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In alignment with A Noise Within's (ANW) season theme of Spirits Rising, Noise Now will further expand its reach for fall 2020 by partnering with ten Los Angeles cultural arts organizations for ten events beginning in late August through the beginning of January. The fall season was announced last week via Facebook Live by ANW Director of Cultural Programming Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx. Launched in February 2019 and now in its second year, Noise Now is a cultural initiative by A Noise Within aimed at sharing artistic resources and producing events that are radically accessible to all audiences, including underrepresented groups, communities of color, young people, and anyone who may not be equitably represented in theatre.

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) today announced the Nominees for The 24th Annual Webby Awards

Spring is coming in like a lion at Joe's Pub. This week our stage features Lebanese-American, New York-based pianist Tarek Yamani and the Tarek Yamani Trio; Becca Blackwell's latest deeply personal and deeply absurd solo show; Vietnamese pop star-turned protest singer Mai Khoi; Ryan Raftery's new satire IVANKA 2020; acclaimed lyricist and performer Charlotte Martin; celebrated comedienne Catherine Cohen; an album release concert from Divahn; a celebration of International Women's Day and Women's Month with ¡JEFAS!: A Celebration Of Latina Songwriters & Women In Music; and the return of Yemen Blues' brand of Yemenite chants swirled with jazz and rock grooves.

PEAK Performances presents the world premiere production of Kate Soper's opera The Romance of the Rose, directed by Michael Rau.

Bard SummerScape's 17th edition celebrates one of the most important female figures in classical music history, with seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film and the SummerScape Spiegeltent, centered around the 31st Bard Music Festival, 'Nadia Boulanger and Her World.'

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced the company for August Wilson's Seven Guitars. Tazewell Thompson (Arena's Jubilee) will direct this Tony Award-nominated play. Set in 1940s Pittsburgh, seven lives are interconnected when old friend and blues singer Floyd Barton vows to turn his life around after a surprise windfall leaves him hopeful for a second chance.

National Sawdust, the Williamsburg music incubator and non-profit performing arts space, with support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, has announced the winners of its third annual Hildegard Competition for emerging female, trans, and nonbinary composers: Flannery Cunningham of the USA, Jimena Maldonado of Mexico, and Sonja Mutić of Serbia.

Luke Wallace, acclaimed folk, Americana singer-song writer, embodies a new wave of politically charged folk music, writing the soundtrack for a movement of people rising up to meet the social and environmental challenges of our times. He is on a simple mission with this record, to help people find their voice and as he says “to step into the world, no matter how dark, and shine a light on both the beauty and injustice so prevalent today.” Luke Wallace has hit his stride on his new album, What On Earth, set for release on March 6th on Come to Life Music. 

Max Styler's Dance Radio hit “Let Me Take You There (feat. Laura White)” receives a remix package complements of ARTY, KC Lights, Sondr, Sammy Porter and Max himself. Seven new reworkings soundtrack a variety of moods, spanning from high-energy, peak-time sounds, to more subtle UK house vibes, and chill, seductive headphone-listening.

Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to present Lines of Mars by artist Shantell Martin, which will be on view for the month of February as part of the organization's Midnight Moment series. Midnight Moment is the world's largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. Lines of Mars will be on view February 1 a?" February 29. 

Luke Wallace, acclaimed folk, Americana singer-song writer, embodies a new wave of politically charged folk music, writing the soundtrack for a movement of people rising up to meet the social and environmental challenges of our times. He is on a simple mission with this record, to help people find their voice and as he says “to step into the world, no matter how dark, and shine a light on both the beauty and injustice so prevalent today.” Luke Wallace has hit his stride on his new album, What On Earth, set for release on March 6th on Come to Life Music.

Metropolis and Michael Ingersoll present Artists Lounge Live's Signed, Sealed, Delivered: John-Mark McGaha sings Stevie Wonder on February 26, 2020.

The McCallum Theatre welcomes Backhausdance, which recently completed its 15th anniversary season, to Palm Desert at 8:00pm., Thursday, January 16. The critically acclaimed Orange County dance company, which was called a?oehypnotic, ethereal, powerfula?? by The Orange County Register, will be presenting three pieces in this special McCallum performance. The show will begin with choreographer and artistic director Jennifer Backhaus'Hive (2017), a percussive and intricate repertory piece, performed to the music White Man Sleepsby Kevin Volans and performed by Kronos Quartet. A complex series of interactions, the unfolding and dissolving relationships are musically driven and create a strong, viscous group dynamic.

In what has become an annual ritual, a total of 40 established and emerging composers, lyricists, and librettists will converge on the Goodspeed campus from mid-January through mid-February 2020 to participate in the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. The writing teams, representing 15 new musicals, will populate the campus, creating a truly exciting environment for discovery and inspiration.

To ring in the new year, alt-pop trio PVRIS have announced that they will join Halsey and blackbear this summer on a North American amphitheater tour, making stops in Nashville, New York, and more. A full list of dates is below, with tickets available on Friday, January 17 at 10 a.m. local time. Also today, the band shares “Hallucinations (Acoustic),” a fresh spin on their Marshmello-assisted hit, which Billboard staffers recently declared as their #1 Best Rock & Alternative Song of 2019, calling it “the triumphant statement of an established electro-rock group realizing its pop instincts.” “Hallucinations” was also recently added to the Radio 1 B-List ahead of their sold-out UK underplay tour next month.

The New York Times has reported that Daniel Fish's first post-Oklahoma! project will be directing The Most Happy Fella at Bard SummerScape.

Celebrate New Year's Eve in Philadelphia at 12 top spots to dance, drink and dine! See full details below!

Normal Ave will launch its 2nd Annual NAPSeries (Normal Ave Playwrights Series) with 29-hour readings of four brand new plays. This year's festival will include Men Accumulate by Peter Kim George, On Trash Monsters by Gillian Beth Durkee, Sarah Sits Shiva for Herself by Megan Pope, and Seven Letter Names by Kristian O'Hare. All readings will take place January 10-12 at Normal Ave's Medicine Show Theatre, located at 549 W 52nd Street, and are free and open to the public.

MerleFest, presented by Window World, is proud to announce the next round of artist additions for MerleFest 2020, which will be held April 23-26. John Prine, Billy Strings, Colin Hay, Kelsey Waldon, and Gangstagrass will be joining the annual homecoming of musicians and music fans on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Directors of the Abbey Theatre, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray, today announced a wide range of projects for the Abbey and Peacock Stages and on tour in 2020 presenting a diverse, challenging and engaging programme for theatre audiences.

In December, Alabama Shakespeare Festival presents The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, on stage December 5 a?" 29, 2019.

Christmas Village in Philadelphia presented by Bank of America will once again return to LOVE Park for its 12th season (1500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102). From Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 28th) through Christmas Eve (Tuesday, December 24th), with a Preview Weekend on November 23rd and 24th, Christmas Village will transform LOVE Park into an authentic open-air German Christmas market.