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Fresh off of her Tony Award-winning run as Yitzhak in the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lena Hall makes her Cafe Carlyle debut with SIN AND SALVATION. With her rocker sensibilities, she is turning the intimate venue on its head with a show that features a fascinating blend of rock, pop, blues, and even a touch of rap.

The London cast of Let It Be held a special intimate concert with songs from the show performed in a Beatles themed suite at the landmark Waldorf Hilton in Central London.

Portland Players has mounted a sensitive and thought-provoking production of Tom Griffin's 1988 play, Boys Next Door, about four colorful residents of a group communal home and their social worker. Griffin's work deals perceptively and sympathetically with the limitations and hopes of his characters, their skewed realities and their often hilarious interactions. In the person of Jack, the burned-out, yet compassionate counselor, the playwright is able to help the audience gain insight into the world of these mentally challenged adults and to appreciate their humanity.

Today we are talking to one of the biggest stars to break out of Broadway and make a major mark on the music scene in recent years thanks to her hit album HUNTER and an ever-expanding series of incredibly impressive viral music videos, the soulful and passionate Morgan James. Discussing the impetus behind many of the selections on HUNTER as well as sharing stories of how the album all came together, James generously details the process in creating her first album of original material while looking ahead to this week's live concert event at the Highline Ballroom which will showcase many of the standouts from the album as well as some special surprises. Furthermore, James opens up about her growing series of music videos covering many classic pop and R&B songs, both vintage and brand new, as well as the worldwide acclaim she has received for them - enough to inspire a recent European tour with innovative music collective Postmodern Jukebox, as matter of fact. Plus, James gives the 411 on her theatre background and Juilliard training while also reflecting on some of her Broadway appearances in musicals such as MOTOWN, GODSPELL, THE ADDAMS FAMILY and WONDERLAND while also commenting on some dream roles she would ideally enjoy pursuing in the future, near and far. All of that, thoughts on social media, favorite albums and much, much more!

Masi Oka (NBC's 'Heroes,' 'Hawaii Five-0') will reprise his Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated role as Hiro Nakamura for a guest-starring arc of episodes on NBC's new event series 'Heroes Reborn,' which will premiere in fall 2015.

Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, featuring a score by Tony-nominated songwriters Justin Paul and Benj Pasek and a book by Timothy Allen McDonald, has been acquired for licensing in the TYA, student and community theater markets by Music Theatre International (MTI). The musical is based on the beloved best-selling book of the same name by Roald Dahl.

Atlanta's nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre and Jennings Hertz Artistic Director Susan V. Booth are pleased to announce the 2015/16 Season for the Alliance Stage, Hertz Stage, Theatre for Youth and Families, and Theatre for the Very Young series. The 47th season includes five world premieres, a musical by BeBe Winans and Charles Randolph-Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, a literary classic featuring an all-Atlanta cast, and exceptional productions for youth and families.

Porter Robinson had a damn good SXSW. The day after his surprise victory over Sam Smith, Charli XCX, Run the Jewels, J. Cole and FKA Twigs for Woodie of the Year at the MTVU Woodie Awards

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Pigeons Playing Ping Pong & Juno What?! with Special Guests at the Fox Theatre tonight, March 21st, 2015.

This summer, Honolulu Theatre for Youth invites children to imagine, create and perform amazing adventures of suspense and dramatic transformation! HTY presents two distinctly different drama programs, one for youngsters and one for 'tweens.

Four productions still remain in Geva Theatre Center's 42nd Season: A Body of Water, Lee Blessing's play of memory and identity; The Mountaintop, a reimagining of Martin Luther King's last night on earth; the world premiere of Cass Morgan's journey to discover her roots - The Road to Where; and the season's grand finale, the laugh-out-loud comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The 2014-2015 Season continued Geva's innovative efforts to connect patrons and artists and art with the community. The 2015-2016 Season will continue to build on that and also usher in a new era as Geva's historic home begins to undergo renovation and transformation.

