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Urbanite Theatre, Sarasota, Florida's premiere destination for bold, contemporary black-box theater, announced its 2021-22 season, celebrating it's 8th season in downtown Sarasota.

Are you in the mood for an ensemble romp, some familiar stories, an ethics-heavy main character, beautiful harmonies and a good meal? In GODSPELL at Toby’s, a cast of stalwart Toby’s regulars create beautiful moments individually and in groups. Directors Mark Minnik and David James update the storytelling to include contemporary iconography.

Australian mining company Lockheart Industries is looking for the next big idea to make the company millions and starts producing “designer air” with its revolutionary Suck-and-Blow machine. 

If life is 'what happens when you're making other plans' what if you actually act on those other plans - at 60 years of age?

Next month, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

As theatre comes roaring back, this autumn and winter see plenty of exciting new productions, including big West End musicals and intriguing plays. Here are the shows that we’re most looking forward to seeing.

Welcoming the audience’s back into the Theatre are Harlow favourites, Ben Parsley, as Silly Willy Scarlet and Jimmy Burton Iles as Dame Auntie Dolly alongside a professional cast of top musical theatre performers.

The highly anticipated, much delayed Los Angeles production of HAMILTON has finally opened to full houses of enthusiastic and appreciative audiences. London transplant Jamael Westman heads this cast currently at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre reprising his Olivier Award-nominated role of the titular Alexander Hamilton. Had the chance to chat with Jamael (pronounced ‘Ja-mel’) a few hours before he headed to the Pantages for his Wednesday evening performance.

Jake Bazel, renowned puppeteer from Sesame Street (HBO/PBS) and a writer on Disney's Winnie the Pooh: The New Stage Adaptation (Disney Theatrical), has launched a NEW interactive musical, Duncan the Skunk and the Big Costume Trunk, exclusively on Hellosaurus!  Hellosaurus, named 'Mister Rogers for the iPhone Generation,' is a mobile learning app for kids featuring interactive stories guided by experts where kids can be the co-star for a truly immersive experience.

Disney has opened many spectacular shows on Broadway, such as Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, and The Lion King. However, it's been around four years since they opened a new show on Broadway. Here are some of my top picks for their next movie-to-stage adaptation to come to Broadway. It has been so long since we got a new Broadway production from Disney. Hopefully, now that Broadway is reopening and new shows are being developed again, Disney will open an amazing new show that will delight audiences, children and adults alike.

With Music Director Eric Jacobsen and the Orlando Philharmonic, Concertmaster Rimma Bergeron-Langlois executes the technical fireworks of Brahms's exuberant Violin Concerto; and his Second Symphony dazzles with brasses ablaze in the finale. Woven in between, movements of Symphony No. 2 by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Our student bloggers write about how they're coping with the current global health crisis, give insight on their school's performing arts programs, share their opinions on the latest theater news, and so much more. Returning to the theater on Broadway and at college, parody musicals for orientation, and more-- read the latest from our college student bloggers!

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts Producing Artistic Director BT McNicholl will welcome you home to a very special return season of truly exhilarating events at the newly renovated theatre! Won’t it be amazing to once again laugh together at the unmistakable comedy of the one-and-only JAY LENO and the always hilarious MARGARET CHO?

TARA VAUGHAN'S SHE ROCKS announced September 9 - 19 at SumTur Amphitheater.

Resonant of the tradition of Southern Rock and Country Soul, 'Delta Tales' combines vibrant narratives lush with themes of love (lost and found), family, faith, betrayal, sin, and redemption; a boilerplate of Southern archetypes encased in a vigorous instrumental buffet.

By this point, it feels like every major musical name has produced some kind of “pandemic project”. With Tom Kitt & The Collective's new album, Reflect, there’s a refreshing lack of gimmick to it.

There's nothing new about collecting charitable donations after a natural disaster. And you wouldn't think there was anything funny about it either. But all for One productions' season opener, The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church, takes a seriously comedic look at a group of church ladies gathered--in the midst of storms and floods of their own--to sort items for foreign relief.

A game of Clue is afoot at Melville Theatre this September as six strangers are invited to a mysterious mansion. 

I know all of us take countless classes, read plenty of articles, and listen to endless interviews about what makes a great audition 'in the room.' So, to not waste your time, I will not be discussing how to audition in-person, but rather the digital Summer Stock audition process. After you've created all your audition cuts, there are essentially 2 methods of auditioning: 1. Self-Submissions 2. Audition Conferences

A secret friendship fostered by a wolf and a goat, the 'eating side' and the 'edible side'. A masterpiece depicting the importance of friends and the beautiful heart of compassion for others will reappear at the Nissei Theater. Enjoy the stage with plenty of songs, music and dance that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike!