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World-renowned classical pianist Lillie Gardner is devoting her 2017-2018 concert season to Amy Beach, who was born 150 years ago, in 1867. Partnering with Aleathea's Restaurant and The Bedford Inn, East Lynne Theater Company is proud to bring Dr. Gardner to Cape May for a one-night-only performance of 'An Evening with Amy Beach.' This exceptional musical event is the first of a two-part series, 'Musical Soirees at the Hotels,' and will be on Monday, June 4 at Aleathea's Restaurant at The Inn of Cape May, 7 Ocean Street.

Booking is now available for Nawr Yr Arwr/Now the Hero from pre-eminent Welsh interdisciplinary artist Marc Rees (P.A.R.A.D.E., {150}, Tir Sir Gar, Raw Material: Llareggub Revisted). This site specific theatrical experience will take visitors on an extraordinary journey through three narratives of war; from the beautiful Swansea Bay beach to discovering artistic treasures in the city's iconic Brangwyn Hall.

New England Conservatory (NEC), an institution built on 150 years of innovation, hosted NEC150, a celebration to support NEC's future musicians, at Jordan Hall and the Student Life and Performance Center on April 28, 2018. The event was co-chaired by Trustees Deborah Bennett Elfers '82, Barbara W. Glauber, and Frances B. Wilmerding.

Overture Center for the Arts announced today that the high school musical theater awards program will be renamed "The Jerry Awards" (aka "The Jerrys") for local philanthropist and arts supporter W. Jerome Frautschi.

The award-winning Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company continues its 2018 Mainstage Season in May.  This year's theme is women reaching for 'The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.'

Beyonce, through her BeyGOOD initiative, announces a partnership with Google.org, the charitable arm of tech giant Google, to award four new scholarships as part of her Homecoming Scholars Award Program. The iconic performer also issues a challenge to other businesses to join Google.org in investing in excellence through education.

Moosehead Breweries is Canada's oldest and largest independent brewery - and now, for the first time, the company's most historic beer will available across the US. Moosehead Pale Ale, the first beer to use the Moosehead name, has been brewed using the same recipe since 1933 and has built a loyal following in Canada for its inherent strength, distinctive taste and clean European character.

The Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra offered another of its wildly successful pop up concert series at the Bank of Hawaii headquarters downtown on March 28. Joseph Stepec, Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Hawaii at Manoa, Director of Orchestras, conducted the free concert, which received thunderous applause throughout the event.

New England Conservatory (NEC) is presenting Boston Strong Music, a student-led concert to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing facilitated by NEC faculty Thomas Handel and Charles Peltz. The concert will take place at the Church of the Covenant Sunday, April 15, at 3 p.m., the day before this year's Boston Marathon, and will feature an address by Reverend Liz Walker.

There is a real pleasure in enjoying amazing voices telling a story in a language you do not know, and be able to understand the emotion conveyed by singers of exceptional skill. Opera Birmingham provided such wonder in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Daniele Rustioni leads the Opéra National de Lyon's 2018 Festival in three operas by Giuseppe Verdi, March 16 through April 6, 2018. In celebration of Rustioni's first season at the Opéra de Lyon's principal conductor, Opéra de Lyon has dedicated its annual festival to the works of Verdi, which have played an essential role in Rustioni's career. The 2018 Festival explores themes of power, politics, corruption, and hope with three of Verdi's less-often performed operas: Macbeth, the 1867 Paris Version of Don Carlos sung in the original French, and Attila. Rustioni will conduct the Opéra de Lyon Orchestra and Chorus in all the festival performances.

Metropolitan Playhouse (220 E. 4th Street) welcomes back Victorian impresario Augustin Daly with A Marriage Contract now on stage through Sunday, March 18. This riotous 1892 comedy of a marriage caught between the big city and a small town, makes a triumphant return to the New York stage for the first time since its premiere.

Theater to Go at Kelsey Theatrecontinues its audience favorite interactive movie musical screenings and invites audiences of all ages to this dive under the sea and party with Disney's classic movie THE LITTLE MERMAID, Led by our favorite mermaid, Elizabeth Rzasa, everyone is invited to come in costume as their favorite underwater character- and maybe win a prize.

