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Dances With Films NYC 2024 announced its film lineup, featuring numerous world, North American, and US premieres, showcasing a diverse range of storytelling and cinematic innovation.

Dances With Films NYC will return in December, showcasing 141 films, including world premieres like PEAS AND CARROTS and HERE'S YIANNI! Experience a diverse lineup of narratives, documentaries, and shorts.

Make it your mission to see Luke Jerram’s astronomical installation Mars when it lands at the Old Royal Naval College this winter. Following the sell-out success of Jerram’s works Gaia and Museum of the Moon, Mars will complete the trilogy of Jerram’s out-of-this-world installations at the iconic Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.

Broadway Training Center of Westchester (BTC) has been spreading the love of the performing arts through high-quality theater education and stellar public performances for over three decades. Celebrating the Co-Artistic Direction of Jason Brantman and Fiona Santos for 20 years this season, the school is taking this moment to reflect on last year's production accomplishments in the rearview.  

Hot off the heels of another successful year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Pleasance Theatre Trust present a London season of some of the best and brightest theatre and comedy from the festival. Learn more about the season lineup here!

UK artist Luke Jerram’s astonishing installation Museum of the Moon is coming to the Corn Exchange Newbury this summer, presented in partnership with Newbury Business Improvement District (BID) as part of the BID’s Festival of the Moon which takes place throughout the town this August.

Ahead of their Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme, the Pleasance Theatre Trust present a comedy preview season full of huge comedic names, noteworthy newcomers and international talent at their London home.  For audiences that can’t make it up to Edinburgh, or for comedy fans who can’t get enough of their favourites, The Pleasance is the place to be for new and exciting comedy from the UK and beyond.

The second Edinburgh Fringe announcement for the Pleasance Theatre Trust is a whopper with returning award-winning acts, amazing newcomers, European sensations, shows with fun for all the family and political chatterings.

After a pandemic interlude that saw the release of several boundary-stretching singles, Barr reconvened the core cast from his solo debut, Trembling Frames for a joyous session in late summer 2021 – guitarist, co-producer, and confidante Johnny Sangster (Neko Case, Braly Sangster, The Tripwires).

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Houston Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

As the nights draw in there's no better time for Jerram's illuminated installation to be displayed in the magnificent Painted Hall from Monday 12th December 2022 – Sunday 5th February 2023, alongside a lunar-inspired season of events.  Jerram returns to the Old Royal Naval College following the success of his Gaia installation in 2021.  

The Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre has announced the cast and creative team of Isaac Gómez’s world premiere What-A-Christmas! The play is directed by KJ Sanchez (Quixote Nuevo) and runs December 2 – December 24, 2022 in the Neuhaus Theatre.

Max Creeps, the undisputed founders of punk rock, mark the final days of Summer with a video for “Summer of Fun” featuring Buckets The Drummer. The newly released “Summer of Fun” video joins a gaggle of previously released Max Creeps clips including “Hung Drawn and Quartered (1424)” featuring Dan Jones.

The second of four big celebration weekends to mark the end of Coventry's tenure as UK City of Culture 2021 saw an audience of over 27,000 witness a record-breaking display of 360 drones in a stunning celebration of art and nature.

In the latest full production from writer-director and generative artist Nehprii Amenii, humanity has died off because it failed to hearken to its own hearts and did everything correct to make itself extinct. An octopus named Akashi could donate one of his three hearts to bring about what would hopefully be a more evolved and sensitive human. But Akashi isn't sure he wants to do that - he finds life to be better without humans.

“The medieval world can be a brutal and bloody place and in it there are a thousand horrible ways to die,” are the words renowned British historian and author Dan Jones (“Secrets of Great British Castles,” “Britain’s Bloody Crown”) shares during the introduction to Max Creeps’ “Hung Drawn And Quartered (1424)” video (https://youtu.be/EgC_11Z-Xz8). The song, and accompanying clip, serve as the final preview of the legendary duo’s debut album Nein (May 13, Velocity Records), finding the iconic pair of P.C. Bullshit and Max Blastic re-enacting a duel to the most gruesome of deaths.

This week, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts welcomes back UCF Celebrates the Arts 2022 for their 10-day residency from April 5-16, showcasing the creativity, innovation and collaboration that defines Orlando’s hometown university.

The Coventry City of Culture Trust has announced four bumper weekends of activities to mark the closing of their tenure as UK City of Culture, with the UK City of Culture 2025 being announced in Coventry in late May.

Artist Luke Jerram’s spectacular floating sculpture of Planet Earth has a new home when it lands in Warrington – Parr Hall.

SPECTRA, Scotland's festival of light, launches at 6.30pm on Thursday 10 February at sites across Aberdeen city centre. Running until Sunday 13 February, visitors and festival fans can expect new commissions, multidisciplinary collaborations, Scotland premieres, and a brand-new 'live' line-up, as SPECTRA lights up the dark winter nights in Scotland's Year of Stories.