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La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts Producing Artistic Director BT McNicholl will welcome you home to a very special return season of truly exhilarating events at the newly renovated theatre! Won’t it be amazing to once again laugh together at the unmistakable comedy of the one-and-only JAY LENO and the always hilarious MARGARET CHO?

A field trip for the BWW Cabaret team yielded great enjoyment and four different takes on The Drinkwater Brothers.

David Sabella may not be singing any songs from the musical Jekyll and Hyde, but that doesn't mean this isn't his moment... because it is. And he's going to make the most of it, while reclaiming his joy.

The petite diva with the powerful voice and everything else is stepping out onto the 54 Below stage without her partner in crime and life, and the fans couldn't grab the tickets up fast enough. She is Orfeh. Hear her Roar.

Barrington Stage Company has announced extensions for the first four productions of the theatre's 2021 season: Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin, Chester Bailey, Eleanor and Boca.

Independent producer Adam Kern will present a reading of Ken Kaissar's Play The Victims Or: What do you want me to do about it?, which will have a virtual reading on Thursday June 24th 2021 at 8:00 PM EST on Zoom.  

The band appeared on FX's 'You're The Worst,' and not only performed as a punk band on an episode of the show, but also had their songs 'Double Down' and “Some Kind of Cowgirl” featured in other scenes. Slothrust's 2012 single '7:30 AM' is the show's theme song, as well.

The song is the third release from the upcoming album following songs “Eating At You” an instantly charming, bluesy sing-a-long with plaintive harmonies and lush pedal steel and the album’s first single - the rocking “Francesca.”

Eleven years since being the youngest pianist in Africa to be named a Steinway Artist, Charl du Plessis has had an illustrious career both locally and internationally. Performing as part of Aardklop Aubade classical music concert series in collaboration with the Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool, Du Plessis chats about his musical history and the upcoming concert, CARUSO & LANZA IN AFRICA.

Broadway World Cabaret welcomes a new correspondent who will focus, solely, on virtual content, and for his first outing Jarrod Cafaro got a doozy of a show.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat will host nine weeklong in-person residencies for 23 musical theatre writers of nine new musicals between June 27 and August 29.  Writers include Tony-nominee Beth Malone, Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls; Jonathan Larson winners Avi Amon, Sara Cooper, Ty Defoe, and Anna Jacobs and more.

'I never expected to spend a year sitting in my house playing songs in my underwear into a cell phone,” says Weiner. “But it turns out, it's probably the thing I'm most proud of that I've ever done.'

Laura and Linda Benanti's concert, as part of Seth Rudetsky's Seth Concert Series, premiered yesterday at 3pm and re-aired at 8pm.

Barrington Stage Company has announced casting for the season’s outdoor productions Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin and the world premiere play, Boca, and a line-up of Broadway stars who will perform in concert under a tent at BSC’s Production Center (34 Laurel Street).

Three new shows have been announced at the King Center! The King Center will present SPYRO GYRA, DISNEY PRINCESS & KILLER QUEEN. With Spyro Gyra, be prepared for some surprises, like a Latin big band approach to Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love”. Or maybe a stunning arrangement of Blind Faith’s “Can’t Find My Way Home”.

Whether it be a large dance number, a touching duet, or a beautiful ensemble number— the finale has the ability to set the tone of the show. I remember when I was growing up and doing Musical Theatre as a kid, I always loved the final number of a show. I loved performing in them, watching them, and listening to them on the Original Broadway Cast Soundtrack. The magical energy that these musical numbers is contagious and always follows the audience home.

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, April 17-18, 2021.

Emily Fons received a Grammy nomination for her work on the recording of Jennifer Higdon’s opera Cold Mountain. Fons has been lauded for her virtuosic abilities in the Baroque and Bel Canto repertoires and for the dramatic commitment and musicality she brings to modern works. She has performed with Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, and many others.

The Dallas Opera announced today that it will be launching a new, three-event “Welcome Back” Song Series in the Winspear Opera House commencing March 31, 2021.

March 12, 2020 is a date that will stick out in our memories for a long time. Concerns grew quickly over the coronavirus outbreak-- stars and fans stopped going to stage doors, matinees started to get cancelled-- and once the news of a full Broadway shutdown was announced, everything seemed to stop in its tracks.

In shows where the music is part of the gimmick, musical numbers are used in the same way as musical theatre: to share information with the audience and present emotion too great to speak. However, there is another type of musical television show, one where the songs are not the norm. I’m talking about the one-off musical episode. 

Rian Keating puts himself out on a line when he performs his club acts, but this deaf cabaret singing storyteller also puts himself on a line every day, living the life he wants to and helping those in need... and from the day the teenage Rian arrived in New York City, that's been his way.

Nicolas King dug into the vaults and found some treasures, then he made some new ones and he is sharing them with the world on a new album that celebrates his brief time already spent in show business.

Award-winning R&B/Soul singer-songwriter Laura Cheadle has released “Everybody Say,” her first single of the new year for pre-save on digital and download streaming sites https://soulspazm.ffm.to/everybodysay. The single will be released on February 19, 2021.

Read what theatre stars from across social media are saying about the passing of Rebecca Luker.