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Experience the unity and solidarity of the DESERT HEARTS FESTIVAL, returning to its roots in 2024. Teaming up with Walter Productions, the festival will take place at Playa Ponderosa, featuring artists that have shaped its 12-year journey.

Elements Music & Arts Festival has revealed phase two additions for its 2024 edition, featuring standout performances by Fly With Us, Green Velvet B2B Patrick Topping, and more. Learn more about the lineup and see how to purchase tickets.

Discover the latest reading from the ON HER SHOULDERS program by New Perspectives Theatre Company, introducing plays by women from the past to contemporary audiences. The upcoming feature is DIDO: The Tragic Queen of Carthage.

Desert Hearts has revealed the dates and venue of its famed boutique house and techno festival experience, taking place July 4-8 at Playa Ponderosa. Learn more about the festival!

Elements Music & Arts Festival has announced the phase one lineup for its 2024 edition returning to Long Pond, Pennsylvania on August 9-11. Learn more about the lineup here!

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).

Holy Ship! Wrecked announces set times, theme nights, artist-led activities, and Sunrise Send details for the 2023 edition. Don't miss out on the stacked lineup and exciting activities. Tickets available on the official website.

Holy Ship! Wrecked has announced its 2023 lineup. Eleven years ago, Holy Ship! reimagined what a music festival experience and community could be, with its successor Holy Ship! Wrecked bringing this concept to land with even more potential for complete attendee immersion.

A powerful and shocking new play directed by Melody Brooks, joins the Chain Theatre summer one act festival line up, running June 8th to June 25th.

Bullying, sexism, corruption, initiation ordeals and debauched behaviour. No, it’s not another government inquiry into the antics of the elite, but Opera Holland Park kicking off the 2023 season by way of a new and thought-provoking production of Rigoletto.

NAATCO will begin performances for the Off-Broadway premiere of Hansol Jung’s modern verse translation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.  Jung will co-direct Romeo and Juliet with Dustin Wills.

GALA Hispanic Theatre will host its annual Noche de Estrellas benefit event honoring three extraordinary leaders at St. Francis Hall on Monday, May 8th at 6:30 pm.

The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) announced that its 2023 Rachel Crothers Leadership Award® will be given to Anna Deavere Smith, multi-award-winning playwright, actress, professor, and author. 

 The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) will present its annual Theatre Women Awards on March 27th from 1 to 3 p.m., at The Green Fig Restaurant, Yotel Hotel, 570 10th Ave, New York, NY 10036.

Arden Theatre Company will extend the Philadelphia premiere of  Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s through March 12.

The Huntington has announced the cast and creative team of Clyde's, the Tony Award-nominated play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and directed by Taylor Reynolds, in a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Desert Hearts Festival, one of North America's most celebrated boutique electronic music events, has released the star studded lineup for its return to Lake Perris, California on May 5-8.

The League of Professional Theatre Women will present its annual Theatre Women Awards on March 27th from 1 to 3 p.m., at a Midtown Manhattan location to be announced. 

Longtime En Garde Arts Chairperson and board member Joan D. Firestone is being honored with the creation of a fund in her name. En Garde Arts has raised $100,000 through a group of generous donors. This is a five year endeavor and every year one theatre artist will receive an $18,000 award and will have full freedom with how to use the funds.

The League of Professional Theatre Women will launch its 40th Anniversary Season on September 20th, with birthday messages from theatre luminaries: Irene Gandy, Emily Mann, Charlotte Moore, Estelle Parsons, Tonya Pinkins, Theresa Rebeck, Daryl Roth, Susan Stroman, Linda Winer and more.