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The 2022 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious playwriting prizes, will be awarded to Seayoung Yim for her play Jar of Fat.

I have been lucky enough to be involved with this festival for many years.

This event, the first live worldwide cinema broadcast of a concert from South Korea, was presented by HYBE and Trafalgar Releasing on March 12 in 3,711 cinemas in 75 countries/regions for a one-day limited engagement, with reported sell-outs across the world.

Singer and actress Traci Braxton has passed away this morning from cancer. She was fifty years old. Braxton had esophageal cancer and spent the past year in hospice care. Traci Braxton frequently appearance on “Braxton Family Values,' the family's reality television show. She starred alongside her siblings Toni, Towanda, Trina, Tamar and Michael. Braxton also supported charities that aided women and children. 

TV dancing sensation and international champion Johannes Radebe just announces the dancers joining him in his first UK Tour, Johannes Radebe: Freedom, which will open on 16 March and run through to 1 May 2022.

Raised on classic country as well as the mariachi and Norteño sounds of northern Mexico, Beckmann sings with a timeless baritone as he switches between Spanish and English lyrics. “Danced All Night Long” takes place in a cantina located in Acuña, Mexico, and it was featured this morning at American Songwriter. 

10x ACM Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Chris Stapleton won Male Artist of the Year at last night’s 57th ACM Awards. Stapleton also performed his song, “Watch You Burn,” during the live broadcast, which Vulture declared “the performance of the night.” Watch the new performance now! Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!

Tony Award nominee Will Swenson will play iconic singer/songwriter Neil Diamond in the Broadway-bound musical A Beautiful Noise.

Broadway's Mean Girls is at Wharton Center in East Lansing until this Sunday, March 6th. Based on the 2004 movie, Mean Girls premiered on Broadway back in 2018 and it went on to be nominated for 12 Tony Awards.

The UK's Leading Disabled-led Theatre Company Comes To Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre later this month.

Mean Girls is making its way to East Lansing in 2022 for the first time ever. From March 1st to the 6th, you can catch this Tina Fey-penned musical at Wharton Center.

Urban Stages Theater is presenting the premier reading of On The Flip Side, a new jukebox musical by Gary Apple as part of their 'Winter Readings Series.' Jukebox musicals about legendary superstars have packed Broadway houses over recent years, so Apple decided to create one for artists who will never have a jukebox musical of their own -- namely, One-Hit Wonders.

THE BAND’S VISIT, now playing at ASU Gammage in Tempe until February 13, may tell the small, modest tale of a group of musicians from another country stranded overnight in the middle of nowhere, but it's really about friendship, loneliness, and wasted opportunities; characters discovering how similar they really are, and it does this in a deeply affecting yet witty and often very funny way.

St. Ann’s Warehouse and Beth Morrison Projects, in association with PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now and Trinity Church Wall Street, today announced that the sonically rich and visually arresting Book of Mountains & Seas will make its U.S. premiere this March 15-20.

The Green Room 42 has announced their February line-up for in-person performances. Additionally, The Green Room 42 is excited to launch 5/5/5 Tickets – in celebration of their 5th Anniversary, five $5 tickets will be available for every show from February 15, 2022, through February 14, 2023.

Playwright Mike Lew’s TEENAGE DICK will stream exclusively beginning February 3, 2022, at pasadenaplayhouse.org. Mike’s modernized take on Shakespeare’s RICHARD III, produced in association with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Huntington Theatre Company, was shot multi-camera during TEENAGE DICK‘s in-person run at Wooly Mammoth last fall. I got the chance to query Mike on his TEENAGE DICK, close collaborations and his sound advice for newbie writers.

A creative collaboration between legendary Scottish artist Alan Cumming and Olivier award-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett, Burn is a powerful new piece of dance theatre inspired by the life and legacy of Scotland's most celebrated poet, Robert Burns.

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the full cast for the 2022 Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth, directed by Sarah Frankcom. This marks Sarah’s directorial return following her tenure as Artistic Director of LAMDA. 

King Princess unveils a new song “Little Bother” featuring Fousheé today—listen here. King Princess and Fousheé wrote the song alongside Zach Fogarty (A$AP Rocky, Girlpool, Claud), who is also a co-producer. King Princess will also begin supporting Kacey Musgraves on her U.S. tour next week, with stops in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and more.

Stars on stage in New York are shining bright as we continually celebrate the experience of live theater. As new shows prepare to head to the great bright way, let’s see which famous Broadway stars, celebrities from film and TV, and more you can see in upcoming shows!

The third year of the record-breaking North American Tour of Dear Evan Hansen relaunched on December 7, 2021 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The tour will stop by more than 30 cities across the US and Canada in the 2021/2022 season.

Now boasting close to 17M worldwide streams across her growing body of work, Raiche made her national debut with 2018’s “Money Pies”. “Complicated” followed the next year and was featured on Raiche’s acclaimed debut EP, DRIVE, which was highlighted by the title track featured in Netflix’s Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker.

Toronto folk rockers The Honeyrunners set the scene ablaze, asking 'What Are You Scared Of?' with the release of their new single and debut LP, Everything Is On Fire - available now via Gypsy Soul Records / Warner Music Canada / FUGA / Proper Music Group.

In the oft-repeated words of the character Sandy, sung in a hilarious patter-fest at strategic points in the musical of Tootsie, playing this week only at the Hippodrome, 'I know what's going to happen.' What's going to happen is that you will attend the show and have an uproarious good time.

Classic Stage Company will present a new live installment of its popular series Classic Conversations in connection with its recently extended, wildly sold-out production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, directed by CSC’s Tony Award-winning artistic director, John Doyle.