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Houston Grand Opera has announced the appointment of rising star Joel Thompson as the first full-time Composer-in-Residence in its history. The company has recruited Thompson to Houston after commissioning and staging the 2021 world premiere of his first opera, The Snowy Day. His five-year residency with HGO begins on August 1, 2022.

Joe’s Pub has announced incredible performances coming up in July and August plus join us this Sunday at Astor Place for Juneteenth. Don’t miss performances from First Ladies of Disco (Martha Wash, Linda Clifford, and Norma Jean Wright (formerly  of Chic), Matteo Lane, Cocomama, and more.

Ogunquit Playhouse has announced casting for the musical adaptation of the beloved film comedy The Nutty Professor (July 1 – August 3), featuring the final score from Pulitzer Prize, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner Marvin Hamlisch.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center presents The Simon & Garfunkel Story on Thursday, March 2, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. This immersive and transcendent experience chronicles the amazing journey shared by the folk-rock duo, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. The show tells the story from their humble beginnings when they were known as Tom & Jerry, to their incredible success as one of the best-selling music groups of the 1960s, to their dramatic split in 1970. It culminates with the famous “The Concert in Central Park” reunion in 1981 with more than a half-million fans in attendance.

The prolific, gifted, and influential artist Joni Mitchell has amassed a group of devoted followers and aficionados who have followed her genre-exploring career from folk, pop, rhythm and blues, jazz, and the romantic standards she has explored in her later years. Devotees of Ms. Mitchell often speak of the revelatory awakenings they experienced when first hearing the music of Ms. Mitchell; Joni Mitchell seems to speak directly to the inner feelings of those who respond to her complex music and her lyrics. Aside from writing her own lyrics and music, Ms. Mitchell plays several instruments and is an accomplished painter.

New dates have been announced for the highly successful UK and Ireland tour of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical JERSEY BOYS, which is currently on the road and running simultaneously with the smash-hit West End production, playing to packed houses at the newly refurbished Trafalgar Theatre. See the full schedule!

Cellar Music Group and SmallsLIVE Foundation have announced the July 15, 2022 release of 'Sheila Jordan Live at Mezzrow', the inaugural release of the SmallsLIVE Living Masters Series.

Christie’s will auction Bob Dylan’s first new studio recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind” since 1962, from a special session with multi-Grammy winning producer T Bone Burnett, on the recently announced groundbreaking Ionic Original disc. The first recording to utilise his patented technology from Burnett’s company, NeoFidelity, Inc.

Liverpool singing sensation Beryl Marsden is set to celebrate an amazing 60 years in showbusiness with a very special one-off concert at the Epstein Theatre this summer.

The Guthrie Theater today announced it will host in-person, weeklong summer camps for youth entering grades 3–12 from June 13 to July 29, 2022.

Temperatures are heating up, and so is the summer programming at Coppell Arts Center! Four events have been scheduled for the summer season, including live music, family entertainment, and more.

Temperatures are heating up, and so is the summer programming at Coppell Arts Center! Four events have been scheduled for the summer season, including live music, family entertainment, and more. Blues Brothers tribute group Briefcase Blues will kick things off in June with a high-energy performance on Saturday, June 11 at 7:30 PM, followed by a performance from The Four C Notes, who will recreate the iconic sounds of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on Saturday, July 16 at 7 PM.

Trinity Repertory Company finishes its 2021-22 Season with Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Directed by Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company alum Christopher Windom, this show runs May 19 – June 19 with a press opening night on Wednesday, May 25 at 7:30 pm.

Seattle Rep today announced complete casting of its world-premiere production of Bruce, the new musical is based on Carl Gottlieb’s The Jaws Log, a novel about the making of the iconic film. Bruce will perform on the Bagley Wright stage from May 27-June 26, 2022, and will celebrate its official opening night on June 8.

This album is a soundtrack of Sudan’s revolution. In late 2021, Ostinato Records returned to Khartoum, Sudan shortly after a November military coup and country-wide protests to capture the sound of an ongoing, inspiring democratic revolution that began in 2019.

People’s Light will present Bayard Rustin Inside Ashland, the world premiere of a play with music inspired by the true story of West Chester, PA native Bayard Rustin. Chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and openly gay Civil Rights activist, Bayard Rustin was nearly written out of the history books.

The indisputable music icon Roger McGuinn returns to Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in Malibu on Monday, April 25, 2022 at 8 p.m.

CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue discussed the controversial topic of music copyrights and lawsuits this morning, Sunday, April 3rd.

The 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards featured a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, a win for Barlow and Bear's 'Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,' Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett for their 'Love For Sale' Cole Porter duets album, Olivia Rodrigo, and more. Check out the full list of winners now!

The smile in question is that of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Ann Talman's close friend for (almost) all of her life, and her stage mother in THE LITTLE FOXES, and these are their tales.

The Global Theater Initiative (GTI), a partnership between Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown University, invites all theatres, individual artists, institutions, and audiences to celebrate the 61st annual World Theatre Day on March 27, 2022.

Frankie Valli introduced his ninth song at Dr. Phillips Center on Sunday night as one of his all-time favorites: a 1964 B-side called 'Silence Is Golden.' He might have taken the title a little too much to heart. It's a golden oldie for sure, and Valli sounded great... impossibly great for an 87-year-old on a live concert stage...

Broadway Records announced today the digital release of Assassins (The 2022 Off-Broadway Cast Recording). The album preserves Stephen Sondheim's full score with the recent Classic Stage Company cast with direction by John Doyle.

A new work by groundbreaking composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be premiered on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.  

It was the best of times, it was the best of times. The Golden Age of Broadway marks a legendary period in American musical theatre history—an era when the Broadway stage flourished with groundbreaking creativity, unforgettable music, and enduring storytelling. What was the Golden Age of Broadway all about and what years did it cover? Study up below!