The Shape of Things 2023

Discover PRELUDE IN THE PARKS, a citywide festival featuring environmental art-works from June 7-9. Engage with innovative art installations and performances across New York City parks.

SOPAC has revealed the cast for its second annual SOMA backStage Reading Series, featuring staged readings of new works by Kristoffer Diaz, Oliver House, and Hunter Bird, with Broadway stars and local talent. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Photoville NYC 2024 will kick off with an event-packed, free-to-the-public opening weekend in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Learn more about the exhibitions!

Bassist/composer Emiliano Lasansky proudly presents his debut album, The Optimist, available worldwide on Outside In Music on June 21, 2024. Emiliano Lasansky’s melodies have the potential to simultaneously serve as vehicles to memories and past experiences, and to evoke optimistic anticipation for the future. Listen to a single now!

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra wraps its 2023/24 orchestral season with a nod to the past and an eye toward the future on Friday, May 24, 2024, 8 pm, at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, and Saturday, May 25, 2024, 8 pm, at Glendale's Alex Theatre.

Opening June 22 at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College’s (CCS Bard) Hessel Museum of Art, Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice.

Get ready for the 28th edition of the CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto's leading annual photography event. From May 1-31, 2024, experience over 130 exhibitions featuring more than 250 artists, including Sara Angelucci, Nuits Balnéaires, and Arielle Bobb-Willis.

Pardoner has announced their blistering new EP Paranoid In Hell and share lead single “Future Of Music.” Recorded in a day with Philadelphia-based artist and producer Justus Proffit, the 4-song collection traffics in minimalist hardcore, starry-eyed slacker rock, and the band’s trademark, witty lyricism and caustic critiques. Listen to the song here!

Regarded as the most influential Brazilian artist of her generation, Céu returns once again to the spotlight with her newest single “Gerando Na Alta” featuring the London based French/Senegal singer, anaiis.

After what has felt like weeks of covering cuts in funding to UK Arts budgets, some great news on two fronts from across the pond - a recent study of 2023 ticket buyers in the UK found that more than half of them were first time theatregoers.

Explore Jack Manley's struggle with addiction's aftermath in his new track 'Tightrope Life', released ahead of his debut EP 'Unmeasurable Terms.' Manley reckons with his own mistakes that jeopardize his relationship and vows to preserve it. Manley will perform at The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY, with support from Setting Sun and Xadir Yucel.

Harlem playwright Nia Akilah Robinson's 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award finalist The Great Privation: How to flip ten cents into a dollar premieres in May, directed by Theatre503's Carne Associate Director and 2023 JMK Award Winner Kalungi Ssebandeke. Learn more about the full season lineup here!

The UK première of I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire by Samantha Hurley will open at Southwark Playhouse, Borough on 3 July for a six-week run until 10 August, with previews from 28 June.

Speak To Me was produced by Joe Henry and offers a series of dispatches from Lage's ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and intention, the music travels a wide range of American music and delights in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymn and rural blues, California singer-songwriter sunshine, and skronky jazz.

Disney Entertainment Television (DET) has selected the latest cohorts for its Directing and Writing Programs, two of the entertainment industry's most successful talent development initiatives. These programs nurture creative talent on the cusp of television episode directing and staff writing, and connect them to opportunities with Disney series.

London Theatre Week is the West End’s biggest promotion, giving you the chance to see over 50 amazing award-winning musicals and stunning plays with tickets from £15, £25 or £35

Written entirely by Jack Manley, the EP chronicles his journey towards sobriety using confessional songwriting that poured out of him in the throes of a tortuous time. After a lifelong struggle with addiction, an overdose in 2023 landed the musician in the hospital where he picked up a guitar and found healing within the music that emerged.

The OCTG Theatre Awards unveils its list of nominees, including productions of 'Ride the Cyclone,' 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder,' 'Clybourne Park,' 'Yellow Face,' and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.'

Blackeyed Theatre’s critically acclaimed revival of Oh What a Lovely War heads to Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next month. Learn more about the show here!

Natalie Jane unveils her latest single 'Tattoos' in a new release. Learn more about the artist's new music. In the official video for “Tattoos,” Natalie spends a rainy night confronting the past as she digs through a box of things belonging to her ex. View the video, which was directed by Marissa Blaire and shot by Joseph Lee.

With a career that spans 30 years and includes nearly 400 IMDb credits, Debi Derryberry is one of Hollywood's most active and sought-after voiceover artists, best known for voicing Jimmy Neutron in the Academy Award-nominated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, February 5, 2024.

Purple Light Productions' SWATCH festival features an excerpt of Connor Vannatta's 'SUMMER FRIENDS', a powerful exploration of friendship, sexual assault, and the consequences of actions.

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SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE presents a riotous, rip-roaring riff on Hitchcock's thriller 'The 39 Steps' from March 7 - April 20, 2024.