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For its first installment of the 2021 Fall Puppet Forum Series, and in conjunction with the Puppetry’s Racial Reckoning exhibit, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will host “Animating Memories of Japanese American Incarceration” with theater artist Kimi Maeda and UConn Professor Hana Maruyama.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will resume in-person performances when it launches its previously announced 51st season, featuring eight plays and musicals presented October 2021 through August 2022, kicking off with the new indie folk-rock musical Lizard Boy.

Too energetic to be labeled 'folk' and not angry enough to be pegged 'alternative,' Eddie from Ohio continues to defy description with their unique blend of vocals and acoustic instrumentation. A bedrock foundation of hand-and-stick percussion and a textural flavoring of guitar/bass/harmonica support the four-part harmonies and lyrically driven original music.

John Guerra's new play brings Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town' up to date with its sensitive portrayal of two families - one white and one Latino - in modern-day Fillmore, California.

BroadwayWorld is checking in with theaters around the country as they prepare to reopen this summer. Next in our series we check in with Ogunquit Playhouse's Executive Artistic Director Bradford Kenney.

Ninety years ago on June 29, 1931, Westport Country Playhouse opened its doors to its very first stage production. This year, on the exact same day, the Playhouse will mark its 90th anniversary with the opening of the virtual production, “Tiny House,” written by Michael Gotch, and directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director. The regional premiere of the timely comedy about escaping urban life in an isolated mountain paradise will stream on demand from Tuesday, June 29 through Sunday, July 18.

Ucross has announced the opening of a new exhibition in the Ucross Art Gallery, American Memory: Inside Out, which features work by Monica J. Brown, Brittney Denham-Whisonant, and Bill Will. All three artists are alumni of Ucross's prestigious artist residency program. The exhibition will be on view from May 14 through August 27.  

In 2019, Williams starred opposite Sam Rockwell in Fosse/Verdon, an FX miniseries based on the relationship between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, February 20-21, 2020.

Last year, Phoenix (two-time Golden Globe Award winner and six-time nominee) won Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama “Joker” while Zellweger (four-time Golden Globe Award winner and seven-time nominee) took home the award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama for “Judy.”

Inspired by the success from their safe drive-in performances of La bohème in the Fall, which heralded the return of live, in-person, opera to San Diego County since the start of the pandemic, and provided over 300 jobs to many, San Diego Opera has announced a Spring season of safe, socially-distanced, drive-in performances.

After many years of development, it was announced today that Michelle Williams will play singer Peggy Lee in Todd Haynes' upcoming biopic, 'Fever.' 

Art House Productions has announced their first audio play, Black Tom Island by Martin Casella available starting Monday, January 18 at 10:00am EST. A free virtual panel discussion about the actual event featuring historians and the play's creative team will take place on Sunday, February 7 at 3:00pm EST on Zoom.

A team of creative wine media professionals began this new year by looking forward to 2021, as well as reflecting upon the hundreds of wines from around the world that they covered in the past year on SOMM TV, the first video streaming platform and full podcast network in the wine, food, and travel space.

Nine months after going on hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nationally syndicated television concert series 'Song of the Mountains' will resume production before a live audience on Saturday, January 16, at The Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia.

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.

Two industry veterans have teamed up to honor the 25th Anniversary of Jason Robert Brown’s SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD featuring one of musical theatre’s most inspiring finales, Hear My Song. Performer Jill Marie Burke and music director Brent Crayon enlisted the support of director Alan Bailey, and together they assembled Broadway performers, regional theatre standouts and high school musical students, to record a music video honoring the work of Jason Robert Brown and benefiting the Educational Theatre Foundation. 

The Educational Theatre Foundation is the beneficiary of the passion project of two industry veterans who have teamed up to honor the 25th Anniversary of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World, featuring one of musical theatre’s most inspiring finales, Hear My Song.

Governor Brian P. Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp today announced the recipients of the ninth annual Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities. The awards were presented in partnership with the Georgia Council for the Arts and Georgia Humanities.

Arlekin Players Theatre, co-producer Sara Stackhouse of BroadBand Collaborative, and presenting partner Cherry Orchard Festival in NY, will present an evening dedicated to Armenia, featuring Hayk Demoyan, Director of the Aurora Prize and former director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

The 24th edition of the Istanbul Theatre Festival, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Koç Holding Energy Group Companies Aygaz, Opet and Tüpraş, will be held between 14 November and 1 December 2020 both on stage and online with a hybrid programme.

When hotels in Las Vegas reopened on June 4th after a 78-day state-mandated shutdown due to COVID-19, the glitz and glamour of the usual larger-than-life Vegas show couldn't reopen with them. Until now.

Today (September 17) in live streaming: Judy Kuhn visits Backstage Live, Next on Stage: Dance Edition continues, and so much more!

San Francisco's premier Black theatre company Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has announced the appointment of Bay Area theatre titan Margo Hall as its new Artistic Director.

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.