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Today's top stories: Theatre companies revoke memberships for LA Stage Alliance after Asian nominee, Jully Lee, was misidentified at the Ovation Awards. Plus, first look at the new Drama Book Shop, and more!

New Georges announced today two upcoming productions for the Spring 2021 season—Dream/Home, presented as part of Post Theatrical; and All the Different Ways Commodore Matthew Perry Could Have Died Before Opening Japan But Didn’t, a new play commissioned from Julia Izumi, presented in a co-production with Theater in Quarantine.

Congratulations are in order! Broadway power couple Nicolette Robinson and Leslie Odom Jr. have welcomed a baby boy into their family! Baby Abe is Robinson and Odom Jr.'s second child - they also have a young daughter named Lucille Ruby!

New box office data from the 12 months since March 16, 2020 when performing arts organizations shut down show the catastrophic impact of the pandemic in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland.

After a year of lockdowns, quarantines, sanitizing, immunity-boosting, and now vaccinating, we are finally ready to sing about it. Announcing Imagine Productions' Over the Top: In Poor Taste (a COVID Cabaret). Going viral soon! Tickets can be purchased on Vendini at: http://www.imaginecolumbus.org/

The Vail Dance Festival today officially announced plans to return in-person for its 32nd season July 30 – Aug. 9, 2021.

Renell Shaw, composer, songwriter and Associate Artist of Hackney Empire, today releases a new video to accompany his Ivor Novello award-winning composition THE VISION THEY HAD (FROM THE WINDRUSH SUITE).

New American Folk Theatre presents The Summer of Daisy Fay, the inaugural production of NAFT's “season of audio theatre,” featuring new recordings of three of the company's past productions.

The Dallas Opera has announced the cancellation of two upcoming recitals in its Spring “Welcome Back” Song Series: bass Morris Robinson on Wednesday, March 31 and the duo of soprano Leah Crocetto and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton on Saturday, April 3, due to a positive Covid-19 test by a contractor associated with these concerts.

Cincinnati Opera will return to the outdoors for its reimagined 2021 Summer Festival, Summer at Summit. The season will take place July 11-31 at Summit Park, located in the heart of Blue Ash, Ohio, and will feature internationally renowned artists, the Cincinnati Opera Chorus, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) today announced the appointments of Alfred C. Liggins, III, Chief Executive Officer of Urban One, Inc. (formerly known as Radio One) & Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TV One, LLC and Craig Robinson, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for NBCUniversal, to the BMI Board of Directors.

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, streamed live, on Thursday, April 22 at 7 PM, in a program of works that features the world premiere of The Wind, performed by Kun-Yang Lin himself.

Filmed at the iconic New York City venue, The Bitter End, and directed by filmmaker Louise Lau of Offstage Tunes.

M-34 has announced an extension of their critically acclaimed production of Franz Kafka's Letter To My Father, translated by Hannah Stokes and Richard Stokes, developed by James Rutherford and Michael Guagno, directed by James Rutherford.

 Actor/comedian Rhonda 'Passion' Hansome closes out the AARP New York  Women's History Month virtual comedy series  with a performance on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. 

Radio Know, the audio-drama brand of the Know Theatre of Cincinnati, will present A Report of Gunfire, by David J. Loehr, available for download beginning March 24. The production is directed by Zach Robinson, and stars James Creque (last heard on Radio Know as the titular demon in our Christmas fantasy epic Krampus Claus) as the Journalist.

Gravitas Ventures just released the feature film comedy, 'Take Me to Tarzana,' which tells the story of Miles Jones, his co-worker Jane Avant and their party-boy friend, Jameson Doheny, as they fight back against corporate chicanery, tech bro culture, and the underhanded data collection tactics of today's most successful tech companies.

Victory Gardens Theater, in partnership with The Black Women’s Expo and Black Owned Chicago, will present the 5th Edition of the Black Beauty Festival, April 10-11, 2021. Black Beauty Festival: Joy & Magic is a free two-day event that uplifts Black-owned businesses while creating conversations around beauty, health, and wellness.

The series features characters voiced by Patrick Adams, Samuel Arnold, Bono, Connie Britton, Penélope Cruz, Meg Donnelly, Danai Gurira, Nick Kroll, Laura Marano, Kumail Nanjiani, David Oyelowo, Phoebe Robinson, Michael Sheen, Wanda Sykes, and Calum Worthy.

Films.Dance, a groundbreaking new global film series produced by and under the creative direction of LA-based Jacob Jonas The Company continues on March 29 with SIT STILL, the tenth of 15 short dance films to be released at no cost every Monday through May 8, 2021.