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LES MISERABLES at Fort Wayne Summer Music Theatre is not to be missed this summer.

Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn was today awarded  the Critics Circle Award for Services to the Arts, the Critics Circle’s highest honour. Every year since 1988, the Critics’ Circle has voted for a single leading artist to receive an engraved crystal rose bowl in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the arts.

To coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the festival, MUSIC BOX: WOODSTOCK 99: PEACE, LOVE, AND RAGE debuts FRIDAY, JULY 23, (9:00 – 10:50 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.

Jukebox musicals often get a bad rap among both theatre purists and those who think they are above a good ol' production number. However, not only has Mamma Mia! become a staple for professional and community theatres alike, but the songs of ABBA and the story of Donna and the Dynamos have left a cultural legacy that continues to flourish in 2021. 

Producer Jeffrey Seller, The Shubert Organization, and the Kimmel Cultural Campus announced today that single tickets for HAMILTON will go on sale to the public on July 8, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

Though the Night of a Thousand Judys will have to be virtual this year, it allows amazing talent like Alan Cumming to participate from another state... like so many others who want to be a part of this important charitable concert.

Rose Bruford College, one of the UK's leading theatre and performance institutions has announced that – despite the combined challenges of Brexit and the pandemic – over thirty students on its world-renowned European Theatre Arts Programme are now successfully on placements in Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, and France.

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company will present Dance With Us, an educational digital platform centered around the premiere of a series of new dance films. The resource launches from June 25-27, 2021 at 7pm ET with the premieres of the films and the reveal of the platform, a website whose URL will go live at this moment.

Single tickets for the Broadway On Tour presentation of HAMILTON will go on sale to the public on June 7, 2021 at 10 AM.

Palm Beach Symphony has announced its upcoming 2021-22 Season featuring many of today’s most celebrated musicians as pianists Hélène Grimaud, Yefim Bronfman, Maria João Pires, violinist Midori and clarinetist Jon Manasse join Music Director Gerard Schwarz at the podium and the Symphony in a season of five Masterwork Series concerts.

Bryant Park Corporation has announced the current programming schedule for its summer performing arts series, Picnic Performances, featuring artists including Adrienne Warren, the New York Philharmonic, Mykal Kilgore, New York City Opera and many more! 

Three of Broadway’s most beloved shows, Hamilton, The Lion King and Wicked, will resume performances on Broadway Tuesday, September 14, 2021, it was announced today on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

With years of cabaret experiences behind them, Barbara Bleier, Austin Pendleton, Barbara Maier Gustern and Paul Greenwood are taking to the 'net for their latest cabaret show, and Bleier has a lot to say about it.

We asked our readers to share their most meaningful memories of Rent on the show's 25th Broadway anniversary.

Broadway Inspirational Voices announced today that Founder and Artistic Director Michael McElroy will step down from leading the organization after 27 years, effective June 30, 2021. McElroy will pass the baton to composer/lyricist, producer Allen René Louis, currently the Associate Artistic Director and a talented member of the BIV music team and choir.

A fortyfivedownstairs favourite for his sell-out shows In Vogue: Songs by Madonna, Sweet Dreams: Songs by Annie Lennox and Cole: A Tribute to Cole Porter, Helpmann Award winner Michael Griffiths returns to fortyfive in May with his acclaimed new show Greatest Hits.

That first album, Me, was recorded shortly after the band played their first live shows. Its semi-acoustic sound is emotionally raw, with a style balanced between pop and youthful experimentation. It became the best-selling independent album of the year at Berkeley’s Rasputin Records.

Hope Mill Theatre has announced it will work with Stream.Theatre to stream a new online production worldwide of Hushabye Mountain by acclaimed writer Jonathan Harvey.

It will also be published in UK & Commonwealth (Simon & Schuster), Finland (Bazar), Germany (Ullstein), Holland (A.W. Bruna), and Italy (Rizzoli).

In this interview, I get to discover more about the uber talented Ann Hampton Callaway.

San Francisco Opera's online Ring Festival continues throughout March with free streaming of Richard Wagner's four-part The Ring of the Nibelung and live ticketed events online. The Ring Festival schedule featuring an array of interviews, panel discussions and lectures with artists and scholars has been updated, including the addition of two new free events.

The awards honored six musicals from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the West End with nominations for Best Musical Theatre Album - 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'American Utopia,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'The Prince of Egypt,' 'Soft Power,' and Amélie.'

Dove Award-winning and Grammy-nominated recording artist Karima, best known as the co-founder and member of the award-winning Contemporary Gospel trio Virtue, has signed with DARE Records. The new solo recording pact brings Karima's soul-stirring soprano back to fans within the urban and contemporary Gospel/Christian markets.

When the legendary Dave Weckl Band reunited on stage at the 2019 Chesterfield Wine & Jazz Festival in St. Louis, Missouri, the show was already a rare and very special occasion. But even playing their first real show together in more than a decade, the band had no idea how special the set would feel just a few months later.

The history of show business is loaded with couples who work as well offstage as they do on. These twosomes have brought their offstage magic to the stages of the cabaret and concert world.