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This incredible roster of shows joins the 20 recently announced shows supported by the Pleasance Futures programme, including this year's winners of the Charlie Hartill Special Theatre Reserve Fund and Comedy Reserve Fund, marking Pleasance's commitment to nurturing talent and supporting ambition. It's time to get your highlighters out and start booking some of these amazing 140 plus shows.

Satirical Diva Melinda Hughes has performed internationally both as a solo artist herself and while performing as a soloist with the Andre Rieu Strauss Orchestra and has two albums to her name, Smoke & Noise and Weimar & Back. She has enjoyed many sell-out shows at Crazy Coqs at Live At Zedel, The Pheasantry in Chelsea, Holders Festival in Barbados, Government House in Bermuda and The Metropolitan Room in New York.

Made Event, the producers behind Electric Zoo Festival, has released the lineup for ELECTRIC ZOO: EVOLVED. For its 11th edition at Randall's Island Park in NYC – taking place over Labor Day Weekend August 30 & 31, September 1 – festival attendees can expect a bigger and better star-studded lineup featuring dance music titans of the likes of Dog Blood (Skrillex & Boys Noize), recent Billboard cover star and DJ/expert producer Alison Wonderland, dubstep mastermind Flux Pavilion, alongside EZoo veterans Kaskade, Armin van Buuren, Diplo and so many more! Festivalgoers will also experience multiple B2B sets such as DJ Diesel and Borgore, NGHTMRE and SLANDER, Cookie Monsta and Funtcase, plus more.

The 2019 New Moves show of the Kansas City Ballet once again brings us an impressive display of works by new and emerging choreographers.

HERE welcomes composer and singer Gelsey Bell, OBIE and Doris Duke award-winning playwright Julia Jarcho, and NAACP-nominated theatre-maker Nia O. Witherspoon as new members of the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP).

The Public Theater's White Noise, written by Public Theater Master Writer Chair and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, and directed by Oskar Eustis, officially opened last night, March 20. The show just recently announced an extension through Sunday, May 5.

The Downtown Urban Arts Festival today announced its 2019 artist line-up for the 17th annual multi-disciplinary arts festival showcasing music, poetry, live theater and film. The five-week Downtown Urban Arts Festival performs April 11-May 18 at Joe's Pub, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Wild Project and Tribeca Film Center, respectively.

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At the elegant Soroya Theatre in Northridge, CA, Martha Graham's Dance Company, under Artistic Director Janet Eilber's seasoned guidance, performed a most incredible group of works.  Some were originally created approximately 80 years ago, by Martha Graham, a true icon in the Dance world.  The EVE Project, as this evening, March 2nd, 2019 was entitled, gave us a wide variety of themes within a theme, that being Women and their significance, their power, their passion and their strength.  It was polished to perfection, and each piece carried many meanings and concepts and was just so beautifully performed and articulated. The Martha Graham Dance Company is the oldest contemporary dance company in the United States, founded in 1926.  Since it's inception it has explored and encompassed political and humanitarian issues, as well as affairs of the heart and human interactions, while creating a prolific dance technique that is unequaled in it's scope.  Graham created a total of 181 ballets during her long career, and is recognized as a primal artistic force of the 20th century, being named in 1998 as 'Dancer of the Century' in Time magazine, and labeled one of the female 'Icons of the Century' by People Magazine.

Prolific Memphis drone act Nonconnah is excited to share 'Path Of Totality / Rapture Drugs' (which features Dan Friel of Upper Wilds, Parts and Labor) and its accompanying video from their new albumDead roses, digged up zombies, broken pieces of diamonds, live cats, to be released March 15, 2019 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. Nonconnah will also be performing around the country this year, including an appearance at Ernest Jenning Record Co.'s SXSW showcase on Thursday, March 14. See below for the full list of currently announced tour dates.

Diskolab has long been one of dance music's fastest growing brands and after another record breaking year, it now makes a huge statement with more than 30 parties announced for this year's Miami Music Week. They will once again take over the best venues in the city from raw and artistic warehouse spaces to luxury pools, and welcome the world's most recognised brands and globally acclaimed DJs to party with them. The likes of Above & Beyond, Fisher: Catch & Release, elrow, a huge 10th Anniversary for No Sugar Added, Brownies & Lemonade with Dog Blood (Skrillex and Boys Noize), Green Velvet's La La Land, Do Not Sit, Spinnin' Hotel, Steve Aoki and Dim Mak, Mixmash, All Day I Dream, Gareth Emery's Laserface, Robin Schulz, Heldeep, and many more all host spectacular parties covering all forms of electronic music in late March.

