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The University of Montana welcomes back one of its own as a guest choreographer for the School of Theatre & Dance's March production of "Dance in Concert."

The Howard Community College (HCC) Theatre Program presents Qui Nguyen's 'She Kills Monsters.' The show will take place in HCC's Smith Theatre, located within the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA), with performances March 15-18. Directed by Theatre Department Coordinator Jenny Male, 'She Kills Monsters' will feature current HCC students and guest artists, who will bring this wonderful play to life. 'She Kills Monsters' is an action-packed comedy, with a touching storyline.

Community College of Baltimore County Academic Theatre presents The Mojo and the Sayso by Aishah Rahman, a moving and lyrical drama about grief and the rituals of healing that a family endures to come together following a tragedy. Performances will be held March 8 - 12 at CCBC Catonsville, Center for the Arts Theatre, 800 S. Rolling Road. The Mojo and the Sayso is being presented as part of thePerforming Arts at CCBC Baltimore Stories program, a yearlong series about Baltimore told through dance, music and theater by artists in diverse genres who live in or have roots in Baltimore.

Marking its 34th year, Oakland University's Women and Gender Studies Film Festival will present Feminist Activism Now, with a screening of the film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.The screening and panel discussion will take place from noon - 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 10, in room 1050 of the Human Health Building on OU's Rochester campus. 

Theater's next generation of actors will come from all over the globe, to be certain, but one might find an impressive concentration of artists on the campus of the University of Southern California, where the list of candidates for the Master of Fine Arts in acting rivals any group to be found anywhere. Take Michael Khachanov, for example. Born in Azerbaijan, he grew up (from the age of 7 to 17) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and now calls Los Angeles as his hometown. As an undergraduate at Berkeley, he majored in business and economics, and now he finds himself in the midst of USC's MFA three-show repertory of plays while he and his classmates prepare for showcases in New York City and LA.

Beginning in the 2018-19 academic year, Brown University will provide scholarship funds to cover the full cost of tuition for all returning and future students in the Brown University / Trinity Rep master of fine arts (MFA) programs in acting and directing.

The SDSU School of Theatre, Television, and Film presents Company, by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, running Friday, March 9 - Saturday, March 17 in the Don Powell Theatre. Stephen Brotebeck directs.

Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) will mark 150 years of its music conservatory and the 20th anniversary of its theatre conservatory on March 14 at the University's Auditorium Theatre.

Western Connecticut State University will present the award-winning drama, 'Clybourne Park,' in the MainStage Theatre of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the university's Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury.

Western Connecticut State University will host a community birthday celebration for Marian Anderson, a musical and civil rights icon who lived in Danbury.

Theater's next generation of actors will come from all over the globe, to be certain, but one might find an impressive concentration of artists on the campus of the University of Southern California, where the 2018 list of candidates for the Master of Fine Arts in acting rivals any group to be found anywhere. Take Isadora Lee Cintron Moya, for example. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, she earned her bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Puerto Rico, where she was a member of the university's acclaimed Traveling Theatre Group.

The University of SC Department of Theatre and Dance will present A Piece of My Heart, Shirley Lauro's riveting drama depicting the experiences of servicewomen during the Vietnam War, March 1-4 at the Lab Theatre. 

Could experiencing the lives of aging performing artists through young actors cause people to rethink their beliefs about aging and disrupt implicit biases? Of a Certain Age-a verbatim performance comprised of eight students portraying 16 performing artists and professionals over the age of 65-will explore this concept through performances at the Provincetown Playhouse from Friday, February 23 to Sunday, March 4.

Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Kim Kerfoot's (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2018) production of Don Juan Comes Back from the War.

Juilliard announces the appointment of tenorWilliam Burden to Juilliard's voice faculty in Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts. Mr. Burden's appointment will begin in fall of 2018. Mr. Burden has performed at the world's greatest opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Glyndebourne, Santa Fe Opera, and the Bayerische Staatsoper, among many others.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents CMU Class of 2018 in the Carnegie Mellon BREAK-OUT CABARET.

Southwestern University's Sarofim School of Fine Arts' Theatre Department is proud to present A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner. In the early 1930's, the future of Germany teeters between the debilitated Weimar government and the uprising of Hitler's Nazi Party.

Southwestern University's Sarofim School of Fine Arts' Theatre Department is excited to present the Tony Award winning musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In this classic piece of musical theatre, the lives of three neighbors in Ancient Rome are intertwined when two members of opposite households fall in love but cannot be together. Pseudolos, a crafty slave determined to live his life as a free man, offers to join the two lovers together in exchange for his freedom. Hilarity ensues as Pseudolos and the lovers try to succeed in creating their own happy endings. Note production includes Mature Content.

JAZZLAND: in Concert, a new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and set in Harlem, circa the 1930s at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, will begin rehearsals in March, and is scheduled for a limited run at the HSA Theatre, 649 Saint Nicholas Avenue, in New York City.  Performances are scheduled for two consecutive weekends, beginning on Friday, May 11 through Sunday, May 20.

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew will be performed by the renowned five-member British touring group, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS), February 28, March 1, and March 2, 2018 at Notre Dame's Washington Hall. 

Juilliard today announced conductor David Robertson as director of conducting studies, distinguished visiting faculty at Juilliard. As part of his new role, Mr. Robertson will be the principal teacher for all conducting degree students at the school. He will work with three or four students per academic year and will personally audition prospective students.

Audiences will receive a history lesson with a goth twist as the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music presents its spring 2018 musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Performances will take place in Ward Recital Hall Feb. 16-25. 

The National Theatre for Student Artists (NTSA) is getting ready to welcome their fifth national teen company to New York City.

Kean University's Theatre Conservatory will present the award-winning musical Pippin, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. Pippin will run from February 16 - 24 in Kean University's Wilkins Theatre, located on the University's main campus at 1000 Morris Avenue in Union. Guided by the Leading Player and a troupe of players, Pippin follows a young man of the same name on his quest to find his place in the world and become "extraordinary."

'Porgy and Bess' has been called the first great American opera, made all the more significant by being set in a black American community and performed by black artists in 1935, a time when black culture was exoticized by the country's white majority.