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World Cafe Live in Philadelphia will celebrate 20 years of supporting artists and innovative educational programs with a special anniversary event featuring live music, food, and drinks. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Now After Nothing have detailed their debut EP Artificial Ambivalence, out September 13 on the band's own label Living On Neptune(s). The EP will be available on all digital platforms and vinyl

The film version of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson will make its international premiere at the 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, scheduled to run from September 5, 2024 to September 15, 2024.

SPQR Stage Company, the Jersey Shore's “Original” theater company, has announced a combined performance of two one-acts, “Molly Pitcher—Revolutionary Girl Power” and the world premiere of “Richard Somers—Anatomy of a Hero,” both written and directed by Bill Sterritt, SPQR's artistic director.

Originally opening at Liverpool’s Royal Court in 2023, before transferring to The National Theatre in 2024, Boys from the Blackstuff is currently running at The Garrick Theatre in London’s West End before embarking on a UK tour in 2025.

GRAMMY-winning and platinum-selling artist Lisa Loeb will release a new collaborative album with folk music band The Hollow Trees called That's What It's All About. Set to release on August 23rd, That’s What It’s All About is the newest addition to Loeb’s acclaimed children’s album series and her first since 2016’s Feel What You Feel.

Thomas Dutton will release his exciting sophomore album, It Feels Nice to Burn on Friday, July 18. Now, he shares another glimpse of the album with the incredible and uniquely conceptual video for “Give You Up,” featuring the exceptional Julianne Hough. Watch it now!

 Plays in Place, in collaboration with the National Parks of Boston, has announced “Suffrage in Black and White” a three-play series exploring the intersection of race and citizenship throughout the abolitionist and suffrage movements in Boston.

Harlem9 is heading down south once again, for the inaugural “48Hours in…Baton Rouge” in partnership with the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and the national One Nation One Project campaign, “Arts for Everybody” that will culminate on Saturday, July 27 at 7pm. 

The Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth, MA has announced new shows featuring Chelsea Berry, Livingston Taylor, and Grace Morrison. Enjoy a diverse lineup of performances this season.

There’s a singular simplicity in Madama Butterfly that draws in audiences year after year, decade by decade like moths to a flame: a man loves and leaves a woman; she gives up everything for him. With a staging that mirrors that bare but powerful concept, Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s 2002 production returns again to Covent Garden with more than a patina of authenticity.

Read BroadwayWorld's interview with Rebeca Alemán, playwright and star of the New York Premiere of The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon (Las Dedicadas Lágrimas de la Luna Menguante) at Teatro Repertorio Español.

Something we knew we always wanted, but unexpected is how much we would need a show like this. Who’d of thought, Rocky Horror in July? If ever there was a truer testament to the old saying, “If you build it, they will come...,” then that would be none other than Jobsite and their production of Richard O’Brien’s titillating cult behemoth The Rocky Horror Show.

Threepenny Collective will bring JUKEBOX to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a unique sketch comedy show blending traditional sketches with improvisational humor, featuring recurring characters and evolving gags.

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 Oh, Mary! on Broadway.

Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! opens tonight at the Lyceum Theatre, following a sold out, twice extended world premiere run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

TERF, a new one-act production set to premiere on August 2 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, takes on J.K. Rowling, the billionaire creator of the Harry Potter universe and the biggest celebrity supporting the gender-critical movement, which seeks to ban transgender women from women-only spaces and services.

Totally Thames festival is returning in September 2024 with events across the capital celebrating the life and soul of the river.  Events include live art and performances, mudlarking and foreshore walks and talks, and river events including the Great River Race.

Almost every county has at least one summer outdoor Shakespeare performance, but there is only one that gives audiences the closest experience to see Shakespeare performed at The Globe just outside London. Drum roll, please! It’s Curtain Call’s 21st Shakespearean play on the beautiful grounds of Sterling Farms in Stamford.

Elena Bennett and Fred Barton will perform from their vast repertoire encompassing Hollywood, Broadway, and the Golden Age of swing. They’ll be joined, as always, by some of New York’s brightest stars who typically drop in to hear the show, and contribute to it with some songs of their own. The next show is this Thursday, July 11th at 7 pm.

Has there ever lived a more romantic writer than William Shakespeare? When it came to words of love, no one did it better than the Bard. Looking for an iconic line to add to your wedding vows, anniversary card, or love letter? Look no further than these 50 Iconic Shakespeare Quotes About Love.

A new production of the much-loved modern classic Brassed Off opens at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre in August.

David Heron and the cast of MCBEE celebrate the success of its American premiere at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, honoring playwright Alwin Bully during Caribbean American Heritage Month.

 The Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth, Massachusetts, announced three new shows. Learn more about the shows here!

Global star Tones And I, Aussie artist and producer Young Franco and Kiwi artist and producer CHAII, come together to launch the first-ever Coke Studio Australia and New Zealand track and music video, ‘(Can’t Get You) Off My Mind’. Listen to the song now!