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Rock legend Billy Idol is returning to the road for It’s a Nice Day To…Tour Again! Fellow superstar Joan Jett & the Blackhearts will join Idol on all shows. Check out the full tour schedule here!

Ohio Contemporary Ballet, formerly known as Verb Ballets, has revealed its return to Playhouse Square with Echoes and Innovations. Learn more about the program and see how to purchase tickets.

An exhibition of photography by the acclaimed German filmmaker Wim Wenders will be on view this winter at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Palm Beach Symphony welcomes piano virtuoso Jean-Yves Thibaudet for a special performance of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, which is the composer’s thrilling homage to the hurried pace and enthralling rhythms he discovered during his jazz age trip to America.

The 92nd Street Y, New York's 2024/25 Harkness Dance Center season will continue with a new program from David Dorfman Dance - Downtown to Uptown. Learn how to purchase tickets.

A new cross-disciplinary festival, Pangea's “Incubator Festival,” is about to launch in the East Village. See full programming and learn how to attend the festival!

Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program will be beneficiary of the theater's 22nd annual 'Love 'n Courage' benefit Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South.

The term “megamix” became widely known on Broadway with that game-changing jukebox musical Mamma Mia! in 2001. The British import, featuring the tunes of ABBA set within a new story, concluded with a multi-song medley after the curtain call that encouraged the audience to sing and dance along.

The 92nd Street Y, New York’s 2024/25 Harkness Dance Center season will continue with a new program from David Dorfman Dance – Downtown to Uptown. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The Sundance Institute has announced that Cynthia Erivo, currently starring as Elphaba in Universal Pictures’ Wicked, will be honored with the Visionary Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser.

Twenty-five films have been selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2024 due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced.

New Conservatory Theatre Center has announced a special engagement in the new year. Coming February 2025, Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend.

Country newcomer Timothy Wayne has released a cover song of the Mel McDaniel hit “Louisiana Saturday Night.” Wayne will make his national television performance debut atop the Louisiana Office of Tourism’s float at the Rose Parade on January 1. Listen to the cover now!

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will perform on the Overture Hall stage in May 2025. Seinfeld is known for his razor-sharp wit and hilarious take on the everyday moments we all experience. Learn how to purchase tickets.

'Alexander Klaus, the One-Legged Shoemaker Man' is now being performed at 59E59 Theaters through December 22nd.  Directed by Jenny Mercein, it is written and performed by Christian Hege.

George Street Playhouse (GSP) is now presenting a two-hander that should be on your December entertainment schedule.  Gene & Gilda tells a captivating story about the relationship of the two celebrated performers, Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner.

In 2015, Vanity Fair published an article about the first super agent in Hollywood, Sue Mengers. Mengers career started where all women agents started in 1961, as a secretary. It was the same year she met the not-yet legendary Barbra Streisand, “before she lost the ‘a’,” quips Cathy Moriarty as Mengers in The Bents staging of John Logan’s play, I’LL EAT YOU LAST: A Chat With Sue Mengers, which premiered on Friday, December 6. 

The Adobe Theater will begin its 68th season with Now and Then by Sean Grennan starting in January. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!

The Yale Philharmonia will return to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2012 and the first time ever under internationally renowned conductor Peter Oundjian.

Talman’s affectionate tribute to Elizabeth Taylor and her story of a friendship that transcended Hollywood glamour made for an unforgettable evening. The show beautifully reflected the deep connection Talman shared with the iconic actress.

The Fred Ebb Foundation in association with the Roundabout Theatre Company will present the twentieth annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters to the team of Cheeyang Ng & Eric Sorrels. Learn more!

Get all the details on jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running December 2nd - December 15th.

New York's Urban Stages has announced the 16th annual awarding-winning cabaret series, Winter Rhythms, with performances from Wednesday, December 4th through Sunday, December 15th. This celebrated series will benefit Urban Stages' Outreach, Arts in Education programs.  

FALSETTOS, originally written as two-one act musicals set in 1979 and 1981, respectively, feels simultaneously dated and prescient. In this co-production from Court Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company, director Nick Bowling leads a first-rate ensemble that preserves the musical as a period piece but also makes it feel utterly alive. Lauren Nichols’s set design evokes a 1970s retro roller rink and Theresa Ham’s costume designs also use extremely ‘70s colors (and each character wears a signature color). But many of the show’s central themes hit now as ahead of their time and eerily relevant. In particular, the musical’s reverence for Jewish culture and tradition and its unabashed embrace of queer love are especially moving at a time when anti-Semitism and homophobia seem tragically on the rise in America.

I was never fond of Cats. But after seeing it performed at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre, my viewpoint has changed forever. This production is spectacular!