Washington Ensemble Theatre has announced the cast for the Seattle premiere of Feathers and Teeth, the twisted horror comedy by Charise Castro Smith that grapples with the power of grief and the dangers of the other side. WET members Rachel Guyer-Mafune (WET: Teh Internet Is Serious Business, ACT: The Wolves, Book-It: Howl's Moving Castle) and Samie Spring Detzer (WET: Teh Internet Is Serious Business, Revolt. She said. Revolt again.) return to the WET stage to star as the creepy cool daughter/stepmother duo, Chris and Carol. Brandon J. Simmons (WET: Sextet, The Seagull Project: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters) joins the cast as Arthur and James Schilling (ArtsWest: Peter and the Starcatcher, The Horse in Motion: The Great Noise) makes his WET debut as Hugo. WET's Associate Artistic Director Bobbin Ramsey directs. This is the second play by Castro Smith to be produced by WET; the world premiere of The Hunchback of Seville was the company's final play produced at The Little Theater on 19th Avenue East before moving to its current home, 12th Avenue Arts

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Raven Theatre is pleased to announce casting for its Chicago premiere of Laura Eason's THE UNDENIABLE SOUND OF RIGHT NOW, a poignant and potent portrait of those who can change with the times and those who get left behind, directed by BJ Jones. 

Today FLOOD (http://floodmagazine.com/) announced the two-day lineup for the annual FLOODfest presented by Magic Leap during the 2019 South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference. FLOOD Magazine is returning to the festival to celebrate the fifth anniversary of FLOODfest, which has become one of SXSW's premier must-attend events every year. Hosted at the popular and centrally located Cedar Street Courtyard, FLOODfest is partnering with Magic Leap, creator of the premier spatial computing platform, the Magic Leap One, to present a string of marquee names alongside up-and-comers, including Broken Social Scene, White Denim, Kari Faux, Priests, HÆLOS, Herizen, and Leikeli47. Additionally, ahead of their recently announced reunion tour, legendary Atlanta hip-hop collective Dungeon Family, featuring Outkast's Big Boi, Goodie Mob, and Organized Noize's Sleepy Brown, will headline Wednesday. 

Gareth Machin, Artistic Director of Wiltshire Creative, and Guest Festival Director Jonathan Dove today announce the programme for the 2019 Salisbury International Arts Festival (24 May to 9 June) which will mark two global anniversaries - the 1969 moon landings and the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall - with an ambitious mix of music, spoken word, film, dance, circus, theatre, comedy and family events.

Underbelly Festival Southbank's 2019 programme is shaping up to be its most exciting and diverse to date, with over forty more shows added to the line-up today bringing some of the very best circus, comedy, cabaret, variety, live podcasting and family entertainment to the banks of the Thames.

Bid to win the chance to enjoy drinks with Associate Artistic Director, Mandy Hackett, at The Library restaurant at The Public Theater before seeing the not to be missed production, White Noise, as her guest.

This morning, Daveed Diggs was a guest on the third hour of TODAY to talk about the new play he's starring in at the Public Theater, White Noise. When talking about the play, written by Suzan-Lori Park, Diggs says, 'It's kind of the best thing I've ever read!'

The Dallas Art Fair has announced the opening of 214 Projects, a 2,500-square-foot permanent exhibition space and cultural venue in the Dallas Design District. The space will open Saturday, March 2, 2019, with Emmanuel Van der Auwera: White Noise, a solo exhibition supported by Belgian gallery Harlan Levey Projects, who has been a Dallas Art Fair exhibitor since 2015.

A young Classics professor puts her career-and her love life-in peril, and calls on the gods of Ancient Greece to save her. Things don't go according to plan when the gods who show up are The Gods of Comedy!

Jim Cartwright's tale of the small town girl with voices of the greats within her comes to life in Shaun Rennie's sublime production of THE RISE & FALL OF LITTLE VOICE.

Renowned Brooklyn music incubator and performance venue National Sawdust celebrates the future of Asia in its second annual Pan Asia Sounding Festival (March 18-23). Conceived and curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun, the Pan Asia Sounding Festival features pathbreaking works by today's Asian composers, performers, artists, and filmmakers that disrupt the reductive Western tendency to present Asian music and art with a focus on their cultural heritages and future directions. As New York's WPIX11 declared after last season's festival: "There's a revolution going on in Williamsburg."

In February The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre Presents EVERY BRILLIANT THING, Duncan MacMillan's one-character play described by The Guardian as "one of the funniest plays you'll see about depression." Claire Marie Mannle inhabits the role - rarely performed by a female protagonist - of a young person determined to list every brilliant thing about life in an attempt to ward off her mother's suicidal tendencies. The play, performed in the round on the Scoundrel & Scamp's mainstage, is directed by Michelle Milne. The season runs February 7-24, 2019. Ticket prices range from $15-$28 and are available at the theater's website, www.scoundrelandscamp.org, or by calling box office 520-448-3300.

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