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National Geographic's three-part global miniseries, DIAN FOSSEY: SECRETS IN THE MIST offers an intimate account of the life and legacy of the iconic primatologist, 32 years after her violent murder. The series premieres on National Geographic Today, Dec. 6, at 9/8c, and will air globally in 171 countries and in 45 languages.

With just about a week to go until its final show, the award-winning sketch comedy series Right Between the Ears is gearing up for a memorable sign-off at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS on Saturday, November 18 at 8:00pm.

Get out those shoulder pads, big hair-dos and fluoro colours a stage production of The Wedding Singer is about to transport you through time to the 1980s at Limelight Theatre.

Tonight, November 6, Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss will be presented in a reading to benefit The New Group, with a company including Keith Carradine, Lily Gladstone, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke, Dana Lyn, Clark Middleton, Alessandro Nivola and Yul V zquez. Ethan Hawke directs.

A one-hour special, 30 Years: A Celebration of the James Beard Foundation, from the James Beard Foundation and Intersport, their exclusive television content partner, will premiere on The ABC Television Network, on SUNDAY, NOV. 26 (4:00-5:00 p.m. EST).

GRAMMY-nominated folk band The Washington Squares will reunite for their first concert date in 25 years at New York's City Winery on January 10, 2018.

New York Theatre Ballet returns to Florence Gould Hall with their popular and critically acclaimed production of Keith Michael's THE NUTCRACKER from December 15-17, 2017.

If you've been closely following the artistic trajectory of LA's Stoney Spring-- and there's a 99% chance that you have not-you know the surreal, mind-bending vibe that continues to bloom from the band's fertile black soil.

The Garden Theatre (160 W Plant St.) is proud to present both the male and female versions of Neil Simon's award-winning comedy, The Odd Couple, showing October 13 - 29, 2017.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of... Happy Birthday?

CDI/Concert Dance Inc. (CDI) presents the world premiere of The Chicago Project: Future Present at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, today, September 22 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre continues its 2017/18 season with August Wilson's beloved play, FENCES, the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play that same year.

CDI/Concert Dance Inc. (CDI) presents the world premiere of The Chicago Project: Future Present at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, on Friday, September 22 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

CDI/Concert Dance Inc. (CDI) returns to the Ravinia Festival as part of the annual Ruth Page Festival of Dance Today, Sept. 7 and Friday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall. Ravinia is located at 418 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park and gates to the event open at 6:30 p.m.

CDI/Concert Dance Inc. (CDI) returns to the Ravinia Festival as part of the annual Ruth Page Festival of Dance Thursday, Sept. 7 and Friday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall. Ravinia is located at 418 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park and gates to the event open at 6:30 p.m.

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today that Charles Osgood, the radio and television journalist who started at CBS Radio and became an industry legend anchoring “CBS Sunday Morning,” will receive the 2017 News & Documentary Emmy® Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Innsbrook After Hours announced that I Love The 90's will be rolling through the SERVPRO of Richmond Pavilion in Richmond on Wednesday August 30th.

Producers James L. Nederlander, Estefan Enterprises, Inc and Bernie Yuman have announced that the Broadway musical On Your Feet! - based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winning international superstar Gloria Estefan and her husband, 19-time GRAMMY winning producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan - is going global.

Shakespeare's raucous comedy The Taming of the Shrew opens Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park 2017 season on June 1st.

THE COLOR PURPLE played in concert at the Cadogan Hall last night, directed and produced by Danielle Tarento, and co-produced by Matthew Chandler for the British Theatre Academy. BroadwayWorld has photos from the evening below!

Stars of stage and screen will illuminate the night sky when the Pasadena Symphony and POPS presents its annual free Music Under the Stars concert on Saturday, June 3 at Pasadena City Hall's Centennial Square.

The Apollo Theater today announced details of its upcoming 2017-2018 season. Marking the first full season with Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes at the helm of the legendary theater's artistic and community programs, it will encompass commissions, premieres, and collaborations with local, national, and international artists working across a range of disciplines and genres-from dance and theater to jazz, soul, and opera.

Ever since the New Israeli Opera was created in 1985 there's usually been one guest international production in each of its seasons. This year the Royal Opera of Wallonie from Liege, Belgium, brought its fun production to Tel Aviv, Gioacchino Rossini's opera buffa La Gazzetta (The Magazine) which is presented for the first time in Israel, over 200 years after it was written.

It's 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago Ma Rainey, The Mother of the Blues, is recording new sides of old favorites. During a tense recording session in Chicago's South Side, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom exposes the exploitation of African American musicians in the white-dominated commercial music industry.

Grammy Award nominated Irish-American supergroup, Cherish the Ladies will perform at SOPAC on December 17, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. Called "passionate, tender and rambunctious" by the New York Times, Cherish the Ladies was formed in New York City in 1985 to celebrate the rise of extraordinary women in what had been a male-dominated Irish music scene. They have since toured the world, played the White House and the Olympics and recorded 16 albums.