Trevore Ross stages this splendid revival of a production originally created by Spanish director Emilio Sagi for the Teatro Real in Madrid. Thanks to his stellar ensemble who do the lion's share of changing the sets while playing multiple roles, the opera is just as lovely to watch as it is to hear with the entire cast harmonizing spectacularly and playing their parts for all the laughs they can muster. THE BARBER OF SEVILLE is performed in Italian with simultaneous English translations projected over the stage.

Kicking off the new year, Michal Menert announces he will be joining Big Gigantic for a large, enormous performance at the Aragon Ballroom in the windy city tonight, March 14th.

The Henry Ford IMAX Theatre and Jean-Michel Cousteau invite audiences to dive into a spectacular underwater experience in “Jean-Michel Cousteau's Secret Ocean 3D,” narrated by oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, premiering today, February 27, 2015

?Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Kyle Hollingsworth Band Feat. Jason Hann with Special Guests at the Fox Theatre tonight, February 27th, 2015.

The Henry Ford IMAX Theatre and Jean-Michel Cousteau invite audiences to dive into a spectacular underwater experience in “Jean-Michel Cousteau's Secret Ocean 3D,” narrated by oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, premiering this today, February 27, 2015

As part of the launch of Greenlight Media and Marketing's 'Evolution of an Artist' digital content series, critically acclaimed musician and Washington native Allen Stone will perform five hometown shows in Seattle, WA April 13-18, 2015.

Today we are recapping the highlights of this week's lovingly presented 54 SINGS CHESS at 54 Below.

Today, Electric Forest (EF) announced that tickets to its 5th annual music and camping festival have sold out.

Today we are analyzing all aspects of the hotly anticipated concert event that occured at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall on Monday featuring an all-star cast performing Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning score and book - the Manhattan Concert Productions presentation of PARADE. Outlining his involvement in the unique theatrical event is acclaimed and versatile Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, who opens up about the exciting and idiosyncratic nature of a one night only event such as this as well as the opportunities available in designing for such a spectacular evening in order to bring his artistic vision to fruition. In addition to a thorough discussion of the themes and actual real history elemental to the musical itself and how Boritt has integrated those features into the visual landscape of the piece, he also sheds some light on the intensive design process and intimate collaboration with director Gary Griffin, composer/lyricist/conductor Brown, projection designer Jeff Croiter and lighting designer Jon Weston. Also, Boritt offers a first look at his inspiration for the design elements being created especially for the evening and how he is utilizing vintage photographs and actual historical pieces to maximize authenticity and accuracy in portraying the musical based on a true story occurring in 1915. All of that and much, much more in this expansive design-focused special feature with one of Broadway's brightest behind the scenes visionaries.

The life of Marie Curie - moving from Poland to France, her happy marriage and working partnership with Pierre, the Nobel Prizes, the death from radiation poisoning - seems ample material for a terrific drama.

Patti Lupone, ghosts and a gigantic pink elephant!

Night Ranger; the critically acclaimed San Francisco hard rockin' band, will play a special concert at the London Islington O2 Academy on Thursday 12th March. The special London show is being treated as a rare and intimate, warm-up to their Hard Rock Hell AOR Festival appearance on Saturday 14th March.

The Virginia Holocaust Museum, the Carole and Marcus Weinstein JCC and the Richmond Symphony will present “Voices of Survival” tonight, January 27, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage. This unique performance commemorates the triumph of Jewish survival in the camps that have become a synonym for the Holocaust, while celebrating the enduring power of artistic creativity that charges the human spirit. The program will reflect humanity's triumph over the atrocities of the Holocaust by featuring works by composers who suffered at the hands of the SS as inmates in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Nazi empire. The creativity of the victims also includes words, video and music, performed to remember all those who perished while honoring the courage and tenacity of all those victims of the Nazis who survived, thereby serving to uplift us all in the act of commemorating one of human history's greatest crimes.

Roundabout Theatre Company presents a new Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine's Tony Award-winning Into the Woods. Directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld, this production premiered in May 2013 at the McCarter Theatre in association with the Fiasco Theater. Into the Woods officially opens tonight, January 22, 2015 at the Laura Pels Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say...