Imagination Stage's Performance Ensemble will perform The Secret in the Wings, by Mary Zimmerman, March 29-31, 2019 in the Annette M. and Theodore N. Lerner Family Theatre.

Newport Festivals Foundation (NFF), which is partnering with Newport Jazz and Folk Festival artists to donate on their behalf to a music education cause of the artist's choosing, is teaming up with 2018 Newport Jazz Festival performer Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and Conn-Selmer to present a Master Class and donate $10,000 worth of instruments to McDonogh 35 Senior High School, 4000 Cadillac Street in New Orleans.

Orange County School of the Arts' (OCSA) Creative Writing Conservatory hosts its sixth annual Orange County Regional Youth Slam Event (OC RYSE), on April 13-14, bringing together aspiring young writers from across Southern California for a dynamic and engaging poetry competition. Student teams compete by performing a dramatic recitation of a classic poem. They also write and perform an original response poem that echoes elements from the classic work. OC RYSE is the only performance poetry competition of its kind in the county and features nearly 50 high school students.

A high school in New Jersey has taken the internet by storm with their stage production of Alien. Now, the film's original director, Ridley Scott, has reached out and to offer to assist in funding an encore performance of the production. 'This is maybe the biggest lesson for ALL OF YOU, and your future plans - stay with this determination, and this spirit in everything you do and you will succeed...' he wrote to the students. See the full letter below!

Wilson High School presents a tale as old as time, Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The show will come to life on the Wilson High School stage April 12-April 20, 2019. 

The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts is honored to be one of only a handful of New England organizations to receive a Challenge America Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts from a national pool of applicants. The $10,000 grant will support the theatre's Adopt-A-School program. Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter recently approved more than $27 million in grants as a part of the arts endowment's first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Challenge America grants support projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations of those whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics or disability.

Here we go again! MAMMA MIA! is coming to Sioux Falls at V.A. Bell Auditorium Brookings High School from July 19 to 28, 2019.

The award-winning Rahway High School Performing Arts program brings the popular musical Pippin to the stage this March.

The Music Conservatory of Westchester is honored to announce MCW Prep, a precollege training program for serious, advanced high school musicians and singers to study with master performers of the New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Broadway.

Multi-talented young theater artists and technicians from 28 Tennessee high schools will put their skills on display this year in hopes of claiming their place in the spotlight as the sixth annual Nashville High School Musical Theatre Awards – aka The Spotlight Awards – are presented in Nashville on May 11.

Back for another year and with a new take on the Great Depression, the Ma'ayanot Drama Society, in partnership with Black Box Studios, will be performing Clifford Odets's classic three-act drama, Paradise Lost. The play follows a Jewish family forced to rediscover what 'family' truly means and to face the harsh reality of the American dream as they see their lives begin to unwind. Watch as a family and friends join together and split apart as they make their way through the-mid 1930's in Paradise Lost.

The Broadway League has awarded the New York Education and Engagement Grants to the Broadway productions of Oklahoma! and Lincoln Center Theater's To Kill A Mockingbird. Each production received a $5,000 grant toward its 2019 educational and engagement initiatives. The grants aid the growth and development of theatre education in the city in an effort to encourage Broadway productions to create more opportunities for young people.

The Ziegfeld Club, one of the first New York City performing arts charities to benefit women is thrilled to announce that the fourth Liz Swados Inspiration Grant will open to applicants beginning April 29, 2019. Created in 2016 and underwritten by actor Diane Lane, The Liz Swados Inspiration Grant serves to honor an influential female music educator in New York City through a $5,000.00 cash grant.

At a press conference held in the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC)'s Grand Lobby this morning, PPAC President J.L. "Lynn" Singleton recapped the Theatre's recently announced 2019/2020 Season. Singleton introduced Board Chairman Joseph W. Walsh, Esq., who unveiled plans for the Theatre's brand-new state-wide education initiative, called Experience PPAC.

