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Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) 2018 season opens with Gilbert and Sullivan's THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (June 9-17), followed by Cole Porter's ANYTHING GOES (August 18-26), JUDY GARLAND: COME RAIN OR COME SHINE, STARRING ANGELA INGERSOLL (October 5-14), and Stephen Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS (December 22-31).

Broadway Across Canada is thrilled to announce the three musical productions coming to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre as part of the company's 2018-2019 season. We wanted to pull out all the stops for our 20th anniversary season, says Broadway Across Canada's vice-president, Shana Levin. The shows we're bringing include powerful true stories about community, empowerment, and the power of the human spirit, she says. They're stories we could all learn from right now.

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: The Homecoming Queen opens tonight off-Broadway, Party Face opens at City Center, and more!

Sportsnet has released a video of the Toronto cast of Come From Away performing the opening number 'Welcome to the Rock' in honor of Canada's Hockey Day, which takes place in Newfoundland this year.

The 33rd Annual Artios Awards for Television, Theatre, Short Films and Short Form Series were held in Los Angeles and New York on January 18, 2018. Click here for a full list of winners and check out the theater-related winners below

NOVA WONDERS, a six-episode, hour-long, primetime series, hosted by three engaging young scientists, is slated to launch on PBS in spring 2018.

Ron Legler, President of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, home of the Hippodrome Theatre, has announced the lineup of shows for the new 2018/19 Hippodrome Broadway Series. With seven shows direct from Broadway and two Season Options, the season is anchored by the Baltimore premiere of HAMILTON, in addition to new musicals, Blockbuster Tony Award-winners and returning audience favorites.

BariToned is BACK by popular demand returning to The Green Room 42 on Sunday January 21, 2018 at 7pm with their hit show 'I HATE MEN'. This farcical concert trio, starring Joe Hager, Edward Miskie, and Caleb Albert, with music direction and arrangement by Dan Pardo (Amazing Grace, Come From Away), will take you on a hunky-hilarious tour through the tough broads and loose women of musical theatre; twirling, and kick-line'ing through favorites such as Everybody's Girl, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair, Bring On The Men, That'll Show Him, Big Spender, Gorgeous, and many more.

Welcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS! Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 1/14/2018.

Come From Away is now onstage in Winnipeg at the John Hirsch Mainstage - Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre until February 3. 2018. The Winnipeg engagement is completely sold out. The show then travels to Toronto with performances beginning February 13, 2018 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. The Toronto engagement is an open-ended run with tickets currently on sale until September 2, 2018.

McCarter Theatre Center is starting 2018 with a strong shot of Irish humor as it presents Marie Jones' Stones in His Pockets, January 12 February 11 in the Berlind Theatre.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: John Lithgow: Stories by Heart officially opens tonight, The Play That Goes Wrong hosts a fan appreciation night at their performance tonight, and more!

Lin-Manuel Miranda took a trip to Gander when he visited COME FROM AWAY last night. Check out the photos with the cast below!

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: Jake Shears made his Broadway debut in KINKY BOOTS, HAMILTON gets some lyric changes across the sea, and more!

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) rings in 2018 with the first staging of Harold Pinter's mysterious classic drama, The Birthday Party (January 10 February 4, 2018).

The full lineup of the Come From Away Show Spotlight at BroadwayCon has been announced. Moderated by Mo Rocca, this Come From Away panel will feature Irene Sankoff (Book, Music, Lyrics), David Hein (Book, Music, Lyrics), Kelly Devine (Musical Staging), Christopher Ashley (Director), Ian Eisendrath (Music Coordinator & Arranger), Petrina Bromley (Bonnie & others), Geno Carr (Oz & others), Jenn Colella (Beverley & others), Alex Finke (Janice & others), De'Lon Grant (Bob & others), Joel Hatch (Claude & others), Chad Kimball (Kevin T & others), Caesar Samayoa (Kevin J & others), Q. Smith (Hannah & others), Astrid Van Wieren (Beulah & others), Sharon Wheatley (Diane & others) in conversation on the journey from Gander to Broadway.

Come From Away is now onstage in Winnipeg at the John Hirsch Mainstage - Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre until February 3. 2018. The Winnipeg engagement is completely sold out. The show then travels to Toronto with performances beginning February 13, 2018 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. The Toronto engagement is an open-ended run with tickets currently on sale until September 2, 2018.

The Next Stage Theatre Festival returns this January with a lineup of ten companies showcasing a cross-section of our exciting indie performance community. With many familiar faces from past Fringe Festivals, the 2018 programming is a true representation of the 'best of the fest'. The festival will take over Factory Theatre from January 3 to 14, 2018.

BroadwayWorld is getting ready to ring in the New Year right! We've put together a New Year's Eve-inspired playlist featuring all our favorites! Check out music from Cabaret, Come From Away, Hello, Dolly!, Groundhog Day, SpongeBob and more!

MusicWorks today announced that it would be presenting three classic folk-rock concerts in Palm Beach County during the first month of 2018. The first concert will be held at the Duncan Theater on the campus of Palm Beach State College, 4200 S. Congress Avenue in Lake Worth, and the other two will be held at Old School Square's Crest Theatre, located at 51 N. Swinton Avenue in Delray Beach.

Ford's Theatre Society announced casting for playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker's sweeping new drama, Jefferson's Garden, playing from January 19 to February 11, 2018. The production features Christopher Dinolfo as Christian and Felicia Curry as Susannah, with Christopher Bloch, Michael Kevin Darnall, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Halling, Thomas Keegan, Kathryn Tkel and Maggie Wilder. The play is directed by Nataki Garrett (Woolly Mammoth's An Octoroon), associate artistic director of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company.

Multi-award winner Rick Faugno will add his singing and dancing talents to the all-star cast of Broadway on Main Street 2018, coming to the Jeanne Rimsky Theater on Saturday, January 6.

La Jolla Playhouse announces Diana, a world-premiere musical from the Tony Award-winning Memphis team Joe DiPietro (book and lyrics) and David Bryan (music and lyrics), directed by Playhouse Artistic Director and 2017 Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley, as part of the 2018/2019 season.

The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President) is pleased to announce that five theater artists will be honored by the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee during the presentation of its 2017 Awards in a luncheon ceremony on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.