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San Francisco is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Coming up in September are Dunsinane, Goddess, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and more.

Brand-new production photos have been released from David Greig's acclaimed play, Dunsinane, now playing at Marin Theatre Company through Sunday, October 16, 2022. See the photos here!

One of Liverpool's most iconic landmarks will be transformed into a magical, immersive, Christmas attraction for 2018.

Opening on Friday night at The Coterie Theatre inside Crown Center is a?oeRise Up,a?? a four person, seventy five minute play written by British playwright Lisa Evans. The subject is the 1961 a?oeFreedom Ridersa?? project designed by James Farmer's CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). The premise is a group of four contemporary secondary students recount a conflict in the struggle for racial equality in the U.S. for a school age audience.

Middle-aged nebish Barney Cashman borrows his working mother's apartment during the late afternoon so he can play the playboy, a role for which he is laughably unsuited. 

The Last Five Years is one of the few musicals that seems as if Jason Robert Brown wrote it precisely with a pandemic in mind. 

Special Offer: BREAKING: Marin Theatre Company Season Opens with Macbeth Sequel

Today, on Friday the 13th, the Swedish duo SNOW CULTURE announces their debut EP1 to be released on Halloween (10.31) via Neon Gold Records. A new movement out of Stockholm, Snow Culture arrives fully realized under cover of darkness and blanketed in permafrost Scandinavian production.

After a curtailed tour and a sold-out run at Cornwall’s Minack Theatre, Willy Russell’s beautifully poignant Educating Rita now comes to the Rose Theatre for its first performances inside a theatre in a Covid-restricted world. A bittersweet and very funny production; it has been worth the wait.

Manchester film fans are promised a festive treat with the announcement of the Magical Christmas Movie Experience opening in the city next month.

Just in time for Halloween, a sexy, brooding vampire has taken Carrollwood Players Theatre captive. With sound and lighting effects reminiscent of a vintage serial, "Dracula: A Vampire Play," is the story of Count Dracula played with eerie conviction by Michael C de Baca and his three fanged wives (Crystal Marie, Brooke Olivia Wendt, and LaBree Hans).

Ameena Hamid Productions Ltd presents Tales from the Tombstone Tavern.

Calling all Santas! Liverpool's magical Winter Wonderland is looking for a festive Father Christmas to make it a special season of good cheer for all city children.

Today, on Friday the 13th, the Swedish duo SNOW CULTURE announces their debut EP1 to be released on Halloween (10.31) via Neon Gold Records. A new movement out of Stockholm, Snow Culture arrives fully realized under cover of darkness and blanketed in permafrost Scandinavian production.

San Francisco is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Coming up in October are Dunsinane, Soul Train, Bright Star, and more!

This October, Disney+ invites fans and families to celebrate its first ever “Disney+ Hallowstream” whenever and wherever they want with a spellbinding collection of some of the most popular Halloween movies, specials, and episodes of all time.

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced a lineup of movies and special presentations as part of its 2023 Blossom Music Festival on Sunday. The full list of programming for the 54th Blossom Music Festival, including classical concerts by The Cleveland Orchestra, will be announced in early 2023.

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY will be part of the 2023 Blossom Music Festival. Tickets, starting at $26 each are on sale now, November 30.

Manchester film fans are promised a festive treat with the announcement of the Magical Christmas Movie Experience opening in the city next month.

The Philly POPS announced today that Memorial Salute Philadelphia's only concert in honor of Memorial Day returns to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts on May 25, 2019.

Shakespeare in the Squares today announces the full cast for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the company's fourth production touring London's glorious private squares and gardens. Tatty Hennessy directs Gemma Barnett (Hermia/Snug/Fairy), Paul Giddings (Theseus/Oberon/Quince), Jodie Jacobs (Bottom/Egeus), Sioned Jones (Hippolyta/Titania), David Leopold (Lysander/Starveling), Riad Ritchie (Demetrius/Snout), Hannah Sinclair Robinson (Helena/Flute) and James Tobin (Puck/Philostrate). The production runs from 19 June to 11 July, with press night at Arundel and Ladbroke Gardens on 25 June.

