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BroadwayHD is delivering a variety of titles this June for viewers at home to stream. Additionally, they offer an extensive list of titles and documentaries worth viewing in honor of Pride month!

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are proudly open this June with a full slate of nightly performances! At Birdland Jazz Club, catch the Liebman, Brecker, Copland Quintet, Greg Ruvolo Big Band, Yellowjackets, Terraza Big Band, Anita Gillette and Lee Roy Reams, Frank Catalano Quartet, Danilo Perez & His Global Messengers, New London Big Band, Stacey Kent, Ron Aprea Big Band, Linda Lavin and Tuck & Patti.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the critically acclaimed international immersive phenomenon, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a 13th year this August, taking up residence in a brand new venue at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton. The production, which recently celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, first played in Edinburgh in 2008 to rave reviews and sell-out performances.

On June 1, TheatreSquared will begin performances of Miss You Like Hell, the newest musical from the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-creator of In The Heights. With limited capacity in the 120-seat Spring Theatre, tickets for performances through July 10 are selling quickly.

The Cincy Fringe Festival has something for everyone at the region’s largest and longest running annual arts festival — that’s Kinda weird. Like you! Featuring hundreds of Live Performances on Indoor Stages, Free Performances on the Beer Garden Outdoor Stage, All Ages Workshops & Programming, Nightly After-Parties, and everything in between, this year’s 19th Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival (June 3-18, 2022) welcomes artists and audiences back indoors and in-person for the first time in 3 years!

“We are thrilled to welcome these four distinguished composers to our faculty,” says President and CEO Roberto Díaz.“They have such diverse experiences and career paths that will help and inspire each of our students to find their own voice.”

Here We Are Amongst You is the newest spellbinding work created by Rawcus. Embracing connection, belonging and being together, Here We Are Amongst You is choreographed  by the 14 people with diverse bodies, minds and imaginations who make up the acclaimed Rawcus  ensemble. As the ensemble created this work over three years, they constantly questioned: what does the world need right now? Here We Are Amongst You is a raw and exuberant gathering performed in the round. 

Haley Johnsen is a Portland, Oregon-born musician with a knack for genre-bending and a hard-earned career path that is uniquely her own. Raised listening to powerhouse singers such as Brandi Carlile, Grace Potter, Eva Cassidy, and Bonnie Raitt, her greatest inspirations become apparent in her soaring vocals, introspective lyricism, and cross-pollinated style of indie-pop, and bluesy folk rock music. Whether her songs muse on the aches of self-doubt, the joy that can accompany nostalgia, or simply trying to stay afloat in tough times, her bona fide songwriting combined with her performance ability is bound to evoke an emotional response. “I want my music to encourage people to push through their challenges and continue to have hope and belief in themselves and their authenticity,” she says.

Artistic Director Alison Pollard-Mansergh, Producer Jared Harford, and the whole team at Interactive Theatre International are proud to announce that Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the critically acclaimed international immersive phenomenon, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2022.

Following the incredible 23 shows announced as part of the Pleasance Futures season, the third and largest official on-sale brings a host of incredible acts to the Pleasance this summer.  With returning Edinburgh Comedy award-winners, international companies, exciting new companies and debut comics, music, cabaret, live podcasts and children's work. 

Upstate New York-based folk artist Holland Belle is excited to present “What’s Best For You,” the latest song to be lifted from her debut solo album, Bird Song. Recorded at Basement Floods Records analog recording studio in Catskill, NY and produced by Dante Bardo, the forthcoming Bird Song is an album about building faith in something greater.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre completes its 2021-22 season with The Old Man and the Old Moon, book, music, and lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co., directed by Artistic Director Stuart Carden and PigPen Theatre Co. Performances run May 3 through 22, 2022, at Spencer Theatre.

Luminato Festival Toronto – the city’s international festival of arts and ideas – will return this summer from June 9th to June 19th with a bold line-up of exceptional art which will Reignite Toronto. Over the course of 11 days, Luminato will deliver a significant celebration of creativity that spans Toronto and the GTA in both familiar and unexpected places.

This year, the WSU Dance Ensemble is back onstage, unmasked with a live audience. Audiences will have the opportunity to see the dancers shine in a variety of stunning choreographic works sure to move your spirit.

The new song from the Shreveport, Louisiana-based band – fronted by the gospel-trained powerhouse frontwoman and activist A.J. Haynes – follows previously released tracks “Good Day,” “Two of a Kind” and “Dark Matter.'' “Pleasure” continues Seratones’ unexpected fusion of disco-indebted vocals and buoyant synth rhythms.

Today, it was announced that the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical, Kinky Boots, will return for a highly anticipated Off-Broadway engagement at Stage 42. Performances will begin on July 26th, with an opening night set for August 25th. Kinky Boots originally opened on April 4, 2013 and enjoyed a successful six-year Broadway run, and continues being presented all over the world.

Recorded at Basement Floods Records analog recording studio in Catskill, NY and produced by Dante Bardo, the forthcoming Bird Song is an album about building faith in something greater. Change, evolution and joy take real courage, and while some will be content to stay underwater, Bird Song sees Belle swim towards the surface.

Following the joy and excitement of Escape to Margaritaville, CATS and SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, The Hanover Theatre will keep the celebrations going with the remaining four shows in its 21-22 Broadway season!

Liam Gallagher’s third solo studio album ‘C’MON YOU KNOW’ (out May 27th) looks set to be one of the biggest album events of the year. Anticipation for the album was ignited with the lead single ‘Everything’s Electric’, which powered into the Top 20 as Liam’s biggest solo hit so far.

Liam Gallagher’s third solo studio album C’MON YOU KNOW looks set to be one of the biggest album events of the year. The song was written solely by Liam and was produced by his regular creative collaborator, the Grammy Award winner Andrew Wyatt. Listen to the new single, which features Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig on saxophone, now!

The American Theatre Guild, the largest not-for-profit touring Broadway presenter in the nation, unveils its highly anticipated 2022–2023 Season for the Morris Performing Arts Center and part of their 100-year anniversary celebration and awe-inspiring $30 million renovation project. The BROADWAY IN SOUTH BEND SERIES will include the following touring productions: THE BOOK OF MORMON, COME FROM AWAY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL, and DEAR EVAN HANSEN.

The 2022 Adelaide Festival curated by Artistic Directors Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield has seen an invigorating and inspiring 17-day event unfold. With two days still to go, the Adelaide Festival has exceeded its box office target, reaching $4.9 million (figure excludes WOMADelaide).

Ever wonder what a cabaret producer does? Learn all about the life from one of the industry's busiest creatives, Jen Sandler.

The final entree of the 2021-2022 Missoula Community Theatre à la carte season is a story of hope, joy and overcoming adversity when we work together to save our world.  In this case, the world is under the sea and the most unusual hero is a sea sponge…known simply as SpongeBob SquarePants. 

TheatreSquared (T2) Artistic Director Robert Ford and Executive Director Martin Miller today announced the 2022-23 TheatreSquared Season. Season packages are on sale today, with packages starting at $105 available by phone at (479) 777-7477 or online.