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Join the world's top ballet stars as they come together for the inaugural World Ballet Festival.

Margot Robbie, the acclaimed star of Barbie, has just joined another project based on an iconic piece of IP. With her production company, Robbie will be producing a film based on the board game Monopoly, which is made by Hasbro. It will be a live-action feature, with Hasbro producing as well.

In a sign of an industry on the rebound, Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles is getting ready to announce a return of programming at the Mark Taper Forum, where production was paused last year while the organization went through a budget crunch. Additionally, following the casting of a Black actress in the role of Juliet, an upcoming West End production of Romeo and Juliet from the Jamie Lloyd Company started dealing with racist backlash online - we’ll show you how the company responded.

Two groups of critics (or, more precisely, one group of critics and one group of mostly critics) give theater awards each season. In this continuing series on theater’s awards, I look at the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards. 

The Burbank Chorale for their Spring Concert, A MILLION DREAMS: MUSIC OF THE SILVER SCREEN.

The Kennedy Center’s season-long celebration of Ellington 125 culminates this month, leading up to what would have been the American icon and Washington, D.C. native’s 125th birthday on April 29. See programming!

The third and final show in The Filigree Theatre’s special Fifth Anniversary Season, “Above the Fold,” written by Julia Zaffarano and directed by Elizabeth V. Newman, will open Thursday, April 18, at the Factory on 5th.

La historia de la Escuela Superior de Música (ESM) inició cuando José Muñoz Cota, jefe del Departamento de Bellas Artes de la Secretaria de Educación Pública (SEP), en 1935, por iniciativa de un grupo de estudiantes y académicos del Conservatorio Nacional de Música (CNM), crea una institución de educación musical superior con la finalidad de brindar a todos aquellos interesados o músicos líricos (aficionados, trabajadores, obreros y empleados) que no podían tener acceso a la instrucción que ofrecía el Conservatorio.

A Celebration of Life Service for the late William “Bill” Frederick Lomas, known in the entertainment world as “The Parade King,” will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 1:00 p.m., officiated by Pastor Dan Dutch at Desert Reign Church.

Remembering William 'Bill' Frederick Lomas, the 'Parade King' and longtime producer of the Hollywood Christmas Parade for 42 years, who has recently passed away.

Tay Anderson will bring to the stage the hits of the silver screen in - See You At The Movies -  her new solo cabaret in the popular Spotlight Cabaret Series at The Winter Park Playhouse April 24 and 25, 2024. Playhouse Music Director, Christopher Leavy, will accompany on piano. 

Discover the newly processed archival collections from the Great American Songbook Foundation, featuring influential women of the Songbook.

Celebrate Cain's Ballroom's centennial with the release of Cain's Centennial Ale, a collaboration with Marshall Brewing Company, and a free concert featuring Grammy-nominated artist John Fullbright on March 31.

Giant Steps is now playing at Det. KGL. Teater. Performances run through 20 March 2024.

Lantern Theater Company has revealed its upcoming 2024/25 season, which will mark the company’s 31st year. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets!

The 2024 theatre awards season is quickly approaching, and keeping track of all of the important dates for the many ceremonies and their corresponding nomination announcements is no easy feat. BroadwayWorld has all of the details!

Grammy, Emmy, and Tony nominee Vanessa Williams and television and stage star Jordan Fisher will be the co-hosts of the 2024 Drama League Awards Nominations announcement. Learn more about the Drama League Awards!

In the aftermath of experiencing the Nashville premiere of Jagged Little Pill — the musical inspired by and featuring music from Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album of the same name, other songs written by her and including two created expressly for the production, and featuring a compelling, biting and challenging book by Diablo Cody — one cannot help but lament the show’s abbreviated three-performance run at TPAC’s Andrew Jackson Hall.

Steve Lawrence, singer, comedian, and actor has passed away at age 88. Learn more about Lawrence.

Winter Opera continues it’s seventeenth season with another iconic operetta—Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta.  This lovely old show premiered in 1910. It was produced by the first Oscar Hammerstein (the grandfather of you-know-who).  In 1935 a movie version was made—with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

The Joffrey Ballet has revealed its 2024–2025 Season at Lyric Opera House. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

AES Cyprium Brass Quintet will perform at John’s Restaurant Trimiklini next month. The performance is set for Saturday 16 March.

At the Wildfire Lounge cocktail bar in Glebe, four actors will tackle over a hundred roles in this take on Hitchcock’s classic spy-thriller The 39 Steps.

Everything in this collection is captured and remastered beautifully, spanning two discs with 28 songs on each, and that’s a treasure trove, for sure.

When it comes to concerts, Audra McDonald says she’s learned to choose a song list that really appeals to her. And she’s done just that for her current tour, which will bring her to Symphony Hall for her eighth appearance with the Celebrity Series of Boston, this time with an orchestra of local musicians, on February 27.