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SHOWTIME has picked up the hit drama series THE CHI for a sixth season. Created and executive produced by Emmy® winner Lena Waithe (Twenties, Boomerang) and executive produced by Academy Award® and Emmy winner Common (Selma), THE CHI is a timely coming-of-age story centering on a group of residents on the South Side of Chicago.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has announced the company’s 45th anniversary ‘sapphire’ season: a dynamic mix of world premieres and revivals of company and audience favorites.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has announced the company’s 45th anniversary ‘sapphire’ season: a dynamic mix of world premieres and revivals of company and audience favorites. The 2022/23 Season 45: Sapphire Season begins with HSDC’s fall series Refraction at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

Salon/Sanctuary Concerts will lift its voice to help Razom for Ukraine provide urgently needed humanitarian relief where it is desperately needed in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia.

The newly renovated State Theatre New Jersey presents Kraftwerk 3-D as part of their North American tour on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 8pm.

Latino Theatre Company presents Kulunka Teatro’s André & Dorine beginning June 8, 2022 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center. Co-founding member of Kulunka Teatro Iñaki Rikarte directs the silent cast of Edu Cárcamo, El José Dault and Garbiñe Insausti portraying over fifteen different characters, telling the story with only masks, gesture and movement. I had the opportunity to get some behind-the-scenes info about André & Dorine and Kulunnka Teatro from Iñaki.

Complete casting has been announced for year four of the Tony Award-winning musical’s North American Tour. Find out who is in the cast, the tour schedule and how to get tickets.

Astral announces the participants and panelists for its 2022 National Auditions in the voice, woodwinds & brass, percussion, and small chamber ensemble disciplines.

On June 3, Cumbancha releases the album Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston Part 2 featuring an all-star lineup of musicians from Cuba and Jamaica. An epic set of 15 tracks, Havana Meets Kingston Part 2 unites the deep roots grooves of reggae, dancehall and rocksteady with the scorching soul of Cuban son, timba and salsa.

If you missed it before, here’s your chance: Spain’s celebrated Kulunka Teatro will return to L.A. with their Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award-winning production of André & Dorine. Latino Theatre Company presents a limited two-week run, June 8 through June 19, at The Los Angeles Theatre Center.

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) today announced that, building on lessons learned during the pandemic, it is set to relaunch itself for the 21st Century, bringing its values and programming to more people in more places more effectively than ever before.

Watch the new trailer now for this season on THE CHI which delves deeply into the many joys and complications of Black love: relationships, children, career, community and self. Emmett (Jacob Latimore) and Tiff (Hannaha Hall) forge ahead as co-parents, while Tiff grows closer with Rob (Iman Shumpert).

On May 20, tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and pianist Thomas Enhco release Violeta y el Jazz, an album dedicated to the works of Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, and folklorist Violeta Parra.

Kulunka Teatro, Spain's internationally-acclaimed mask and physical theatre company, New York premiere of André & Dorine opens tonight! The limited 5-week Off-Broadway engagement at Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46 St.) in New York City runs through May 29, 2022.

A modern day farce is unfolding, and I'm not speaking of the 2022  political  scene or a worldwide pandemic. but rather onstage in  Sarah Ruhl's comic play STAGE KISS. Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre is presenting this Off-Broadway play that has become quite popular among regional theatres. The Brits seem to have mastered this genre of comedic story telling style better than anyone, succeeding greatly in hits like NOISES OFF, and more recently THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG. Coincidentally, all of these successful plays deal with troupes of amateur theatre actor's shenanigans as they work through the 'creative process.'  Audiences are merely asked to suspend disbelief and go along for a rollicking ride of silliness.

A story of love and war set in Egypt, where the Nubian princess and her people are captured, sets the scene for a thrilling and captivating show.

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville today announced its presentation of Malpaso Dance Company, an acclaimed contemporary dance group based in Havana, Cuba, on April 29 and 30, 2022 in its expansive warehouse.

La Coordinación y la Compañía Nacional de Teatro del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) se unirán a la celebración del Día Mundial del Teatro con actividades presenciales y virtuales, entre las cuales destacan conferencias, talleres, funciones en la Ciudad de México y el interior de la República mexicana. 

The Dallas Opera will welcome world-renowned tenor Javier Camarena to the Winspear Opera House stage on Saturday, March 26, at 7:30pm. The recital, with pianist Ángel Rodríguez, will include beloved Neapolitan and Latin songs, and famous arias by composers including Verdi and Donizetti, for which Camarena has become known.

Con el compromiso de promover y difundir la creación, así como la producción dancística y teatral en México, las coordinaciones nacionales de Danza y Teatro del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), instancia de la Secretaría de Cultura federal, presentan su programación para el mes de marzo que integra trabajos para todos sus públicos a cargo de distintas compañías.