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The DCPA Theatre Company has announced the full casting and creative team for Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy in the Kilstrom Theatre running April 22 through May 29, 2022. 

Tarell Alvin McCraney's CHOIR BOY, playing at Yale Repertory Theatre through April 23, is directed by the prodigiously talented Christopher D. Betts; Betts has created a terrific production, for the most part, with outstanding acting, singing, and scenic, lighting, and costume design. The play itself has some predictable elements, but for the most part Betts' interpretation makes for a thought-provoking and moving experience.

The DCPA Theatre Company has announced the full casting and creative team for Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy in the Kilstrom Theatre running April 22 through May 29, 2022. 

Birdland presented Sam Gravitte in Songs That Raised Me, on Monday, March 7.  And as they say, a star was born.

The popular series that rethinks and reinvents famous songs is back for another go-round.

This week, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

This month, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

STARRING BUFFALO has announced its return to in-person performances with this fall's production of RENT, the pop culture phenomenon about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today.

Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with HOMECOMING: A NEW THEATRE FESTIVAL, hosting four world premieres. A celebration of theatre returning to its true home – the stage – Homecoming features new work from a wide array of London's very best theatre companies and award-winning talent.

As Second Generation Theatre nears the end of the 2020-2021 “season,” they have assembled a diverse and fantastic group of performers to participate in MISCAST:ONLINE 2021. The 15 performers are all SGT alum or artists cast in upcoming SGT shows and are getting the chance to sing things that they normally wouldn't. 

The Marsh brightens the holiday season with an array of joyful, thought-provoking, hilarious, and engaging offerings 7:30pm nightly on MarshStream, its popular broadcast platform.

COBRA, a new drama which follows the British Prime Minister and his emergency committee as they navigate a major crisis and its political and personal fallout, will premiere on PBS.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company has confirmed that layoffs enacted on Friday include artistic producer Jonathan Berry and Hallie Gordon, artistic director of Steppenwolf for Young Audiences.

This Friday, May 1, Netflix will debut their new limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, HOLLYWOOD.

The Centenary Stage Company a not-for-profit professional theatre company in residency on the campus of Centenary University in Hackettstown, NJ has teamed up with WisEngineering, LLC and the larger 3D printing community to produce 3D printed PPE for local healthcare and first responder personnel on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Centenary Stage Company a not-for-profit professional theatre company in residency on the campus of Centenary University in Hackettstown, NJ has teamed up with WisEngineering, LLC and the larger 3D printing community to produce 3D printed PPE for local healthcare and first responder personnel on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Feinstein's/54 Below continues their #54BelowAtHome series tonight with 54 Sings Legally Blonde!

Feinstein's/54 Below has added shows to #54BelowatHome, a series of streamed performances to provide theater fans everywhere with artistic content from their favorite artists.

The show's resplendent color palette, anchored by a stage floor covered in dappled brush strokes, pays homage to the French impressionist school of painting, notably that of Claude Monet. 

Just as the centuries-old spirituals sung by American slaves created community and gave voice to the thoughts and emotions they were forced to repress, so too the music in CHOIR BOY serves to give hope and healing to the young men struggling to find and express their true identities at a boarding school designed to shape them into society's culturally approved version of a?oestrong, ethical black men.a?? As classroom students, they must live up to the high standards set by the Headmaster and a strict 50-year honor code. As members of the school's acclaimed choir, they are set free when they sing.