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Shaking It Up: The Life & Times of Liz Carpenter will premiere on public television stations around the country starting March 1, 2025. Learn how to watch!

Pontine Theatre’s 24-25 Performance Season will continue 29 November - 15 December with A NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS.  Learn more about the production here!

xOn Friday, February 21, 2025, acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss will release his new album, Arc III: Brahms, Schubert, Debussy, Dohnányi, Ligeti, Talma on First Hand Records. Listen to the first single now.

Pontine Theatre’s 24-25 Performance Season continues with A NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS. The cast features Pontine Artistic Co-Directors, Marguerite Mathews and Greg Gathers.  Live music is provided by New England Fiddle Ensemble’s Ellen Carlson.

This time, the reader question was: What are some of the most famous Broadway ghost stories? Some Broadway houses have many haunted tales… and others seem to have no ghostly spirits at all! Let's unpack!

History, romance and a captivating mystery told in a breathtakingly magical way – that’s the thrilling combination you get with ANASTASIA, the latest production from Titusville Playhouse. The beloved musical, inspired by the classic 1997 animated film, takes audiences on a “Journey to the Past” through early 20th-century Russia and Paris and does so with a stellar cast and a beautiful creative vision that shines on the Titusville stage with vibrant energy and heartfelt emotion. Whether you are a longtime fan of the musical or experiencing it for the first time, this rendition promises to enchant and inspire.

The art deco Victa cinema has been in business since the 1920’s and on Sunday 10 November it plays host to the acclaimed Windsong Quintet and their concert Ocean Winds.

On October 19, Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills is presenting a reading of All These Women, written and directed by Melanie MacQueen. Centering on the newly elected president Woodrow Wilson, the story delves into how the Women’s Suffrage Parade pushed him to finally agree to Voting Rights for All. I decided to speak with Melanie about how the play came into being, her plans to present it as a reading, and how she plans to keep presenting it in the future.

River's Edge Theatre Company and Bethany Arts Community will present an immersive theatre production, PEEK-A-BOO (AN IMMERSIVE HUDSON VALLEY HAUNT). Learn how to attend.

Antonia Badon will star in ZORA, a one-woman play about Zora Neale Hurston, at the American Theatre of Actors. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Alice Paul...remember her? In 1920, she was THE WOMAN, THE SUFFRAGIST, who secured the right to vote for women, and wrote the unratified Equal Rights Amendment. Further explanation of her movement can be found in the recent musical Suffs, Shaina Taub’s musical which more recently won Best Book of a Musical at this years Tonys Ceremony. However, this is not Suffs, nor is this a musical. Instead, this is the blistering, hilarious, farcical take on women in the White House behind every dumb ass that could’ve ever held power. Its borderline lumbering subtitle says it all, “Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.” Selina Fillinger’s hilarious play proves just that. Women are in power, and behind every great man is a woman trying to save the day. Feminism at its finest, and proving that this is the moment to be alive.

Soundbox Ventures has announced its inaugural Suncoast Composer Festival (SCF). Festival events are open to the Sarasota public on October 4th, 5th, and 7th.

The Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival announced that 19 restaurants will offer food and beverage tastings at the Taste of Jazz event on September 20, providing a culinary experience alongside live jazz performances.

The makers of the most spectacular, innovative, immersive art experiences in Central Florida and beyond, Creative City Project and Memoir Agency, have announced exciting, brand-new shows for the popular “Happy Frights” and “Haunting Nights” Halloween experiences opening at Harry P. Leu Gardens this fall, select dates from September 27 - October 31, 2024.

The Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth, MA will host three exciting shows in December. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company has announced its 17th performance season in Memphis featuring William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night.

Head Trick Theatre’s captivating, well-acted production of Karel Čapek’s unsettling play, ‘R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots),’ tackles the age-old question, “What happens when machines outnumber humans?”

It's not an unfamiliar tale, following Holocaust victim Eddie Jaku from comfortable circumstances through horror and gradually out again. Because there has been a sizeable body of Holocaust literature, drama and cinema, little of this is exactly new to us. But Jaku’s personality, his wry way of describing these grim situations, makes us eager to hear them recounted. And Kenneth Tigar's portrayal of Jaku is key; Tigar seems to disappear into his character. We are not conscious of acting, just of Eddie. You should meet him.

Hello, Dolly!, the iconic musical from the 1960s, has returned to the West End. Recently, we had the chance to speak with Dominic Cooke about directing the revival. We discussed what his career as a director has been like, what it has been like to take on this iconic musical and even how the pandemic has had an effect on the work as a whole.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this July with a full slate of nightly performances.

Radio show whodunnit blends murder mystery parlor game and old-time radio for old-fashioned family fun.

American Repertory Theater of WNY will celebrate the company's 17th season of being a leader in producing new works with the world premieres of four plays written by Western New York playwrights.  

It is rare to sit down in a theatre to see a play and literally laugh non-stop from before the curtain all the way to the final bows. Sure, there are hilarious comedies out there that garner many laughs in an evening but to create a raucous reaction from an audience with little time to take a breath until the next unbelievably funny moment – for almost every moment of the play - that is rare. So, when I tell you this is exactly the experience you are likely to have sitting in the audience at Osceola Arts’ stellar production of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, trust me, you should run, not walk, to get your tickets to what is likely to be the funniest and most entertaining Central Florida productions of the year. Fair warning – you should be prepared for your face and your sides to hurt by the end of the evening – and not just metaphorically – it is truly that fun.

'...why not produce more plays with inclusion of older women in roles and older people in the story line? Instead the majority of theatres in my community constantly hit “replay” of plays done over and over and are always producing musicals again and again like worn out shoes.'

ArtsEmerson has announced its 2024/25 Season, featuring nine live stage events. Learn more about the lineup here!