Giuseppe Verdi's epic opera is being staged for the first time in two decades at WNO and features a sterling cast in a grand production.

Obie Award winning Metropolitan Playhouse revives A Marriage Contract, Augustin Daly's uproarious and poignant commentary on marriage, family, and the contrast between county and city life. Staged by Artistic Director Alex Roe at Metropolitan Playhouse, 220 E. 4th Street, New York City. This production marks, to our knowledge, the first time the play is being presented since 1892 premiere. It is worth noting that the script only exists in manuscript form and was never published.

Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) will mark 150 years of its music conservatory and the 20th anniversary of its theatre conservatory on March 14 at the University's Auditorium Theatre.

Falls directs his adaptation, based on a translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, with a cast featuring Philip Earl Johnson as Thomas Stockmann, doctor and chief medical officer of the baths; Scott Jaeck as Peter Stockmann, Thomas' older brother and town mayor; Lanise Antoine Shelley as Katherine, Thomas' wife; Rebecca Hurd as Thomas' daughter, Petra. Rounding out the cast are Jesse Bhamrah (Billing), David Darlow (Morten Kiil), Allen Gilmore (Aslaksen), Aubrey Deeker Hernandez (Hovstad), Larry Neumann, Jr. (The Drunk) and Carley Cornelius, Arya Daire, Guy Massey, Roderick Peeples and Dustin Whitehead as townspeople.

THEATER TO GO continues its staged reading series at the 1867 Sanctuary in February 2018 with a classic play about the African American experience, Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN, about one family's journey to home ownership We are pleased to have actor students from Trenton Central HS Visual and Performing Arts Academy as performers in this event.

151 years ago, on the 11th of March 1867, the monumental opera Don Carlo opened in a world premiere in Paris. Now, a new massive production takes the stage of the Israeli Opera house, conducted by Maestro Daniel Oren whose special relationship with Verdi's creations is well known, and directed by the famous and highly experienced director Giancarlo del Monaco who has directed operas in important opera houses around the world, chief among them the New York Met Opera, La Scala Theatre in Milano and the Wiener Staatsoper. Giancarlo del Monaco is also the son of the famous tenor Mario Del Monaco.

Mcdaniel College students perform Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" to benefit women's charities

Obie Award winning Metropolitan Playhouse revives A Marriage Contract, Augustin Daly's 1892 uproarious and poignant commentary on marriage, family, and the contrast between county and city life. Staged by Artistic Director Alex Roe at Metropolitan Playhouse, 200 E. 4th Street, New York City, this marks, to our knowledge, the first time the play (originally titled A Test Case or Grass Versus Granite) is being presented since its premiere. In fact, it worth noting that the script only exists in manuscript form and was never published.

Centenary Stage Company and Centenary University present the virtuosic Americana band, Sleepy Man, to the Lackland Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 3 at 8 pm as a special benefit concert to support the Centenary University Innovation Fund.  New Jersey's Mizzone brothers and friend Josh Thomas, known as Sleepy Man continue to drop unique and catchy songs anchored by the driving banjo of youngest brother, Jonny Mizzone. 

Pre-eminent Welsh interdisciplinary artist Marc Rees (P.A.R.A.D.E., {150}, Tir Sir Gar, Raw Material: Llareggub Revisited) will transform the city of Swansea for five days this September. This theatrical experience will take visitors on an extraordinary journey through three narratives of war; from the beautiful Swansea Bay beach to discovering artistic treasures in the city's iconic Brangwyn Hall.

Centenary Stage Company and Centenary University present the virtuosic Americana band, Sleepy Man, to the Lackland Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 3 at 8 pm as a special benefit concert to support the Centenary University Innovation Fund. New Jersey's Mizzone brothers and friend Josh Thomas, known as Sleepy Man continue to drop unique and catchy songs anchored by the driving banjo of youngest brother, Jonny Mizzone.