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Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this September with a full slate of nightly performances!

​​​​​​​Chatham Baroque announces its Chatham Baroque + Renaissance & Baroque 2022-'23 Concert Series, a bold and ambitious lineup of early music programming ranging from medieval times to the early 19th century. The season includes an enticing mix of performances by Chatham Baroque with world-renowned guest artists, as well as an amazing array of visiting ensembles and soloists from around the world.

Village Theatre has announced cast and creative team for Little Shop of Horrors. With local actors Kyle Nicholas Anderson as Seymour and Shanelle Nicole Leonard playing the role of Audrey, Little Shop of Horrors will run in Issaquah from September 14-October 23, 2022 and in Everett from October 28-November 20, 2022.

Sky Arts has announced as the broadcast partners to present GALWAD: A STORY FROM OUR FUTURE, a human story of contemporary Wales that offers a glimpse into the future and asks what would happen if the future tried to contact us. 

Due to popular demand, Hell in a Handbag Productions’ hit parody A Fine Feathered Murder: A Miss Marbled Mystery has added five additional performances, extending through Saturday, August 13, 2022 at The Chopin Upstairs Theatre.

Original Theatre have announced the full cast of their brand new production of Rachel Wagstaff's acclaimed adaptation of Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D. The production, directed by Philip Franks, will begin its UK Tour at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne on 8 September 2022.

Original Theatre and Riverside Studios are delighted to present Originals online on demand, featuring the world première play-readings of Tikkun Olam by Teunkie Van Der Sluij, The Fall by Drew Hewitt, and Miles by Eilidh Nurse – the winners of Original Theatre Company's Originals Playwriting Award. 

What did our critic think? This kicky, soulful musical comedy may be slightly outdated already, but it's got heels full of heart.

Original Theatre Company today announces the all-star cast for the script-in-hand performances from the three shortlisted plays for the Originals Playwriting Award.

The full cast has been announced for the Sadler’s Wells season and UK and Ireland Tour of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S SOUTH PACIFIC.

As part of its summer celebration For the Birds, Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) will present a special outdoor musical event featuring three luminaries of contemporary music on Monday, June 20 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (990 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11225).

Live streaming from Lord's Cricket Ground on Saturday 10 September 2022 at 7pm, Stumped will star Stephen Tompkinson (Brassed Off, Drop The Dead Donkey, DCI Banks, Wild at Heart) as Samuel Beckett and Andrew Lancel (Coronation Street, The Bill) as Harold Pinter. 

Anchored by a Garden-wide exhibition of 33 site-specific birdhouses, For the Birds also features a gallery exhibition, music, performances, and education programming inspired by the Garden's resident birds and the threat to their long-term survival.

Original Theatre Online presents Park Theatre and Original Theatre's acclaimed recent world premiere production of Ben Brown's The End of the Night, online on demand from 4 July 2022.

Music Director David Alan Miller and the musicians of your Albany Symphony celebrate the end of David’s 30th year as the Capital Region’s maestro with a special season finale featuring innovative new music from two of America’s premier living composers: Pulitzer Prize-winner John Corigliano and Hollywood’s most lauded film music creator, John Williams.

Sophie Ward and Joe McFadden join Susie Blake in the cast of the brand new production of Rachel Wagstaff's acclaimed adaptation of Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D. The production, directed by Philip Franks, will begin its UK Tour at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne on 8 September 2022.

Following a thumbs-up from immigration, Bill Bailey returns to Australia with his brand new show En Route To Normal starting in Toowoomba on September 22 and taking him around the country for 16 shows. 

Original Theatre Company today announces the directors for the script-in-hand performances of the winners of their new playwriting prize Original Playwriting Award Amelia Sears, Michael Boyd, Michael Fentiman, and Charlotte Peters.

Hell in a Handbag Productions will conclude its 20th anniversary season with the world premiere of A Fine Feathered Murder: A Miss Marbled Mystery, by Artistic Director David Cerda*, directed by Cheryl Snodgrass.

Music Director David Alan Miller and the musicians of your Albany Symphony announce the 2022 American Music Festival: TrailBlaze NY, a month-long celebration of new music in the Capital Region and Upper Hudson Valley.

Original Theatre Company today launches a new playwrighting prize – the Originals Playwriting Award. Aimed at emerging and early career playwrights, the submissions window opens today, accepting new works from writers across the UK, open to anyone above the age of 18.

New York Classical Players will present two performances of Hommage à J.S. Bach, featuring the U.S. premiere of Vivian Fung's Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra, as well as Eric Nathan's Dancing with J. S. Bach No. 1, both of which draw inspiration from Bach's musical innovations.

Where has Kristen Lee Sergeant been hiding her songwriting skills? Who cares, they are here now, and hopefully here to stay,

Producer Antonio Marion has announced that Tony and Olivier Award-winning director, Rob Ashford, is set to direct a brand-new production of Sherlock Holmes, a stage epic by British writing team Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel, with Akram Khan joining as choreographer.

PEN America convenes an Emergency World Voices Congress to address the invasion of Ukraine and the role of the writer in times of turmoil and brutality, and Ukrainian author and PEN Ukraine President Andrey Kurkov delivers the 2022 Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, on May 13.