TheaterWorks Hartford has extended English, Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, through November 8, 2025. Directed by Arya Shahi, the production explores identity and belonging through the lens of an Iranian classroom preparing for the TOEFL exam.
Talking Band has revealed details for its two-play 2025-2026 Season. Opening the season is Triplicity, a story of three ordinary New Yorkers whose lives overlap and intertwine in unexpected ways. See the full season here!
TheaterWorks Hartford will present English by Sanaz Toossi, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!
The Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities’s Black Box Theatre will turn into an immersive cabaret as it celebrates the music of Billie Holiday with Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, the second production in the Arvada Center’s 2025-2026 season.
The Barn at Lee, the artist development space and residency program known for supporting unique voices and new work in the Berkshires, launches its second season this fall with Two by Two
The award-winning short documentary film about the life and career of Mary Ellen Ashley (Broadway: The Innocent Voyage, Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman and Yentl) is now available to screen on YouTube.
Sonya Chung, Director of Film Forum, NYC’s leading non-profit independent cinema since 1970, will step down from her role at the end of this year. She took over from Karen Cooper in 2023.
The University Musical Society is welcoming four new Board members who were elected at the organization's annual meeting. Learn more about the Board Members here!
In 2006, the New Jersey Nets, now Brooklyn Nets, were not having a great season. To keep interest in the team outside of basketball, Barry Baum, Nets Basketball VP of Business and Entertainment PR, decided to create a senior dance team that would perform during half time.
Jill Sobule, the ground-breaking singer-songwriter and fierce human rights activist, who made history with her 1995 single “I Kissed a Girl”, died in a house fire early this morning at the age of 66.
Lewiston’s Public Theatre’s latest production is a poignant, funny, and sweet ode to sisterhood and the joys of small town life. Set in Nova Scotia, Canadian playwright Norm Foster’s HALFWAY THERE pays tribute to bonds of female friendship forged in the confines of four ordinary lives played out in the hamlet of Stewiacke, whose only claim to fame is its location halfway between the Equator and the North Pole.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed Caleb Quillen as the orchestra’s new principal bass. BSO third horn Michael Winter has been appointed associate principal horn, and Samuel Andonian and Arianna Brusubardis Grace join as section violins.
On Tuesday, April 1st at 7:00 p.m., author Charles Monagan shares his journey from award-winning editor to award-winning novelist at the Palace Theater.
On Tuesday, March 4th at 7:00 pm, local theater director Bob Tansley explores the transformational power of live theater. Tansley first dove into directing youth community theater productions as a way of helping further his daughter Brooke's theatrical experience, despite not having many prior acting credits to his own name.
Geek. Poser. Jock. Beauty Queen. Wannabe. These are the labels that can last a lifetime. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer, Jason Robert Brown, (Parade, The Last Five Years, Bridges of Madison County) 13 is a musical about fitting in – and standing out!
On Thursday, January 23, actor-writer-comedians Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang will reveal the 97th Oscars® nominations in all 23 Academy Award® categories.
The Costume Designers Guild has announced that Jenny Beavan will be honored with the Career Achievement Award and Salvador Perez will be honored with the Distinguished Service Award at the 27th CDGA (Costume Designers Guild Awards).
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live,” “Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music,” directed by Grammy and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Emmy Award-winner Oz Rodriguez, will premiere Jan. 27.
The Great American Songbook Foundation is unveiling a piece of music history once owned by the man who wrote it - Irving Berlin's Piano. Learn more about how to see!
On Tuesday, February 4, 2024, at 7:00 pm, join the Palace Theater for an evening of story, poetry, and theater, written and performed by former inmates of Garner Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Newtown, CT.
