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The Down Town Glee Club, now in its 91ist year of showcasing exquisite male choral singing with live musical accompaniment, presents its annual winter concert at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 240 E. 31st Street, NYC on Thursday, December 13, 2018. Conductor and musical director Grant Mech will lead the men in a program of popular and traditional vocal fare.

Mint announced "Meet Miss Baker," Mint's latest effort in its ongoing commitment to create new life for neglected women playwrights. From Pulitzer-Prize winning plays by Zona Gale and Susan Glaspell, to forgotten works by Rachel Crothers, Cicely Hamilton, Githa Sowerby, Hazel Ellis, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Lillian Hellman, Rose Franken and Dawn Powell, Mint has long been a champion of neglected plays by women. Up next is English playwright Elizabeth Baker, who will receive three productions, each getting their American premiere, over the next two years.

To celebrate the founding of Amore Opera in 2009, Artistic Director Nathan Hull has programmed six main-stage opera productions this season. Over the past decade, Amore has created a niche for itself in New York City's cultural realm, offering lively stagings of opera classics, neglected gems of the repertoire, appealing children's fare, and ever-popular Gilbert & Sullivan presentations in the well-appointed and intimate 200-seat Riverside Theatre at Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue, (near 121st Street,) New York, NY 10027.

Join the Joust in the second half of the 2018 Writer's Round Table, featuring THE COLONY by Gina Stevensen & ROSENSTRASSE: A NARRATIVE PROTEST by Jacob Marx Rice.

NYU Skirball will present Skirball Talks: Broadway To Main Street, a free theater panel hosted by Laurence Maslon, with Ted Chapin, Thomas Z. Shepard and Kurt Deutsch, on Monday, November 19 at 6:30 pm. The Talk is presented in conjunction with the publication of Maslon's newest book, Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America (Oxford University Press). Held weekly every Monday at 6:30pm during the academic terms, Skirball Talks hosts visionaries from the worlds of politics, the arts, sciences, academia, and more. RSVP is necessary.

Katherine Wilkinson will replace the previously announced Julia Sears as director of Jacob Marx Rice's ROSENSTRASSE: A NARRATIVE PROTEST.

Five Time New York Times Critics' Pick Playwright OREN SAFDIE Returns To Arkansas Public Theatre to deliver a jaw-rattling ride through the city of Munich (c.1974) as a Holocaust survivor journeys back to his birth city in an attempt to carry out his mother's last wishes and reunite her with her deceased husband.

In March and April 2019, The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Most embark on their nineteenth tour together, with eleven performances scheduled across Asia in seven cities: Taipei, Macao, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Beijing. The tour's repertoire features four big musical works, two from the 19th century and two from the 20th, with Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto (No. 5) with soloist Daniil Trifonov and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, alongside Richard Strauss's epic tone poem Ein Heldenleben and Prokofiev's enigmatic Symphony No. 3. Details of concert pairings, venues, and dates in China and Taiwan are listed in the Program Information section at the end of this release. 

Five Time New York Times Critics' Pick Playwright OREN SAFDIE Returns To Arkansas Public Theatre to deliver a jaw-rattling ride through the city of Munich (c.1974) as a Holocaust survivor journeys back to his birth city in an attempt to carry out his mother's last wishes and reunite her with her deceased husband.

A spectacle like no other awaits millions as the 92nd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®, America's favorite tradition, kicks-off the holiday season. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the nation's biggest and most anticipated holiday celebration. Millions of families will tune in to watch the excitement unfold on Thursday, Nov. 22 as Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker of NBC's 'Today' host the broadcast from 9 a.m.-noon in all time zones.

Five Time New York Times Critics' Pick Playwright OREN SAFDIE Returns To Arkansas Public Theatre to deliver a jaw-rattling ride through the city of Munich (c.1974) as a Holocaust survivor journeys back to his birth city in an attempt to carry out his mother's last wishes and reunite her with her deceased husband.

The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall (SPMH) will 'Wake the Dead' on October 31 from 9:00 PM to midnight at one of the country's most historic and haunted places - Cincinnati Music Hall. SPMH's inaugural Halloween Bash will delight adult audiences with spine-tingling tunes - played in Music Hall's Grand Ballroom on The Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ by master organist, Trent Sims. Cincinnati's legendary bartender, Molly Wellmann, will be mixing up spooktacular drinks for guests and ghouls alike. 

