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A smash hit in theatres including The King’s Head, The Vaults and Edinburgh Fringe, his drama comedy now returns in an updated version at the Waterloo East Theatre.

Olive is a slob and Florence is a snob – the classic play The Odd Couple is being brought to life with a female twist. 

Celebrating 40 years of light underground with a landmark anniversary season, Undermain Theatre will present its 40th season of cutting edge performance in September. Our season, from the fall of 2023 to the summer of 2024, will be a season of unlimited boundaries and will find us working both with long time collaborators as well as artists and voices new to the Undermain.

A special concert on Sunday, April 30 at 2 p.m. presents Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov's Falling Out of Time (2019), composed for a multicultural, multistylistic instrumental ensemble and presented in a semi-staged performance at Symphony Hall, in association with Celebrity Series of Boston.

On May 10-13, PEN America will present the 18th annual World Voices Festival, its largest gathering to date of literary stars, visionaries, and great thinkers from around the globe.

New Stage Theatre Company, 36 West 106th Street (basement), will present The Singing Sphere April 20 to May 12, directed by Ildiko Nemeth.

Harlem Stage will present the 2023 edition of E-Moves, the institution’s signature dance series, which for more than 20 years has convened choreographers, dancers, artists, and musicians of color in an exploration of movement and message.

The Chocolate Factory Theater, Media Art Xploration, and New York Live Arts will present the New York premiere of Prometheus Firebringer, the first lecture-performance by director and writer Annie Dorsen.

A funny, touching variation on a familiar story.

What did our critic think of RUSSIAN TROLL FARM at Geva Theatre?

In 'The Conductor,' satirist playwright Ishmael Reed attacks the race-baiting and divisiveness that were widely seen in the recent, widely-reported San Francisco School Board Recall. 

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced its 2023-24 season, which celebrates the passing of the artistic torch and the theme of Legacy, with the final farewell concerts of two esteemed American string quartets, both with long histories at CMS.

The Greek National Opera (GNO) presents the premiere broadcast of Verdi's Otello, directed and designed by Robert Wilson, on its high-quality streaming platform, GNO TV, beginning Sunday, November 6, 2022.

The Greek National Opera (GNO) presents the premiere broadcast of Verdi's Otello, directed and designed by Robert Wilson, on its high-quality streaming platform, GNO TV, beginning Sunday, November 6, 2022.

14th Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival will presents a screening of EL DIABLO ENTRE LAS PIERNAS.

New Focus Recordings today releases composer Michael Hersch's the script of storms. The album (digital only) features two works by Hersch: cortex and ankle based on texts by Christopher Middleton, and the script of storms based on texts by Fawzi Karim.

The Brooklyn Book Festival, New York City’s largest free literary festival, has announced a selection of highlight events spanning the literary festival’s wide variety of in-person and virtual offerings (September 25 through October 3).

NOoSPHERE Arts will present WE ARE NATURE 2022: Patterns of Connection on September 2 & 24, 2022 at the NOoSPHERE Arts Stage Roof, NYC and Kingsland Wildflowers at Broadway Stages, Brooklyn.

Glenn Gould, the iconic Canadian classical pianist, writer, composer, conductor and broadcaster, would have celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday, September 25th, 2022.  To commemorate this milestone anniversary, The Glenn Gould Foundation has programmed GlennGould@90, a series of free events starting September 17th honouring Canada's futuristic musical maverick. 

Inspired by Friedrich Schiller's drama, Giuseppe Verdi's opera Giovanna d'Arco , which premiered in 1845, tells a very unique version of the legend of France's national heroine Jeanne d'Arc - the simple peasant girl who led the French army to victory over the English occupiers. 

The New Victory Theater announced their 2022-23 season, featuring nine exciting shows including Cookin’, the explosive percussion show that has toured the world, running in October, and Circus Abyssinia: Tulu, a showcase of the incredible athleticism and artistry of Ethiopian circus, which will run during the holiday season. See the schedule!

The Museum of Modern Art will present Wolfgang Tillmans: To  look without fear, the artist's first museum survey in New York, from September 12, 2022,  through January 1, 2023, in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special  Exhibitions.

Walnut Creek's revitalized Festival Opera, led by General Director Zachary Gordin, continues its 31st season with an all-new production of Bellini's Norma, featuring acclaimed singer Shana Blake Hill (she/her) in the title role, directed by Mark Foehringer and conducted by Bryan Nies, with the Festival Opera Orchestra and Chorus. 

 Numi Opera Theatre is back live after the Covid shutdown and will present, Journey Out of Darkness, on Sunday May 29, 2022, at 7:00pm at the Broad Stage 1310 11th Street in Santa Monica. 

Two stunning stories written by Macarthur Grantee Oksana Zabuzhko from her award-winning collection, Your Ad Could Go Here, allow us all to hear the words of a brilliant Ukrainian artist, humanizing the unimaginable scale of loss occurring in her homeland right now.