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Judi Dench is the latest performer to speak out on the topic of the usage of trigger warnings in the theater. Dench expressed her understanding for the reason why they are used, before going on to criticize people who need them.

Pleasance Futures is the artist development strand of the Pleasance Theatre Trust, acting as an incubator for bold new theatre makers to make their mark.

Liz Callaway posted a video of herself singing 'The Place Where the Lost Things Go' from the movie Mary Poppins Returns. The video features Callaway seated on the stairs in her home, and includes a cameo from her cat, Oliver.

Check out photos from Kevin Hart's annual Hartbeat Brunch in partnership with Netflix is a Joke Fest here!

On Friday night, May 10th, the cast and creative team of Stereophonic gathered at the Friki Tiki in Midtown to celebrate and listen to the newly released cast album. Check out photos from the event here!

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced recipients for the remaining 18 of this year’s 33 categories at the 35th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York. Check out photos from inside the event here!

The Doris Dear 10th Anniversary show at The Triad Theater on Wednesday, May 8th, was a jubilant celebration filled with love, joy, and nostalgia. See photos from the evening.

The new songs find them plumbing through new depths of loathing — directed both inward and outward. Across 10 tracks and 27 gripping minutes, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To leans into Knocked Loose’s most extreme impulses, from blastbeat-driven fury, chaotic turbulence and seismic breakdowns. Listen to the new album now!

See photos from inside the rehearsal room for Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, written by award-winning American playwright Alice Childress.

This past Saturday, New Victory Theater and The 24 Hour Plays presented The 24 Hour Plays: New Victory, for one night only at the New Victory Theater. See photos from the show. 

Turkish musician and filmmaker Ece Era (pronounced 'Edge-eh') returns with her new single, “Let Go”. Istanbul > NYC > Belgium, Ece Eryavuz has persistently been on a mission to explore her creative and philosophical interests.  Her music is rooted in a notion of sincerity. It’s deeply personal and representative of one small step on her journey to liberating herself from the identity that was formalised in her youth. Listen to the single!

So, even with one major problem, the muddy sound denign, whether to go see this show is no mystery. The solution: catch it while it’s here.

“The world is coming back online, and people are getting back to who they were before the pandemic,” declares MSMT Artistic Director Curt Dale Clark. “Ticket sales are as close as they have come to pre-pandemic levels, and there is an extraordinary buzz surrounding the upcoming 2024 season.” 

Get a first look at rehearsals for Theatre Calgary's upcoming International Premiere of Beaches the Musical. The production will begin previews on May 18th, 2024, celebrate opening night on May 24th, and will run through June 16th in the Arts Commons Max Bell Theatre in Calgary. Tickets for Beaches the Musical are now on sale. 

Get a first look at music rehearsals for Once at Shea's 710, now on stage through May 19th.

Critically acclaimed rock group EELS has unveiled a new single “If I’m Gonna Go Anywhere”. The song is the third offering from their upcoming fifteenth studio album EELS TIME!, out on June 7 via E Works/Play It Again Sam. About the track, EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E says, 'If you’re gonna make a choice, why not make the nice choice?” Listen to the single now!

Kumu Kahua Theatre, in collaboration with Bamboo Ridge Press and The Popolo Project announce the May prompt for their monthly play writing contest, Go Try PlayWrite.

Step into the rehearsal room for English, Sanaz Toosi's comic and deeply moving Pulitzer Prize winning play in the video here!

Go behind the scenes of John Adams’s El Niño and watch the cast and creative team bring Lileana Blain-Cruz’s vibrant production to life in the video here!

Take an inside look at the first rehearsal for Sister act, the final show of Aurora Theatre's 28th season. 

Black Box Studios will present Thesaurus Rex & Boys Go To Jupiter, with opener simmerr, on Friday, May 17th, 2024, 7:30PM at Debonair Music Hall.

Peter Morgan's work is back on Broadway this season with Patriots, led by Tony nominee Michael Stuhlbarg and directed by Rupert Goold. In this video, watch as the cast and creative team celebrate the big opening night!

Just yesterday, Tony Award-winning Broadway star of Shucked, Grammy nominated Alex Newell, led the 50th anniversary concert production of PIPPIN. Check out photos from the special night!

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Ilana Trachtman's (Praying with Lior, Black in Latin America, The Pursuit) groundbreaking documentary feature film Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round will make its World Premiere at the Maryland Film Festival on May 5th at 5:15pm. Ten years in the making, this insightful and powerful documentary unearths the pivotal 1960 Glen Echo Amusement Park protests - likely the first organized interracial civil rights demonstration in U.S. history. 

With a credo adapted from science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, an album title from a collection of metaphysical poetry, and an expansion in consciousness brought on by personal crisis, News of the Universe finds guitarist and songwriter Cleveland embracing a changing world with unconditional love. La Luz will be touring North America, Europe, and the UK in support of News of the Universe, and the first run of dates will kick off May 23 in Barcelona. Listen to the new single here!