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The brand new stage production of Helen Forrester's Twopence To Cross The Mersey is embarking on its first major UK national tour this Autumn. 

Semblanza de el autor de ENTRE SEVILLA Y TRIANA, uno de los más importantes compositores de zarzuela y con más paralelismos con el musical de lo que en un principio pueda parecer.

Vallejo Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2022 season, Beethoven: Higher Revelation.

The scope of the project includes mural design and execution as well as window cling designs. The spaces vary in size based on the project. Work should be representative of the arts community and diversity in Torrington as well as the region. 

Co-presented by the magazine Triple Canopy, Brazilian Modernism at 100 commemorates the bicentennial of Brazil's independence and the 100th anniversary of the legendary 1922 Modern Art Week in São Paulo, which inaugurated a new, uniquely Brazilian sensibility.

The film takes place in Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy friend Labude by night. When Fabian meets the beautiful and confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love.

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus has received a generous gift from Amazon to support The Chan National Queer Arts Center, SFGMC's new home and the first-ever community space for LGBTQ artists and arts organizations.

The New Group has announced that the new musical Black No More will begin previews January 18, in advance of an Official Opening Night now set for Tuesday, February 15, a schedule update due to Covid-19.  Previews were previously slated to begin January 11.

From January 11 through May 8, audiences across the country will have the opportunity to experience the extraordinary artistry of Ailey with a cornucopia of performances and programs, including two national tours—by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II—as well as the nationwide broadcast of the acclaimed documentary film AILEY, with its immersive portrait of dance pioneer Alvin Ailey, and the continuation of Ailey All Access, the organization's digital programming for all audiences.

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation's premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, begins its quarter-century season with a free, one-night- only organ spectacular.

Johnny's Island: The New World is the 11th incarnation of a long-running series first launched as 'Johnny's World' back in 2012. It is a Broadway/Vegas-style entertainment showcase of theatre, dance, music, and acrobatic spectacle, with each show's cast made up of the hottest rising young stars of Japan's biggest talent agency Johnny & Associates.

Cole Porter, the most Francophile of the big five American composers of the American songbook, with Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers, spent almost a decade in Paris just after World War I immersing himself French language and culture and developing his craft as a composer and lyricist of sophisticated and semi-autographical ditties full of double entendre, trying them out as a dilettante pianist in the party scenes of the roaring 20s not only in Paris but also in Venice, before taking on Broadway by storm the following decade.

Rob Fennah's play is based on the first volume of Helen Forrester's multi-million selling autobiography

Pleating as an art form in fashion, has unfolded across centuries. From the Egyptian's elaborate garments to the iconic white skirt made famous by Marylin Monroe to the modern interpretation of the technique by Tom's Sons International in New York City. Learn more at www.internationalpleating.com.

American Masters: Ailey is a portrait of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), a trailblazing pioneer who founded his influential studio Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958 at age 27. Using previously unheard audio interviews recorded in the last year of Ailey’s life, the documentary presents the his journey in his own words.

The TIG NOTARO show scheduled at the Warner Theatre on Saturday, January 22, 2022, has been cancelled.

Running from January 13 to February 5, 2022, To  Save and Project: The 18th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation includes more than 60 newly preserved features and shorts from 19 countries, many having world or  North American premieres and presented in original versions not seen since their initial  theatrical releases.

The cast from the Tony and Olivier Award-winning hit Broadway musical “Come From Away” will perform on NBC’s “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special prior to the lighting of the iconic Christmas tree. The special will also include performances from the Pentatonix, Harry Connick Jr., Carrie Underwood, and the Radio City Rockettes.

Viewers will be treated to festive performances by Annie LIVE's Harry Connick Jr., Alessia Cara, Mickey Guyton, Norah Jones, Brad Paisley, Rob Thomas, Carrie Underwood and more. The evening will include a duet featuring Paisley and Thomas and a special performance by the Radio City Rockettes.

The New Group has announced complete casting for the world premiere production of Black No More.  This new musical features Book by John Ridley, Music and Lyrics by Tariq Trotter, Music Supervision, Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements by Daryl Waters, Choreography by Bill T. Jones and Direction by Scott Elliott. 

The North American tour of Rogers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! began performances at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, MN on November 9, 2021 and will continue to play over 25 cities during the 2021-2022 season including stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago and Nashville, and more. Read the reviews!

The Great American Songbook Foundation's new interactive gallery exhibit compares and contrasts the popular music and pop culture of the 1920s and the 2020s.

Cinedigm announced today that The Film Detective, the classic film restoration and streaming company, has opened its online, e-commerce store for its highly-anticipated deluxe edition of The Sherlock Holmes Vault Collection, available Nov. 2-26. 

 Shakespeare & Company will present the virtual performance Breaking Dawn: The American Myth, a film and accompanying audiocasts by The NET, through Saturday, Nov. 21.

The New Group has announced that Ephraim Sykes (Ain’t Too Proud, Tony Award nominee; Hamilton) will join the cast of the world premiere production of Black No More.