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This season and beyond Nuffield Southampton Theatres will welcome some of the country's leading theatre makers to the stage to present family-friendly productions.

Gilda's LaughFest 2020 kicked off Thursday, March 5th and goes through Sunday, March 15th. Thursday started with an opening proclamation featuring Grand Rapids Mayor Roslynn Bliss and others looking back on the last ten years and ahead to 2020. The first weekend full with events for everyone, ranging from family friendly to some adult only comedy, making it a great kick off to the event!

CATEGORY ISa??ROMEO&JULIET will transport audiences to 1980s New York City and to the heart of queer ballroom culture a?" recently highlighted to a new generation by FX's hit TV show Pose, and seminal 1991 documentary Paris is Burning.

Audiences can expect plenty of sword-fights and Tim Tams from The Court Theatre's latest comedy, combining the worlds of Shakespeare and New Zealand to hilarious effect.

The Cleveland Orchestra announces its 2020 Blossom Music Festival season, presented by The J.M. Smucker Company. Nineteen concerts will be part of the Blossom Music Festival, taking place from Fourth of July through Labor Day weekends (July 3 a?" September 6). This year marks the 10th anniversary season of the Orchestra's innovative Under 18's Free ticket program for families and children which provides free tickets for young people to all Blossom Music Festival concerts.

Shauna Macdonald and Angus Taylor are sensational, as Libby and Declan.

North Shore High School is getting ready to welcome a new class of students! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, four original company members of Mean Girls depart the production: Grey Henson (Damian), Kate Rockwell (Karen), and Barrett Wilbert Weed (Janis), who play their final performances tomorrow, March 8, and Erika Henningsen (Cady), who played her final performance on February 22. What made their experience in the hit musical totally fetch? BroadwayWorld checked in with all four as they were preparing for their final bows.

There is much to offer in this unusual take on the musical, but just as many questionable choices. 

On March 28th Elm Street Cultural Arts Village will announce plans for 2020-2021 at their annual Season Reveal Party.

FINDING NEVERLAND, the musical that made us all believe in our imagination, will be making its way to Waterbury's Palace Theater March 20 - 21.

Liza Anne today shares her shimmering new song “Desire.” It Is her first new release of 2020, produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (M83, Beck). “Desire feels like too much tequila, and I've had plenty,” Liza sings on this irreverent, self-realizing new track about the intoxication of bad habits.

For the past eleven years, California Roots Music & Arts Festival has been bringing the best reggae, roots music, rock, hip hop and psychedelic art center stage to the iconic Monterey County Fair and Event Center. To celebrate “International Women's Day,” the festival is proud to highlight artists HIRIE, Nattali Rize, Vana Liya and Artikal Sound System fronted by Logan Rex on their 2020 lineup. DJs also bringing the vibes include Kayla Kush and Lexy Love. In addition to the talent on stage, behind stage has plenty to celebrate with a staff of over 70% women bosses!

The 2020 theatre season is in full swing, with many opening nights scheduled between now and the start of Awards Season (our favorite season!) - which means you'll probably be spending a lot of time in the theatre.

As they look ahead to the release of a new album next month, New York alternative rock band HELLO HALO has released a new single, 'Our Tomorrow Is You,'available now on all digital platforms. This is the latest track release off their debut album Maybe This Can't Wait, due out on April 24. The band is also marking the occasion with a hometown show at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on March 13.

How far should we hold someone responsible for abuse decades ago? Can we factor in that maybe they grew and changed over the years? Is it fair to seek social justice in the age of the Internet when someone can instantly be fired or destroyed by allegations that were never prosecuted or examined by any impartial judge or jury?

Simon Splice, the brand new look for current heavy-weight artist Exile, today drops his first EP 'New Beginnings' on the brand new D+B label: Eloisa Records.

Get ready to run! Raue Center For The Arts is excited to announce the 23rd Annual Bob Blazier Run for the Arts. Lace up your running shoes and help preserve the arts in your community at 8 a.m. on May 3, 2020! 

This summer's hit off-Broadway musical, Camp Morning Wood, A Very Naked Musical, is back on stage for a special one-night-only concert presentation at The Green Room 42, (570 Tenth Avenue inside YOTEL, NYC). Tickets are $25-$55 and can be purchased at www.TheGreenRoom42.com.

Soorya Performing Arts, a not for profit organization, is bringing their three-day annual American Natya Festival to the Wydown Auditorium (6500 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105) on April 24th, 25th and 26th, to showcase India's grand dance forms. This festival presents professional performing artists from across the United States as well as India. This event is curated by Guru Prasanna Kasthuri, Artistic Director of St. Louis' Soorya Performing Arts and a renowned dancer among Indian and American Indian classical dance elites. It is the first and only Indian Classical Dance Drama Festival in the country.