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The Royal Opera House has shared early plans for its 2021/22 Season, the first full Royal Opera House Season since 2019.   

Black Girl Magic, but make it CHAOS. Malcom X described the black woman as the most disrespected, unprotected and neglected person in America, and yet, black women are surely at the center of much political progress, artistic genius, and family structure throughout history.

BAM today announced a new season—an ambitious mix of outdoor in-person programming and new virtual events—that is all about bringing live arts back to Brooklyn, and bringing Brooklyn’s creative spirit to the world. The season spans theater, dance, music, talks, visual arts, community events, and its annual gala.

Creede Repertory Theatre is offering a virtual presentation of Beth Kander's gripping new work, To the Moon. To the Moon lifts up the riveting stories of these survivors, complete with humor, revelation, and tragedy. Because 'statistics are not the most powerful way to change someone's mind. Stories are.'

New York Stage and Film has committed $100,000 to their new NEXUS Initiative that brings together 20 multihyphenate artists to explore the question “where does story exist at the intersection of stage and film?” Each participant receives $5,000 and will take part in a series of conversations focused on new and expanded forms of storytelling.

On the morning of September 22, 2015, in Renfrew County, Ontario, a single man went on a killing spree, brutally murdering three ex-partners in their separate homes. The murders devastated the rural Ottawa Valley community where baritone Joshua Hopkins grew up - his sister, Nathalie Warmerdam, was one of these women.

Throughout the month of February, while celebrating Black History Month, PBS has made it easy for Charley Pride fans and new audiences alike to learn more about his history in country music and the impact he made throughout the world.

Today, The Cleveland Orchestra announced its annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award recipients in a special video presented by Jeffery Weaver, Chair of The Cleveland Orchestra's Community Engagement Committee and Member of the Board of Trustees.

Frank Iero and the Future Violence aka The Future Violents have released their long-awaited EP Heaven is a Place, This is a Place today via UNFD. Hot off the heels of a recent dedicated Alternative Press issue, the new EP features four emotionally brutal tracks, ranging from unfiltered anger to delicate honesty and everything in between.

Frank Iero and the Future Violence aka The Future Violents have released their long-awaited EP Heaven is a Place, This is a Place today via UNFD.

The OBIE-winning HERE has announced programming for its HERE There Everywhere winter and spring 2021 season. The season launches with the ninth annual PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now (January 8–16), the premier global festival of opera-theatre and music-theatre which has been completely re-envisioned in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Running three weeks from January 11 to 31, the 2021 Origin 1st Irish will present a total of 20 virtual events, including recorded Theatrical Productions made both before and during Covid from Belfast, Dublin, Wexford, London and New York.

Last week, alternative band Charming Liars shared their hauntingly beautiful single “In The Reflection Of Blood.” Today the band has released a captivating new performance video of the track.

Last week, alternative band Charming Liars shared their hauntingly beautiful single “In The Reflection Of Blood.”

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival today announced highlights of the 25th anniversary edition of the city-wide event spanning the month of May 2021. Artists from Canada and around the world present lens-based works in exhibitions, site-specific installations and commissioned projects at museums, galleries, and public spaces across Toronto.

As momentum grows in the creation of the Museum of Jazz and Art (MoJA), the institution's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, David Allen, announced today that the organization has appointed Terry Stewart as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Tony Calzaretta as Chief Experience Officer (CXO). The Oakland-based nonprofit organization, which was recently given site control to Lake Merritt waterfront property on which to build its cultural center, will be dedicated to disrupting the way jazz music and its history have traditionally been presented by situating the art form within the broader American narrative to teach national history from a cultural perspective.

Onassis USA and the New Museum’s NEW INC have announced the launch of ONX Studio—the Onassis, NEW INC Extended Reality Studio—with two dozen artists and producers working in extended reality, for a year-long term to develop significant works for the public realm.

Frank Iero and the Future Violence aka The Future Violents are sharing a brand new single today. 

Playwright Jeremy O. Harris has announced the launch of The Golden Collection, composed of 15 plays by prominent Black playwrights including Slave Play, which has received a historic 12 Tony Award nominations more than any other play in Broadway history.

On Dec. 14, the 8-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook, the South Bend Civic Theatre will take part in a  national reading of seven plays addressing gun violence. The plays are part of #ENOUGH: Plays To End Gun Violence,  national short play competition for middle and high school students. 

THIRD RAIL REPERTORY THEATRE has announced its participation in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students. On December 14, 2020 — the 8-year remembrance of the shootings at Sandy Hook — the winning titles will be performed at THIRD RAIL and over 48 other theatres and schools across the country and abroad.

Azuka Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company and the Philadelphia Region of the Dramatists Guild of America announce their participation in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students. On December 14, 2020 -- the 8-year remembrance of the shootings at Sandy Hook -- the winning titles will be performed on Zoom in Philadelphia and at nearly 50 other theatres and schools across the country and abroad.

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company has announced its participation in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students.

Ping Chong and Company will present A Universal History of Infamy: Variations on Nocturne in 1200 Seconds, a new video production of Ping Chong's Nocturne in 1200 Seconds and a collection of online works from multidisciplinary, emerging artists inspired by it, responding to this current moment.

Frank Iero and the Future Violence aka The Future Violents have announced that their new Heaven is A Place, This is A Place EP will be released on January 15, 2021 via UNFD.