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On May 9th and 10th at 7 pm, award winning singer/producer/director Tanya Moberly will be putting celebrating her album release with live shows at Don't Tell Mama. Moberly’s live double album, I LOVE NEW YORK SONGWRITERS PART I and PART II, is a curated collection of 45 songs by NYC writers Tanya has met through her work as a singer and producer.

Vagabond Players will conclude their 108th season with Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's acclaimed comedy hit, LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE (based on the book by Ilene Beckerman) directed by Belle Burr.

Smithsonian Associates will present a celebration of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Learn more about the event!

Visionary art-pop duo Faux Real are back with a bang with their playfully absurd, tragically human new single, “Love On The Ground.' Fusing ecological concern with adulterous existentialism, “Love On The Ground” finds the duo – a.k.a. Los Angeles-based Franco-American brothers Virgil and Elliott Arndt – at their most vulnerable and surreal thus far, this time bringing aspects of their genre-bending and gravity-defying live shows to the table in the form of soaring harmonies, off-the-wall lyricism, and offbeat melodrama. Listen to the single here!

Dundee Rep has announced the cast for the upcoming UK dates of smash-hit gig theatre show, No Love Songs. Anna Russell Martin joins the cast as Lana, opposite John McLaron who is reprising the role of Jessie.

Black Box Studios and The Elated System will present Doom Dogs, with opener Eels Of Love, on Friday, May 10th, 2024, 7:30PM at Debonair Music Hall.

Go inside the first day of rehearsals for The Shakespeare Theatre's A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER! Filled with unforgettable music and non-stop laughs, Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak's 2014 Tony Award-winning Best Musical is based on the 1907 novel The Autobiography of a Criminal and the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Sir Alec Guinness.

Director Jeff Larson  and the cast of LOVE AND INFORMATION, a play by Caryl Churchill, have delivered a standout production that plays really well in an intimate space like White Wall Studios. The actors that portray the various characters reveal layer after layer of personality and emotion in this wild ride of thought and introspection. 

Tamika Lawrence joined Sherri Shepherd on Friday to perform The Power of Love from the new musical The Heart of Rock and Roll on the show. She was joined by Huey Lewis who, after the performance, highlighted his admiration for Lawrence and the cast. See the special performance here!

Emmy, Grammy, Oscar® and Tony Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, writer, and director, Barbra Streisand has recorded a new song “Love Will Survive,” which will serve as the end title of the upcoming Peacock and Sky Original series, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Listen to the song here!

Proud Image Theatre Company has announced the Factory Series at The Chain Theatre (312 W 36th Street, 4th Floor) presentation of a new Off-Broadway bound comedy, TOMORROW WE LOVE, which will play twelve performances between June 13th and June 23rd.

Watch Hannah Corneau and Chris McCarrell performing Love in the Age of Anxiety from the world premiere of Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical. The musical has Lyrics by Sean Hartley and Daniel Messé, Music by Daniel Messé and book by Craig Lucas.

Alternative rock duo Loveless has shared their new single “I Love It When It Rains” along with a music video for the song, out now via Rise Records. Inspired by those moments that feel too difficult to endure, “I Love It When It Rains” is about fighting through the storm to be there for those you love most. Alternative rock duo Loveless has shared their new single “I Love It When It Rains” along with a music video for the song. Inspired by those moments that feel too difficult to endure, “I Love It When It Rains” is about fighting through the storm to be there for those you love most. Listen to the song here!

Watch Jordan Tyson sing 'If This Is Love' in The Notebook on Broadway.

Experience the in-person production of LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The LA-based soul and funk singer Nikka Costa has just released her third single “It’s Just Love” after returning from a six-year hiatus with 'Dirty Disco' and “Keep It High”. “It’s Just Love” is “a song about being able to love who you want and everyone else should just mind their own damn business. Period.” Nikka says. Listen to the song here!

Diplo has debuted a rework of The Outfield’s iconic track “Your Love” from his acclaimed country persona Thomas Wesley. The new track is taken from the forthcoming Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley: The Mixtape, out next Friday, April 26, a one-off project featuring electronic reworks of previously released Thomas Wesley tracks. Listen to the song here!

LOVECOLOR is the musical project of Ryan Carnes (Desperate Housewives, Cupid for Christmas, Doctor Who) and singer, songwriter and producer Vanessa Silberman. The band is excited to share the official video for their single 'Crazy Love.' The video, which was directed by Jamie Wollrab, is now available. Watch the video here!

Sia and Paris Hilton have released their first-ever collaborative track “Fame Won’t Love You.” It follows a run of singles from Sia with other hitmakers like “Incredible” ft. Labrinth and “Dance Alone” ft. Kylie, in addition to the poignant solo ballad “I Forgive You.” All four of these songs are on Sia’s upcoming album Reasonable Woman, out May 3, 2024 via Atlantic Records. Listen to the song here!

Spring brings renewed energy into the year. There isn’t a better moment for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s recently appointed Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey to launch their vision for the organisation. Led by a big name that will attract new audiences who are probably younger than your typical RSC crowd, we hope Love’s Labour’s Lost is setting the tone for what’s coming. If this opening is anything to go by, this upcoming era seems to be adopting Shakespeare for a contemporary audience while maintaining the reverence for the language and the pomp of tradition.

Acclaimed Japanese theatre maker Hideki Noda and his production company NODA MAP will return to London this October with another re-telling of a literary masterpiece following their take on Romeo & Juliet set to the songs of Queen two years ago. 

On the Verge Theatre has announced its upcoming production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, a vibrant comedy adapted from the book by Ilene Beckerman and brought to life by the talented Nora and Delia Ephron.

Combining his country roots and 90s alternative nostalgia, Nashville-based Bones Owens has announced his new genre-bending album, Love Out Of Lemons, due July 12 2024 which showcases his raw songwriting while encapsulating the essence of his live shows. Listen to a single from the album here!

Jenny Don't And The Spurs have just dropped their latest single ahead of the relese of their forthcoming album. The opening cadence of Jenny Don’t and the Spurs’ latest single “Unlucky Love” hints at the country band’s indie rock past brilliantly. Palm-muted, chunky guitar and picked electric bass invoke one thing before the tremolo-laden, western-sounding strums usher in Don’t’s evocative opening line, “I know it’s not me when you say you’re falling in love.” Listen to the song here!

The Royal Shakespeare Company has released all new photos from its production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, which makes its premiere in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this week.