California School of the Arts - San Gabriel Valley (CSArts-SGV) Musical Theatre students take the stage with Broadway actress Jessica Lea Patty for the school's second annual "Performing with the Pros." The performance occurs after a four-week-long artist-in-residence program. During that time, the students work alongside Patty to put together an energetic, cabaret-style show featuring music from Broadway hits and stories from her career. The event takes place at Bonita Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 6 at 7 p.m.

This weekend, Michael Crawford made a surprise appearance at the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts' production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in Orange County, California. After watching the performance, Crawford appeared on-stage and met with the students to congratulate the cast, orchestra, crew and production team.

Ms. Kong is an internationally renowned dancer who has made significant contributions as an artist to concerts, performances and conferences in some of the world's most established and storied venues, including as a principal soloist at the 'Spring in Phoenix' Chinese New Year Gala in front of 1,500 spectators (Arizona Representative John Kavanagh and Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke) at Phoenix, Arizona's Chandler Center for the Arts, where world famous artists have performed Grammy Award-winning La Marisoul and Kirov Ballet companies. Other leading venues where Ms. Kong has taken center stage include the Margaret Gisolo Theatre, Phoenix Art Museum, The Trunk Space, Edge Hill University and Tempe Center for the Arts. Consistently ranked as a top performer in her field, Ms. Kong has won numerous, highly competitive awards, including The Hope & Robert Heimann Award, one of Arizona State University's premier honors recognizing a student in Dance department who has demonstrated commitment to academic excellence, and The Honorable Choreography Prize and First Prize of Shenyang Conservatory of Music Competition 'Lu Yi Cup' in Shenyang, China in 2016, where winners are chosen based on five days of live performances by outside judges.

A high school in New Jersey has taken the internet by storm with their stage production of Alien.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the 2019 recipients of the Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards-a series of grants that recognize American teachers by spotlighting their extraordinary impact on the lives of students.

Broadway Training Center of Westchester (BTC), one of the region's premier performing arts schools, will present 'Chicago: High School Edition' March 22 through March 24 at the Irvington Town Hall Theater in Irvington, N.Y.   This beautiful historic theater was built in 1902 and is a replica of the Ford Theater in Washington D.C.  The stage is set for an incredible BTC production and you'll feel you've stepped back in time when visiting this stunning town located on the Hudson River.

Most people know the story of The Wizard of Oz, but Marshwood Middle School students have been learning a different version of the classic tale as they 'ease on down the road' while rehearsing for their musical, The Wiz Jr.

Through its storytelling, Marshwood High School's Spring Musical, Once on This Island explores universal issues which affect us all. Subjects such as love, anger, forgiveness, faith, maturity and death. The show is based on the ideas of prejudice and the separation of people because of their differences. It embraces the idea of looking past prejudice and fighting against inequality among people.

Raue Center For The Arts is excited to announce it will be tripling its offerings for area youth in 2019 - 2020. Raue Center's arts education outreach program, Sage Studio, will offer a newly expanded class schedule, the continuation of a youth theatre production established last year, and an enhanced relationship with in-house professional theatre company, Williams Street Repertory.

On Saturday, March 30 at 7:30 pm the River Hill High School Choir, Clarksville, Md., will share their gift of song at the Cathedral Basilica Sts. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia.  Under the direction of Katherine Geiger, the choir will perform works by Mendelssohn, Powell, Tavener, Palestrina and more.

This year the 9th Shakespeare School Festival South Africa (SSF SA) kicks off on 16 April 2019 and will be dedicated to Sonny Venkatrathnam who passed away on 15 March at the age of 84. During his incarceration on Robben Island, Venkatrathnam, an apartheid freedom fighter, smuggled in a copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, disguised it as a bible and passed it between a number of prisoners, including Nelson Mandela. Many of the inmates marked their favourite passages in the book and Mandela's signature was found next to a quote from Julius Caesar, 'Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.' The festival will open with the play by Matthew Hahn entitled The Robben Island Shakespeare, performed by former Vista Nova High School Learners and young actors from the Educasions group.