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After a slew of psychedelic singles, Montreal-based modern psych-pop band Elephant Stone will release their new EP Le voyage de M. Lonely dans la lune this Friday (2/18) via Elephants On Parade. Today, they share the final peek into the concept EP with the forlorn, dazed out single “Solitude.” Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!

The 6th Online Festival of the Greek National Opera, curated by Giorgos Koumendakis, premieres on GNO TV in the Christmas holiday season and takes children –and not only– on three unique journeys into the world of imagination. The three new music theatre video productions for the whole family will be available to stream for free on nationalopera.gr/GNOTV/en. 

Bridget Planet creates a world from zero. It describes the life of lonely people. Their everyday life seems tediously repetitive. Extreme weather conditions, environmental pollution and loneliness compose a world in which the characters seem to be trapped. Redemption can only come through music, which awakens children’s imagination and builds the bridges that will connect everything that is isolated and in pieces.

Forget what you knew. With a bold ambition to reimagine how we experience and interact with the city itself, Sydney Festival's 2022 line-up – the first helmed by artistic director Olivia Ansell – is set to explode onto (and into) the city's parks, pools, streets, stages and screens this summer.

Elizabeth Ayodele takes theatre to London audiences in new mobile sustainably-made production from Boundless Theatre London Tour - November 2021.

The band recently announced their World Tour of America and will perform three intimate shows in Oxford, MS, Athens, GA, and St Petersburg, FL, surrounding their performance at Pilgrimage Fest in Tennessee.

Theatre Tuscaloosa has been chosen to present its production of Love and Cheese Toast, by Cooper Shattuck, at Virtual AACTFest 2021, the National Community Theatre Festival, June 14-20, 2021.

The band plays “Crawling Kingsnake” & “Going Down South” on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight. Their performances were filmed in Mississippi at Jimmy Duck Holmes’ Blue Front Café, which is the oldest active juke joint in America.

The Toledo Repertoire Theatre & Actors Collaborative Toledo present LONELY PLANET by Steven Dietz, directed by Benjamin Jameson.

British artist and producer Digital Farm Animals has enlisted rising vocal star HARLEE for the infectious new single 'Last Night,' out today 30th April, via Arista Records.

The New Media Film Festival is the first event of its kind in the world to accept non-fungible tokens in competition. During its 12th annual event on June 2-3, 2021, the winner will be announced and then purchased live during the awards ceremony.

The album takes its name from William Eggleston’s iconic Mississippi photograph that is on its cover.

On March 17, the musical play 'OPPY: A Mars Rover Story' will premiere at Judson Memorial Church in front of a live socially distanced and masked audience.

JUSTICE includes “Holy” feat. Chance The Rapper, “Lonely” feat. Benny Blanco, and “Anyone,” the three global smash hit singles that have garnered over two billion streams worldwide and amassed over 250 million in weekly radio audience, as all three currently reside in the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

After an unprecedented demand, Lighthouse Immersive and Impact Museums announces that it will extend its Los Angeles Immersive Van Gogh exhibition until January 2nd, 2022, at a secret location, soon-to-be-announced. The smash-hit experience sold over 80,000 tickets in just one week.

The album serves as a direct follow-up to last year's full-length K.G., and is the third volume in the band's explorations into microtonal tunings (which began with 2017's Flying Microtonal Banana).

Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, in a partnership with Jump Seat Productions, has announced the Digital HD and Cable VOD launch of director Al Bailey's DTF, a documentary about one pilot's search for love and sex through Tinder and the friendly skies. DTF will premiere at LA's Dances With Films before a VOD launch in the United States. DTF will be available to rent or own September 15th on Amazon, iTunes, Comcast, Spectrum, Vudu and more.

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the best musical theatre characters from 1940-2020; see if your favorites are on our list of the best characters from Broadway musicals.

While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out yesterday's videos, from stars including Ariana Grande, Josh Groban, Susan Egan, Tim Minchin, the cast of Waitress, and more!

After receiving a firm backing from the likes of BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson, alternative electro/pop outfit BETTY PULLS A FAST ONE are back with full force for their first release of the year titled 'PlantHunter'.

More and more, artists and artistic centers are turning to the internet to stay active and nourishing. Here is a list of upcoming and continuing ways to reach culture from the comfort of your home.

Some bands you can always recognize--they produce the same sound, even the same song, year after year. But great musicians don't just keep playing, they constantly evolve. Aloud's new record, Sprezzatura, out on May 8th via Lemon Merchant Records is a showcase for a band joyfully shedding the old and moving boldly forward, both sonically and lyrically. 

Barbra is having a concert and is a little lonely performing, so with the help of the audience and the Ruby slippers Barbra steals from the Smithsonian, they bring Judy Garland back from the grave for a one night only reunion. Rip roaring comedy, jokes, iconic songs of the past and so much more fill this 1-hour stage show. You will hear classics like don't rain on my parade, my man, the trolley song, and over the rainbow. Summer Orlando and Barbra Joan Streetsand conjure their best respective impressions of Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, with live singing, classic duets, solo performances, comedy and lots of fun!

Writer Ellen Stachowicz has never been wrapped up in a pyramid scheme but she still found herself obsessed with stories of those who have. So, in her debut work, Stachowicz decided to explore her interest by writing the multi-level marketing comedy Glamway. This play tells the story of a lonely 20 something woman named Tiffany who finds herself wrapped up in a chaotic mess of an MLM. All with the backdrop of glitter, glam, and classic 70's rock and roll.

The Playwrights Realm (Founding Artistic Director Katherine Kovner and Producing Director Roberta Pereira) will presents the 2020 INK'D Festival of New Plays, showcasing new works by this year's Realm Writing Fellows Tanya Everett, Maya Macdonald, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, and Christopher Reyes (February 24-27). The festival's plays offer vast tonal and stylistic variation while cohering around complex contemplations of structural issues. INK'D has proven to be an indispensable launching pad for the voices driving the future of playwriting. This year's powerful slate continues to introduce audiences to a diversity of fresh perspectives, thereby underscoring theater's potential to expand the possibilities of dramatic storytelling and engage with the world around it.