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A ground-breaking series of festivals will see world class theatre, comedy, music and dance performed in the heart of Hull's neighbourhoods alongside local talent as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017.

Cool For Summer Festival is heating up with the announcement of Nash Grier's additional solo headliner shows in Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide & Auckland! He'll be bringing a troupe of friends along for the ride, including Hayes Grier, Mahogany LOX, Alec Bailey & Wesley Stromberg PLUS special guests Tyde Levi, Tana Mongeau, Tom Jay Williams and Take Two.

The Phoenix Theatre and the Indianapolis JCC will present a special partnership performance of An Act of God, by David Javerbaum. This divine comedy travels from the Phoenix Theatre to the JCC for one night only, March 7, 2017 at 7 p.m.

The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) honors John Adams's 70th birthday in a special three-weekend celebration of his music, February 10-25.

The smash-hit John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts production of Shear Madness, the uproarious whodunit that holds the Guinness world record as the longest-running play in America, resumes performances tonight, January 31, in the Kennedy Center Theater Lab, following a brief hiatus.

Two weeks today, Lost Watch, the pioneering international theatre company behind Goodstock - which rocked the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with its unflinching, truthful and unapologetically humorous account of what it's like to be genetically susceptible to breast cancer -return to New Diorama Theatre this February to bring one of World War Two's most extraordinary stories to the stage in a brand new show: Flew The Coop.

I See You, the long awaited third album from The xx, is out today on Young Turks. Stream and download it here.

The xx today announce details of their highly anticipated third album. Titled I See You, the ten song album will be released on January 13, 2017 via Young Turks.

The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) honors John Adams's 70th birthday in a special three-weekend celebration of his music, February 10-25.

Lost Watch, the pioneering international theatre company behind Goodstock - which rocked the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with its unflinching, truthful and unapologetically humorous account of what it's like to be genetically susceptible to breast cancer - return to New Diorama Theatre this February to bring one of World War Two's most extraordinary stories to the stage in a brand new show: Flew The Coop.

Indie noise rock duo Sleigh Bells will launch a tour in Europe beginning in 2017 before heading across the U.S. in March.

A ground-breaking series of festivals will see world class theatre, comedy, music and dance performed in the heart of Hull's neighbourhoods alongside local talent as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017.

This week [14-16 Dec] five young people from Hull will travel to Aarhus in Denmark to take part in a cultural exchange as part of 2097: We Made Ourselves Over, an ambitious international collaboration with Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture.

Iceland's largest music festival Secret Solstice has been making waves since its first edition in 2014, with a concept that several media outlets have dubbed it “the world's most unique music festival.” And now they've lifted the lid on their initial lineup announcement for their 4th edition in 2017, taking place in the capital city Reykjavik on June 16-18, 2017 during the epic summer solstice featuring 72 hours of sunlight.

The xx today release their video for “On Hold,” the first single from the trio's highly anticipated third album I See You.

The xx performed on “Saturday Night Live” this past Saturday, November 19. Watch the television performance debut of their new single “On Hold”

Come see the wonderful cast perform this curiously relevant play tonight!

In the spirit of the political season, on Monday, November 21st, Scandinavian American Theater Company is presenting an Icelandic play about women's rights and gender politics: KARMA FOR BIRDS by Kristin Eiriksdottir (Iceland) and Kari Ósk Gretudottir (Iceland), with translator Salka Gudmundsdottir (Iceland) and director Christoffer Berdal Denmark).

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, a hypnotic and immersive multichannel video installation of musicians performing in a historic mansion in New York's Hudson River Valley.

Concert tickets make wonderful holiday gifts and Live @ Benaroya Hall announces an exciting roster of performances for 2017 featuring artists and musicians from around the world.

Sono Luminus announces a new recording partnership with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The first recording will be conducted by composer/conductor Daníel Bjarnason, and will feature music by Icelandic composers Daníel Bjarnason, Thurídur Jónsdóttir, María Huld Markan, Hlynur A. Vilmarsson, and Anna Thorvaldsdóttir. The sessions will take place from December 5-9, 2016 at Harpa in Reykjavik, Iceland, and an April 2017 release date is planned.

A startling, beautiful, humorous and polemic first play by two young women about the consequences of violence, injustice and beauty. Perhaps, Elsa is a seventeen-year-old girl for sale, perhaps she is a middle-aged prostitute, or a homeless old woman, maybe she is a 130-year-old Buddhist nun. Perhaps Karma for Birds is happening right here and now . . . the invisible but palpable repression of women. Performed at the Iceland National Theatre in 2013,Karma for Birds was nominated for the Griman, Iceland's theater award for best play of the year.?

The xx today announce details of their highly anticipated third album. Titled I See You, the ten song album will be released on January 13, 2017 via Young Turks.

MadKap Productions has announced that the 25th anniversary, national touring production of Rob Becker's historic comedy, Defending The Caveman will return to Skokie Theatre for four performances October 14 - 16, 2016.

World-renowned theremin virtuosa Carolina Eyck and American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) will release Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet on October 14, 2016 via Butterscotch Records.