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Mercer County Community College's Kelsey Theatre will come alive with the glorious sounds of Broadway as Pierrot Productions takes a "Journey Into Broadway," a cabaret-style show featuring some of theater's most beloved songs.

The Czech National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) announced today that Steven Mercuriowill become its new Music Director as of the upcoming 2019/20 season.

TheaterWorksUSA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Director; Michael Harrington, Managing Director) is announcing that tickets to their highly anticipated production of Dog Man: The Musical are now available to TheaterWorksUSA members. 

At long last, Hedwig comes to Diversionary! This iconic musical is an integral part of the LGBT theater canon and truly rocked the musical form when it debuted Off Broadway 20 years ago. It has since been made into a movie, enjoyed productions all over the world, and had its Broadway debut starring Neil Patrick Harris, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

Formed in 1979, Medu Art Ensemble organized a front of cultural and artistic resistance to South Africa's apartheid policy of racial discrimination. Medu means 'roots' in the Sepedi language. As their name suggests, the collective operated underground, drawing exiled South African and international visual, music, and literary artists to work across the South African border in Gaborone, Botswana. At its height, the Medu collective numbered more than 50 members.

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago will present its annual Rising Stars in Concert program on Sunday, April 7, at 2 pm at the Lyric Opera House.

Cinzia Milani, Italian guitarist, will grace the listening room at the MAC (Milford Arts Council) in downtown Milford, CT at 8pm on Saturday, April 13th.

Five years after celebrating Northrop's grand reopening, American Ballet Theatre will return to Northrop on Tue, Apr 2, with a vibrant program featuring Alexei Ratmansky's Songs of Bukovina, Jerome Robbins' Other Dances, and Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room.

Second Thought Theatre continues its 2019 season with the area premiere of Lela & Co. by Cordelia Lynn. STT alum Natalie Young (The Great God Pan, Bull, Red Light Winter) is Lela, a woman recounting the unspeakable horrors she faced in the middle of a war zone. Garret Storms (Martyr) portrays the series of men who interrupt Lela's story, and her life, as they use and abuse her for their own profit.

Long Island's newest theatrical venue The Argyle Theatre (Mark and Dylan Perlman, Managing Partners; Evan Pappas, Artistic Director) concludes its inaugural season with the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The Producers, with book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music & lyrics by Mel Brooks. 

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon announced today that Weightless-the critically acclaimed rock opera by The Kilbanes, produced by Z Space and piece by piece productions-will play a limited engagement at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater (1127 Market St., San Francisco) April 30-May 12, 2019.

Blumenthal Performing Arts is announcing that presenting sponsor PNC Bank has renewed its support through 2021, helping to ensure the beloved PNC Broadway Lights series remains a major staple in the Charlotte region.

Be a queen of the dance floor this spring at About Face Theatre's annual gala and Chicago's hottest party: WONKA BALL: Disco Inferno on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 8 pm (VIP cocktail reception and awards ceremony at 7 pm) at Venue West, 221 N. Paulina St. in Chicago.

Red Bull Arts Detroit is announcing a calendar of free public programming for the year, initiating new series of readings, screenings, and discussions to accompany the 2019 fellowship and residency cycle.

Peak Performances continues its convention-defying 2018-19 season with a world premiere work from choreographer, performer, and director Faye Driscoll, the season's recipient of Peak's vital PeARL (Performing Arts Research Laboratory) residency.

German-Georgian pianist Inga Fiolia will make her U.S. debut in a recital at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center on Monday, April 29, 2019, at 7 p.m. She will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Glinka, Rachmaninov and Tsintsadse.

Pieces of Her, a one-person show about struggling to find your way as a child actress and adult artist, is going up at The Pocket Theater on April 19, 2019 at 8:30PM.

The Onassis Foundation USA has appointed Vallejo Gantner as its new Artistic and Executive Director. Gantner led the internationally influential New York City cultural institution Performance Space 122 (now Performance Space New York) from 2005 to 2017 and was responsible for all programming and strategic direction.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art will present 'Tillirnanngittuq' March 16-Oct. 6, which showcases 58 works from a collection of more than 200 sculptures and prints gifted to UMMA in 2018.

Virgin Voyages and their Creative Collective, tasked with curating original and uniquely Virgin entertainment experiences, are launching a worldwide casting tour for the company's inaugural season.