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Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony will release three additional spatial audio recordings exclusive to Apple Music Classical in September: Anders Hillborg’s Kongsgaard Variations, recorded October 2021; Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome, recorded June 2022; and Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5, recorded June 2022.

Actors’ Equity Association has issued the following statement in response to the news that the Supreme Court has put an end to affirmative action in higher education.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Grammy Award-winning conductor and Metropolitan Opera Music Director, led a surprise concert on Little Island on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Joining Nézet-Séguin at this urban oasis on the Hudson River were a quartet of Met Orchestra horn players – Erik Ralske, Roy Femenella, Javier Gándara and Barbara Jöstlein Currie.  

NYU Skirball's Fall 2023 season will open on Saturday, September 16 with the NYU  Skirball debut of Step Afrika!, followed by DruidO'Casey, a six-hour, epic presentation of Sean O'Casey plays from  Ireland's award-winning Druid Theatre, along with world and North American theater and dance premieres from  acclaimed New York and International companies.

Merola Opera Program continues its 2023 Summer Festival with a fully staged production of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, approached through a current lens.

NYU Skirball, in Partnership with The Public Theater, will present DruidO’Casey, a North American premiere by Ireland’s Druid Theatre, directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes, running October 4 – 14 at NYU Skirball.

The 15-month effort by dancers employed at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, Calif. to gain union recognition and become the nation’s only unionized strippers ended today in victory. 

This month on Broadway Deep Dive, the reader question was: What Is the History of Shubert Alley?

The world-renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with guest violinist Chad Hoopes and the stunning 'Pictures at an Exhibition' reimagined by Jannina Norpoth in the intimacy of Morris Museum's Bickford Theatre.

Today’s subject Sophia Manicone is currently living her theatre life on Broadway playing Iola Stover in the acclaimed revival of Parade. The show’s limited engagement, which stars Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond, runs through August sixth at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The production marks Sophia’s Broadway debut after playing this same role at New York City Center a few months prior.

Canada’s Theatre Museum announced today that it will have a new home located in the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre beginning this Fall. In addition, Colm Feore has signed on as honorary patron for Canada’s Theatre Museum. 

Classic Stage Company has announced complete programming for their 2023-2024 Season. See what shows are in the lineup, who is starring, how to purchase tickets, and more!

The Seattle Symphony's 2023/2024 season marks the orchestra's 120th season and the 25th anniversary of Benaroya Hall's opening. The season launches with recreations of the Symphony's and the Hall's first-ever concerts; featuring Seattle Symphony Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot and soprano Alexandra LoBianco.

Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady is blessed with the sort of songs that never grow old. While the music is timeless, the plot and characters are firmly stuck in 1913, and this revival doesn't do quite enough to endear them to modern audiences.

Tippet Rise Art Center, located on a 12,500-acre working ranch nestled at the foot of Montana's Beartooth Mountains, today announced full program details for its eighth concert season, taking place over five weeks from August 18 to September 17, 2023.

As part of Carnegie Hall’s 2023–24 season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform two programs on January 29 and 30, 2024, led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons.

Protestors outside the first preview performance of Parade greeted audience members with chants such as '[Leo Frank is] a Jewish Pedophile.' Parade's composer Jason Robert Brown is speaking up about the

The Frist Art Museum presents Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, the first exhibition to tell the broader life story of the beloved English author and illustrator. Organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum—home to the world's largest collection of Potter's artworks—the exhibition will be on view from April 7 through September 17, 2023.

The producers of Parade, Ben Platt, and various cast members, have responded to antisemitic protestors at the show's first preview last night.

From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 21 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's winter reading list.

The Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre in 1911, stolen in broad daylight, only to be recovered in Italy and returned to Paris on Dec. 31, 1913. Members of the cast and behind-the-scene team of Stealing Mona Lisa are uniting at Theater for the New City with a cake to celebrate the painting’s recovery and return. 

Cary Ginell's insightful new book, 'Carefully Taught' looks at 40 musicals, both on Broadway and off, that deal with events and personages in American history. A fun read, educational and highly entertaining. Shows include '1776,' 'Hamilton,' 'Shenandoah,' 'Parade,' 'Hair,' 'Assassins,' and many more.

Theatre Tulsa begins the Play Series of its 100th season with the classic play 'Our Town', now playing!

Theatre Tulsa will begin the Play Series of its 100th season with the classic play “Our Town” in November.