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Playwright Christopher Durang is the recipient of The Dramatists Guild's 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award. Learn more about Durang and about the award!

Ballet Tech will return to The Joyce Theater for the 30th anniversary of its Kids Dance student performance troupe, May 30–June 2. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Yorke Dance Project will present the London premiere of California Connections: Three Pioneering Women, a celebration of choreographers Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bella Lewitzky and a new work from Yolande Yorke-Edgell.

After an incredible 40-plus-year run on the road, Belgian EBM act Front 242 are setting an end to their live concert career, announcing their final performances to take place in the fall and winter of 2024-2025. Learn more here!

Gloucester Productions will present a 2024 staging of Peter Schaffer's gripping classic play Amadeus, starring Alan Committie as Salieri.

The Woman in the Mirror will make its West Coast premiere in Palm Springs next month.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's 30th Anniversary Season will continue this spring with the regional theatre premiere of Diana – The Musical.

Their 13 long players include benchmark-raising classics Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (1980), Organisation (1980), Architecture & Morality (1981), and Dazzle Ships (1983). OMD conquered the United States, and yielded the 1986 hit, 'If You Leave' from the Pretty In Pink Soundtrack. Check out tour dates!

Finally, this Kander and Ebb masterpiece has been done in France, with French dialogue and lyrics to boot

BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB will present Jeff Harnar in 'It’s De-Lovely: Jeff Harnar Sings Cole Porter'. Learn more about Harnar's show and see how to purchase tickets.

Formed in Greater Manchester in 1981 by singer and bassist Mark Burgess, Chameleons have remained one of the city's most revered bands among musos ever since their inception. With notable fans including the likes of Noel Gallgher to Interpol, The Charlatans to Moby, their music has been passed down through the generations.

Chicago Children's Theatre's 2023-24 season finale will be a celebration of the same joyful energy that launched the company nearly 20 years ago, A Year with Frog and Toad. Learn more about the production here!

Dita Von Teese, has revealed additional dates through June 2024 for her premiere residency, DITA LAS VEGAS: A Jubilant Revue, in the Jubilee Theater at Horseshoe Las Vegas

Birdland Jazz Club will present the debut of rising young jazz vocalist David Marino, finalist on Canada's 'The Voice,' with Billy Stritch and more.

Upcoming stops include Muscle Shoals' For the Record, Memphis' Minglewood Hall, Nashville's The Blue Room and New Orleans' Chickie Wah Wah, with the tour wrapping March 14 at Luck Reunion, where they will meet up with Oh Boy Records' latest signee, the legendary Swamp Dogg.

Ybor City, a new play written and directed by Mariana Da Silva with movement direction by Stephanie G. Galindo, will have thirteen performances only March 7 to March 30 at The Actors' Gang in Culver City. 

Cleveland Public Theatre will present the USA debut of Hanoch Levin's REQUIEM, directed by Raymond Bobgan. The play will run from March 14 to April 6, featuring a diverse cast led by Peter Lawson Jones. Learn more here!

Amidst the hustle and bustle of concerts, The Toronto Symphony Orchestra took a moment to catch up with a visiting long-term member of the TSO family, Conductor Emeritus Peter Oundjian.

Black Theatre Coalition will honor Producer and Director Ava DuVernay with the first Poitier-Belafonte Award for Cultural Activism at its Inaugural “Building the Change” Gala.

East West Players has unveiled its the 2024 Season. See full programming and lear how to purchase tickets!

Cult film legends Mink Stole and Peaches Christ are bringing their new cabaret show 'IDOL WORSHIP' to NYC on Feb. 16-17.

Co-founders T. Oliver Reid, Warren Adams, and Reginald “Reggie” Van Lee, along with Board Members Aaliytha Stevens and Naila McKenzie, have announced that the Black Theatre Coalition will host its Inaugural Gala on Monday, February 12, 2024 in New York City at the Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor).

Monstrous Theatre has announced the first development workshop for SHORT STORIES, a new musical with book by illustrious British screenwriter, Mike Bullen, and music from the back-catalogue of the late, great, American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin.

Curious Theatre Branch's 35th Anniversary Season continues with the world premiere of Jenny Magnus's 'The Good'. A new work created and performed by Magnus, directed by Stefan Brün.

YoungArts has announced the nominees for the 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students who exemplify artistic and academic excellence.