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New dates have been added to Original Theatre Company's first live stage production since March 2020.  The UK Tour of Ben Brown's new political drama, A SPLINTER OF ICE, will open on 8 June in Malvern and will tour until 31 July, with extra dates in York and Cambridge.

Sarah Dash, the award-winning vocalist, songwriter, motivational speaker, educator, entrepreneur, humanitarian and co-founder of Patti Labelle & the Bluebelles has been nominated for induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame Class of 2021.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by Tania Miller, performs the world premiere of JUNO-winning composer Vivian Fung's Flute Concerto “Storm Within,” featuring VSO principal flutist Christie Reside as soloist, on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7:30pm PT.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by Tania Miller, will perform the world premiere of JUNO-winning composer Vivian Fung's Flute Concerto 'Storm Within,' featuring VSO principal flutist Christie Reside as soloist, on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7:30pm PT.

Bill  performed this show with rave reviews and sold out theatres in New Zealand earlier this year while he was there filming his new television series Patriot Brains currently airing on SBS.

To begin the celebration of its 50th anniversary, Asleep at the Wheel is releasing some new music ahead of a quick jaunt through Texas and Missouri this June—an appetizer of sorts for what’s to come from their momentous anniversary year.

American Conservatory Theater Director of the Master of Fine Arts program Danyon Davis announced today that honorary Master of Fine Arts degrees will be conferred upon actress, director, and playwright Seret Scott and sound designer and composer Jake Rodriguez.

Two weekends in early autumn see the return of Inside Out Dorset when international and home-grown art animates and illuminates some of the county's finest landscapes. Festival producers Activate have curated an inventive programme with themes of sustainability, land use and lifecycles, human and environmental.

“Gods and Monsters” is inspired in part by the pioneering Victorian Assyriologist George Smith, who died in Aleppo in 1876, stranded in a cholera epidemic, heartbroken and writing feverishly to his wife and six children back in England.

The UK Tour of Ben Brown's new political drama, A SPLINTER OF ICE, will open on 8 June in Malvern and will tour until 31 July. 

Composer Vivian Fung today releases (Un) Wandering Souls, a new film collaboration featuring Sandbox Percussion performing Fung's original composition co-commissioned by Cambodian Living Arts and Metropolis Ensemble.

NSDF will present its 65th Annual Festival with an industry leading programme of masterclasses, debates, discussions and new work. Every part of the Festival is free and open to all.

Everything Everything are back today with their brand new single 'Supernormal' - the band's first new music since the release of acclaimed 5th studio LP RE-ANIMATOR last year.

For this year’s Enlighten Festival, the National Gallery of Australia has commissioned Sydney-based artist Joan Ross to explore – and explode – the museum.

This month, BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a series of recordings to be released on the orchestra’s new streaming platform, BSO NOW.

An additional eight episodes comprising the second half of the season will debut later this year. GENERA+ION is a dark yet playful half-hour series following a diverse group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.

Following a highly productive and successful season of online productions, Original Theatre Company is delighted to announce its first live stage production since March 2020, which will be filmed on stage at the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre and released online, before touring UK theatres early summer. 

Boston-based, Indiana-raised Sadie Gustafson-Zook investigates closeness, uncertainties, and deep relationships within her music. Out today, her new EP, Vol. 1, is no exception.

Sono Luminus has announced the January 22, 2021 worldwide release of Occurrence, a new recording from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO). Conducted by the ISO’s Principal Guest Conductor Daníel Bjarnason and recorded at Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland in February '18, December '19 & March '20, Occurrence features music by leading Icelandic composers.

When theatres were closed by the Government in March this year, Original Theatre Company's second tour of Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art was shut down before it had opened.  As the company was rehearsing on stage at the time, Original Theatre Company decided to film the whole production and then released it online on 26 March for two months.

An all new trailer for Original Theatre Company's The Haunting of Alice Bowles has been released.

Due to the success of its first venture, Original Theatre Company's specially commissioned online short play Watching Rosie by Louise Coulthard will be re-released from 12 – 26 November 2020, alongside an accompanying new online play Mrs Goldie vs The World, written and performed by Nicky Goldie (Call the Midwife, The Queens Gambit, Doctors, Coronation Street).

Janie Dee has had to withdraw from the production of The Haunting of Alice Bowles for personal reasons, but the producers, Original Theatre Company, have announced that Tamzin Outhwaite will now be playing the titular character in this new supernatural thriller by Philip Franks, adapted for the first time from the M.R. James chilling short ghost story, The Experiment.

Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to present Table Manners by multimedia artist Zina Saro-Wiwa for the month of November as part of the organization's signature Midnight Moment series. Midnight Moment is the world's largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. 

The Kinsey Sicks, America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, takes a worldwide quarantine as inspiration for their 10th album: Quarantunes. The Kinseys produced and recorded the entirety of Quarantunes while isolated in their separate homes across the country.