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Weston Theater Company has been approved for a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support their 2022 Original Works Programs. 

Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center brings the laughs to its Chester County Mainstage this spring and early summer. The hilarity begins with the first local appearance by Philadelphia’s longest running and highest rated comedy show, ComedySportz, on Friday, April 29, 2022 at 7:30pm. 

The big screen at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center continues to keep Monday night interesting with a  series of fun films this spring. Families and movie lovers can head into summer with a  line-up from Hollywood classics to recent Oscar winners at Uptown’s $5 Movie Mondays.

Crawford again joins forces with pianist Victor Santiago Asunción, and on three tracks with guitarist JIJI, perform a survey of Latin American music that includes works by Leo Brouwer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Guastavino, Manuel Ponce, Egberto Gismonti, and Astor Piazzolla.

The Drama League has announced the addition of three new board members to its Board of Directors: Elena Araoz, Estefanía Fadul, and Gwynn MacDonald. 

Claybody Theatre is delighted to announce that this summer it will be presenting the world premiere of Deborah McAndrew’s (A Christmas Carol, Leeds Playhouse and Pride and Prejudice, Grosvenor Open Air Theatre) new stage adaptation with music of Arnold Bennett’s celebrated 1911 novel The Card.  

Ailyn Pérez has excited Met audiences in several of opera’s benchmark soprano roles, and she adds another one this season as Tatiana, the naïve young girl who grows into a sophisticated beauty in Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous opera of unrequited love.

World renowned Tenor Anthony Kearns along with accompanist David George came to The Cultural Center of Cape Cod for a weekend concert series. The program featured something for everyone- with favorite tenor songs celebrating the Irish everywhere in song with beautiful music from Ireland.

Co-Directors Jeff Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi have announced the 2022 summer season at the Ancram Opera House in Ancram, NY.

Mystic Museum of Art will present Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post Covers: Tell Me a Story, organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.

Laughs and learnings from an accomplished, if somewhat lopsided, dramedy

Acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss today released his new album, Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin, on First Hand Records. Arc I is the inaugural album of an ambitious three-part series and features important works for solo piano from the frantic years of 1911-1913 – the precipice before World War I.

Award-winning and best-selling Irish author Olive Collins will talk about her books and writing during Jaffrey’s upcoming Shamrock Festival. After her talk and Q&A, the Flying Irish Flying Dancers will perform.

Independent, confident, active, sensible, dominant, strong, dependent, soft, emotional and gentle concepts, is one of the most important beings of human beings from yesterday to today and tomorrow.

At Seattle Theatre Group stories come alive through music and performance—and through the magic of film, too. In 1928, The Paramount opened its doors with the feature film Feel My Pulse. Now, 94 years later, the cinematic tradition is still going strong in this historic venue through Silent Movie Mondays.

Suzy Klein, the new head of BBC Arts and Classical Music TV, has announced a range of new and forthcoming highlights for audiences, including a major new commitment to performance with a new dedicated Sunday evening slot and more details on the landmark arts series Art That Made Us.

He’ll be coming ‘round the mountain!  On Monday March 14, Aidan Dooley’s tour de force one-man portrayal of the overlooked Antarctic explorer Tom Crean will be presented at the New York Irish Center for the first time. 

La Secretaría de Cultura federal y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Literatura (CNL), recuerdan la obra del poeta, ensayista y diplomático mexicano Enrique González Martínez en su 70 aniversario luctuoso. 

Little Theatre of Manchester, one of Connecticut's oldest community theatres still in operation, announced today their upcoming production of the beloved dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. The hilarious play, believed to be based on an infamous series of boarding house murders in Windsor, CT, runs now through February 20, 2022 at the National Historic Landmark Cheney Hall located at 177 Hartford Road in Manchester, CT.

Set during The Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration (1901-1916), discover the riveting stories of Tom Crean. He was the only man who served standing alongside Scott and Shackleton in three of the most daring and challenging expeditions to the great white continent including Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance expedition. 

On Friday, March 18, 2022, acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss will release his new album, Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin, on First Hand Records. Arc I is the inaugural album of an ambitious three-part series and features important works for solo piano from the frantic years of 1911-1913 - the precipice before World War I.

Little Theatre of Manchester, one of Connecticut's oldest community theatres still in operation, announced today their upcoming production of the beloved dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. The hilarious play, believed to be based on an infamous series of boarding house murders in Windsor, CT, will run February 4-20, 2022 at the National Historic Landmark Cheney Hall located at 177 Hartford Road in Manchester, CT.

A hilarious and big-hearted tale about women taking action – and sacks of spuds on shoulders – makes its WA premiere at Melville Theatre this February. Written by Australian radio broadcaster, playwright and author Melanie Tait and directed by Michelle Ezzy, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race is inspired by real-life events in a comedy where five women challenge the prize difference at the annual event. 

Theatro Sao Pedro announces its 2022 season. The lyrical series will include eleven titles: La Serva Padrona; Livietta and Tracollo; The Capulets and the Montechios, by Bellini; West Side Story; Lecture on Waterbirds; Threepenny Opera, by Weill; Ariadne in Naxos, by Strauss; Viva La Mamma, by Donizetti and El Barberillo de Lavapies, among others.

Running from January 13 to February 5, 2022, To  Save and Project: The 18th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation includes more than 60 newly preserved features and shorts from 19 countries, many having world or  North American premieres and presented in original versions not seen since their initial  theatrical releases.