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​​​​​​​Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden), The Earth Commons-Georgetown University's Institute for Environment and Sustainability, The Embassy of Sweden in Washington, DC, and The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics announce the launch of We Hear You-A Climate Archive, co-conceived by Caitlin Nasema Cassidy and Jacob Hirdwall.

The Icelandic art-rock band from Reykjavik, Sigur Ros will be in Dallas for one night only at the Winspear Opera House on Wednesday, May 25.

The Living Record Festival is set to feature Chansons in a cabaret of the same name. The performance is an intriguing award-winning show about France with songs and stories from Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Stefanie Rummel. The show will be presented live on February 13th, 2022 at 2pm (New York City time) at 7 pm (London time) and 8pm (Berlin time).

The Kean Theatre Conservatory will dare to ask the question, “What do you do with a B.A. in English?” when it presents the Tony Award Best Musical Avenue Q February 18- February 26 at Wilkins Theatre at Kean University.

The Icelandic Opera has canceled their upcoming production of DIE WALKÜRE due to Covid-19.

From January 7 to February 5, 2022, SpeakEasy Stage Company will present the New England premiere of PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS, a raw, heartbreaking, and devastating drama about addiction, recovery, and surviving the modern world.  

CHANSONS - Musical Cabaret about France & Life to be presented online live at The TheaterMakers Studio. Join the live Reading and the Talkback at 5 pm - on the 30th of November 2021.

In his new show 'So…Where Were We?', Dara will hardly mention the last year and a half, because, Jesus, who wants to hear about that, but will instead fire out the usual mix of stories, one-liners, audience messing, and tripping over his words because he is talking too quickly, because he's so giddy to be back in front of a crowd. 

In honor of October Breast Cancer Awareness Month, three-time cancer survivor and patient advocate Valerie David will moderate a series of informative talkbacks with representatives of cancer organizations and health care professionals following performances of her critically, internationally acclaimed comedic solo show The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within in New York City.

Exhibitions by the Icelandic artist Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Cuban American Jorge Pardo, and Miami-based Venezuelan American Loriel Beltrán offer viewers comprehensive looks at the practices of three of the most compelling artists—both local and international—working today.

Only some weeks ago the multi-award winning triple thread performer Stefanie Rummel performed in Iceland at the Reykjavik Fringe Festival. It was her first time after the Covid lockdowns that she could perform live again without any Covid restrictions.

On the Los Angeles Opera website, Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex is available to stream now thru July 18th. Stravinsky based his opera Oedipus Rex on the ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Oedipus Rex, is staged with minimal movement, which works well with COVID restrictions. A narrator describes the action in English.

To accompany the song’s release, the first in a series of special, cinematic films entitled ‘Sublime Boulevards - Performance Films’ launches today on YouTube.

Erin Fowler's FEMME is astonishingly good.

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, are now presenting the second show of their 2021 virtual season, REYKJAVÍK, written by Steve Yockey and directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

San Francisco Ballet has announced Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson’s farewell season in 2022, celebrating Tomasson’s remarkable 37-year tenure leading the Company.

The Road Theatre Company and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, will present the second show of their 2021 virtual season, REYKJAVÍK, written by Steve Yockey (Golden Globe-Nominee and Executive Producer of “The Flight Attendant”) and directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra throws open its virtual doors to the entire community, inviting the public to stream at no cost its digital 2021 gala, “Meet the Moment,” which celebrates the Orchestra's virtuosic musicians, on Sunday, April 18, 2021, at 6 pm (PT).

The release is preceded by today’s premiere of the album’s first song, “Radio Silence,” which David Fricke called in his album notes “an overture of slowly dawning arpeggios that dot the void like hopeful transmissions.”

Source Material will present the World Premiere of Low Skies Divine, an abstract sound-based performance piece inspired by William Shakespeare’s King Lear, created by director Samantha Shay and composer Áslaug Magnúsdóttir.

Laufey—twenty-one year old Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter, musician, cellist and pianist—recently announced her forthcoming debut EP, Typical of Me, and shared a new track entitled “Best Friend,” which has already received support from the likes of Billboard and NPR Music.

Choreographer/performer Maureen Fleming will present the premiere of EARTH GODDESSES, a digital streaming program that pairs two of Fleming's critically acclaimed recent pieces, 'Axis Mundi' and 'Effulgent Wings'. EARTH GODDESSES is available to stream December 28, 2020 - January 28, 2021.

The Iceland-based Danish musician, ZAAR (the solo project of Sara Flindt) will premiere the music video for Homesick on Sunday, December 20 at 10am EST on YouTube.

Faroese electronica artist Eivør has shared a video for “Only Love” featuring vocals from Ásgeir. The track is featured on Eivør’s new album Segl released earlier this fall on BFD/The Orchard/Kobalt. 

Sono Luminus has announced the January 22, 2021 worldwide release of Occurrence, a new recording from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO). Conducted by the ISO’s Principal Guest Conductor Daníel Bjarnason and recorded at Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland in February '18, December '19 & March '20, Occurrence features music by leading Icelandic composers.