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Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT SPOTLIGHT SERIES, a free program of digital events, featuring LCT artists in performance, conversation and more, will continue on Thursday, January 28 at 7pm with “Looking Back at THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA,” LCT’s 2005 award winning musical, featuring original stars Victoria Clark, Matthew Morrison and Kelli O’Hara.

Weaver, designer, collector, gardener, author, world traveler, entrepreneur, teacher, and cultural scholar, Jack Lenor Larsen was mentor to textile connoisseurs, designers, artisans and artists throughout his eventful and gratifying 93 years. He died peacefully on the evening of December 22, 2020 of natural causes in East Hampton, New York.

SHADOWLAND STAGES today announced that the theatre will present a special online benefit reading of CHRISTMAS EVE 1953, a short story by Tom Hanks that has been adapted for the stage by SHADOWLAND STAGES' artistic associate, James Glossman.

The Board of Directors of the New London Barn Playhouse has announced the nomination of three new members to the board as well as new officers.

Interview with writer and director, Josh Irving Gershick about how the audiocast of DEAR ONE: LOVE & LONGING IN MID-CENTURY QUEER AMERICA for Diversionary Theatre came together. Dear ONE is streaming through October 29th, 2020.

Americans were listening to 'Goodnight, Irene' and Bing and Gary Crosby's interpretation of a 1914 song by Irving Berlin, 'Play a Simple Melody.' And Berlin's new musical, Call Me Madam, was opening at New York's Imperial Theater with an advance of over one million dollars, by far the largest in Broadway history.

Diversionary Theatre, the Nation's 3rd Oldest LGBT Theatre will present the AmeriQueer Series streaming online as an audiocast and featuring a program of new plays never before performed in San Diego. The series will run Friday October 16th - Thursday, November 26th, 2020.

The Philharmonia Orchestra today announces its full programme for October and November 2020: six online performances in two strands, encompassing live-streamed concerts, pre-recorded performances and radio broadcasts, as the Orchestra continues to build out its new digital performance schedule.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that William 'Bill' Pursell has died of Covid related pneumonia.

Musical theater and cabaret maestro Joe Kinosian has been busily creating new musicals - this time for the under-18 set.

On Friday, October 23, 2020, cellist Diana Golden releases Tanbou Kache, an album that celebrates Haiti's rich and fascinating art music traditions, on New Focus Recordings.

Leading up to Birda??s 100th birthday and throughout the year, the celebration will encompass a series of releases spanning a variety of media and perspectives in order to explore the full span of his inestimable legacy.

Looking for something new to read while staying inside, but still need your Broadway fix? We've rounded up 10 of our favorite books on directing!

The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival is a groundbreaking digital series of audio and video streams featuring newly created content being recorded at Tanglewood's Linde Center in July alongside previously recorded material from Tanglewood being released for the first time.

A partnership has been announced between two internationally renowned galleries, Edinburgh based Arusha Gallery and London based Richard Saltoun.

Happy Gay Pride! BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the 101 greatest LGBTQ songs and anthems from 1920-2020. See if your favorite songs or artists made the grade!

Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced its 2020/21 Reset Season today featuring a truncated four play lineup (originally six plays) with flexible dates to allow for greater agility in the time of COVID-19, accompanied with a robust slate of original virtual programming.

Author James E. Winder has announced the release of his new book of poetry, The History of Eternity.

Opera in the Ozarks will not return until 2021.

Theatre Raleigh presents The Light in the Piazza Reunion Special, featuring the cast of our 2016 production of The Light in the Piazza. Be transported back to the streets of Florence and Rome with this musical love story with North Carolina connections!  Audiences and critics alike loved this production of The Light in the Piazza, and whether you joined us back in 2016 or even if you missed TR's 2016 production, you will love this reunion show. 

The York Theatre Company will host special online weekly activities to include past York events, live chats and panel discussions with past production and creative team members, and special 'Happy Hour' Members Nights with a few games of York trivia thrown in.

The Frank Frazetta The Serpent (aka 'Aros') Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Paperback Library, 1967) and Bernie Wrightson Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein Front Endpapers Illustration Original Art (late 1970s) sparked furious bidding to lead Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comics Art Auction to $9,099,710 in total sales April 30-May 3.

It was just announced by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy that Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop has officially won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year's finalists included: Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning and David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's Soft Power.

After weeks of consultation and deliberation, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, Executive Director Anita Gaffney and Board Chair Carol Stephenson have come to the conclusion that the Stratford Festival's entire 2020 season must be put on hold, with a plan to revisit programming as soon as it is safe to gather in theatres.

California Symphony today announces its 34th season and its eighth under the baton of Music Director Donato Cabrera, even as the state remains under lockdown due to COVID-19. Cabrera says: a?oeIt's important for this organization a?" for our patrons, musicians, and our community a?" to continue to look ahead and plan for brighter days, when our musicians will again share their incredible artistry with audiences. I'm therefore extremely proud and excited to present the 2020/21 season now.a??