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The Cassatt String Quartet will return to the Music Mountain Summer Festival for an in-person recital on Sunday afternoon, September 18, 2022, 3 p.m., EDT, at Gordon Hall.

The eight major producing venues behind EdFest.com – which comprise Assembly, Dance Base, Gilded Balloon, Just the Tonic, Pleasance, Summerhall, Underbelly and ZOO – collectively commented that soaring accommodation costs are the biggest risk to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s future.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) company member Abdiel Figueroa Reyes was selected by the Princess Grace Foundation-USA to receive a 2022 Princess Grace Award, a prestigious honor presented to emerging talents in the fields of theater, dance and film.

A much loved, regular participant of the Seal Bay Festival, the acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet will return to the 19th Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music, July 5 - 16, 2022. This twelve- day festival features the Cassatts performing four live concerts and twelve private outreach concerts for the local community.

The acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet will join co-founder and artistic director of Boston GuitarFest, American classical guitarist Elliot Fisk at a live gala concert of the 17th Boston GuitarFest.

After reopening its Brooklyn waterfront theater last fall, St. Ann’s Warehouse is launching its second post-shutdown season with a continuation of large-scale outdoor performance and public art presentations that address urgent humanitarian issues.

The Pleasance Theatre Trust have been awarded £156,900 out of the £1.275 million distributed from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society’s Fringe 2022 Resilience Fund, developed with support from the Scottish Government’s Platforms for Creative Excellence (PLACE) programme. 

The one-time Funny Girl is looking back at her personal experience playing Fanny Brice, as well as the original Funny Lady herself.

First violinist Muneko Otani and second violinist Jennifer Leshnower have welcomed the arrival of violist Rosemary Nelis and cellist Gwen Krosnick to The Cassatt String Quartet.

Emmy Award winning screen writer and director Todd Robinson is known for his work on White Squall, Lonely Hearts, The Last Full Measure and more. But a little known fact about Robinson is that he was the college roommate and best friend of Jonathan Larson.

The Design Trust for Public Space today named eight finalists for The Restorative City: Building Community Wellness through Public Space, a major initiative dedicated to connecting health equity with the built environment throughout New York City.

The production also announces a special charity night gala on Wednesday 18 August. The evening is in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK's leading HIV and sexual health charity. The charity help support people living with HIV and amplify their voices, continue to fight against HIV and provide services and support to help improve the nation's sexual health.  

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company will present Dance With Us, an educational digital platform centered around the premiere of a series of new dance films. The resource launches from June 25-27, 2021 at 7pm ET with the premieres of the films and the reveal of the platform, a website whose URL will go live at this moment.

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced it's working with theater organizations throughout Greater Minnesota in a unique collaboration that enables them to co-present livestreaming entertainment by world-class artists. Jim Brickman will dazzle fans in Feb with Share the Love, LIVE! Virtually Valentine’s Day weekend Friday, Feb. 12 to Sunday, 14, 2021.

Pixel Playhouse has released a new parody music video entitled Fake News - The Musical! 'Why, I've explored the Internet since 1995. I've wondered Wikipedia since before you were alive. I've searched through every searchbar, Googled Yahoo, Yahooed Bing. To find misinformation is a terrifying thing'

Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute presented the New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020 online, October 15-25, 2020, and now offers on-demand videos of the events, now through midnight on October 31, 2020.

Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute presents the New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020 online, October 15-25, 2020. The Festival will feature an exciting program of butoh workshops and exclusive Zoom performances of works by butoh dancers from Asia, Latin America, South Africa, New York, and the United States.

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that Grammy-nominated Songwriter and piano sensation Jim Brickman will be taking the nation by storm this holiday season with the 'Comfort & Joy at Home 2020' Virtual Tour. He will be performing for Minneapolis on Friday, Dec. 11 at 9 p.m. (CT).

Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute will present the New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020 online, October 15-25, 2020. The Festival will feature an exciting program of butoh workshops and exclusive Zoom performances of works by butoh dancers from Asia, Latin America, South Africa, New York, and the United States.

Dr Ismail Mahomed has been appointed to the Board of Cape Town City Ballet with immediate effect.

Hollywood stars and Broadway veterans are teaming up tonight, May 18 at 8pm ET/5pm PT to celebrate Covenant House, the international charity providing housing, food and healthcare to children and youth facing homelessness in 31 cities across six countries.

BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the greatest theatrical works (non-musical) from 1920-2020; see if your favorites made the list!

Theater veteran Gilles Chiasson, who performed in the original New York Theatre Workshop, Off-Broadway, and Broadway productions of 'Rent' now is in charge of the Performing Arts Education Centers at Agoura and Calabasas High Schools. We talked to him about his experiencing performing in New York with legendary producer Jonathan Larson, in anticipation of Agoura High's upcoming performance of the musical.

Ashley Wheater MBE, The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet, has announced the Company's 2020-2021 inaugural season at Lyric Opera House, featuring a ballet masterpiece from legendary choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan, a world premiere from choreographer Cathy Marston, a Joffrey debut from George Balanchine, a Chicago premiere from Hamburg Ballet Chief Choreographer John Neumeier, and the fifth anniversary of Christopher Wheeldon's holiday classic The Nutcracker. The Joffrey Ballet begins its 65th season with MacMillan's iconic Manon, October 14-25, 2020, followed by Wheeldon's magical production of The Nutcracker, December 5-27, 2020. For its winter engagement, the Joffrey presents a mixed program that includes the world premiere adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men by Marston and the Joffrey premiere of Serenade by Balanchine, February 17-28, 2021. Closing the season is the Chicago premiere of Neumeier's acclaimed The Little Mermaid, April 21- May 2, 2021.

Dozens of historic theatres in the UK may be at risk of being demolished. According to The Guardian, experts are saying that there needs to be a shift in the way these buildings are preserved or they will suffer great loss.