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The Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival (PIJF) has always spotlighted homegrown, home-nurtured talent, and the tradition of featuring musicians with ties to the city continues with Sean Jones, Howie Alexander, Thomas Wendt, Selecta and DJ Big Phill and more. 

Looking for all the latest info on one of Broadway's hottest shows? BroadwayWorld has the full scoop on everything that you need to know about Once Upon a Mattress! on Broadway. Check out all the details here!

Kasey Chambers has unveiled an exciting suite of forthcoming new material – kicking off with the announcement of a book, the material informing and inspiring her new album Backbone. Chambers enlisted some of the usual suspects to play on Backbone – her dad and guitarist Bill Chambers, her guitarist Brandon Dodd and longtime bassist Jeff McCormack.

New York's only improvised-play show will return this month! 'THEATRE: The Improvised Play' brings the children of Meisner, Adler, Strasberg, Atlantic, and any expensive acting-conservatory, together for one-night to give the performance of a lifetime.

Following exhilarating performances in Paris and Rome this summer, the multi-award-winning pianist, recording artist, and educator Sophia Agranovich will return to New York's renowned 'floating concert hall,' Bargemusic on September 6 at 6 PM.

The Killers have released “Bright Lights,” via Island Records, their first new music of the year. The song is an epic Killers track complete with an anthemic chorus and a powerhouse of a melody destined for arena sing-a-longs.

GRAMMY-winning and platinum-selling artist Lisa Loeb has released her new single “A Doodlin’ Song.” The track is the latest to release from her new collaborative album with folk music band The Hollow Trees called That’s What It’s All About, set to release on August 23rd.

SiriusXM has announced that Jelly Roll will head to the Hamptons for an exclusive fan event like never before. The country music sensation is set to perform a concert for SiriusXM as well as eat and greet with fans at a special cookout on Saturday, August 17 at Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, NY. 

Charleston Gaillard Center has revealed five upcoming theater productions. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Looking for the best deals on Broadway shows? Welcome to our new weekly guide to the most popular shows listed on BroadwayWorld. Check out which shows are selling this week, August 5, 2024.

Jupp's new play, Wormholes, is currently running at the Omnibus Theatre in London's Clapham Common. As well as writing Wormholes, she's also producing it. BroadwayWorld caught up with Emily to chat about the play.

Pirate Queens will be presented at the Cannonball Festival, the largest hub of the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival at Christ Church Neighborhood House.

Writer and performer Jeff Hiller has had a busy year filming Somebody, Somwhere season 3 (which debuts this fall) and touring with Middle Aged Ingenue, his show about finally getting his breakout role at age 45 and everything that came before that. He's debuting his new show, JEFF HILLER IS BASIC, at NYC's Joe’s Pub with shows August 12 and 14.

MELVILLE AND HAWTHORNE makes for an intriguing evening of theater that made me want to run back home and pull out MOBY DICK and perhaps THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE and start my summer reading. As a student, I never knew of this possible affair between two literary giants.

The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival will wrap up the 2024 season with Play On! A Shakespeare Inspired Mixtape, featuring local musicians and a mix of pop music and Shakespearean text.

Lena Moy-Borgen's solo show, IT'S A MAN'S WORLD, explores gender roles through songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Cyndi Lauper. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Experience the golden age of jazz with Louisa Lee Poster's encore performance of SWINGING DOWN TIN PAN ALLEY at Silvana in Harlem. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Georgia Gets By, the project of New Zealand’s Georgia Nott, will release her new EP, Split Lip, on September 6th. The announcement comes with a dual single release of two instantly memorable tracks “Some Kind of Angel,” which was co-written by Grammy award nominated producer Billboard and the EP’s title track “Split Lip.”

“I think Carole King is a poet. She paved the way for so many women who came after her in [popular music]. There is such a rawness and pure emotion in her music that feels like poetry to me,” declares actress Kathryn Boswell, who will play Cynthia Weil in BEAUTIFU: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at Maine State Music Theatre.  “When you don’t have the words to express what you feel, you write it in poetry or music because some of these emotions are just too big to hold.”  “Carole King writes about such universal themes, about love and humanness – emotions that are always relevant,” concurs Alfie Parker, Jr., who serves as Associate Choreographer and plays one of The Drifters in the show. The musical, which explores the rise to stardom of popular music legend, Carole King, runs at MSMT from August 7 -24 and concludes the company’s spectacular 2024 season.

All Tix Just $33 to See SIX CHARACTERS at LCT3.

Enjoy an evening of CHEESE FRIES & CHILI DIPS at Sheffer Studio in Westport Country. This benefit event promises a delightful mix of food and entertainment for a good cause.

What did our critic think of TRAVESTIES at ICT Rep At The Welsbacher Theatre At The WSU Metroplex On Oliver & 29th? I had the unique pleasure of attending ICT Rep’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties on its final performance. The comedy ran for one week, July 18-21st, at the Welsbacher Theatre in the WSU Metroplex building on Oliver & 29th. It was a delightful way to wile away a hot July Sunday afternoon. It brought back pleasant memories of youthful Sunday afternoons spent in the Court House Theatre at the Shaw Festival on Niagara-On-The-Lake. Scripts like Travesties are not de rigueur here in Wichita. Wichita Community Theatre presented Stoppard’s most well known play, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead quite a few years back.

At the beach you can find any type of character you want: Locals, people from out of town, teenagers on summer break, the workers at the deli, etc. The best thing you can do when developing a new character for a story is to analyze the behavior of real people.

Only Twin, the solo project of Seattled-bred, Los Angeles-based Thomas Dutton has shared his sophomore album. It Feels Nice to Burn continues the exploration of love, rebirth, and new beginnings found on Dutton’s debut album, Rare Works. Listen to it now!

BWW caught up with Alexa Elmy on bringing Alexa, Play to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.