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Gerard Alessandrini’s FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: Merrily We Stole A Song opened on Thursday, September 19th. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out photos from opening night here!

The DTES Heart of the City Festival announced its lineup for 2024, featuring over 100 events including music, theatre, and visual arts, celebrating the cultural diversity and artistic talent of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre will present MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET from September 27 to October 6.

Yola releases her new single “Future Enemies,” her first new music release in 3 years, and a sonic shift for the groundbreaking artist. This is the first single from her forthcoming EP My Way, set for release November 15.

In a huge coup, acclaimed Canadian singer, songwriter and performer City and Colour has announced that he will tour Australia in January 2025, alongside dynamic US eight-piece Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. 

Rising punk rock act Winona Fighter has released their new single “Swear To God That I’m (FINE).' Clocking in at just over 2 minutes, the song is a dynamic blend of candid vulnerability and pure punk energy.

SIERRA HULL has announced her roots-laced rendition of “Black Muddy River” — which has been a recurring gem in her live set for years — will be released on Friday, September 27. 

IRON MAIDEN will start their RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR on May 27th next year in Budapest followed by 27 stadium, festival & arena shows around Europe.

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater will open its 29th season with a one-night-only performance at The Auditorium in Chicago, featuring a mix of premieres and classic repertory pieces. Learn more about Deeply Rooted and see how to purchase tickets to its season opening.

In diesem generationsübergreifenden Projekt sind Theaterenthusiast*innen ab 12 bis 99 Jahren eingeladen, mit Künstler*innen der Wiener Staatsoper ihr eigenes Stück zu entwickeln und vor Publikum aufzuführen. 

Elke, the moniker of avant-pop Nashville artist Kayla Graninger, has released “Insect Song,” another taste of her incredible forthcoming sophomore album. Divine Urge is out October 25.

Stevie Wonder will be playing select dates in October, at the height of a critical election season and a pivotal juncture in American politics and culture, in a call for “joy over anger, kindness over recrimination, peace over war.”

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York's leading cultural venues, will present Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Ottoman Four Seasons with Richard Tognetti, artistic director and violin; Joseph Tawadros, oud; James Tawadros, riq on Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 2pm on the David Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall.

Joburg Ballet will present Scarcity at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town from 24-26 October 2024. The highly anticipated debut season of the full company features works by South Africa’s Dada Masilo and Craig Pedro, alongside Chinese-German choreographer Hannah Ma and Netherlands-based Spanish choreographer Jorge Pérez Martínez. 

Join platinum selling recording artist Chris Pinnella as he brings his 12-Piece Big Band Project to the newly renovated Newtown Theatre on Sunday September 29th. The afternoon will boast an all new setlist of songs played through brilliantly by Pinnella's stellar 12-Piece Big Band in their Newtown, PA debut.

We all love Dolly. She wrote all the songs for 9 to 5. On Broadway, the musical had a short life, as did attempts on London’s West End. UK tours and those in Australia met a quick demise. Plan B: license to regional theatres. The show’s producers added a vid with Dolly herself at opening curtain singing the title number. It’s a buoyant anthem about the struggles of working a 9 to 5 job female empowerment and control of one’s future.

Toby’s supports sharing the love of theater with young people. Despite, or perhaps because of, its macabre nature, the embedded message of THE ADDAMS FAMILY is about radical acceptance and inclusion, and always has been, from long before “inclusion” was a buzzword. Every member of your family, weird or not, can enjoy this positively creepy show.

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Literatura (CNL), recordaron al escritor Federico Patán, en un homenaje luctuoso realizado en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes.  

What did our critic think of WALLMANS DINNERPARTY 'JUBILEE' at Wallmans?

'Constellations' is touching, smart, funny, and heartbreaking. It is extraordinarily performed with clear, and compelling performances that go straight to the heart. “Constellations” plays through September 29th at Liberty Station.