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Today, BroadwayWorld is excited to help reveal the cover to MOONLIGHT SEDUCTION by #1 New York Times Best Selling Author Jennifer L. Armentrout. It is a companion novel to MOONLIGHT SINS, the first book in the romance series featuring the de Vincent brothers. In addition to the cover reveal, BWW is also sharing the summary AND giving you the first chapter to read in celebration!

The quick-witted American actor and icon, Groucho Marx was a frequent visitor to New Hope and Bucks County. Now nearly 41 years after his death, Groucho makes a hilarious return to Bucks - this time in the form of award-winning actor Frank Ferrante in the global comedy hit, "An Evening with Groucho." The show is presented February 14 - 25 at Bucks County Playhouse as part of the 2018 Visiting Artists Series.

Quiara Alegria Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote the book for the Broadway musical "In the Heights," which received the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical and was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her Pulitzer-nominated and winning trilogy of plays known as the "Elliot Trilogy" are now being presented concurrently, giving Los Angeles theatre audiences a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in this exciting playwright's work. ELLIOT, A SOLDIER'S FUGUE, the first in her trilogy of Elliot plays, is being produced by Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre at the same time they are presenting the second play in the trilogy, Hudes' Pulitzer-winning WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at the Mark Taper Forum. The Latino Theater Company will present the final installment of the trilogy with their production of THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) opening later this month.

DENVER - The American Library Association (ALA) selects 'Manhattan Beach,' by Jennifer Egan, published by Scribner, as the winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir,' by Sherman Alexie, published by Little, Brown, as the winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The selections were announced this evening at the Reference and User Services Association's Book and Media Awards (BMAs) sponsored by NoveList, during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.

Less than two weeks until the release of his hotly-anticipated sophomore album, Nation of Two (released on Friday 23 February via Liberation Records), and alongside the announcement of a colossal run of international tour dates, Frontier Touring is pleased to reveal that Vance Joy will be heading out on a national tour this September. Presented by triple j, the Nation of Two World Tour will see Vance Joy take on Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena, Adelaide's Thebarton Theatre, Brisbane's Riverstage and Perth's Fremantle Arts Centre this spring.

Today, February 8, Woodstock-based artists The Weight Band released the music video for their latest single, “World Gone Mad.” The track is featured on the band's first full-length studio album World Gone Mad. The album features original tracks, guest vocals and slide guitar from Jackie Greene on a cover of a Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter song, as well as writing contributions from the late Levon Helm on previously unreleased songs. 

Court Theatre, under the leadership of Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director Charles Newell, announces the 2018 lineup for the Spotlight Reading Series, a multi-year community outreach initiative that aims to expose communities beyond Hyde Park to theatre arts, focusing specifically on works from outside of the canon of classic theater.

Lakeshore Records will release ALTERED CARBON - Original Netflix Series Soundtrack digitally February 9, 2018. The album features original music by Composer Jeff Russo (STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, FARGO). In addition to the original score, the album includes three songs including a cover of the Johnny Cash standard “Ain't No Grave” performed by ALTERED CARBON star Renée Elise Goldsberry (Quellcrist Falconer) and Sune Rose Wagner's performance of White Zombie's “More Human Than Human”.

Megan Bandelt is pleased to announce that the world premiere of her latest work, what she found, will be presented at the 12th Annual FRIGID Festival. The festival will take place February 14th through March 4th 2018 at The Kraine and UNDER St. Marks Theaters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The little OPERA theatre of ny (LOTNY), in collaboration with New York based period ensemble New Vintage Baroque, presents the New York City Premiere of Piramo e Tisbe at Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, NYC, from March 22-25, 2018, with performances on Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 3pm.  Tickets are $35 and are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/35006.   Based upon the story of Pyramus and Thisbe from Ovid's Metamorphoses with a libretto by Marco Coltellini, Piramo e Tisbe is byJohann Adolph Hasse, a pivotal opera composer of the 18th Century celebrated for his sweet and tender melodies. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

THE GREEN ROOM 42 - Broadway's newest intimate concert venue - has announced the return of "The Shakespearean Jazz Show" featuringFun Home star and Tony Award nominee Emily Skeggs and the Nine Worthies jazz ensemble in the exciting and original "The Shakespearean Jazz show" for two nights onFriday, February 2 and Friday, February 9.The show is directed by Emily Grill, produced by Ari Conteand Emily Grill, and features original music by Patrick Greeley.

