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Debbie Allen presents Camille A. Brown & Dancers: ink January 12th and 13th at The Wallis. ink “explores self-empowerment, Black love, brotherhood, and resilience that examines aspects of Black life that are too often appropriated, rewritten, or silenced.” I had the chance to chat with director/choreographer Camille A. Brown before her flying from New York to her Wallis rehearsals.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center will present Is It Thursday Yet?, The March, and Motion/Matter: Street Dance Festival at the new performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. 

After a sold out run last fall and an encore production this winter, Dixon Place will present a second encore run of THE VILLAGE! A DISCO DAYDREAM beginning Thursday, June 1st. This meta musical comedy filled with high jinks, low kinks, and go-go boys is written by Nora Burns (David's Friend, Unitard) and directed by Adam Pivirotto, with choreography by Robin Carrigan and a cast of ten diverse actors and dancers.

The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) has announced its lineup for the 22nd annual BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES 2023 from April 21 to May 30 at BAAD!, 2474 Westchester Avenue in the Westchester Square section of the Bronx. With a diverse lineup of events, the BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES promises to showcase the vibrant artistic community of the Bronx.

The Village! A Disco Daydream returns to Dixon Place after a sold-out premiere run last fall. The encore engagement will be performed for four weekends opening tonight – Thursday, February 2 at 7:30 PM – and running through Friday, February 24.

The Village! A Disco Daydream will return to Dixon Place next month after sold-out premiere run last fall. The encore engagement will be performed for four weekends staring on Thursday, February 2 at 7:30 PM and running through Friday, February 24.

The Village, A Disco Musical! is extending its hit engagement at Dixon Place after its first week of sell-out performances. Originally scheduled to run through Saturday, October 15, the production will add performances on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22 at 7:30 PM.

Dixon Place will present The Village, A Disco Musical! for a limited run engagement opening tonight – Thursday, October 6 – and running through Saturday, October 15. A meta musical comedy filled with high jinx, low kinks, and go-go boys, the show features a cast of ten diverse actors and dancers. 

Dixon Place will present The Village, A Disco Musical! for a limited run engagement from October 6 - 15, 2022. Set in New York City in 1979, The Village is loosely based on Our Town (if Thornton Wilder had lived on Christopher Street).

Broadway in Hollywood today announced a digital lottery for RENT at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, for all 8 performances between April 12 – 17, 2022.

The American Theatre Guild presents the Colorado Springs engagement of RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour at the Pikes Peak Center. This production is part of the BROADWAY IS BACK AT THE PIKES PEAK CENTER SERIES and will take the stage April 5, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

Tommy Kaiser, college winner of Next on Stage season two and current swing/Mark and Roger understudy, is taking over our Instagram story today, March 6! Don't miss his behind the scenes look at the tour's two show day in Philadelphia.

The American Theatre Guild will present the Lubbock engagement of the highly anticipated RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour.

Loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera, La bohème, Rent follows a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

Dallas Summer Musicals and Broadway Across America announced that a digital lottery will be held for the RENT 25TH Anniversary Farewell Tour, returning to Dallas’ Music Hall at Fair Park from February 18-20, 2022 as part of the Germania Insurance Broadway Series presented by DSM.

DPAC has announced that beginning tomorrow, Thursday, January 27th at 9:00 AM, a digital rush lottery will take place for RENT.  RENT is on stage January 28 – 30 for 5 great shows, as part of WRAL's Greatest Hits of Broadway. 

The Kimmel Cultural Campus will present the return of the RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour, back by popular demand, in the Kimmel Cultural Campus' Merriam Theater on March 4 - 6, 2022.

Ring in the New Year with the RENT 25TH ANNIVERSARY FAREWELL TOUR when it comes to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) for five performances only, January 14 – 16, 2022. The Providence engagement of RENT is part of the Encore Series.

RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour tickets are on sale now; the Broadway musical will play January 12th and January 13th. Tickets are available at the State Theatre Center for the Arts box office (453 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 18042).

Jonathan Larson's small off-Broadway show about love and fear during the AIDS pandemic and has had a phenomenal life- Tony and Pulitzer Awards, running on Broadway for twelve years and seen worldwide in successive tours. Loosely based on Pucinni's La Bohème, the play touches a strong cord among young adults and artists in its portrayal of the incredible fear of death, the joys of new love and the loss of creative spaces. We here in San Francisco can surely empathize with Rent's messages. This spectacular touring cast was embraced heartily by a very youthful audience, who, while not born during the AID crisis, still experience its long-lasting ramifications.