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Alabama Shakespeare Festival reveals its 2024-25 season lineup, featuring a diverse mix of classic and contemporary plays, musicals, and family-friendly performances. Learn how to purchase tickets.

BIG FISH is perhaps the ultimate Father’s Day musical, which is why I found it so ironic that I saw the Arts in Motion production of it the day before Mother’s Day. 

Alabama-born and Nashville-based multiplatinum chart-topping artist and entrepreneur Yelawolf serves up a soulful and soaring new single entitled “Trailer In The Sky” alongside Jelly Roll out now.

Orlando is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for May 2024 include Hello, Dolly!, Rent, and more.

Oak Ridge Boy, Country and Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member William Lee Golden and his sons 'The Goldens' have released their latest music video for 'Southern Accents.' Delivering a familiar sound to this legendary classic, Chris Golden takes the lead vocals in the traditional “Golden” style. Watch the video now!

On Friday, May 10, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom presented his May Revision proposal for the 2024-25 State Budget. With a remaining $27.6 billion dollar deficit in the current year, the arts were among the hardest hit in Newsom’s proposed spending cuts.

Masterworks Theater Company and Theater555, in association with the George Street Playhouse’s “The Next Dramatist Program”, will present a staged reading presentation of *“Closet Writer,” inspired by the reflections of Tawana Smith, by Antu Jacob. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Royal Highland Centre has announced its upcoming 2024 experiences, from Summer Sessions to Comic Con and the iconic Royal Highland Show. Learn more about the lineup of events here!

The American Theatre Guild will present TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin’s new play, directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher and based on Harper Lee’s classic novel. 

The TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD National Tour Sets New Records, showcasing the enduring popularity and impact of this classic story across the country.

The Broadway League’s Black to Broadway initiative will present the return of Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth. Learn more about the performances!

The In the Works-In the Woods Festival at the Forestburgh Playhouse will present a new residency-collaboration with Writers Jaime Lozano (Jonathan Larson Grant Award Winner) and Tommy Newman. Learn more about the new musical and about the collaboration.

TONI STONE by Lydia R. Diamond will run at Playhouse on Park from May 29 to June 16, 2024. This production will be directed by Jamil A.C. Mangan. Learn more about the cast here!

Farmville, VA native Oliver Anthony kicks off the 2024 season at Atlantic Union Bank After Hours at the SERVPRO Pavilion in Doswell, Virginia on Friday, May 17, 2024 for his hometown show with special guest Levi Foster plus openers Joey Davis and Caleb Dillard.

The NAACP Theatre Awards has revealed the honorees for the 30th Annual Awards Ceremony, taking place on June 3rd in Los Angeles.

The Lied Center's 2024-2025 season will feature more than 35 events including top artists and ensembles from around the world in dance, classical music, jazz, musical theater, comedy, family, illusion, and more.  

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted more than 125 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).

Broadway veteran Randolph Curtis Rand has joined the cast of NYC's longest running show, PERFECT CRIME.

Birmingham, Alabama singer-songwriter Will Stewart (The Blips) is set to release his new Live in Norway album later this spring. Joined by his backing group The Gold Band, featuring Janet Simpson (guitar, vocals), Ross Parker (bass) and Tyler McGuire (drums), the quartet run through a spirited live set of guitar-driven folk-rock songs that traverse through Stewart's previous two studio albums - Slow Life (2022) and County Seat (2018). Listen to the lead single now!

Kansas City Actors Theatre will kick off its 2024/2025 20th Anniversary Season of productions with the award-winning The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted to English by Ben Power.

Actor’s Express will continue its 36th season with Blues For An Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage.

Opening June 22 at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College’s (CCS Bard) Hessel Museum of Art, Remember to Dream revisits the range and breadth of Carrie Mae Weems’ prolific career through seldom displayed and lesser-known works that demonstrate the evolution of her pioneering, politically engaged practice.

Odin’s Song Productions has announced the world premiere of Christina Marie Leonard’s The Road to Nowhere at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Indie pop artist Noah Solt releases his latest single 'Big Water' from his upcoming debut album. The track, praised for its ambient sound and self-reflective lyrics, follows his critically acclaimed releases featured in EARMILK, Notion, Wonderland, and CLASH. Listen to the song here!

“Heatin’ Things Up” cranks up the romantic thermostat, fusing a red-hot fiddle and smoldering sway to a bottomless vocal intro. Says Turner, “This song was kind of in the same vein as [multi-Platinum hit] ‘Your Man,’ but musically, it’s just very interesting. I went to the studio to track the song and when the first pass was over, [bassist] Glenn Worf said, ‘My God, that first note felt like you just had a load of gravel dumped on you!’ I can’t wait to see how fans react to that live.” Listen to the song here!