As kid musicals go, SCHOOL OF ROCK isn't half bad. It falls somewhere between ANNIE and MATILDA on the Richter scale of stories about downtrodden kids overcoming obstacles to win in the end. It's got enough emotional oomph to tug on your heartstrings and it gives you plenty of reasons to happily cheer the underdogs on. It's also making stars out of its young cast members, right and left.

Today Hippo Campus share the new video for their track “Honestly,” off of their latest album Bambi and announce a Fall tour. Described by the band as “A snapshot into the shenanigans we get into on the road' the video goes behind the scenes to give a glimpse of what touring life is like on the road. The band have just announced more dates with The Head And The Heart later this summer and will play several major festivals including The Governors Ball this weekend followed Bonnaroo, Firefly and more. All dates are listed below.

ABC announced today that the network has picked up a new iteration of the classic variety show “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” hosted and executive produced by comedic superstar Tiffany Haddish. The hilarious reimagined format showcases a mix of in-studio segments and taped pieces from across the country, all set in front of a live studio audience. The series will capture Haddish's unique voice and sensibility as she interacts with real kids – and their innocently entertaining points of view. “Kids Say the Darndest Things” will air Sundays at 8:00 p.m. EDT during ABC's fall prime-time schedule, providing a solid three-hour block of family-fun programming, starting with “America's Funniest Home Videos” at 7:00 p.m. EDT and continuing with “Shark Tank” at 9:00 p.m. EDT.

The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC), home of Sleep No More, announced an all-new seasonal celebration, A Midsommar Night's Dream: One Trip of a Party. The one-night-only soirée will take place throughout the hotel on Saturday, June 24.

Programming has been confirmed for the 2023 Williamstown Theatre Festival summer season.

Shakespeare in the Squares today announces its annual production - this year, A Midsummer Night's Dream - which will play across London, opening up the city's glorious private squares and gardens. Directed by Tatty Hennessy, the production runs from 19 June to 11 July, with press night at Arundel and Ladbroke Gardens on 25 June.

The elegant gardens of Birmingham's magnificent Soho House, home to 18th century entrepreneur and industrialist Matthew Boulton, are the setting for a new theatre show which explores some of the colourful characters from the house's fascinating scientific past.

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division has selected its new class of Dance Research Fellows. Selected from a record number of applicants, these researchers and artists will delve into the Dance Division's archives to explore the theme of dance and immigration.

Get a peek inside the rehearsal room for Shakespeare in the Squares' A Midsummer Night's Dream, the company's fourth production touring London's glorious private squares and gardens.

Whether we need another wartime tale of very decent Allied blokes escaping not at all decent Nazi blokes, isn't really answered in this new take on The Great Escape's inspiration.

Acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Valerie June has shared a stunning cover of Gillian Welch and David Rawling’s masterful character study, “Look At Miss Ohio.” Watch the visualizer here!

Lesley Manville gives us a vicar's wife finding solace in the bottle when she wants and deserves more - fleetingly, she gets it.

Held on January 29, 2021, this year's Symposium, entitled Dance and Immigration: A Symposium Beyond Boundaries, features the culminating projects from this year's cohort of Dance Research Fellows: Kiri Avelar, Ninotchka Bennahum, Phil Chan, Sergey Konaev, Yusha-Marie Sorzano and Ferne Regis, and Pam Tanowitz.

Joe Hill, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, stops at The Music Hall Loft Today, January 12, to talk about his latest project, STRANGE WEATHER: Four Short Novels, as part of the Writers in the Loft series. The book is a collection of four chilling novels, brilliantly imagined and ingeniously wrought gems of terror.

