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Excitement is brewing as 14 artists play one of The Grand's three venues in Wimington.  With the potential to bring over 15,000 patrons to downtown Wilmington, this month is sure to restaurants and patrons happy. The old saying goes, there's something for everyone this month at The Grand!   

If ever there was a musical that will make Floridians fall out of their seats in hysterics, cheer for the bad girl and fall in love with a zany cast of characters, it's The Great American Trailer Park Musical! Now in March 2018, TheatreWorks Florida is beyond thrilled to revive their award-winning production that swept the 2010 Orlando Fringe Festival awards and won "Best In Fest"!

A decade after winning The X Factor, pop sensation Alexandra Burke today announced that she will be embarking on her The Truth Is UK tour this autumn. Her first UK headline tour since 2010, The Truth Is will see Alexandra take her infamous soulful to Theatre Royal, Glasgow on Wednesday 12 September 2018.

To celebrate this amazing milestone, we checked in by phone with Michael Crawford, from New Zealand. As many know, along with a long career creating numerous roles, the star also inspired the creation of this very web site. After I saw the production myself in 1994, my father said 'If you thought that was great, you need to hear the original...' And, the rest is BroadwayWorld history.

Superstar recording artists Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, N.E.R.D., Charlie Puth, Sia and season 12 winner Chris Blue are set to perform on the live two-hour Today, Dec. 19 season finale (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series THE VOICE.

Midlands based hard rock band, The Bad Flowers, are set to release their debut studio album Starting Gun on Friday 16th February 2018.

Superstar recording artists Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, N.E.R.D., Charlie Puth, Sia and season 12 winner Chris Blue are set to perform on the live two-hour Tuesday, Dec. 19 season finale (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series THE VOICE.

Written as a 'narrative for voices' by Alan Ayckbourn and brought to The Old Vic stage by Old Vic Baylis Director Annabel Bolton following its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival, The Divide unfolds in a dystopian society of repression and seething insurrection.

dick clark productions and ABC today announced that Florida Georgia Line, Halsey, Portugal. The Man and Hailee Steinfeld have been added to the lineup of performers for the West Coast celebration of DICK CLARK'S NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE WITH RYAN SEACREST 2018.

Today, tickets go on sale for 2x Grammy nominated DJ/Producer Steve Aoki's KOLONY tour, kicking off on February 10th in Washington D.C. with special guest Desiigner. Simultaneously 'the man who never sleeps' releases his new video for No Time with Bad Royale featuring Jimmy October with an exclusive Complex premiere this morning.

The UK's leading youth arts organisation, The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) today announces a spring 2018 programme as the 2017 season draws to a close. Nessah Muthy's award-nominated The Host, which follows the life of a Syrian refugee in the UK, will return in February following its acclaimed run at The Yard Theatre.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Ashley Spencer as 'Tonya' and Lauren Worsham as 'Nancy' in a concert of songs from Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera' on Feb. 13, 2018 at 9:30 PM.

Neil Young + Promise Of The Real release their brand new studio album The Visitor today via Reprise Records in stores and via all digital music retailers. The vinyl edition will follow on January 5th, 2018. For those who have preordered, Young has already shared the first track, 'Already Great.' A brand new video for 'Already Great' launches today.

The very title of THE FIGHT encourages us to imagine the rivalry between Phyllis Feinberg (Fleur Alys Dobbins) and Doris Marguiles (Judith Hawking)--obviously fictional names for Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan---in pugilistic terms.Deftly directed by Peter Dobbins, artistic director for the Storm Theater Company (which is currently in its twentieth season), Leaf's meticulously researched play explores the ideological and personal conflicts within Second Wave feminism, taking the 1973 meeting of the National Woman's Caucus in Houston as its dramatic focal point. Like his last work, Deconstruction, THE FIGHT is part-mystery and part-intellectual history. Profiled as an 'up and coming playwright' and compared to Saul Bellow in Timeout New York, Leaf's signature is the sustained, careful exposition of concepts and characters through sharp, witty, realistic dialogue. One thinks of George Eliot's line in Daniel Deronda's Book II: 'The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation as the moment of finding an idea.' Leaf's plays are cerebral yet full of emotion, 'mingl ing ' ideas with with their messy human manifestations in ways Eliot, an irreducibly philosophical novelist, would approve.

Grace McLean joins the cast of The Ugly Christmas Sweater Soiree!

Neil Young + Promise Of The Real will release their new studio album The Visitor Reprise Records on Friday, December 1, 2017 in stores and via all digital music retailers. The vinyl edition will follow on January 5, 2018.

Midlands based hard rock band, The Bad Flowers, are set to release their debut studio album Starting Gun on Friday 16th of February 2018. The album is a follow up to 2016's self-titled EP and shows the great progression of song writing and musicianship of The Bad Flowers over the past two years.

dick clark productions announced today that producer, songwriter and music superstar, Sean Diddy Combs, will receive the Hollywood Documentary Award for Live Nation Productions and Apple Music's Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story, which features Sean Combs, Faith Evans, Lil' Kim, Mase, 112 and Notorious B.I.G. at the 21st Annual Hollywood Film Awards. Actress Kate Beckinsale will be in attendance to present the honor to Mr. Combs.

MacDowell Colony Fellows Starlee Kine (journalist in residence 2007, 2016), Anna Sperber (Dancer/Chroreographer - in residence 2017), Joshua Harmon (Playwright in residence 2011, 2016), and Eli Arbor (Composer - in residence 2017) celebrate MacDowell's new New York event space, new branding, upcoming website relaunch, and aim to raise funds for young artists in the city.

It's 'deja vu all over again' goes the quip attributed to the NY Yankees pitcher Yogi Berra. But that's the feeling I had with Thomas Ades's THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, with libretto based on the Luis Bunuel film, 'El angel exterminador,' by Tom Cairns and the composer. (Cairns also directed.) Not that the opera looks or sounds like anything else recently produced on the Met's stage, except perhaps for Ades's own TEMPEST. Rather, it's because it seems like the operatic arm of France's Nouvelle Vague, the New Wave, of the late '50s and '60s.

MacDowell Colony Fellows Starlee Kine (journalist in residence 2007, 2016), Anna Sperber (Dancer/Chroreographer - in residence 2017), Joshua Harmon (Playwright in residence 2011, 2016), and Eli Arbor (Composer - in residence 2017) celebrate MacDowell's new New York event space, new branding, upcoming website relaunch, and aim to raise funds for young artists in the city.

This season, VPAC (The Soraya) introduces a new experience for L.A's live music lovers as the 1,700 seat theatre is transformed into an intimate onstage New York-style jazz club for a series of global and chamber music performances.

The Old Globe today announced the additional productions in its 2018 Summer Season, including the classic Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park directed by Jessica Stone (Ken Ludwig's Robin Hood!, Arms and the Man, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Globe), which will run July 28 - August 26, 2018. The Summer Shakespeare Festival lineup will include The Tempest, running June 17 - July 22, 2018, and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall (the Globe's Love's Labor's Lost), running August 12 - September 16.

The Segal Centre will welcome back the uproarious and thought provoking Bad Jews, written by Joshua Harmon and directed by Lisa Rubin. Having received critical and public acclaim when it premiered in Montreal in 2016, Bad Jews is returning to the Segal Studio from November 8 to November 26, 2017.

This article was written by guest contributor, Matt de Rogatis who chronicles his experiences in the revival of James McLure's 'Lone Star' that will have its final performances at The Triad in New York City on October 27th.