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Don’t feel like leaving home to go to the theater? Present Company exclusively tells BroadwayWorld how they bring a fully staged professional production to you.

The British rock band returns to the U.S. for their first North American dates in 24 years, beginning November 12 and including an appearance at the Darker Waves festival on November 14. The reunion follows the band's 30th anniversary celebration of their debut album OLYMPIAN.

Former LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN bandleader Paul Shaffer made quite a first impression on Ray Charles the first time they played together.

Act II Playhouse will present the Charlie Antalosky Award during its upcoming season, honoring the Philadelphia actor's legacy and contributions to the theater.

Pittsburgh darkwave-shoegaze pioneers LOWSUNDAY released two remixes of 'Call Silence' via Projekt Records, featuring electronic producers Psychotribe and Sam Rosenthal of BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL.

Broadway’s most dazzling and dangerously seductive musical is coming back to the Theatre at Solaire! GMG Productions, in association with legendary Broadway producers Barry & Fran Weissler and Crossroads Live Group CEO David Ian, has officially announced that 'Chicago The Musical' will play in Manila for a limited run from March 9 to 28, 2027—fresh off performances in Seoul, Dubai, and India.

ALIEN ANT FARM released the single and music video 'Gaslighter' via Judge & Jury Records. The track will appear on the band's new album and precedes tour dates including Sick New World in Fort Worth, Texas on October 24, plus UK and Ireland performances.

Rancid released an expanded anniversary boxed set for the platinum-certified album, featuring rare live and demo versions, previously unreleased recordings from New York City, and long out-of-print singles.

Rock band SPONGE released their final studio album RECUERDA TU MUERTE, which includes the new single Self Inflicted Loss. The group is touring with CANDLEBOX.

Theatrical costume designer and artist Beaver Bauer presents a fifty-year retrospective at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, displaying five decades of artistic work. The free exhibition runs in the Jewett Gallery and Koret Lobby.

Sasha and John Digweed open their personal archives for an auction of records, rare acetates and memorabilia used to create the landmark electronic music releases NORTHERN EXPOSURE, NORTHERN EXPOSURE 2, NORTHERN EXPOSURE: EXPEDITIONS and COMMUNICATE.

A24 Music released the PRIMETIME soundtrack featuring Phoebe Bridgers' end title song 'On Video' and 24 original score tracks by composer Ari Balouzian, coinciding with the film's theatrical release.

Singer and lyricist Joan Watson-Jones released her fifth album, LOVE SINGS, featuring 11 tracks with original compositions and a Gershwin standard, accompanied by Boston-based musicians Frank Wilkins, Dave Zox, Alvin Terry, and Bobby Tynes.

The North American Tour of BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB is now underway. What are the critics saying about the tour? Learn more about the show and read the reviews here!

Mrs. Lovett has thought of everything. The seaside cottage, the fishing boat, the friends dropping in for dinner… “By the Sea,” her daydream of married life with Sweeney Todd, shows her to be nothing if not accommodating. “Now and then you could do the guest in,” she suggests, between thoughts of kippered herring and bathing dresses.

The discourse surrounding reasons for reviving musicals on Broadway is a relatively recent phenomenon. These days, if a show is announced for a revival, a sentence that often follows is: “Why are they reviving it?” 

Burlington County Footlighters' Hunchback of Notre Dame is a superlative production, a thought-provoking musical of epic scale, filled with intimate moments.

Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière, translated by Doug Skinner, adapted by Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, with direction by Tony Award nominee Brandon J. Dirden is now on Broadway! Meet the cast here.

Duncan Sheik’s frequent collaborator Steven Sater spoke with BroadwayWorld about their musical 'Nero,' which is scheduled to open this fall in London, less than three weeks before the songwriter died at age 56. 

TEAM DRESCH has released FURTHERMORE via Jealous Butcher Records, marking the queercore group's first album in three decades. A music video for the single Heard a Bang, directed by Lance Bangs, is now available.

How do you measure a year in the life?  This is the question that runs throughout the musical Rent.  I had the opportunity to see Bay Street Players opening night production.

When you go to a show and find out that an understudy is going on for one of the leading roles, you may actually be seeing a future Tony Award winner in the making.

SPONGE will release its final studio album Recuerda Tu Muerte and tour with Candlebox. The band has unveiled new single Self Inflicted Loss.

“It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.” It wasn’t just Richard Strauss’s death-embracing 'Four Last Songs' which fit this theme in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s final Prom of the season, as Franz Schubert’s 8th symphony remained unfinished at his death - and Schubert’s setting of a morbid Goethe poem inspired Hans Werner Henze’s “Erlkönig”. The Benjamin Britten arrangement of the third movement of Gustav Mahler’s 3rd symphony (What the Wild Flowers Tell Me) does not immediately strike you as being consumed with mortality, but if you listen carefully you might find themes which go beyond the superficially pastoral. Quite a programme for this orchestra to go out on.

Mark Wills released the gospel standard "I'll Fly Away" featuring Grand Ole Opry members Ricky Skaggs and Rhonda Vincent from his upcoming GRAND OLE REVIVAL album, recorded live at the Grand Ole Opry Stage.