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The Cleveland Orchestra and Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music have announced a special residency partnership for the 2018-19 season and academic year. This collaborative residency will provide educational opportunities for Baldwin Wallace music and arts administration students led by Cleveland Orchestra musicians, conductors, and administrative staff.

Original works by University of SC dance students will be in the spotlight as the UofSC Dance Program presents the Student Choreography Showcase April 27-28 at Drayton Hall Theatre. 

For their 11th annual collaboration, Playhouse Square and Baldwin Wallace University will join to present tick, tick… BOOM! in Playhouse Square's Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre. Performances will be held Friday, April 27, through Sunday, April 29.

"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde, directed by Department of Theatre and Dance faculty member James R. Taulli opens this Friday, April 20th, and runs through May 6, 2018 in the Young Theatre on campus. Jack and Algernon each "reinvent the truth" to woo the women who have captured their hearts. When the gentlemen are coerced to reveal their web of lies and reveal themselves to their ladies, being 'earnest' takes new meaning.

The BFA Acting program in the School of Performing Arts at Pace University has produced a new work with alumnus and emerging writer, Keelay Gipson.

Two powerful New York institutions, Long Island University (LIU) Brooklyn and the renowned theater company The New Group, have announced a new partnership to help train the next generation of great actors. A new B.F.A program in Acting for Theatre, Film and Television, starting in Fall 2018, will be founded on the studio model, where students will study stage acting, voice, and movement under the supervision and guidance of faculty in collaboration with the award-winning The New Group. 

The University Musical Society (UMS), under the leadership of President Matthew VanBesien, today announces its 140th season in 2018-19 with an initial slate of 40 performances and events

Premiere Stages at Kean University has announced the winner of the 2018 Premiere Play Festival, its annual competition for unproduced scripts written by playwrights affiliated with the greater metropolitan area. The theatre has named Linger by Glen Ridge resident Craig Garcia this year's winner, and will present the play's first professional production this summer as part of the theatre's 14th season in residence at Kean University. The season, which runs June-October, will also feature full productions of Brick City by Ridgewood resident Nicole Pandolfo and Black Tom Island by Jersey City resident Martin Casella, as well as a developmental workshop of this year's runner-up for the Premiere Play Festival, Baton by Brooklyn resident Deneen Reynolds-Knott. 

BWW REVIEW: Oklahoma City University's Department of Theatre Presents Anton Chekhov's THREE SISTERS

Juilliard announced today that Alicia Graf Mack, former leading dancer of Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will become director of the Juilliard Dance Division on July 1, 2018. Juilliard Dance is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious training programs in the world, offering instruction in both ballet and modern techniques designed to create true contemporary dancers and choreographers.

The actors' voices are not all you hear in a theatrical production. In most cases there is an array of other sounds too-recorded or live music that is incidental or central to the action, special effects ranging from the subtle to the monumental. The artist responsible for all this is the sound designer, and the Northwest is home to some superlative ones. In this third State of the Theatre forum, four sound designers will discuss the nature and practice of their work, and play audio and video samples of what they do best.  

The Western Connecticut State University Department of Theatre Arts hosted the Region One Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) in late January for the third year in a row. The department once again came out strong by giving a public performance of the nominated fall theatre production, 'Evita,' in the MainStage Theatre of the Visual and Performing Arts Center.

UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents the West Coast premiere of Farmhouse/Whorehouse, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor, directed by Obie Award-winner Lee Sunday Evans, on Saturday, April 14 at 8 p.m. at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Single tickets are now available for $44.50-$59.50 online at cap.ucla.edu and theatre.acehotel.com, via AXS by phone at 888-929-7849 and in person at The Theatre at Ace Hotel box office.

Boston Conservatory at Berklee Executive Director Cathy Young will present honorary doctorates to opera superstar Victoria Livengood (M.M. '85, voice) and Tony Award-winning performer Billy Porter at the Conservatory's commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12 at the Berklee Performance Center. Both artists will deliver commencement remarks for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee class of 2018 at the ceremony.

The UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance presents gradWORKS 2018: The Human Body Time Machine, a dance performance directed by Aurora Lagattuta.

This year marks a half-century since Dr. Martin Luther King's earthly journey ended and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed. To memorialize this occasion, The New School's Nth Degree Series and Project1VOICE present Words of Change-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the New School on April 4, 2018, at 6:01 p.m. in the Auditorium Room 106, 66 West 12th Street.

The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) today announced an open call for applicants to the pilot CreateNYC: Leadership Accelerator program. For this pilot, the program will utilize a curriculum developed by the CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS) to engage up to 25 mid-level professionals in a five-week professional development course. The goal is to support cultural workers from diverse backgrounds as they seek to grow into leadership positions across the city's vibrant cultural sector.

BWW REVIEW: Denim on Denim: THE BASEBALL PLAY

Late Night Theatre at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa ignites the stage in April with the world premiere of TONY THE FANTASTIC FIREMAN! LIVE: ONE SHOW ONLY. Written by UH Manoa undergraduate theatre major, Malia Wessel, this new dark comedy shows what happens when a well-known children's television show host sabotages his own career during a live broadcast, despite the efforts of those around him. Filled with silly songs and playful existentialist humor, this original work is sure to leave an impression.  

BWW BLOG: To Chekhov: My Experience with ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS

The University of SC Department of Theatre and Dance will present Kate Hamill's whimsical, modern retelling of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility April 13-21 at Drayton Hall Theatre.

This spring, UW Drama students will take on Tony Kushner's seminal, era-defining play about AIDS and homosexuality in 1980s America, Angels in America-at least, they'll take on half of it.

Pepperdine University's Fine Arts Division will present Medea on Wednesday April 4 through Friday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 7 at 2 p.m. at the Malibu campus' Smothers Theatre.

NYU Steinhardt's Program in Vocal Performance presents Finding Home: Our Stories, a series of vignettes featuring the music of renowned American composer, Ricky Ian Gordon, and poetry by Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Tina Landau from March 22-25, 2018.

Celebrating its Golden Jubilee, Wagner College's Department of Theatre and Speech will hold its annual Senior Showcase in New York on Monday, March 26 at 6:30pm at the Mainstage Theater, 416 West 42nd Street.