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See what our critic had to think. This ain't your mama's Oklahoma! It ain't Rodgers and Hammerstein's, either. It's what you'd get if Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe dropped acid and decided to re-write a classic of musical theatre.

BLITHE SPIRIT, the satirical farce about the pitfalls of interrupting the souls of those past on for personal amusement plays out at the Sydney Opera House.

Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, the duo known as Watchhouse (formerly known as Mandolin Orange), will perform in Capitol Theater on Friday, April 8 at 8 p.m. Marlin and Frantz are on tour supporting their debut as Watchhouse, which hit #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart in its first week.

Directed by Matthew Dunster, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen begins previews tonight, Friday, April 8, 2022. The production opens on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at Broadway's Golden Theatre for a limited 10-week engagement. Meet the cast here!

Sleep, awakeness, psychosis, enlightenment, coma. How thin is the veil that separates them? Odyssey Theatre Ensemble artistic director Ron Sossi explores some of the many states of human awareness with an evening of short “mind excursions” by Harold Pinter with Robert Coover and Hermann Hesse. Collectively titled Wakings!, the metaphysical adventure begins Saturday, April 23, with performances continuing through June 5.

Signature Theatre reopens their intimate space with a gripping and gritty look at the denizens of a neighborhood bar in north Philly.

Museum of the Moving Image has announced the complete lineup for the 11th edition of First Look, the Museum’s festival of new and innovative international cinema, which will take place in person March 16–20, 2022.

They decided to stay and keep working, a decision which would lead to a new record - the duo’s second full-length effort following 2019’s ‘Ascension’ LP, which was richly championed by Elbow’s Guy Garvey. Listen to the new single 'All In One Breath' now! Plus, check out their upcoming tour dates!

ViSiBLE, a theatre company dedicated to creating work focused on later life, today announce the full cast and new dates for the world première of Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep, devised by Mike Alfreds and Sonja Linden with the company - Geraldine Alexander, Andrew Hawkins, Sally Knyvette, Gary Lilburn and Vincenzo Nicoli.

Page 73 has announced the cast of John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Man Cave, directed by Taylor Reynolds, March 1-April 2 at The Connelly Theatre, 220 E 4th Street in Manhattan. 

With just a handful of characters, limited locations, restrained special effects, 'Woman In The Chair' is an achievement. It is indeed one of the most haunting movies made in the last decade. The kind that will linger in memories maybe like the spectators of Maurice's show with hopefully not the same outcome.

Steve Gunn's Way Out Weather, from 2014 was not only a career highlight for the artist himself, who had formerly travelled most often in more experimental and more improvisatory musical communities, but it was also an important milestone in the story of contemporary independent music of the rock and roll variety in the world at large.

Utopia has acquired US distribution rights to Unseen Skies, featuring contemporary artist Trevor Paglen, whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection. Presented by Participant and Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW, the documentary is an In Films production, and is currently slated for release later this year.

Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) presents 2022 City Skate Pop Up Concerts on Tuesday, January 25 and Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 12:40 pm, in a series that continues through February 17, 2022 at 12:40pm, at The Rink at Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park.

Twelve skilled participants have been selected for Front & Centre - a career coaching and professional development program for women and non-binary people with disability working in the arts, creative and cultural sectors across NSW, the ACT and Victoria. 

Ice Theatre of New York announced today the receipt of three grant awards totaling $30,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.

Page 73 will present the world premiere production of John J. Caswell, Jr.’s Man Cave, directed by Taylor Reynolds, March 1-April 2, 2022, at The Connelly Theatre, 220 E 4th Street in Manhattan.

Acoustic Rooster's Barnyard Boogie: Starring Indigo Blume

Kwame Alexander's 2010 picture book for the age 5-8 set, Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band, secretly serves as Jazz 101 for children the way Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Britten's Young People's Guide to the Orchestra introduce them to musical instruments. Alexander's book, with characters such as Mules Davis and Duck Ellington, not only brims with puns, it explicates jazz and packs its own gem of a glossary. His 2011 title, Indigo Blume and the Garden City, introduces his spunky 9 year old heroine who teaches an urban neighborhood to go green and make our garden grow. In 2020, Alexander blended some of the characters from both books to help children realize that the show must go on even when you're a little scared of getting up in front of groups and also that your parents love you. No. Matter. What The books are joys, but Alexander's and Mary Rand Hess' 2021 mashup of them into this 70 minute musical production, in the Family Theater of the Kennedy Center through November 28, has flaws. Let's get them over with so that the good news can follow.

Forget what you knew. With a bold ambition to reimagine how we experience and interact with the city itself, Sydney Festival's 2022 line-up – the first helmed by artistic director Olivia Ansell – is set to explode onto (and into) the city's parks, pools, streets, stages and screens this summer.

After a challenging year, Galleria On Third, now in its 22nd year, is proud to announce its 11th Benefit Art Show (first one in over two years) as they introduce artists Bipasha Hayat's newest exhibition Monologues beginning November 22 – December 12, 2021.  Money raised will benefit the New York Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.

The play, which opens December 2 at The District Theatre, marks the first full-length production for American Lives Theatre since the pandemic threated to shut down the new company entirely.

Grammy-nominated storyteller Milbre Burch will perform Sometimes I Sing, her original monodrama, written and performed in the voice of the unseen protagonist, Minnie Wright, from Susan Glaspell's 1916 one-act masterwork, Trifles, at the 12th Annual United Solo Festival in New York City later this month. 

The challenge of staying friends as people grow and ambitions evolve is analyzed with mid century modern clarity in Dean Bryant’s production of Stephen Sondheim (Music and lyrics) and George Furth’s (Book) MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. 

Quintet of the Americas, Queens' renowned woodwind quintet, will be live in concert on Monday, November 8 at 7:00 PM National Opera Center's Marc A. Scorca Hall, 330 7th Ave. (between 28th and 29th Sts.) in Manhattan.