Light in the Attic Records adds another entry to its acclaimed catalog with Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987, the definitive overview of the modern soul scene of Bluff City's post-Stax years. Over a decade in the making and compiled by renowned Memphis collectors and DJs Daniel Mathis and Chad Weekley, Stone Crush is an expertly curated anthology of these home-grown slices of Memphis stylings, from the “Singing Dentist” O.T. Sykes' private press soul to the visionary bedroom funk of Captain Fantastic & Starfleet—rare sides whose original copies are considered holy grails by DJs and collectors all over. The accompanying full-color booklet includes unseen archival photos and extensive liner notes by Memphis curator/writer Andria Lisle and Grammy Award-winning writer Robert Gordon.

Over nearly two decades together, Brooklyn's Dub Trio — Stu Brooks [bass],  DP Holmes [guitar], and Joe Tomino [drums]—not only delivered a string of albums that forever redefined the term “dub” under cover of metal, punk, alternative, and shoegaze, but also infused its musical prowess into the studio recordings and the shows of genre-bending icons ranging from Mike Patton to Lady Gaga. Today, Dub Trioannounces the April 26 release of The Shape of Dub To Come, the band's fifth full-length and first release for New Damage Records.

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius.

Get all the scoop on Coming Up on SCORPION , airing on CBS today, February 20, 2018!

When the Agents of Jam go under cover as a construction crew to help with disaster relief they are invited on a special mission to explore New Orleans Zydeco, Paris Jazz, and Detroit "motor City" Motown. Along the way, they discover how musical styles that developed from African roots have become beloved forms artistic expression around the world - and that by working together, we can build a CITY OF HOPE.

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its full lineup of classical music concerts for its 2023 Blossom Music Festival. The festival, located at Blossom Music Center in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, runs from July 1 to September 9, and features 24 concerts. 

Blossom Music Center, The Cleveland Orchestra's summer home, marks its 50th anniversary this summer. The Cleveland Orchestra will present a special season for its annual Blossom Music Festival and a summer-long celebration for this milestone year.

Next summer at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, experience two beloved movies like never before - in concert with The Cleveland Orchestra. The Blossom Music Festival movie concerts will delight music lovers and film fans alike with Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - presented in high-definition on large screens, with Academy Award-winning composer John Williams's unforgettable scores performed live by The Cleveland Orchestra. Just in time for this year's holiday gift giving, concert tickets go on sale Tuesday, December 4, 2018, through the Severance Hall Ticket Office, online at clevelandorchestra.com, or by calling Cleveland Orchestra Ticket Services at 216-231-1111 or 1-800-686-1141.

Joe Hill, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, stops at The Music Hall Loft Friday, January 12, to talk about his latest project, STRANGE WEATHER: Four Short Novels, as part of the Writers in the Loft series. The book is a collection of four chilling novels, brilliantly imagined and ingeniously wrought gems of terror.

Marin Theatre Company has announced the four productions that will make up the company’s 2022/23 season. The 2022/23 season kicks off with David Greig’s acclaimed play, DUNSINANE (September 22 – October 16, 2022).

Marin Theatre Company has announced the cast and creative team for David Greig's acclaimed play, Dunsinane. Being produced for the first time by an American team, Dunsinane is a captivating, imagined sequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth that explores one man's attempt to restore peace in a country consumed by war.

The Philly POPS announced today that Memorial Salute - Philadelphia's only concert in honor of Memorial Day - returns to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts on May 26, 2018 and the public may sign-up for FREE tickets.

Individual concert tickets for The Cleveland Orchestra's 2018 Blossom Music Festival 50th Anniversary Season go on sale Tuesday, May 1 at 9:00 a.m., online at clevelandorchestra.com, by telephone (216-231-1111), and in person at the Severance Hall Ticket Office. 

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced a $10 million gift from The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation to support improvements and future development of Blossom Music Center, the Orchestra's summer home.

You may have thought you had seen every possible version of Shakespeare's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and yet the masterful Matthew Bourne manages to surprise you anew. Set in the sterile white of Verona Institute, where the young are forced into submission, this is the story as you will have never seen it before.