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The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Singer-songwriter Hamid J has released his new single, “do you get this feeling?” The song narrates the beginning of a relationship, intertwining feelings of infatuation with the wonder if those feelings are mutual. “do you get this feeling” is available to download and stream on digital platforms worldwide.

The CW Network has released their primetime television programming for the week of April 17th. Below is the scheduling. 

Martin Scorsese, Irwin Winkler and director John Carney are teaming up for a new film based on composer George Gershwin. Titled Fascinating Rhythm, the movie is described as 'a young woman’s magical journey through past and present New York City, inspired by the life and music of American composer George Gershwin.'

Symphony Space will present a special conversation between Tony Award-winning director, playwright, and producer George C. Wolfe and Tony Award-winning stage, film, and television actor John Benjamin Hickey, on Wednesday, April 28, at 7pm EST.

The new musical Sticks & Stones just premiered on Friday, featuring a star-studded cast including Audra McDonald, Javier Muñoz and George Salazar and many more. The stream, which airs as part of National Bullying Prevention Month, benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Born This Way Foundation. Did you miss the broadcast? You can watch the whole musical right here through October 20 (8pm).

The online concert premiere of the new musical Sticks & Stones will feature a star-studded cast including Audra McDonald, Javier Muñoz and George Salazar when it premieres tonight, October 16, 2020, as part of National Bullying Prevention Month. The stream benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Born This Way Foundation and can be watched right here at BroadwayWorld!

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the 101 greatest Beatles songs, including some of the fab four's solo works. They're all here: 'Twist and Shout,' 'In My Life,' 'Helter Skelter,' 'Imagine,' 'Something,' 'Maybe I'm Amazed,' 'Let It Be.' See if your favorites made the grade!

This weekend, the Cincinnati Pops and Pops Conductor John Morris Russell present an all-Gershwin program featuring the American composer's greatest hits, including selections from Porgy and Bess, Cuban Overture, and An American in Paris.

Disney/Newsies/The Broadway Musical/book by Harvey Fierstein/music y Alan Menken/lyrics by Jack Feldman/directed & choreographed by Janet Renslow/Candlelight Pavilion, Claremont/through November 23 Based on fact, in 1899 droves of newsboys from every borough of New York City banned together and went on strike against Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst and other wealthy newspaper owners, in a crusade to save children from menial wages and physical abuse. This was a first, where uneducated street kids stood up to the big suits and won. In 1992 Disney created the movie Newsies that went on to become a popular hit. In 2012 Harvey Fierstein, Alan Menken and Jack Feldman came to Broadway with a musical show they created based on the film. Newsies is currently onstage at Candlelight Pavilion. This is a huge undertaking for Candlelight, and as with Titanic and other big shows of the past year, they have surpassed expectations to the A+ level. From the top the 28

Prodigy teen musician Will Muse is back with his sophomore single “Spend” which is set to make its world premiere today, Thursday, April 11 at 5pm ET / 2pm PT on the Radio Disney Network and through the Radio Disney App.

Taken By Trees Shares Björn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John) Remix Of George Michael CARELESS WHISPER Cover with Paste

An OG Joe's Pub VIP, Julian Fleisher continues his current crusade to save the world with song, asking not what he can do for his audience but what his audience can do for itself. "Come Together" combines Fleisher's signature, barn-burning covers of contemporary classics, with original tunes meant to illuminate the spaces where change, love, loss and humor overlap with his evangelical belief that the room that sings together, clings together.

Jules' Poetry Playhouse and Teatro Paraguas present a poetry reading with George Wallace and John Macker on Monday, January 14, 2019 at 7:00pm.

 A whole lotta love comes to Philadelphia as The Philly POPS presents “Storm Large: A Crazy Kind of Love” November 9, 10 and 11. 

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents JOHN ANTHONY in "JOHN ANTHONY SINGS GEORGE MICHAEL" on November 14th, 2018 at 7pm. Vocalist John Anthony celebrates the music of iconic artist George Michael, featuring hits from George's days with Wham!, solo album FAITH and introspective album cuts.

Critics are calling San Francisco Playhouse's revival of 'Sunday in the Park With George' a 'masterpiece.' But its director, Bill English, found out firsthand that 'Art isn't easy,' to quote one of the show's lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. In putting it together (with James Lapine's libretto), English knew he had cast 'the perfect Dot' in the award-winning actress Nanci Zoppi.

July 28, 1968 was one of those perfect English summer days when British photographer, Tom Murray, photographed the famed rock and roll group.  The shoot was done on the run (literally) all over London in order to escape the hordes of screaming Beatles fans that followed them everywhere.  Rushing from location to location inspired the name of the famous collection: The Mad Day: Summer of '68.These images would become the LAST publicity shoot of all four Beatles together– and represent the quintessential Beatles at the height of their psychedelic period and are considered the most important color photographs of the group.  The Beatles officially disbanded in 1970.

Adam Blanshay Productions Present John Dagleish and George Maguire in A Long Way From Home, featuring Adam Sopp on Piano.