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The Unsung Hero by award-winning Irish playwright David Gilna is an unforgotten love story from Easter week 1916 between Michael O'Rahilly (The O'Rahilly) The Co-Founder of The Irish Volunteers and his wife Nancy O'Rahilly Vice-President of the Cumann na mBan.

Kees Boot: 'Roald Dahl is één van mijn favoriete schrijvers aller tijden met zijn donkere humor en scherpe pen. Bulstronk wordt sowieso een rol waarin ik mij helemaal kan uitleven op een manier zoals niemand mij ooit heeft gezien. Ik heb er enorm veel zin in!'

Grammy-nominated storyteller Milbre Burch will perform Sometimes I Sing, her original monodrama, written and performed in the voice of the unseen protagonist, Minnie Wright, from Susan Glaspell's 1916 one-act masterwork, Trifles, at the 12th Annual United Solo Festival in New York City later this month. 

The Hippodrome will bring NEW BERRY to the second stage as part of its close collaboration with the University of Florida. Created collaboratively with the cast, the development process included substantial historical research and engagement with community members in Newberry and the surrounding area.

2021 DOC LA will open with the LA premiere of a humorous Christoph Waltz-narrated true story Little Berlin by Kate McMullen, about a German bull separated from his thirty six cows by the Iron Curtain, and Allegra Pacheco's tragicomic exploration of Tokyo's fascinating work culture, Salaryman, scored by James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins.

Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin attended the dedication ceremony for the new Irish Arts Center in Hell's Kitchen yesterday.

The Unsung Hero by award-winning Irish playwright David Gilna will be staged at The New York Irish Center this Friday 24th September starring Micheal Mellamphy after wowing audiences from the success of their virtual debut in New York for this years St Patrick's Day Festivities.

Con obras de autores mexicanos, representativas de los siglos XIX y XX, se presentará la Gala de Ópera Mexicana el domingo 5 de septiembre, a las 17:00 horas, en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes, en el marco de la conmemoración de los 200 años de la Consumación de la Independencia de México y el 75º aniversario de la creación del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL). 

For the 115th Kritzerland show it's a celebration, the eleventh anniversary of monthly Kritzerland shows. Eleven years of presenting amazing songs sung by an array of the most talented singers around. For the anniversary show, there's a great cast and some surprises, well-known and obscure theater and film songs and a whole lot of happiness and joy.

Shokat Projects will welcome the world-premiere recording of Georgia Stitt’s Hold Fast Your Dreams, performed by the wife-and-husband team, soprano Zoe Allen and conductor/pianist Christopher Allen. Hold Fast Your Dreams is the first single from the Allens’ upcoming album (out September 7, 2021), Beneath the Sky.

American Friends of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition will present Juan Perez Floristán, Pianist as part of the Gold Medalist 16th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. The performance will take place Thursday evening, 14 Oct 2021 at 7:00 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

The Weidner Philharmonic at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will welcome live audiences to the Weidner Center this fall with a classic symphony concert and a special gala celebrating the installation of Michael Alexander as UW-Green Bay’s seventh Chancellor. Tickets go on sale Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 11:00 AM.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced an exciting 2021-22 season of intimate concerts, live and with an in-person audience, in the Rose Studio: New Milestones, Rose Studio Concerts and The Art of the Recital, as well as a new season of its popular lecture series Inside Chamber Music and more.

Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works features Sowerby's Synconata and Symphony for Jazz Orchestra ('Monotony') with British-born, Chicago-based trombonist, composer, and conductor Andrew Baker leading the Andy Baker Orchestra, an ensemble of professional musical theater and classical instrumentalists recruited specifically for the project.

On Saturday, August 7 and Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 1pm, the Boston-based Neave Trio will perform on two concerts presented as part of Bard Music Festival's 12-concert series, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. The concerts will be performed for a live audience at the Fisher Center's LUMA Theater at Bard College (Manor Ave.) and livestreamed online.

The 2021/2022 Signature Theatre season kicks off early November 2021 with a reimagined new production of Jonathan Larson’s musical RENT and continues with the DC premiere of Daphne’s Dive by Quiara Alegría Hudes; a new production of She Loves Me by Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick and more.

For the 114th Kritzerland show, it’s the return of LIVE shows. After a year-and-a-half, Kritzerland is back and so happy to perform live again at Feinstein’s Upstairs at Vitello’s. It’s the usual mix of great theater songs, great movie songs, and, as always, some very rare material you won’t be hearing anywhere else.

20th Century USA will be performed before as live audience at San Francisco's Phoenix Theatre July 23, 30, 31, and August 1. MET Artistic Director Lewis Campbell directs. 

Des Moines Metro Opera announced today the commission of an expanded version of an American opera entitled American Apollo, with music by Damien Geter and libretto by Lila Palmer. The organization will partner with Pyramid Theatre Company and the Des Moines Art Center to mount the original twenty-minute version of the opera, originally commissioned by Washington National Opera, as part of its 50th Anniversary Season in 2022 and will present the world-premiere of the full-length version of American Apollo during the 2024 Festival Season.

Los Angeles-based CONTRA-TIEMPO will perform on the Henry J. Leir Stage during the second week of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, fusing Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance into a theatrical performance titled joyUS justUS, from July 7-11.

The Unsung Hero by award-winning Irish playwright David Gilna will stage a special production at The Co. Kerry Patriotic & Benevolent Association of NY on June 27th after wowing audiences online with their virtual debut in New York for this years St Patrick's Day Festivities.

The Civilians will present the tenth annual R&D Group FINDINGS Series. The R&D Group is comprised of writers, composers, and directors who worked with the Civilians for nine months to develop seven original pieces of theater through the creative investigation of a pre-selected subject. 

Renée Fleming will perform a concert at Teatro Colon, Miércoles 29 Junio - 20:00 H.

After producing five virtual events since the year began, this fun-filled evening of skits and songs, is produced live, outdoors, on Saturdays throughout the summer, beginning on June 12.       

The Jewish Museum will present Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, an exhibition that will situate the subject of art looting during World War II within a unique thematic premise, focusing on the seizure and movement of works as they traveled through distribution centers, sites of recovery, and networks of collectors, before, during, and after the war.