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Roundabout Theatre Company has revealed the groundbreaking for the comprehensive betterment of the Todd Haimes Theatre, continuing to fulfill the priorities of the 42nd Street Redevelopment Project. 

With direction by André Heller-Lopes and musical direction by Priscila Bomfim, this production brings together Italian composer Giacomo Puccini and German composer Richard Strauss. This time, we will be presenting Strauss's opera Friedenstag (Day of Peace) for the first time in Latin America. Alongside it, another rarity: Le Villi (The Fairies), Puccini's first opera, forming an exclusive double bill featuring two one-act operas.

Manhattan School of Music is launching a new online Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Performing Arts Degree Completion Program. Learn more about the program here!

After an amazing first season that included renowned titles such as Zorro and Flesh and the Devil, due to popular demand, San Diego Theatres will present a second season of Silent Movie Mondays.

From 1918 to the mid-1930s, African American artists in the United States experienced a cultural blossoming known as the Harlem Renaissance-a period in which theatre, music and literature were created by (and often for) Black Americans.

The 25/26 season at Syracuse Stage will feature a Broadway hit, fresh revivals of award-winning classics, an inspiring new American musical and a knockout world premiere play. See the full season here!

The Rialto Theater has announced the appointment of Mrs. K. Shane Boen as its new Artistic Director, effective April 1, 2025, marking a new chapter in the theatre's history. Mrs. Boen brings a wealth of experience and passion to the role.

Cola Boyy's posthumous final album Quit to Play Chess will be released on May 23rd. With this announcement, his team has unveiled a new song “Babylon.' Listen to it here.

Award winning playwright Charles Evered’s play “Adopt a Sailor” has been on a nationwide tour since 2018 to garner support for the Evered House, the playwright’s non-profit that supports creative military members and others who serve. 

Stratfest@Home will begin streaming the 2024 production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline and the 2023 production of Alice Childress's Wedding Band. New original content includes the music series Never Doubt I Love and the short film The Understudy.

The 2024-25 season of Worship & Arts at Brick Presbyterian Church will continue with a service of Nine Lessons & Carols, featuring the U.S. premiere of Margaretha Christina de Jong's In the Bleak Midwinter. Learn how to attend.

As I sat in the audience, waiting for the performance of War Horse In Concert, a Pops presentation for the Wichita Symphony, I overhead several audience members discussing their expectations for what they were about to experience. “Is this a play?”  “It looks like there are narrators!” “Is this different from a regular concert?” Most “In Concert” performances are based on well known musicals, but War Horse In Concert is based on War Horse Suite 2022, a symphonic work derived from the score of the play with the same name. The play is based on the original story written by Michael Morpurgo. War Horse: The Story in Concert premiered at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 2016, with music composed by Adrian Sutton, and the narration was adapted from the play script written in 1982 by Nick Stafford. The performance consisted of a very simple staged version of the piece, with multiple actors playing multiple roles, supplying dialogue at the important points in the story. There was also a main singer and a chorus to help convey the emotions that the spoken word can fail to supply. This allows the orchestra to feature the score so the story to be told by both the music and the word. A concert version is usually a scaled down production, sans sets, props, elaborate costumes, and in the case of War Horse, the puppets used to portray the horses. The audience is asked to use their imaginations, and their mind’s eye, to fill in the remainder of the story.

THE FIELDS OF AMBROSIA will have industry readings in NYC on October 17 and 18, featuring a cast led by Mike McGowan and Sierra Boggess.

Teatro Pescadero will present an original lyrical adaptation of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, performed in the historic setting of Marie Tudor Garland's cabin at Bay End Farm on Cape Cod-the very location where Gibran was inspired to write his timeless work.

On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 7:30pm, in Neidorff-Karpati Hall (130 Claremont Avenue), Manhattan School of Music (MSM) will present a performance of 212: Symphony No. 1 by composer Robert Sirota, featuring the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra conducted by MSM Director of Orchestral Activities George Manahan.

Horizon Theatre Rep will continue the streaming series of German Plays from the 1910s & 1920s. The plays will be directed by Rafael De Mussa.

Laguna Art Museum will host the Directors Circle Dinner & Awards Night on September 26, celebrating contributions to the arts community. The event includes a dinner and awards presentation.

Teatro Grattacielo will present the world premiere of BEYOND THE HORIZON, based on Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play at La MaMa. Learn how to purchase tickets.

BROADWAY MURDER MYSTERIES introduces THE SPIRITS’ SPEAKEASY, an immersive experience featuring theatrical medium Krystyn Lambert. Discover a unique blend of mystery and performance in this world premiere.

With its superb acting and lovely harmonies, this is a production that will capture the hearts of the audience.

Second show this spring at the Shawnee Mission Park Theatre In The Park, is ANASTASIA, a 2017 fairy tale based on a wished-for result concerning the Russian Grand Duchess Anatasia. This, in turn, was based on an earlier 1997 animated film and an even earlier imagining in a 1956 film. ANASTASIA the Musical is fortunate to have found some super voices for all its lead roles.

Experience the World War I drama JOURNEY'S END through an audio theater recording by L.A. Theatre Works, available now.

The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University and Open Dance Project present Red Landscape: Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas 1912 - 1918, an immersive dance theater performance devised by the ODP ensemble under the choreographic direction of Annie Arnoult at the Moody's Lois Chiles Studio Theater June 7 - 15, 2024. 

Experience the fusion of dance and visual arts in OPEN DANCE PROJECT's performance inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe's Texas period, starting June 7 at the Moody Center for the Arts.

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the UK premiere of Alice Childress’ Wedding Band:  A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, directed by Stage Debut Award winner Monique Touko, who returns to the Lyric after the smash-hit production of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play.