First Person Arts (FPA) announces their 17th Annual First Person Arts Festival line-up with headliners:. The festival will take place from November 4-November 17 in various parts of the city, and features 11 different performances that highlight personal journeys, accounts of social activism and extreme adventure! The 2018 First Person Arts Festival is focused on overcoming. Dive into real, personal experiences that include: the challenges of life after incarceration, coming out (again and again and again), gathering the pieces and rebuilding your life after divorce, and many more stories of strength, determination, and the power of the human will. The event line up is as follows:

The Ziegfeld Club, Inc., one of New York City's first performing arts charities to benefit women, is thrilled to announce that Lucille Lortel Award-Nominee Julianne Wick Davis (Southern Comfort) has been named the recipient of the fourth annual Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award (BBZA). Created to honor a female composer of musical theatre, the BBZA is a prestigious $10,000 cash grant. In addition, the recipient receives one year of artistic and professional mentorship from a prominent composer and a producer of musical theatre.

Oxford University Press and Laurence Maslon will celebrate the new book Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America with a special free "Skirball Talks" event at New York's  Skirball Performing Arts Center on Monday, November 19 at 6:30 PM.

Five Time New York Times Critics' Pick Playwright OREN SAFDIE Returns To Arkansas Public Theatre to deliver a jaw-rattling ride through the city of Munich (c.1974) as a Holocaust survivor journeys back to his birth city in an attempt to carry out his mother's last wishes and reunite her with her deceased husband.

Join the Joust in the second half of the 2018 Writer's Round Table, featuring THE COLONY by Gina Stevensen & ROSENSTRASSE: A NARRATIVE PROTEST by Jacob Marx Rice.

Por primera vez en México se musicalizará en vivo la película Metrópolis (1927), de Fritz Lang, cuya partitura de esta versión fue compuesta por el argentino Martín Matalon. El Ensamble del Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea (Cepromusic), bajo la dirección de José Luis Castillo, será el encargado de ofrecer el concierto, el cual estará acompañado por la proyección del filme.

Marygrove College announces New York Times best-selling author and spoken word poet Elizabeth Acevedo as the featured guest at its 2019 Contemporary American Authors Lecture on Friday, April 26, 2019. The 8 p.m. Lillian and Don Bauder Lecture and book signing are free of charge and open to the public.

The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall (SPMH) will 'Wake the Dead' on October 31 from 9:00 PM to midnight at one of the country's most historic and haunted places - Cincinnati Music Hall. SPMH's inaugural Halloween Bash will delight adult audiences with spine-tingling tunes - played in Music Hall's Grand Ballroom on The Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ by master organist, Trent Sims. Cincinnati's legendary bartender, Molly Wellmann, will be mixing up spooktacular drinks for guests and ghouls alike. 

NETworks Presentations, LLC, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures and Unique Features, bring the Broadway musical ELF to the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans. Tickets will go on sale Friday, Oct. 12 at 10 a.m. for the Dec. 18-23, 2018 engagement. Presented by the New Orleans Theatre Association, ELF, is part of the Hancock Whitney Broadway in New Orleans 2018-2019 season.

The Warner Theatre will present its 7th Annual International Playwrights Festival held in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre on October 12 and 13, 2018. The mission of the International Playwrights Festival is to recognize the work of emerging and established playwrights and to build a link between the playwrights, the theatre community and our audiences.

Hancock Whitney Broadway in New Orleans is pleased to announce that the New Orleans engagement of the hit Broadway musical ON YOUR FEET! - based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winning international superstar Gloria Estefan and her husband, 19-time GRAMMY winning producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan - will go on sale Friday, Sept. 28 at 10 a.m.

San Jose Stage Artistic Director Randall King announced the company's 36th Season line up. 'Looking toward our 36th Season we will continue our mission of producing powerful, provocative, and profound work that illuminates the human condition. We are excited to bring you an explosively charged  season with award-winning works by theatre's most masterful playwrights - Martin McDonagh, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Tennessee Williams - including two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas, an Obie Award-winning satirical comedy and a newly commissioned world premiere by Luis Valdez.'