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Grand Theatre High School Project Announces Company of MATILDA THE MUSICAL

Grand Theatre has announced the company for its 2024 High School Project, MATILDA THE MUSICAL, featuring talented young performers from local schools.
A GALAXY OF STARS & A WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT Actors' Benevolent Fund Benefit Night Set for This Month

Les Solomon and Lambert House Enterprises have announced another of their famous nights to benefit the Actors Benevolent Fund of NSW. This is the 80th year of the Fund which works tirelessly to help and support older performers in times of financial need. Learn more about the benefit here!
A WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT Will Benefit the Actors' Benevolent Fund at New Theatre

Les Solomon and Lambert House Enterprises have announced another of their famous nights to benefit the Actors Benevolent Fund of NSW. This show will be a wander through memories of film, theatre and general entertainment - hosted by Les Solomon.
Review: CONDO-MONIUM at New Theatre & Restaurant

The North American Premiere engagement for CONDO-MONIUM opened last week at Overland Park’s New Theatre & Restaurant with a super cast and direction by Dennis D. Hennessey for an extended run through April 8. CONDO-MONIUM is an updated farce from a very similar British show called FLAT OUT. Both versions are by UK Journalist and Playwright Jennifer Selway.
Photos: First Look at FENCES at Omaha Community Playhouse

August Wilson’s Fences opened Friday, January 20, 2023 at the Omaha Community Playhouse (OCP). The production runs January 20-February 12, 2023, Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Check out photos from the production below!
Les Celebrates 25 Years With Musical Highlights Show To Benefit Actors Benevolent Fund

Les Solomon created his talent management company Lambert House Enterprises in 1996. It added an acting agency in 1997 (25 years ago) and has flourished since with so many famous performers who have grown and had their careers developed by Les and his staff.
OPERA America Offers Glimpses Into American Opera Over Past Half-Century In Newly Released Oral History Project

OPERA America invites opera appreciators and professionals to explore a new collection of anecdotes, memories, and reflections on the past half-century of opera in the United States.
Photos: First Look at the Cast of THE ADDAMS FAMILY at The Monmouth Community Players

The Monmouth Community Players, along with marquis sponsor the Monmouth Federal Credit Union and show sponsor Optometric Associates,  welcome you to experience the 'intoxicating smell of the graveyard' as you join them for their performance of Broadway's multi award-winning, upbeat musical-comedy, The Addams Family.
VIDEO: Keri René Fuller Premieres 'His Soul Found Mine' From IN EMILY'S WORDS - A New Musical

In Emily’s Words is a new musical about English novelist Emily Brontë and her great creation: Wuthering Heights. With book, music, and lyrics by Jessy Tomsko (Boleyn), the musical follows Brontë as she brings her story to life, the characters jumping off the page as she is writing them.
VIDEO: Michael Korte Returns with HERCULES Remix

Broadway YouTuber Michael Korte is back with another creative masterpiece, A Medley of The Muses from Hercules like you've never seen before!
BWW Review: SWEAT Heats Up to a Fury at Omaha Community Playhouse

There are no adequate words to describe SWEAT. It is paralyzingly good. See for yourself.
Celtic/Medieval Folk Artist Kim Thompsett Releases THE HOLLOWS LP

Britain's mystical folk wonder Kim Thompsett presents her sophomore album 'The Hollows'. Exploring themes that are rooted in nature, mysticism and the arcane, this music sends the listener on a lush trip to eras past.
Palm Beach Poetry Festival Invites Local Poets And Poetry Lovers To Nine Literary Events This Fall

The Palm Beach Poetry Festival's Director Susan R. Williamson and Dr. Blaise Allen, Director of Community Outreach, today invited local poets and poetry fans to nine upcoming literary events this fall.
BWW Review: BUDDY...THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY at New Theatre Restaurant

Most Midwesterners older than a certain age have heard the name and may even know how young Buddy Holly died.  Some fans know exactly where they were and from whom they heard the news.  Many fewer know much about Buddy's backstory.   That hole in the history in early Rock and Roll is plugged by the new production of "Buddy … The Buddy Holly Story" at New Theater Restaurant in Overland Park now through July 7.
Kim Thompsett Releases WOEBETIDE HILL, Previews MOONLIGHT'S CHILD

Britain's mystical folk music heroine Kim Thompsett is not one to beat around the bush. On the same day that she is releasing her 'Woebetide Hill' single, she announces 'Moonchild's Lullaby' as the second single off her sophomore album 'The Hollows'.
The 2019 Kimmie Awards Celebrates “The Illustrious Woman”

2018 has been defined as the "Year of the Woman," and in 2019 the movement's momentum only continues to grow. Therefore, the 2019 Kimmie Awards will shine the spotlight on "Illustrious Women," proudly saluting individuals who promote the message that all women have unique gifts and attributes which make them illustrious.  To name a few of our honorees, the recipient of the Visionary Award is the beautiful and talented actress Megan Good, and television/music executive (creator of the Love N Hip Hop franchise) Mona Scott-Young will receive the Pinnacle Award.  Men, we did not leave you out, Roger M. Bobb (president and CEO of Bobbcat Films and former executive vice president of Tyler Perry Productions) will be presented with the Luminary Award, and award winning singer/songwriter Vedo will receive the Trailblazer Award.
OPERA America Awards $1.4 Million In Innovation Grants

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion of American opera, is pleased to announce the recipients of the third cycle of Innovation Grants, generously funded by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
BMOP Ends 2018-19 Season With Tribute To John Harbison

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation's premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, continues the festivities for John Harbison's 80th year with a matinee concert dedicated to the distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Led by Artistic Director and Conductor Gil Rose, BMOP celebrates Harbison in a program featuring Harbison's Remembering Gatsby (Foxtrot for Orchestra), Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, and celebrated soprano soloist Dawn Upshaw singing his Milosz Songs and his Symphony No. 6.
Photo Flash: First Look at the Magical Premiere of EVER AFTER

Get a first look below at the opening night performance of the new production of the musical, EVER AFTER.
Phillip Adams BalletLab Celebrates 20 Years In New Work, GLORY

Frenetic, intricate and relentlessly virtuosic dancing culminates in a revelation of the "almighty" through a saturation of the colour pink, as Artistic Director, Phillip Adams channels artist Yves Klein's monochrome paintings. Glory is presented in celebration of BalletLab's 20th anniversary year as part of Australia's biggest festival of contemporary dance, Dance Massive.

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