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The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) today revealed all nominations for the 46th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards. This year’s Doras celebrate 221 nominations across 44 gender-inclusive award categories.

Based on Rosa Guy’s 1985 novel, My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl, a Caribbean-set retelling of the original fairy tale of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen.

With a knack for infusing might with melody, Too Close to Touch is Keaton Pierce (vocals), Mason Marble (guitar), and Kenny Downey (drums). Offering an explosive mix of indie-rock cool and punk-blasted emo pop energy, the band has toured extensively with the Vans Warped Tour and acts such as Waterparks, Issues and Crown the Empire. 

 American Composers Orchestra (ACO) will hold livestreams from the 2023 SONiC Festival, a New York City-wide celebration of the breadth and vibrancy of the nation’s modern composers, taking place June 1-12, 2023.

If you like thought provoking, entertaining theater. Choir Boy at Dezart Performs is just the ticket.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center has announced Dr. Clint Smith as the 2022 Stowe Prize winner for his New York Times bestselling book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America (Little, Brown and Company, 2021).  This year's events will be both in-person and virtual.

Opera Saratoga announced today that AMERICA SINGS, the company's free concert series that was created to amplify the voices of artists from racial groups historically underrepresented on the concert stage, will return to Caffè Lena this month on June 19th for A Juneteenth Celebration, celebrating the end of slavery in the United States.

After a 30-day call for entries, winners for the black album.mixtape. were announced during a virtual Block Party event. The black album. mixtape. is an initiative of Regina Taylor - the Golden Globe-winning actress, playwright, and activist - in partnership with Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts.

The New York LGBTQ Film Festival has announced that they will produce a live reading of 'Brokeback Mountain,' featuring an entirely trans cast. 

Today, Possessed By Paul James released a new song, 'When It Breaks.' Premiering the track Tuesday, The Bluegrass Situation spoke with Konrad Wert about life on the road, family, and his work as an artist and education activist, and teacher, who reflected on the themes of the song: 'When the world comes crashing down around us what will we do? I ask this question when thinking of my children. How will I react when tragedy strikes?'

The Word Alive — Telle Smith (vocals), Tony Pizzuti (guitar, vocals) Zack Hansen (guitar, vocals), and Matt Horn (drums) — have announced their new album MONOMANIA. The album, produced by Eric Ron (Panic! At The Disco, Godsmack), arrives February 21 on Fearless Records.

Industrial goth/rock quartet DAVEY SUICIDE will treat audiences across the West Coast to the first glimpse of new material from their upcoming album ROCK AIN'T DEAD-out January 24, 2020 via Out Of Line Music/InGrooves-as they join industrial acts Static-X and Wednesday 13 on a jaunt across the West Coast this winter. Kicking off Tuesday, December 10 in Salt Lake City,UT, the tour marks the 20th anniversary of Static-X's debut album Wisconsin Death Trip featuring the late Wayne Static and includes two sold-out shows in Portland, OR on December 13 and Seattle, WA on December 14. Dates are listed below. 

Cinematic, post-hardcore outfit Acres, how announced their eagerly anticipated debut album Lonely World, which will be released via A Wolf At Your Door Records this August.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the highly anticipated West Coast premiere of excerpts from the first collaboration between the acclaimed Chicago-based company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, considered a major force in contemporary dance, and Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion with three performances on Thursday, January 10 through Saturday, January 12, 2019, at 7:30 pm.

Legendary rocker Patti Smith's last Audible sold out show at The Minetta Lane Theatre in NYC drew some notable fans and friends including Bette Midler and award-winning actor Alexander Skarsgard. See photos from the event below!

Audible Inc., has announced the upcoming slate of productions at the Minetta Lane Theatre. The slate includes dynamic writing and performances from Patti Smith, Aasif Mandvi and Isaac Gomez, as well as Chisa Hutchinson. All performances will be recorded as Audible Original productions.

Alt-pop singer / songwriter, Josephina, releases the music video for her debut single Woosah today - watch HERE! The audio is also available today worldwide on Spotify and iTunes

59E59 Theaters will launch the first show of Prospect Theater Company's three-year residency with the NYC premiere of THE MAD ONES, a new musical featuring book, music & lyrics by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (Henry and Mudge) and directed by Stephen Brackett (Buyer & Seller).

The New York Musical Festival (NYMF), previously known as The New York Musical Theatre Festival, announced today the winners of the 2016 NYMF Awards for Excellence, which were awarded on Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 42West NY (514 W. 42nd Street). Scroll down for the full list, plus photos from the event!

Musical theatre lovers will return to the Harlem Renaissance in New York City when Make It Happen Theatre Company, Inc. (MIH) brings Loften Mitchell's jumping musical revue, Bubbling Brown Sugar, to the Carver Theatre June 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. This commemorative production will not only honor and celebrate the lives and contributions of the late Dr. Frank Adams and Mr. Bill Harris, two incredible Birmingham educators who dedicated themselves to teaching young artists, but funds generated will help provide children of low-income families with scholarships to attend the 2016 MIH Summer Performing Arts Academy at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.