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Today’s subject Anita Yavich is currently living her theatre life both locally and on Broadway. Her costume designs can currently be seen in Roundabout Theatre Company’s current production of Yellow Face and starting October 25th her work will be onstage at Kennedy Center in the Opera House with Washington National Opera’s (WNO) production of Fidelio. The show runs through November 4th.

This time, the reader question was: With Yellow Face on Broadway, have there been other semi-autobiographical shows on Broadway where the writer made themself a character?

On The View, Whoopi Goldberg teased her performance as the villainous Miss Hannigan in the tour of Annie, which hits Madison Square Garden in December. Goldberg will play the role for a limited engagement from Wednesday, December 11 through January 5.

Pianist Angela Hewitt will perform at 92NY at Kaufmann Concert Hall. This marks her first solo program since 2022, featuring a repertoire that includes works by Mozart. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The Cultural Council will present three CULTURE & COCKTAILS conversations in early 2025 featuring some exciting personalities from the worlds of entertainment—all at our beautiful venue,

David T. Little’s GRAMMY-nominated opera BLACK LODGE will launch a fall/winter tour with screenings in Sweden, a West Coast premiere in Los Angeles on October 19, and a live NYC premiere in January. Learn more!

On Friday 27 September 2024, WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical phenomenon that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, celebrated 18 years since its London premiere on 27 September 2006 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. Check out photos from the celebration here!

The ninth annual T.S. Eliot Lecture on December 15th at 6pm will feature Ralph Fiennes reading and then discussing his relationship with T.S. Eliot’s poem Four Quartets, marking the 80th anniversary of its first publication as a single volume in 1944. 

Off-Broadway's longest-running and most beloved musical, The Fantasticks, will kick off Island City Stage’s 13th South Florida Season beginning October 17.

Asa Butterfield, star of Netflix’s Sex Education will make his stage debut in the one-man play, Second Best – a fictional story about the boy who came second to play Harry Potter. 

Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre announced the limited run of WHERE WE MEET, a solo musical by Kate Eberstadt, exploring quantum physics and human experience through music, from September 27-29, 2024.

Over the past decade, performer Carly Sakolove has appeared in “Mamma Mia!” on land – in the 2013–2014 North American tour – and at sea on Royal Caribbean cruise lines.

Over the past decade, performer Carly Sakolove has appeared in “Mamma Mia!” on land – in the 2013–2014 North American tour – and at sea on Royal Caribbean cruise lines.

Legendary musician, artist, record label executive, and philanthropist Herb Alpert has marked an extraordinary milestone in his storied six-decade music career with the release of his 50th studio album titled 50.

Delia Ephron’s new play Left on Tenth, starring Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award winner Julianna Margulies and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award winner Peter Gallagher, is beginning Broadway previews tonight, September 6. Meet the cast of Left on Tenth here!

I WAS UNBECOMING THEN, a new musical by Lyndsey Bourne and Sam Kaseta, will be featured at the 17th Annual Toronto Fringe Next Stage Theatre Festival from October 16-27, 2024, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim will make her Royal Opera House debut on the Main Stage this November conducting Puccini's Tosca - her first major operatic conducting appearance in the UK

U.S. Senator Cory Booker will moderate a discussion with Hillary Rodham Clinton at NJPAC in Newark on September 17.

YoungArts revealed the 2024-2025 Fellows, recognizing emerging artists in various disciplines. Learn more.

Cincinnati Opera and CCM have announced a workshop for 'HILDEGARD,' a new opera by Sarah Kirkland Snider, commissioned and produced by Beth Morrison Projects, through the Opera Fusion: New Works Partnership.

Urban Stages has announced the cast and creative team for the New York premiere of Yussef El Guindi's play People of the Book, directed by John Langs.

Maple to Paper, the first entirely solo acoustic album from 2X GRAMMY nominated singer-songwriter and rising star Becca Stevens, is out now. Maple to Paper is Stevens’ first entirely solo acoustic record.

EGOT winner Mel Brooks is lending his voice to The Land of Sometimes, a forthcoming animated fantasy film. Brooks will feature alongside an all-star cast that includes Asa Butterfield, Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Alisha Weir, Jessica Henwick, and Monty Python's Terry Jones in one of his final performances. 

 PCS Theater will launch its 113th season with the beloved musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone, a show that pays homage to the golden age of Broadway with wit, charm, and infectious tunes.

ProMusica announced its opening weekend featuring Storm Large, set to perform on October 7-8. The event will take place at the Southern Theatre, marking the start of the 2023-24 season.