annual summer music festival, the Lowdown Hudson Music Fest, returns to the heart of downtown New York for its seventh summer on July 18 and 19.

The talented members of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra's Bravo Brass ensemble will hold their 14th Annual Festival Concert on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. The all-brass ensemble consists of promising high school and college-aged instrumentalists.  The performance will take place at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 1625 Locust Street in Philadelphia, PA and will feature the music of Bizet, Gershwin, and Wagner.

Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO) members, ages 12 to 18, will present its 22nd Annual Festival Concert on Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 3 p.m. in the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 300 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia. Conducted by Maestra Rosalind Erwin, the musical program will include Lee Hoiby's Overture to a Farce; Claude Debussy's Nuages et Fêtes from Noctunes; and George Gershwin's An American in Paris. The concert will feature the Young Artists Solo Competition winner -- cellist, Danny Bishop, who will perform Camille Saint-Saëns Concerto for Violoncello in A minor.

Two Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization musicians have been selected for the three-week summer program known as NYO2, an extension of Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of the USA.

The nationally acclaimed Philadelphia Youth Orchestra organization is holding auditions for the 2017-2018 concert season that will recruit student musicians for five of its program ensembles. They will be held on various dates between May 11 and June 16, 2017.

Philadelphia Youth Orchestra's PRYSM (Philadelphia Region Youth String Music) and PRYSM-YA (PRYSM Young Artists) ensembles will showcase their talents at the 10th Annual PRYSM Festival Concert on Saturday, May 13, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. It will be held in Centennial Hall at the Haverford School, located at 750 Lancaster Avenue in Haverford, PA.