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At Seattle Theatre Group stories come alive through music and performance—and through the magic of film, too. In 1928, The Paramount opened its doors with the feature film Feel My Pulse. Now, 94 years later, the cinematic tradition is still going strong in this historic venue through Silent Movie Mondays.

Suzy Klein, the new head of BBC Arts and Classical Music TV, has announced a range of new and forthcoming highlights for audiences, including a major new commitment to performance with a new dedicated Sunday evening slot and more details on the landmark arts series Art That Made Us.

He’ll be coming ‘round the mountain!  On Monday March 14, Aidan Dooley’s tour de force one-man portrayal of the overlooked Antarctic explorer Tom Crean will be presented at the New York Irish Center for the first time. 

Set during The Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration (1901-1916), discover the riveting stories of Tom Crean. He was the only man who served standing alongside Scott and Shackleton in three of the most daring and challenging expeditions to the great white continent including Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance expedition. 

On Friday, March 18, 2022, acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss will release his new album, Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin, on First Hand Records. Arc I is the inaugural album of an ambitious three-part series and features important works for solo piano from the frantic years of 1911-1913 - the precipice before World War I.

Little Theatre of Manchester, one of Connecticut's oldest community theatres still in operation, announced today their upcoming production of the beloved dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. The hilarious play, believed to be based on an infamous series of boarding house murders in Windsor, CT, will run February 4-20, 2022 at the National Historic Landmark Cheney Hall located at 177 Hartford Road in Manchester, CT.

A hilarious and big-hearted tale about women taking action – and sacks of spuds on shoulders – makes its WA premiere at Melville Theatre this February. Written by Australian radio broadcaster, playwright and author Melanie Tait and directed by Michelle Ezzy, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race is inspired by real-life events in a comedy where five women challenge the prize difference at the annual event. 

Running from January 13 to February 5, 2022, To  Save and Project: The 18th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation includes more than 60 newly preserved features and shorts from 19 countries, many having world or  North American premieres and presented in original versions not seen since their initial  theatrical releases.

Since 1998, Seattle Theatre Group has been presenting Silent Movie Mondays to honor the history of The Paramount Theatre, which opened its doors on March 1, 1928 with the feature film Feel My Pulse starring Bebe Daniels and William Powell.

The Hippodrome will bring NEW BERRY to the second stage as part of its close collaboration with the University of Florida. Created collaboratively with the cast, the development process included substantial historical research and engagement with community members in Newberry and the surrounding area.

2021 DOC LA will open with the LA premiere of a humorous Christoph Waltz-narrated true story Little Berlin by Kate McMullen, about a German bull separated from his thirty six cows by the Iron Curtain, and Allegra Pacheco's tragicomic exploration of Tokyo's fascinating work culture, Salaryman, scored by James Iha of Smashing Pumpkins.

Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin attended the dedication ceremony for the new Irish Arts Center in Hell's Kitchen yesterday.

The Unsung Hero by award-winning Irish playwright David Gilna will be staged at The New York Irish Center this Friday 24th September starring Micheal Mellamphy after wowing audiences from the success of their virtual debut in New York for this years St Patrick's Day Festivities.

Shokat Projects will welcome the world-premiere recording of Georgia Stitt’s Hold Fast Your Dreams, performed by the wife-and-husband team, soprano Zoe Allen and conductor/pianist Christopher Allen. Hold Fast Your Dreams is the first single from the Allens’ upcoming album (out September 7, 2021), Beneath the Sky.

The Weidner Philharmonic at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will welcome live audiences to the Weidner Center this fall with a classic symphony concert and a special gala celebrating the installation of Michael Alexander as UW-Green Bay’s seventh Chancellor. Tickets go on sale Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 11:00 AM.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced an exciting 2021-22 season of intimate concerts, live and with an in-person audience, in the Rose Studio: New Milestones, Rose Studio Concerts and The Art of the Recital, as well as a new season of its popular lecture series Inside Chamber Music and more.

Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works features Sowerby's Synconata and Symphony for Jazz Orchestra ('Monotony') with British-born, Chicago-based trombonist, composer, and conductor Andrew Baker leading the Andy Baker Orchestra, an ensemble of professional musical theater and classical instrumentalists recruited specifically for the project.

On Saturday, August 7 and Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 1pm, the Boston-based Neave Trio will perform on two concerts presented as part of Bard Music Festival's 12-concert series, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. The concerts will be performed for a live audience at the Fisher Center's LUMA Theater at Bard College (Manor Ave.) and livestreamed online.

The 2021/2022 Signature Theatre season kicks off early November 2021 with a reimagined new production of Jonathan Larson’s musical RENT and continues with the DC premiere of Daphne’s Dive by Quiara Alegría Hudes; a new production of She Loves Me by Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick and more.

20th Century USA will be performed before as live audience at San Francisco's Phoenix Theatre July 23, 30, 31, and August 1. MET Artistic Director Lewis Campbell directs. 

Des Moines Metro Opera announced today the commission of an expanded version of an American opera entitled American Apollo, with music by Damien Geter and libretto by Lila Palmer. The organization will partner with Pyramid Theatre Company and the Des Moines Art Center to mount the original twenty-minute version of the opera, originally commissioned by Washington National Opera, as part of its 50th Anniversary Season in 2022 and will present the world-premiere of the full-length version of American Apollo during the 2024 Festival Season.

Los Angeles-based CONTRA-TIEMPO will perform on the Henry J. Leir Stage during the second week of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, fusing Salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance into a theatrical performance titled joyUS justUS, from July 7-11.

The Civilians will present the tenth annual R&D Group FINDINGS Series. The R&D Group is comprised of writers, composers, and directors who worked with the Civilians for nine months to develop seven original pieces of theater through the creative investigation of a pre-selected subject. 

After producing five virtual events since the year began, this fun-filled evening of skits and songs, is produced live, outdoors, on Saturdays throughout the summer, beginning on June 12.       

The Jewish Museum will present Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, an exhibition that will situate the subject of art looting during World War II within a unique thematic premise, focusing on the seizure and movement of works as they traveled through distribution centers, sites of recovery, and networks of collectors, before, during, and after the war.