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Pirate Queens will be presented at the Cannonball Festival, the largest hub of the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival at Christ Church Neighborhood House.

Writer and performer Jeff Hiller has had a busy year filming Somebody, Somwhere season 3 (which debuts this fall) and touring with Middle Aged Ingenue, his show about finally getting his breakout role at age 45 and everything that came before that. He's debuting his new show, JEFF HILLER IS BASIC, at NYC's Joe’s Pub with shows August 12 and 14.

MELVILLE AND HAWTHORNE makes for an intriguing evening of theater that made me want to run back home and pull out MOBY DICK and perhaps THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE and start my summer reading. As a student, I never knew of this possible affair between two literary giants.

The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival will wrap up the 2024 season with Play On! A Shakespeare Inspired Mixtape, featuring local musicians and a mix of pop music and Shakespearean text.

Lena Moy-Borgen's solo show, IT'S A MAN'S WORLD, explores gender roles through songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Cyndi Lauper. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Experience the golden age of jazz with Louisa Lee Poster's encore performance of SWINGING DOWN TIN PAN ALLEY at Silvana in Harlem. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Georgia Gets By, the project of New Zealand’s Georgia Nott, will release her new EP, Split Lip, on September 6th. The announcement comes with a dual single release of two instantly memorable tracks “Some Kind of Angel,” which was co-written by Grammy award nominated producer Billboard and the EP’s title track “Split Lip.”

“I think Carole King is a poet. She paved the way for so many women who came after her in [popular music]. There is such a rawness and pure emotion in her music that feels like poetry to me,” declares actress Kathryn Boswell, who will play Cynthia Weil in BEAUTIFU: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at Maine State Music Theatre.  “When you don’t have the words to express what you feel, you write it in poetry or music because some of these emotions are just too big to hold.”  “Carole King writes about such universal themes, about love and humanness – emotions that are always relevant,” concurs Alfie Parker, Jr., who serves as Associate Choreographer and plays one of The Drifters in the show. The musical, which explores the rise to stardom of popular music legend, Carole King, runs at MSMT from August 7 -24 and concludes the company’s spectacular 2024 season.

All Tix Just $33 to See SIX CHARACTERS at LCT3.

Enjoy an evening of CHEESE FRIES & CHILI DIPS at Sheffer Studio in Westport Country. This benefit event promises a delightful mix of food and entertainment for a good cause.

What did our critic think of TRAVESTIES at ICT Rep At The Welsbacher Theatre At The WSU Metroplex On Oliver & 29th? I had the unique pleasure of attending ICT Rep’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties on its final performance. The comedy ran for one week, July 18-21st, at the Welsbacher Theatre in the WSU Metroplex building on Oliver & 29th. It was a delightful way to wile away a hot July Sunday afternoon. It brought back pleasant memories of youthful Sunday afternoons spent in the Court House Theatre at the Shaw Festival on Niagara-On-The-Lake. Scripts like Travesties are not de rigueur here in Wichita. Wichita Community Theatre presented Stoppard’s most well known play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead quite a few years back.

At the beach you can find any type of character you want: Locals, people from out of town, teenagers on summer break, the workers at the deli, etc. The best thing you can do when developing a new character for a story is to analyze the behavior of real people.

Only Twin, the solo project of Seattled-bred, Los Angeles-based Thomas Dutton has shared his sophomore album. It Feels Nice to Burn continues the exploration of love, rebirth, and new beginnings found on Dutton’s debut album, Rare Works. Listen to it now!

BWW caught up with Alexa Elmy on bringing Alexa, Play to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

World Cafe Live in Philadelphia will celebrate 20 years of supporting artists and innovative educational programs with a special anniversary event featuring live music, food, and drinks. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Now After Nothing have detailed their debut EP Artificial Ambivalence, out September 13 on the band's own label Living On Neptune(s). The EP will be available on all digital platforms and vinyl

The film version of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson will make its international premiere at the 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, scheduled to run from September 5, 2024 to September 15, 2024.

SPQR Stage Company, the Jersey Shore's “Original” theater company, has announced a combined performance of two one-acts, “Molly Pitcher—Revolutionary Girl Power” and the world premiere of “Richard Somers—Anatomy of a Hero,” both written and directed by Bill Sterritt, SPQR's artistic director.

Originally opening at Liverpool’s Royal Court in 2023, before transferring to The National Theatre in 2024, Boys from the Blackstuff is currently running at The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End before embarking on a UK tour in 2025.

GRAMMY-winning and platinum-selling artist Lisa Loeb will release a new collaborative album with folk music band The Hollow Trees called That's What It's All About. Set to release on August 23rd, That’s What It’s All About is the newest addition to Loeb’s acclaimed children’s album series and her first since 2016’s Feel What You Feel.

Thomas Dutton will release his exciting sophomore album, It Feels Nice to Burn on Friday, July 18. Now, he shares another glimpse of the album with the incredible and uniquely conceptual video for “Give You Up,” featuring the exceptional Julianne Hough. Watch it now!

 Plays in Place, in collaboration with the National Parks of Boston, has announced “Suffrage in Black and White” a three-play series exploring the intersection of race and citizenship throughout the abolitionist and suffrage movements in Boston.

Harlem9 is heading down south once again, for the inaugural “48Hours in…Baton Rouge” in partnership with the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and the national One Nation One Project campaign, “Arts for Everybody” that will culminate on Saturday, July 27 at 7pm. 

The Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth, MA has announced new shows featuring Chelsea Berry, Livingston Taylor, and Grace Morrison. Enjoy a diverse lineup of performances this season.

There’s a singular simplicity in Madama Butterfly that draws in audiences year after year, decade by decade like moths to a flame: a man loves and leaves a woman; she gives up everything for him. With a staging that mirrors that bare but powerful concept, Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s 2002 production returns again to Covent Garden with more than a patina of authenticity.