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The Entertainment Community Fund welcomed the appointment of four new board members. Learn more about the Fund.

Los Angeles band Winnetka Bowling League have released their debut album Sha La La. The album is a document of frontman Matthew Koma rediscovering what he loves about music; a back-to-basics and grounded release that finds him taking risks while being in conversation with his younger self. Listen to the album now!

Yale Repertory Theatre has revealed its 2024–25 season of five productions. Learn more about the five shows in the season and see how to purchase tickets.

See SCHOOLS ON POETRY, a live poetry reading event at the Lincoln Theatre on May 11. Experience the power of words and the beauty of spoken verse.

Join the 92nd Street Y for COTTON: Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano and Justin Austin, baritone. See when you can catch the performance and learn how to purchase tickets.

Following a sold-out, extended run at The Public Theater, Shaina Taub’s new musical Suffs is marching to Broadway! Meet the cast of Suffs here!

Discover the new single 'I Hate The Sound' by Portland-based indie rock singer/songwriter Henry Chadwick. The single, 'I Hate the Sound,' comes out now ahead of Chadwick's upcoming EP Leaving – his first release since his 2021 album We All Start Again. 

The Public Theater has revealed the complete cast for the world premiere of JORDANS written by Ife Olujobi and directed by Obie Award winner Whitney White. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed the complete and creative team for An American Soldier at the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the full cast and creative team for the new musical Gun & Powder. Learn more about the team here!

Discover the exciting lineup of global music concerts coming to The Royal Conservatory of Music in April, featuring renowned artists like Laurie Anderson, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and more!

The Chimera Project Dance Theatre will present Unclearing, a striking double bill featuring two world premieres at Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The full cast has been revealed for the upcoming Broadway production of The Heart of Rock and Roll, the new musical inspired by the iconic songs written and performed by Huey Lewis and The News. Find out who is starring in the musical here!

THE KITCHEN presents Martha Friedman and Susan Marshall's 'Two Person Operating System Type 2,' a sculptural-choreographic work examining the relationship between moving bodies and objects.

Opera Saratoga announces additional casting and concert series for the company's 62nd annual Summer Festival.

The Gilmore Piano Festival returns this year with more than 100 concerts and events featuring appearances by many of the world’s preeminent classical and jazz pianists and artists, from Wednesday, April 24 to Sunday, May 12, 2024. 

The 25th Anniversary North American Tour of Mamma Mia!, the ultimate feel-good show based on the songs of ABBA, officially opened with The Denver Center for Performing Arts on November 2nd and is currently playing to audiences accross the country!  Read the reviews for Mamma Mia! on tour here!

Playwrights Horizons has revealed the cast for the world premiere of TEETH, a new musical by Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Today’s subject Jeanine Tesori is a two-time Tony Award winning composer whose work spans the gamut from large scale and chamber musicals for Broadway to grand opera and beyond. Her holiday children’s opera The Lion, The Unicorn and Me premiered ten years ago at Kennedy Center as a commission for Washington National Opera (WNO). The work will be returning to Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater for a one weekend four performance engagement on December 8th through 10th.

The Public Theater has revealed the 10 new playwrights have been selected for the 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group.

 Dramatists Guild Foundation has announced that acclaimed, Award-winning playwrights David Henry Hwang and James Ijames join the Board of Directors to help shape and guide the organization’s mission to support theater writers at all stages of their careers.

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s Broadway production of Here Lies Love will host a sold out special benefit performance on September 28 with proceeds supporting Byrne’s non-profit, Arbutus.

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. 

Discover the world premiere of (pray), a captivating production presented by Ars Nova and National Black Theatre in New York City. Don't miss this limited engagement performance that explores the profound power of sacred offerings.

​​​​​​​New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, kicks off its 2023-24 Mainstage season with Perennials - Songs For Every Season on Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center.