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Dance Camera West’s 26th season of the world-renowned Los Angeles–based Dance Camera West Festival has been revealed.

This time, the reader question was: How Often Do Broadway Musicals Tackle the Topic of War? There are actually many musicals about war in the canon. The rare feat of Operation Mincemeat lies in its tone. The show is a fast-paced, zany, comedic take on a mission that used a dead body to mislead the Axis forces, leading to the successful Allied invasion of Sicily.

The internationally acclaimed, award-winning Philadelphia based physical theater company Pig Iron Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Franklin's  Key, written by Dan Rothenberg and Robert Quillen Camp.

Carnegie Hall has revealed programming for its 2025–2026 season, including more than 170 concerts and Broadway stars like Shoshana Bean, Heather Headley, Cheyene Jackson, Mandy Gonzalez, Patti LuPone, Megan Hilty & More. See the full lineup here, including dates and how to get tickets.

Baryshnikov Arts will present a fall season of dance, music, and digital performances beginning September 20 with the encore of MERCE / MISHA / MORE, a film celebrating decades of friendship, mutual admiration, and collaboration between Mikhail Baryshnikov and Merce Cunningham. 

Japan Society has unveiled its 2024-2025 Performing Arts Season, featuring a diverse lineup of traditional and contemporary performances from Japan. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Experience the world theatrical premiere of 'Merce Cunningham: The Events at Dia Beacon' at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Screening and panel discussion on April 8, 2024, featuring unique footage from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's site-specific events at Dia Beacon in 2008 and 2009.

As part of its new 2024 Spring Season, Baryshnikov Arts will present MERCE / MISHA / MORE_A Film Event, featuring Cunningham, Baryshnikov, Jacquelin Harris, Chalvar Monteiro and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

In its return to the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on Wednesday, November 1, New York City-based Tom Gold Dance will give the World Premiere of Tom Gold Dance Founder and Director Tom Gold's Sandman and The Golem as part of a new program entitled Uncanny to music of Czech composer and pianist Gideon Klein.

The little OPERA theatre of ny (LOTNY) will present American One Acts, a double bill, conducted by Gregory Hopkins and directed by Philip Shneidman, from May 31 - June 4, 2023 at Baruch Performing Arts Center.

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will present Stephen Hough, piano, plays Debussy, Liszt, and more, on March 30, 2023 at 7:30pm ET at the Kaufmann Concert Hall.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will be featured as part of the Marietta College Ebenshade Series on April 2, 2023 at 7pm at The Peoples Bank Theatre, 222 Putnam St, Marietta, OH.

Whether it’s a musical, drama, horror, or comedy, BroadwayWorld is pulling back the curtain on some of the best movies about backstage stories!

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) has announced its 2022/23 Tisch Music Season, one of 92NY's largest and most diverse seasons to date.

Trailblazing comedy ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo started out in 1974 as a downtown New York drag act in the wake of the Stonewall Riots. Nearly 50 years on, The Trocks are known and loved worldwide for their hilarious parodies of the conventions of classical ballet.

'La Boutique Fantasque '' or 'The Enchanted Toyshop' was originally a ballet choreographed by Leonide Massine in 1919 for the Ballet Russes. In a completely re-imagined production choreographed by Dalia Rawson, New Ballet's dancers will introduce you to a toyshop in Paris where dolls are brought to life.

As only the third American opera company in history to reach this centennial milestone, the Company’s 2022–23 Season will honor San Francisco Opera’s glorious past while inviting the public into an exciting new era of musical excellence under Kim’s music directorship and a renewed commitment to innovation.

North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra will return to live performances this month with its Fall Concert. The concert is set for Sunday November 14th at 3pm at Swampscott High School.

The internationally renowned Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland, took the difficult decision, due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19, to move for this year from its usual July dates to September 2021.

'Modern Dance 101,' a program of rarely seen works by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, regarded as the Mother and Father of American Modern Dance, will be presented September 30-October 3, 2021 at the Theatre at St. Jeans, 150 East 76th Street, NYC.

Martha Graham Dance Company's Studio Series Continues with CUNNINGGRAHAM, a Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham technique comparison and discussion featuring Graham 2 and Cunningham Workshop participants, on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 4–5, at 7pm, at the Martha Graham Studio Theater.

The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center will present the 29th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), January 15a?"28, 2020. Among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide, NYJFF each year presents the finest documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. Featuring new work by dynamic voices in international cinema as well as film revivals, the festival's 2020 lineup includes 30 wide-ranging and exciting features and shorts from the iconic to the iconoclastic, many of which will be screening in their world, U.S., and New York premieres. Screenings are held at the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street.

CUNNINGHAM, a 3D cinematic experience about legendary American choreographer Merce Cunningham is set to be released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 13 March 2020, following the Merce Cunningham centenary this year.

A schedule rich in variety and landmark recording projects is central to Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's 2019-20 season. The French pianist's chosen repertoire spans everything from the concertos of Bartók, Beethoven and Ravel to sonatas by Haydn and rarities by Debussy. Highlights include an extensive UK tour of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (8-15 February 2020); a complete cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos with the Orchestre National de Lyon (19 & 21 March, 11 & 13 June); Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (14 February) and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (8 June); and Debussy's Fantaisie with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (28 & 29 February).

The critically acclaimed theatrical tour de force, VASLAV, starring Godfrey Johnson directed by Lara Bye, comes to The Fugard Studio Theatre for a limited season from 5 November.