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3-19 DANCE ART WHERE MAGICAL REALISM MEETS DANCE is proud to be presenting BEWITCHED WRITING, honoring the life of Nobel prize winner and Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical and RCA Records have released a single of 'The Sparkling Diamond' track from the highly-anticipated Original Broadway Cast Recording of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, listen now!

As previously reported, Moulin Rouge! will release an Original Broadway Cast Recording this fall. Get a first listen to one of the tracks on the album, titled The Sparkling Diamond, sung by Karen Olivo!

This coming season, AMERICAN SCOREBOARD, a series of actor-performed, verbatim readings of actual U.S. Congressional hearing transcripts, will once again join forces with HB STUDIO to perform four readings featuring HB students and alumni.  The series will kick-off on Monday, September 16 at 7pm at the HB Playwrights Theatre (124 Bank Street) with a performance of testimony given on March 6, 2019 before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Protecting Dreamers and TPS (Temporary Protected Status) recipients.   Admission to the reading is free and reservations can be made at hbstudio.eventbrite.com.

North Shore Music Theatre has announced complete casting for the upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterwork, SUNSET BOULEVARD, which will star the previously announced Alice Ripley as the fading Hollywood star, Norma Desmond.

Andrew Combs is set to release his new album, Ideal Man, on September 20th via New West Records. The 11-song set was produced by Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby, Benjamin Booker). Captured live in Cohen's Brooklyn studio, Ideal Man also features Combs' long-time collaborators, drummer Dom Billet and guitarist/keyboardist/bassist Jerry Bernhardt. 

Get a sneak peek inside rehearsal for FERN HILL, Michael Tucker's new play directed by Nadia Tass in its NYC premiere.

Working, A Musical opens on September 4th at the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival (FLMTF). The show runs through September 21st at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Emerson Park.

On this episode of BroadwayRadio's 'Tell Me More,' Matt Tamanini talks to one of the most prolific character actors working today, Glynn Turman. After beginning his professional career playing Travis Younger in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun' in 1959, Turman has gone on to an incredible career as a series regular or memorable guest star on TV series like 'Peyton's Place,' 'A Different World,' 'The Wire,' 'In Treatment' for which he won an Emmy, 'House of Lies,' and as Nate Lahey Sr. on 'How to Get Away with Murder,' for which he is again nominated for an Emmy Award.

Premiere Stages will present the New Jersey premiere of Rohina Malik's Joseph Jefferson Award-nominated play Yasmina's Necklace at Kean University in Union September 5-22. Previously presented at the 16th Street Theater and Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Yasmina's Necklace tells the story of Abdul Samee. Abdul's father is Iraqi and mother is Puerto Rican - but if you ask him, he'll say he's Italian.

Actors Theatre of Louisville and Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming announce the upcoming production of Hype Man: a break beat play on stage in the Victor Jory Theatre from September 11-October 13, 2019.

Durante cuatro décadas ha dejado su alma en los escenarios; ha sido una apasionada y entregada bailarina que ha ganado con creces el reconocimiento del público y es considerada una figura clave en la historia del flamenco en México. Hoy todo ese ímpetu que ha cobijado la trayectoria de la maestra Mercedes Amaya, La Winy es plasmado en el espectáculo Con el alma que se presentará el sábado 17 de agosto, a las 19:00 horas, en el Palacio de Bellas Artes.

El director y fotógrafo Santiago Arau, con 15 años de carrera como fotógrafo y cineasta, se ha dedicado a fotografiar “desde el aire y tierra” al país. Las experiencias acumuladas y algunas de las numerosas imágenes capturadas fueron compartidas a través de la conferencia Arquitectura y patrimonio desde el aire, en la Sala Adamo Boari del Palacio de Bellas Artes.

The Secret Garden - the Tony Award-winning musical by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, based upon the timeless children's novel by Knoxville's own Frances Hodgson Burnett - premieres at the Center for the Arts on Friday, August 23, continuing through Sunday, September 8, in a sumptuous production directed by longtime theater journalist Jeffrey Ellis.

Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival is set to round out its 30th Anniversary Season in Vanier Park, with the staging of Coriolanus on the Howard Family Stage in the Douglas Campbell Theatre. Directed by Dean Paul Gibson (The Winter's Tale, 2017 and A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2014), Coriolanus is making its first appearance at Bard in the Festival's 30-year history.

The Thomas Ades' two act opera, Powder Her Face, will play at Teatro Colón Dec. 13-18.

FEFU AND HER FRIENDS, a surreal dramedy by Maria Irene Fornés, known as an early feminist giant of the avant-garde, challenges modern audiences in that the play is plotless except for the fact eight women with very different agendas, personalities, and sexual orientations have gathered in the country home of their eccentric friend, Fefu, to plan an event for their do-gooding educational work. As multiple conflicts unfold between the old friends, they struggle to define who they are and what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated world.

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Branch Nebula's mind-bending one-man show High Performance Packing Tape  will take The Studio by storm from 18-22 September as part of the UnWrapped September series. The season follows a critically acclaimed, sold-out premiere at Liveworks 2018 and comes to the Sydney Opera House after an international premiere at HomoNovus Festival in Riga in September, and will also tour to Melbourne Festival in October.

Festival of Cinema NYC is proud to announce the winners of its 3nd annual event that took place from August 2-11 at Regal Cinema's UA Midway in Forest Hills, Queens Public Library at Forest Hills and Queens Museum in nearby Flushing Meadows Corona Park. From a pool of nearly 450 film submissions, the festival presented 125 remarkable films from 25 countries. Winners for each competitive category were chosen by the festival's specially selected jury, and received a unique statuette at the Awards Gala on Sunday, Aug. 11 during a dinner ceremony that took place at Queens Brewery in Ridgewood, Queens. Prizes for selected categories include full software from Final Draft, Jungle Software and Showbiz Media Budget & Scheduling Software. Winners of Audience Choice award are offered an opt-in distribution deal from IndiePix Films.