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For a limited engagement, Icelandic Caveman, Joel Saemundsson, will be headlining the role of Rob Becker's smash hit comedy Defending the Caveman, The longest running one man show in Vegas history.

For a limited engagement, Icelandic Caveman, Joel Saemundsson, will be headlining the role of Rob Becker's smash hit comedy Defending the Caveman, The longest running one man show in Vegas history.

Comedian, Bill Burr, comes to RBTL's Auditorium Theatre in Rochester, on Saturday, August 4 at 8:00pm.

Soccer Mommy - twenty-one old Nashville native Sophie Allison – released her debut albumClean earlier this year to critical acclaim, and today she shares the music video for fan-favorite “Scorpio Rising.” “I wanted the video for 'Scorpio Rising' to be a bit celestial,” explains Allison of the Jonny Look-directed video. “The whole idea of laying out in a park in the middle of the summer while looking at the stars holds a significance to me, so I wanted to capture that feeling. I think there's also a sense of isolation shown in the video that reflects both the song and the headspace I was in while writing Clean.”

Rorschach Theatre - an award-winning company known for its bold use of space and its dedication to impossible fantastical realism - launches its 2018-19 Season in a whole new way: THE BAR BETWEEN WORLDS BENEFIT BASH. On Saturday, August 11th the company transforms Petworth's Union Drinkery into an immersive wonderland spanning the cliffs of Reykjavik, the fields of Elysium and the cosmos itself. Each room invites party guests to explore the landscape of one of the company's upcoming shows. This one-night-only, pop-up experience inside Union Drinkery, will be designed in part by Rorschach Company Member and Helen Hayes Award-winner Debra Kim Sivigny, whose work on the the wildly popular Game of Thrones Bar and Royal Wedding bar has been lauded locally and nationally. Guests will enjoy an individually tailored evening of entertainment and possibility…

Almanac Arts in association with Liverpool Irish Festival present the premiere of TO HAVE TO SHOOT IRISHMEN. A new play with songs by Lizzie Nunnery.

Updated this week! Check out upcoming Equity Auditions from Sunday, June 17, 2018 for both productions in your area and around the country including what/when/where and how to audition!

Beloved Los Angeles Children's Chorus Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson,  Who Steps Down July 31 After Highly Successful 22-year Tenure, Makes Final Southern California Conducting Appearance With Chorus To Lead Free  Send-off Concert For Concert Choir's 11-day Tour To Iceland And Norway Thursday, June 28, 2018, 7 Pm, At Pasadena Presbyterian Church  

This season, Rhode Island couples are sure to be roaring with laughter and sharing knowing glances while asking "Could comedy give couples therapy a run for its money?"  With hilarious insights on contemporary feminism, masculine sensitivity and the erogenous zone, Defending the Caveman mines the common themes in relationships that go straight through the funny bone and into the heart. Defending the Caveman makes us laugh at ourselves, about all the ways that men and woman fight, laugh and love.

In just over two weeks, Iceland's Secret Solstice festival will again take place in the world's most northerly capital city, Reykjavik, for its fifth edition during 96 hours of continuous sunlight from June 21-24, 2018. Bringing a stacked lineup, Secret Solstice will be headlined by Slayer who are on their Final World Tour, as well as Stormzy, Gucci Mane, Bonnie Tyler, Clean Bandit, GusGus, Dubfire, Lee Burridge, Skream and more top international and Icelandic acts across rock, hip-hop and electronic music. For the second year running, Secret Solstice is pleased to present Be-At.TV as an official live streaming partner as well as the debut of the Red Bull Silent Disco and a special FIFA World Cup live viewing party as Iceland takes on Nigeria. Also announced are the introduction of RFID wristbands as the first festival in Iceland to go cashless. The festival's green initiatives for 2018 which include the use of 100% geothermal energy and a total plastic straw ban on-site will make it one of the most environmentally-friendly events of its size in the world.

There's a lot that's new in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, Maryland this summer! To make it easy for area residents and vacationers to be in the know, Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County (VAAAC) has compiled a sampling of some of the latest attractions and experiences that beckon travelers in the months ahead. For a complete listing, visit the VAAAC website.

Jonah Sirota, former violist of the Chiara String Quartet, releases his debut solo albumSTRONG SAD worldwide on National Sawdust Tracks on June 22, 2018. Sirota will celebrate the album's release with a concert at National Sawdust (80 N. 6th St., Brooklyn) on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 7pm, performing music from the album with his sister, violist Nadia Sirota and pianist Molly Morkoski, both of whom are also on the recording.  STRONG SAD features eight new elegies for the viola, by eight composers – Jonah Sirota, Paola Prestini, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigur?sson, Robert Sirota, A.J. McCaffrey, and Rodney Lister, and the improv duo Mondegreen (Jonah Sirota and Kurt Knecht).

The New York Philharmonic announces Foreign Bodies, a one-night-only multidisciplinary event conducted and hosted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, concluding his tenure as The Marie-Jos e Kravis Composer-in-Residence. The concert, Friday, June 8, 2018, at 8:00 p.m., will feature Esa-Pekka Salonen's Foreign Bodies, accompanied by the World Premiere of a live video installation by Tal Rosner; Dan el Bjarnason's Violin Concerto, with Pekka Kuusisto in his New York Philharmonic debut; and Obsidian Tear, a dance work choreographed by Wayne McGregor performed by members of the Boston Ballet (Philharmonic debut) and set to Mr. Salonen's Nyx and Lachen verlernt. Foreign Bodies will be casual and multi-sensory; drinks and conversation will flow as attendees mingle with the performers, who will give additional impromptu performances throughout the event.

