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Within the black box confines at NextStop Theatre Company you can find what I would call one of the best family events of the year: Matilda The Musical. Matilda follows the original Roald Dahl story turned movie premise of a young girl with a love for reading and amazing super powers. Together with fun music, creative technical aspects, and amazing choreography, it's sure to entertain.

After an incredible 10 year anniversary event last year, Rampage have been working hard over the winter to make sure the 2020 edition, from 13th - 14th March in 2020, will be even bigger and better. Returning to the Belgian city of Antwerp and the giant Antwerp Sportpaleis, the line-up this year brims with world-class talent and a very special, fully-fledged headline show from Pendulum Trinity which will be the first time the band have performed outside of the UK, and will be the only time they do so before summer. As well as that, a special Farewell Tour Dj set from Noisia, Black Sun Empire, a world-wide debut AV show from Virtual Riot, AC13 b2b Ben Snow b2b IndiKa, Eptic, SASASAS (Macky Gee, Phantasy, Skibadee, Shabba D, Harry Shotta), Camo&Krooked b2b Mefjus, Delta Heavy, DJ Marky, Matrix & Futurebound, Modestep (live), Kasra b2b Randall, Dirtyphonics LIIVE, Midnight Tyrannosaurus, DPMC, Definitive b2b Sweettooth b2b Flakzz, Kasra b2b Randall and many more line up. 

Happy holidays! iDKHOW have just shared the festive video for 'Merry Christmas Everybody.' The song is a cover of Slade's original and appears on iDK's Christmas Drag EP, which dropped on Friday, November 15.

Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Potter Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff has cast a spell on Las Vegas! The hit, family-friendly show celebrated its 200th performance at The Magic Attic showroom inside Bally's Las Vegas on Friday, November 15, 2019. In addition, the show has extended its run at Bally's Las Vegas through May 2020. Tickets are currently on sale at Ticketmaster.com or PottedPotter.com.

'It Happened In Boston' (ISBN: 978-1733084703), a new children's board book introducing the history of Boston to young readers, is also the first in a series by Weymouth-based Great Pond Press, a publisher of books specifically created to interest children in history from a very young age.

Two cabaret nightclub singers walk into a bar... There's no joke, but there are a LOT of laughs with The Showbroads

Let's hope that The Wandering Circus wanders this way again soon.

An Indigenous farmer begins planting wild rice along ancestral lakeshore, causing ripples throughout the local cottager's association in Drew Hayden Taylor's Cottagers and Indians, on at GCTC November 26 - December 15.

Hot on the heels of the success of their debut EP, 1981 Extended Play, iDKHOW are releasing the Christmas Drag EP today, November 15. The EP finds iDKHOW's Dallon Weekes channeling his love for the holidays. The three-track release includes a cover of Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody,' along with the brand new song 'Oh Noel' and a reworked version of an original called 'Christmas Drag.'

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center is thrilled to announce an incredible entertainment line-up for December Holiday Season!  From family-fun winter films that celebrate ski and snowboard culture to a salute to Nat King Cole to opera and ballet, you'll find there's something for everyone in the family! 

a?oeAnother ticket! Another ticket! My kingdom for another ticket!a?? one may be moved to exclaim as they depart Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College. The sleek and sexy production of DRUIDSHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III, despite being roughly 386 years old and drawing on Tudor propaganda, feels remarkably fresh.

Why was Elsa born with magical powers? What truths about the past await Elsa as she ventures into the unknown to the enchanted forests and dark seas beyond Arendelle? The answers are calling her but also threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, she'll face a dangerous but remarkable journey. In 'Frozen,' Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. In 'Frozen 2,' she must hope they are enough.

Funny lady Ana Gasteyer ('Saturday Night Live,' 'The Goldbergs,' 'Wine Country') is sweetening up the holidays with the release of her new holiday album, Sugar & Booze. The collection of festive seasonal songs, classic and original, offer a swinging nod to the vintage holidays of yore with a modern touch and plenty of style. Gasteyer brings her Sugar & Booze tour to The Ridgefield Playhouse on Wednesday, December 18 at 8pm with a night of hilarious holiday cabaret that harkens back to the big-band jazz era with a modern and often comedic touch.

Waitress has today announced Willemijn Verkaik in the leading role of Jenna for the upcoming international tour of the Netherlands which will visit the country's largest theatres from September 2020.  

Everyman Theatre continues its 2019/2020 season with Agatha Christie's famous whodunita?"the literary, cinematic, and now theatrical classic, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Everyman's production, directed by Founding Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi and adapted by noted playwright Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Crazy For You), runs December 3, 2019, through January 5, 2020.

Food has many uses, one of which is communicating an emotion. It can even hold a memory. These themes surrounding the emotional resonance of food is the overarching raison d'être for playwright Julia Cho's 2016 play AUBERGINE, which continues performances at Orange County's South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa through November 16, 2019. In her introspective, cautiously-paced play, food is used as a means for bonding and connection---because standard communication by other methods doesn't seem to be as effective in conveying one's feelings.

Fane have announced a live tour celebrating the prolific career of one of Ireland's best loved writers, Roddy Doyle. Conversations with Roddy Doyle will tour across the UK and Ireland in 2020 and will see Roddy discuss his work in an intimate and entertaining evening of sprawling conversation, with various special guest interviewers, beginning at HOME Manchester on Sunday 8th March 2020 and concluding at Belfast's Ulster Hall on Thursday 4th June 2020. Conversations with Roddy Doyle will take in a total of 10 dates across the UK and Ireland, tickets for all venues on sale from Thursday 14th November at www.fane.co.uk/roddy. Tickets for the dates at the National Concert Hall, Dublin and Southbank Centre, London are on sale now.

The popular comedy company has created a new show especially for younger viewers.

From the producers of The Lion King and Aladdin, Disney's Frozen, the Tony-nominated Best Musical, will play an exclusive three-week premiere engagement at Keller Auditorium beginning Thursday, March 5, with performances playing through Sunday, March 22, 2020.

The unique and much-loved concert pairing of Bravissimo! Opera's Greatest Hits and Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert has set the standard for New Year's entertainment in Toronto. Performed annually at Roy Thomson Hall, both concerts enliven, enrapture, and entertain audiences as they greet the New Year.