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The New Colony presents UNCHARTED, a two-week showcase of plays at different points in their journeys to production, playing July 11 - 20, 2019 at TNC's resident home, The Den Theatre (2B) 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.

On April 26 and 27 at 7:30 pm, the Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) will present Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at THE BLACK BOX in downtown Franklin. The play examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. The production stars Nick Paone, Hallie Wetzell, Lucas Melfi, and Amanda Dubois.

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas today announced complete details for Festival 2019, which opens on June 8 and continues for two weeks through June 22 in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's Matilda The Musical has partnered with Cabot Circus to offer visitors a rare opportunity to sit in Miss Trunchbull's chair, if they dare.

Acclaimed U.K.-based band Bear's Den is debuting the video for the lead single “Laurel Wreath” from their highly anticipated third album So that you might hear me, which is set for release on April 26 via Rounder Records; watch  it here. The video was filmed in Berlin by Brazilian directors Jungle and features refugees from Afghanistan and Morocco.

Helpmann Award-winning musical theatre star Elise McCann will bring the splendiferous world of Roald Dahl to Queensland Performing Art Centre (QPAC) in Dahlesque, daddling to the Playhouse on 30 May.

Pasadena Playhouse, State Theatre of California, welcomes the LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art) for a Summer Acting Intensive from July 22 through August 2.

As his production of Richard Hawley and Chris Bush's Standing at the Sky's Edge opens in the Crucible, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert Hastie, announces programming for 2019.

NYU Skirball will present the American premiere of Hot Brown Honey, a riotous celebration of Hip-Hop politics, dance, comedy, circus, striptease and song, featuring a bevy of powerful First Nation women from Aboriginal Australian, Samoan, Tongan, Indonesian, Maori and South African backgrounds. With their own brand of fierceness, these six sexy, sassy and stylish women boldly shatter preconceptions in an explosion of color, culture and controversy. Hot Brown Honey won the Edinburgh Fringe's prestigious Total Theatre Award in 2016. (or ages 16 and above.)

SONTALK, the latest project from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joseph LeMay, makes its album debut with today's release of Stay Wild [Sony Music Masterworks].  Available everywhere now, the twelve-track collection follows the personal trials, tribulations and triumphs of LeMay, culminating in an openly honest dialogue between himself and listeners. Stay Wild hints at the vastly expansive sonic and emotional terrain of SONTALK, whose conversation has just begun.   

The Royal Shakespeare Company's West End production of Matilda The Musical has announced that Hannah Selk and Zoe Simon will join Isobel Hubble and Francesca McKeown in the title role of Matilda from 19 March 2019.

On the heels of her performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, music, fashion, theater, film and TV icon Diana Ross will take the Radio City Music Hall stage for a concert in celebration of her 75th birthday on Saturday, June 22 at 8:00 PM. Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 22 through Ticketmaster (866.858.0008 and ticketmaster.com) and are available for $59, $79, $99, $149 and $299.

The Dead Rabbit a tri-level mid-19th century style IrishNew York drinking saloon and two-time 'World's Best Bar' winner that recently expanded its guest capacity, today announces 'From Barley to Blarney, a Whiskey Lover's Guide to Ireland.'

STAY WILD, the debut album from SONTALK, is set for release MARCH 15 from Sony Music Masterworks. Available now for preorder, the twelve-track collection follows the personal trials, tribulations and triumphs of JOSEPH LEMAY, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind SONTALK. Included with today's preorder is 'I AM A MOUNTAIN,' a multilayered, enveloping ballad detailing the before-and-after of a tumultuous relationship. Sonically, 'I Am A Mountain' serves as the dynamic apex of Stay Wild, featuring a loping pace and persistent, driving beat that swells and crescendos to mimic the emotional rise and fall of a failing relationship - listen here.    

Milwaukee theater audiences young and old are in for a real treat this January when First Stage proudly presents Roald Dahl's MATILDA The Musical, Book by Dennis Kelly and Music & Lyrics by Tim Minchin.

Milwaukee theater audiences young and old are in for a real treat this January when First Stage proudly presents Roald Dahl's MATILDA The Musical, Book by Dennis Kelly and Music & Lyrics by Tim Minchin.

Fifteen screenwriters from countries including the U.S., Lebanon, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom will bring twelve projects to the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, taking place January 18-23, 2019 at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah. The Lab provides an immersive environment that encourages all participants to embrace a spirit of creative risk-taking and collaboration, and imparts vital lessons in the art and craft of screenwriting while building a robust creative community. Through one-on-one story sessions with Creative Advisors, Fellows take part in an artistically rigorous process that facilitates the deep exploration needed to fully realize their material. The Lab is the first step in a year-round continuum of customized creative and tactical support for each project and team.

The Gate Theatre have announced their next production, Dear Elizabeth, a two-hander by award winning US playwright Sarah Ruhl will be performed by a series of guest actors including Travis Alabanza, Jade Anouka,Tim Crouch, Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings.

From the searing sun of the land down under, to the frozen tundra of Northern Minnesota, join Analisa Bell and Nichole Carey for an evening of stories and songs from two friends that grew up celebrating the holidays VERY differently.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that Elliot Harper will play Miss Trunchbull in Matilda The Musical's UK and Ireland Tour from Tuesday 15 January at Theatre Royal Plymouth. The tour will then play at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford (19 February - 23 March 2019), Edinburgh Playhouse (2 - 27 April 2019), The Bristol Hippodrome (7 May - 8 June 2019), Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (11 June - 6 July 2019) and Norwich Theatre Royal (16 July - 17 August 2019). The West End production will continue to play at the Cambridge Theatre, where it is now in its eighth year and is booking until 24 May 2020.

Rising LA-based band Bay Ledges—led by songwriter and producer Zach Hurd—will release their new EP, In Waves, on November 30 via S-Curve Records. Additionally, the band's newest song, “Electric Dream,” premieres at PopMatters, who says, “Replete with melodious, atmospheric synths and a cool, laid-back disposition, 'Electric Dream' feels a lot like what its name implies. The tune takes ample influence from disco and electropop scenes with synthetic beats and melodies pervading the soundscape's halls from the front to the back.” Listen/share the track here: https://bayledges.ffm.to/electricdream.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's Matilda The Musical has released new production images featuring the previously announced new cast of the multi-award winning show, which is now playing its eighth year in the West End having opened at the Cambridge Theatre seven years ago today on 25 October 2011.

MATILDA may be losing some of its appeal as a children's story, especially when Children's Theatre of Charlotte makes it more realistic than the national tour that came to town just two years ago.

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University (A.R.T.) announces October and November 2018 programming at OBERON, its club-style theater space for cutting-edge performance and thriving incubator for local and emerging artists. Upcoming events include A.R.T.'s Live @ OBERON and Afterglow @ OBERON series, as well as independently-produced events.

The Chicago Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Jeff Lindberg, kicks off the company's 40th anniversary season with A CJO Salute to Nancy Wilson, Saturday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan Ave. in Chicago's Fine Arts Building. Single tickets are $35 (balcony) and $45 (floor). Or, save with a CJO 2018-19 season package - the Nancy Wilson tribute concert, CJO's holiday ELLAbration on December 21 and a major concert event on May 18, 2019 celebrating 40 years of the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, all at the Studebaker - for just $85 (balcony) or $115 (floor). Single tickets and season packages are on sale now at chicagojazzorchestra.org.