The Human Race Theatre Company’s regional premiere of “Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous” by Atlanta playwright Pearl Cleage (”Flyin’ West,” “Blues for an Alabama Sky”) will be held Oct. 26-Nov. 12 at the Loft Theatre. This heartfelt comedy addresses passing the torch from one generation to the next while embracing inherent risks and unknowns. The…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Paul Corn recently instructed the students in his jazz ensemble to “make the music dance.” Many times throughout the class, Corn told his students to stop playing their instrument and start over — because he could hear someone breathing into a saxophone too hard, or because someone didn’t drag out a…

It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and 18 dancers are leaping, jumping and twirling in the Dayton Ballet studio. All are focused on their new artistic director, Brandon Ragland, and his instructions. This is the way the members of the ballet company begin every weekday morning. “Reach, reach, good!” Ragland says as he guides…

New performing art productions are provided with a window through which they can reach potential partners and investors from around the world during the 22nd China Shanghai International Arts Festival Performing Arts Fair, which opened at the New Bund 31 in Pudong’s Qiantan area. As an important session of the ongoing arts festival, the fair…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Backlight Productions, a Nashville-area group that provides adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to participate in theater and arts programs, is celebrating their 10th year with a production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the Polk Theater at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The performance is at 2:00 pm…

Reading Civic Theatre is celebrating the spooky season with their production of Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show,” running Friday through next Sunday and Nov. 3-5 at their theater in the former Fox East, Exeter Township. This cult classic, starring Tim Curry, opened on the West End in 1973, and was released as a movie…

A play set in the early days of America frightened audiences and got them thinking in 1953 en route to winning the Tony Award for Best Play. Now as Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” marks its 70th anniversary, modern local audiences will find it has retained its power today. Not even realizing the anniversary, director Krissy…

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Twenty-eight Oregon arts organizations will each receive a $10,000 grant to strengthen arts education for K-12 students through $280,000 in Oregon Arts Commission Arts Learning Program funding for fiscal year 2024. All funded projects feature partnerships with Oregon schools within communities throughout the state.  “Unfortunately, so many schools lack adequate funding for arts…

When: Sunday, October 22, 20232:00 PM – 3:30 PM CT Where: Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, Josephine Louis Theater, 1949 Campus Drive; 10-30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it Audience: Faculty/Staff – Student – Public – Post Docs/Docs – Graduate Students Cost: General Public $20 Children under 18 $12 NU Full-Time Students $8-12…