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New York City’s leading chamber choir, Musica Viva NY, will perform its season-ending concert on Sunday, May 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m., at Manhattan’s All Souls.

Theaterproducent De Graaf & Cornelissen Entertainment heeft bekend gemaakt dat in seizoen 2025-2026 de musical West Side Story langs de grote theaters van Nederland gaat toeren. Zoals ook bij het imposante Les Misérables zal West Side Story een groot live-orkest hebben met maar liefst twintig muzikanten.

Theaterproducent De Graaf & Cornelissen Entertainment heeft bekend gemaakt dat in seizoen 2025-2026 de musical West Side Story langs de grote theaters van Nederland gaat toeren. Zoals ook bij het imposante Les Misérables zal West Side Story een groot live-orkest hebben met maar liefst twintig muzikanten.

Join the renowned choir Musica Viva as they perform Mozart's Requiem and Golijov's Oceana on May 19th.

Bay Area artists Hope Briggs and Lawrence Beamen, alongside Atlanta's Sylvia Camille, will perform at the Tenth Anniversary Commemoration of a fallen Vietnam War hero in Washington, D.C. on March 9, 2024.

The Yard Theatre will host a special 'Black Out' night for the play 'Samuel Takes A Break,' which is nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Writing Prize. The Black Out Night will be held on 28 February at 7.30pm.

Celebrated singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon discusses her trailblazing career and country music roots at the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville.

For its third production of the 2023-24 season, Bristol Riverside Theatre will present a poignant depiction of 1950s Chicago from the experiences of one Southside family in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.

Featuring high-voltage drama and a sensuous score, all set against the backdrop of real-life locations in Rome, Palm Beach Opera opens its highly-anticipated 2024 Season with Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” 100 years after that great composer’s death in November 1924.

FAU announces the establishment of the Bob Lappin and Palm Beach Pops Legacy, a $5 million gift to support music education and enhance its music programs.

Suzanna Guzmán and Danny J. Gomez announced as hosts for the 64th Annual LA County Holiday Celebration.

Directed with engaging, often riveting pacing by Khanisha Foster—and featuring some of the absolute best, deeply-searing acting performances I've witnessed so far this season—this brand new, powerfully-staged SCR production of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking 1959 play is just too damn good to miss.

Are you bound for the Philadelphia area this fall.  There’s so much to see and do that our readers will like to know about. 

The first Broadway revival of the American comedy Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch by legendary Ossie Davis will officially open in September. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Throughout the 2023–2024 season, the 13th presented under Artistic Director for Jazz, Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center commemorates Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday with institution-wide celebrations of the American icon who changed how the world heard music.

Musical Theatre Network, Mercury Musical Developments and Oxford Playhouse has announced details of the 29 musicals that will be showcased in BEAM2023.  

Canada’s Theatre Museum announced today that it will have a new home located in the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre beginning this Fall. In addition, Colm Feore has signed on as honorary patron for Canada’s Theatre Museum. 

The Kitchen has announced its Winter/Spring 2023 programming, resulting from durational engagements that give experimental artists and collectives an abundance of time and organizational support to pursue their ideas.

Tony & Grammy Award winner and Academy & Emmy Award nominee Leslie Odom, Jr. will star in the new Broadway production of the classic American comedy Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch by the legendary Ossie Davis.

Newfields has announced a new series of outdoor public art installations for The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park that will activate the park and create dynamic opportunities for engagement and exploration.

 TheaterWorksUSA in association with The Apollo, will present an invite only staged reading of Jason Reynolds’ New York Times best-selling young adult novel Long Way Down in a compelling new musical by Dahlak Brathwaite and Khiyon Hursey, directed and choreographed by Ken-Matt Martin on November 21 at Pearl Studios.   

The American Dance Guild will return to live performance with their yearly ADG PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, their first live production since the Covid pandemic. 

The world premiere of Bach Dance Project, inspired by Paul Taylor’s modern dance and Johann Sebastian Bach’s music, will take place on October 25th as part of the 50th anniversary of the Cervantino International Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico. 

The unmatched impact of Rudolf Nureyev, whose performances touched the lives of people around the world, will be celebrated on stage this September in London over five performances at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane - where Nureyev made his London debut - in a production curated by a former star of The Royal Ballet which will bring together an array of international talent both on and off stage.

The Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County's renowned classical summer theater, announces their 26th season, from July 1st weekend through August 21. “We're so excited to be able to bring a full season of art and performance back to our Chapel Hall performance space” said Patricia Buckley, Co-Artistic Director of the theater. “We've got a stellar season that we can't wait to bring to the Western Catskills.”