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24th Street Theatre's world premiere production of Rapunzel Alone, presented in association with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, returns to the 24th Street venue April 9 through May 1 following a two-weekend run at The Wallis. To increase audience accessibility, all performances feature Spanish supertitles.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this April with a full slate of nightly performances! 

Shriver Hall Concert Series will present sibling duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 5:30pm. Sheku and Isata are featured in a recital of timeless sonatas including Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1; Shostakovich's Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40; Britten's Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65; and Frank Bridge's Cello Sonata in D minor.

Can you imagine the Met--or any other major opera house--cutting the length of a new opera so commuters could make the last train? That’s what baritone Etienne Dupuis told me about the world premiere in Paris of Verdi’s DON CARLOS (1867). Dupuis is starring as Don Rodrigue, Marquis de Posa, at the Met these days, in the new David McVicar production of the Verdi opera.

Album Club are a band of creatives that initially gathered to discuss music in The Laurieston, an iconic Glasgow bar in 2019. The group was started by MJ McCarthy, who brought friends together to dissect albums, track by track over drinks.

Mere weeks after closing his latest acclaimed storytelling cabaret, Rian Keating returns to the scene with a reprisal of his pre-pandemic smash, all the while raising money for charity. Rian Keating is living his best life.

‘Good Luck’, says Mabel, “is the empowering song you need when getting ready to go out: when you’re feeling low about someone, and your friends will take you out to get that person off your mind.”  

Get full details on all jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running March 22 - April 3.

If all the world loves a clown, then the people have twice as much fun for these clowns who also make spectacular music, every Monday night of the year... and then some.

Global drag icon and RuPaul's Drag Race star, BenDeLaCreme, will embark on her biggest solo tour yet as star and Lead Producer – April 13 through July 10, 2022 – with her critically acclaimed, narrative-cabaret, “BenDeLaCreme is...READY TO BE COMMITTED” (produced by BenDeLaCreme Presents).

After a five-year casting search and multiple auditions across the UK, three sets of talented identical twins are about to become Britain’s latest musical theatre stars. Learn all about the show here.

Today, acclaimed americana duo The Cactus Blossoms have released a new video for the song “Everybody,” featuring Jenny Lewis. The Cactus Blossoms will also be kicking off the next leg of their U.S. tour on March 19th starting in Red Wing, MN. Full tour dates are available now!

TREY ANASTASIO's first-ever solo acoustic album, MERCY, is out today. Mercy was produced by Bryce Goggin and Robert “RAab” Stevenson and engineered and mixed by Mike Fahey. Read the complete album liner notes written by David Fricke now!

Cuban piano virtuoso Omar Sosa and Senegalese kora (21-string harp lute) master Seckou Keita, whose collaborations brilliantly embrace jazz, Latin and African influences, celebrate the release of their second album, SUBA.

The award-winning Original Theatre Company and Octagon Theatre Bolton’s acclaimed 2021/22 tour of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated adventure, The Hound of the Baskervilles, will be available on demand online from 14 April at 7.30pm until 31 July 2022

Sam Harris is bringing a new act, a new attitude, and a new hairstyle to the nightclub stage this month.

Nominations have been announced for the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard, British theatre’s most prestigious honours, which take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall. View the full list.

Global superstar and feminist icon Oumou Sangaré’s new single “Wassulu Don” is out today, coinciding with International Women’s Day. The music video features a series of vignettes of modern African women celebrating and thriving in their own hometown communities. Watch the new visual now!

Composer, producer, vocalist and Rome Prize-winner Lisa Bielawa will have three major new works  premiered in Washington, DC (Washington National Cathedral, March 13), New York (Carnegie Hall, March 25), and the Boston area (First Cambridge Church, April 2), performed by the Cathedral Choral Society and Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra (ACO), and the Radcliffe Choral Society with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), respectively. 

TREY ANASTASIO has announced that he will be releasing his first-ever solo acoustic album, MERCY. Mercy was produced by Bryce Goggin and Robert “rAab” Stevenson and engineered and mixed by Mike Fahey.

Deaf Lingo (melodic punk, lo-fi garage, bittersweet indie) shares 'Push It,' the third single from sophomore album Lingonberry. Combining melodic punk, lo-fi garage, and bittersweet indie, the four-piece group has invented their very own blend of alternative rock. 'Push It' is an energized garage rock track, out on all streaming platforms now. 

Broadway star, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, and musical legend David Byrne stopped by CBS Saturday Morning to talk with Anthony Mason about his show, American Utopia.

The 12-track independent collection features “The Unkind,” “Angie,” “An Okay Way To Go,” “It,” “Tile or Linoleum,” and “Stars.” Coinciding with the album’s release, Dust City Opera has issued the official music video for the title track “Alien Summer,” directed by Chris Walsh. Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!

San Diego Gay Men's Chorus announces the hiring of its new Artistic Director, Dr. Charles Beale. Dr. Beale will join SDGMC in April of 2022 and direct the chorus's Pride concert in July.

Where the Arts continue to reel in the face of the pandemic, along with its ever-shifting lockdown restrictions, entertainment specialists, Blu Blood, are offering a glimmer of hope, having just increased their already substantial investment in the sector by acquiring the management and operations rights of the Theatre of Marcellus at Emperors Palace.