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Taffety Punk's Riot Grrrls will perform THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH, featuring an all-female cast. The production explores themes of ambition and power in Shakespeare's classic play. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The new musical Gatsby, being given its world premiere by the American Repertory Theater at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge through August 3, isn’t just great, it’s spectacular.

Interracial marriage has been legal in the United States for less than six decades. To put it into perspective, sliced bread was first sold forty years earlier. Set in 1918 South Carolina, Wedding Band is a blistering portrayal of unjust laws and discrimination, of conscious and unconscious bias, of finding love inside hopeless prejudice. Alice Childress’ American classic describes a Deep South riddled with hatred and stigma, a picture that’s uncomfortably close to a certain party’s opinions and that, sixty years later, remains unfortunately topical. A white baker and a black seamstress defy public opinion in this sombre drama.

Explore The Alchemy Theatre's production of King of Hearts at the Whisenhunt and enjoy its unique story, compelling visuals, and talented cast. Allow yourself to be drawn into the insanity that walks the streets of DuTemps—it promises to be a memorable experience. #Austin #MusicalTheatre #BroadwayWorld

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has appointed conductor Cristian Mӑcelaru as the 14th Music Director in the Orchestra’s 129-year history, succeeding Louis Langrée.

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the UK premiere of Alice Childress’ Wedding Band:  A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, directed by Stage Debut Award winner Monique Touko, who returns to the Lyric after the smash-hit production of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. 

English National Opera closes its troubled, but successful, 2023-24 season with Bartok's curious compelling slice of psychodrama beautifully played by its orchestra

Trouble Puppet Theatre Company continues its superb storytelling tradition with UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play at the Vortex.

Celebrate Women's History Month with THE WAR OF ROSES: The Women, The Voices, The Vote. Kick-off event to be held in Los Angeles at The Historic El Portal Theatre on March 1, 2024.

The Fisher Center at Bard has revealed its SummerScape 2024 programming, running June 20 – August 18, 2024.

The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation resident dancers present three one-hour performances of Duncan’s early works in an intimate salon-style setting this Valentine's Day at 141 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor. Learn more about the upcoming performances here!

What did our critic think of LITTLE WOMEN at Milwaukee Repertory Theater? Real. Just as you are. Those are a couple of the key themes in Kate Hamill’s new adaptation of the classic Little Women. On stage now at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater under the direction of Marti Lyons, Little Women opens with a cozy scene: a miniature house with a smoking chimney set against sumptuous red velvet curtains.

Recording engineer for The Cleveland Orchestra, Gintas Norvila, shows us behind the scenes through the science and magic of recording a world-class orchestra. 

Experience the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra's Silent Film Night featuring Buster Keaton's 'Cops' and 'One Week' and Charlie Chaplin's 'A Dog's Life.'

The Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF) is thrilled to announce the 2023-24 Concert Series of 'Great Music at St. Bart's.' This season will showcase a variety of world-class performers in two stunning venues, including the intimate 150-seat chapel at St. Bartholomew's Church and the majestic 900-seat church with its beautiful Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.

It is safe to say that Carnegie Hall has been the premiere showcase for what is great in American Art and Culture for over 130 years. It is not hyperbole to say that the concert given Monday night by Broadway and television star Lea Michele will be remembered as one of those defining zeitgeist events. Her two-hour intermission-less journey through her career so far was the kind of powerhouse performance that people talk about for years.

Historian John Monsky returns to Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 8:00PM with a new, groundbreaking performance exploring the events and legacy of World War I. Learn more about the performance and find out how to get tickets here!

The Cleveland Orchestra Raises $1.2 Million At Annual Gala. Richard Smucker, Helen Rankin Butler, Franz Welser-Möst, Michelle Shan Jeschelnig, and André Gremillet pictured.

The Vanishing Elephant, produced by Belfast’s Cahoots NI, will kick off the New Victory Theater’s 2023-24 season with a dazzling display of life-size puppetry from October 14 through October 29 at Stage 42.

Next month, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opens the first major retrospective of photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery, with black-and-white prints ranging from the 1970s to the present. Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything is the first exhibition to include examples representative of her entire body of work, including photographs taken throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, Mexico, and France over six decades.

The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced its Spring/Summer 2024 Season, opening April 2024 with Minority Report. Learn more about the full season and how to get tickets here!

Alice Childress’s riveting play Wedding Band – a profound meditation on injustice and intolerance – starts performances at the Stratford Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre on Tuesday in a production directed by Sam White.

Wexford Festival Opera 2023 promises a packed programme for this year's festival.  As part of the festival's commitment to nurturing a new generation of creative artists, WFO invited applications from young directors and set designers, who are Irish or based in Ireland, to develop stage concepts for the two operas.

The 92nd Street Y, New York announces Caleb Teicher and Veronica Swift, the first-ever collaboration from the acclaimed dancer and vocalist, as part of Midsummer MusicFest, a new summer festival debuting this year in celebration of 92NY's 150th anniversary. 

The 92nd Street Y, New York will present An Evening with Norm Lewis as part of Midsummer MusicFest, a new summer festival debuting this year in celebration of 92NY’s 150th anniversary.