Experience all of the romance and drama of a love story told from beginning to end by the Chi Phil Chamber Players in Mix-Tape Romance. With selections that range from pop hits to classical masterpieces, this love story is told with humor, passion, and lots of music.

On February 23, Woodstock-based artists The Weight Band will release their first full-length studio album World Gone Mad featuring original tracks, guest vocals and slide guitar from Jackie Greene on a cover of a Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter song, and writing contributions from the late Levon Helm on previously unreleased songs.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Nora Lyn Kennedy in The Life and Crimes of Nora Lyn Kennedy on Friday March 30th at 11:30 PM. The Life and Crimes of Nora Lyn Kennedy documents the absurd things Nora Lyn has done or experienced while making the big move to Manhattan. Join her as she mocks the absurdity of day jobs, dating, and Broadway open calls. Set to your favorite pop and Broadway showstoppers by Adele, Jason Robert Brown, and Destiny's Child, no artist is safe and no topic is too taboo for this young and up and coming singer/songwriter.

As part of its ongoing commitment to becoming a home for writers in Wales, Theatr Clwyd is for the third year offering playwrights the time and space to write within a community of fellow artists without the pressure of 'showing' or producing work. Residencies connected to the theatre's in-house productions give writers the chance to get to know other artists working at Theatr Clwyd, spending time observing rehearsals and developing ideas in a supportive environment.

It takes an awfully long time to get to the point in Philip Whitchurch's original one act play directed by Julia St. John. Set during a fictional night in the lives of William Shakespeare (played by Whitchurch) and his wife Anne (Sally Edwards) at their home in Stratford-upon-Avon, the story reveals a couple in their later years, bickering but still clearly in love, yet it takes nearly half the play and a frustratingly slow plod through its exposition to get there.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts announces the return of popular musical ensemble Postmodern Jukebox on Sunday, April 15, 2018 in the Ren e and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Postmodern Jukebox originally blew up online, with new videos added weekly that keep finding creative new ways to put creator Scott Bradlee's trademark vintage twist on modern pop hits. But it's onstage that the project has really come to shine, playing hundreds of shows to sold-out houses across the globe, from intimate standing-room gigs to large-scale, theatrical extravaganzas.

Michael Korte, the creator of #Ham4Bey & #Gaga4Rent, is back with a powerful cover of 'This is Me,' Broadway star Keala Settle's show stopping song from The Greatest Showman. Check out the video below!

Broadway In Chicago and the producers of A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME are delighted to announce that individual tickets for A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME, a slice-of-life original musical comedy, will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. This delicious musical makes its Chicago debut at Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut) for a limited six-week engagement March 20 through April 29, 2018.

It's a Carol Celebration! The Laurie Beechman Theater and Russ Woolley start the new year with the first of the Richard Skipper Celebrates. The show features Christine Pedi, Diane J. Findlay, Wendy Scherl, Karen Saunders, and a special guest to be announced January 5th. All under the musical direction of Michael Lavine with Rex Benincasa on percussion, Erik Lawrence on Sax, and Maryann McSweeney on bass.

See the lineup of fantastic shows coming to Joe's Pub for the 2018 Under the Radar Festival.

The Marcus King Band has announced that they will support Tedeschi Trucks Band and The Drive-By Truckers on TTB's 'Wheels Of Soul' 2018 tour. Hailed by audiences and critics as 'a champion of the summer concert season'

The YIDDISH KING LEAR, written by Jacob Gordin (aka the Jewish Shakespeare), is without a doubt one of the most famous Yiddish plays of all time. Starring David Serero in the title role of King Lear, this unique play will be performed on January 30th and February 1st 2018 at 8pm at the Orensanz Foundation located in the heart of the Lower East Side, New York.

Miller-Coffman Productions Proudly Presents The Cover of Life. The Cover of Life will make way to the Gene Frankel Theater in March! Directed by Stephen S. Miller.