Iceland's Secret Solstice Festival taking place for the fifth time this June 21-24 during 96 hours of straight sunlight in the world's most northerly capital city of Reykjavik is pleased to present its final lineup and daily schedule as well as announcing the much anticipated acts for their incredible once-in-a-lifetime side parties. Adding SCI+TEC techno titan Dubfire and Iceland's very own Bjarki to the bill, also new to Secret Solstice this year will be a special add-on event, a geothermal pool party set in the stunning surrounds of Hreppslaug swimming pool. WIth several bucket list side events to choose from all boasting top international and local talent as well as the addition of single day tickets for the opening concert on Thursday June 21 and Saturday June 23, there are plenty of options to experience the enchanting midnight sun in the land of fire and ice.

On Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 4:00pm, the pioneering International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) presents a program of works by composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir highlighting her unorthodox use of the piano. ICE pianist Cory Smythe, a champion and commissioner of Anna's solo music, is in the center of National Sawdust's stage, circled by the audience, with the audience encircled by ICE musicians, immersed in the music. Conductor Steven Schick, a longtime ICE collaborator, leads the ensemble. This performance is part of ICE's year long participation as a National Sawdust 2017-18 Artists-in-Residence. This project is supported by Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology program.

The xx are set to play a pair of intimate shows at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club this summer on July 26and 27, between their headlining sets at FYF in Los Angeles and Panorama in New York. The dates are the band's first in the U.S. since their wildly successful I See You tour last fall.

Rental Gallery is pleased to present new work by Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Clegg for his first solo exhibition in New York City, on the ground floor of the Metal Shutter Houses project. Euclid's Porsche is comprised of 150 paintings of Happy Meal Toys sourced from eBay seller photographs found online. The opening reception will be on Tuesday, May 1 from 6 to 8pm.

The 11th Annual Record Store Day is finally here thisSaturday, April 21 and as previously announced Warner Bros. Records, an official sponsor of RSD will celebrate  everyone's favorite new holiday with some exciting and exclusive limited edition 7” and 12” vinyl pressings available at thousands of independently owned record stores in the U.S. and around the globe.

With less than three months until Iceland's Secret Solstice celebrates its fifth anniversary, the midnight sun music festival has revealed its phase three lineup for June 21-24, 2018 in the capital city of Reykjavik. Leading the announcement additions, Secret Solstice calls upon funk legend George Clinton and his Parliament Funkadelic collective, seminal Icelandic music group GusGus (DJ set), Diynamic DJ/production duo Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Italian techno maestro Marco Faraone, Dirtybird's J.Phlip and more. Bolstering its contingent of Icelandic artists, the festival welcomes Gísli Pálmi, Joey Christ, Sturla Atlas, Una Stef, Young Karin and more to the bill. Boasting otherworldly landscapes and previously announced acts Slayer, Stormzy, Gucci Mane, Bonnie Tyler, Clean Bandit, Steve Aoki, Charlotte de Witte, 6lack, GoldLink, Skream, Secret Solstice is the must-attend, bucket-list festival of the summer.

For one night only, Joshua Bell, classical music's star violinist, returns to the Columbus Symphony for the first time since 1999, to perform the deeply romantic concerto of Max Bruch. Maestro Milanov closes the season with Margaret Brouwer's 2003 composition, Pulse, and Brahms' glowing final symphony.

The New York-based Scandinavian American Theater Company (SATC) is proud to present Nordic Stage: A Festival of New Scandinavian Theater?in collaboration with The Bergman Studio/ The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden.  

The University of Montana welcomes back one of its own as a guest choreographer for the School of Theatre & Dance's March production of "Dance in Concert."

wild Up, under the direction of conductor Christopher Rountree, is an adventurous Los Angeles-based chamber orchestra committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking musical happenings. For its debut at The Wallis, wild Up: Future Folk explores music from ancient India, modern California, post-war New York, as well as American works rooted in folk ethos. wild Up: Future Folk takes place Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 7:30pm in the Bram Goldsmith Theater at The Wallis. Classical KUSC's Brian Lauritzen will talk to wild Up's Chris Rountree on the Bram Goldsmith Theater stage starting at 6:30pm.

Iceland's Secret Solstice, the world's most unique festival held during 96 hours of never-ending sunlight during the summer solstice, has announced their phase 1 lineup for their fifth edition with Stormzy, Steve Aoki, Bonnie Tyler, Death From Above, Jet Black Joe, 6lack, Goldlink, J Hus, Charlotte de Witte, Skream, A-Trak, Masego, IAMDBB, Högni and 40+ additional international and local Icelandic artists. Taking place June 21-24, 2018 in the Nordic capital of Reykjavik, Secret Solstice will once again be a standout event of the summer festival season that combines a world-class lineup with all the amazing attractions and experiences that this beautiful bucket-list destination has to offer.

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