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SCHWARTZ SONGS, an album of new recordings of Stephen Schwartz's much-loved songs, will be released this month. The opening track, 'DEFYING GRAVITY,' is performed by four of the West End's leading ladies who have all played ‘Elphaba' in Wicked in the West End and will be released as a single on 21 June.

Main Street Theatre Works (MSTW) will celebrate their 21st Summer Season at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre with lots of laughs under the stars. The 2024 season kicks off with The Underpants, adapted by Steve Martin and directed by Susan McCandless. 

All new production photos have been released marking return of 2:22 - A Ghost Story to London’s West End. Donna Air will play Lauren and Joe McFadden will play Sam; Stacey Dooley will play Jenny, in her stage debut, and James Buckley reprises the role of Ben.

FROM NEW YORK, YOU DON’T GET A DIVORCE, a new cabaret featuring Lou Craft's poems set to music by Frank Sanchez, will be presented at Park Theater in Hudson, NY. Learn how to purchase tickets.

For a fun-filled finale to Caribbean American Heritage Month this June, families across South Florida are invited to enjoy a day of Caribbean cultural activities as the annual Anancy Festival returns.

Emmy Award-winner & Tony and Drama Desk Award-nominee Holland Taylor and Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Nominee, and Theatre World Award-winner Ana Villafañe will star as “N” and “A”, respectively in the world premiere of the new play N/A by Mario Correa, directed by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus. Check out photos of the cast here.

Harriet Dyer will bring her new stand-up show SKIN to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, blending personal anecdotes, sharp wit, and dark comedy to explore themes of friendship, identity, and mental health. Learn how to purchase tickets.

EMPIRE: The Musical, will premiere in its hometown, New York City at New World Stages. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Netflix has unveiled an exciting lineup of new and returning unscripted series, further cementing its status as the ultimate destination for unscripted programming for viewers globally. The Netflix Reality Universe expands with new and returning shows and games based on fan-favorite hits. 

The world premiere musical “TL;DR: Thelma Louise; A Dyke Remix” playing at Diversionary Theatre is a dynamic, irreverent, and funny punk musical that contemplates questions of queer representation, who gets their happily ever after, and what that even looks like from a highly entertaining feminist and queer perspective. 

Experience a dance spectacular at the Edinburgh Fringe with COMMON IS AS COMMON DOES: A MEMOIR by 21 Common.

Prime Video has revealed that Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear, who, as previously announced, joined the Season Two cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, will portray the fan-favorite J.R.R. Tolkien character Tom Bombadil. The second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will premiere exclusively on Prime Video on August 29, 2024.

“Most theater companies choose their plays. Grottesco’s reveal themselves.” Thus begins the director’s notes for Theater Grottesco’s Two Artists in Prison, now playing at Teatro Paraguas’ Second Stage space. The play, co-directed by Grottesco Founder John Flax and Apollo Garcia Orellana, takes place in a dystopian future where artists are locked away at the hands of an authoritarian regime. The prisoners are forced to tell their captors stories on a daily basis; if they are entertaining, they get to remain, if not, the consequences are dire. Two Artists in Prison runs through June 9th.

Westport Country Playhouse will present “In Conversation with Tony Kushner'. See how to purchase tickets.

SASAMI is back with 'Honeycrash,” a stadium-sized ballad that swells with cinematic grandeur brought to life via its video directed by Andrew Thomas Huang (Björk, FKA Twigs). “I wanted to write a song with all the drama of a 19th century classical opera but with the patience and understanding of someone in therapy in 2024,” SASAMI explains. Listen to the song now!

Soprano Leah Hawkins has been honored with the Met’s 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award, recognizing her exceptional talent and contributions to the opera world.

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts revealed the 228 nominations for the 44th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards. See the full list!

Melbourne Theatre Company’s Season 2024 centrepiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most celebrated plays of the 20th century, will begin performances at Arts Centre Melbourne, Playhouse from 9 July.

Andy Fickman's DON'T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS is set to premiere on stages and screens across North America, bringing a thrilling experience to audiences everywhere.

Theater at Monmouth will celebrate 55 years with the 'Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight' season, featuring Shakespearean comedies, Moliere's THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS, and more. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Roles We'll Never Play is back. After a year-long break, the innovative and boundary-breaking show, 'Roles We'll Never Play,' is making its highly anticipated return to the West End for one night only.

A major new London production of the multi Tony-nominated Broadway musical THE WILD PARTY will open at EartH Hackney, a new 680-capacity venue in Dalston.

This is another big winner for Red Phoenix.

Returning to Edinburgh Fringe 2024 with her second hour, Louise Leigh Distracted, the Bristol-based powerhouse of a mum-cum-Gen X comic will navigate simultaneously coping with the menopause, parenting two teenagers, and planning her wishes after death - to be taxidermied and used to prank her descendants, of course!

Discover the exciting lineup at Edmonton's premiere jazz venue, YARDBIRD SUITE, this June. Enjoy a variety of performances from talented jazz musicians in a historic setting established in 1957.