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UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center offers music, dance, theater and more in new season

Like so many other arts venues, the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts had to resort to online productions during the worst of the pandemic. As FAC Director Jamilla Deria told the Gazette at the time, planning for the 2020-2021 season, already well into the works, had to be completely scrapped and reconfigured for remote audiences once COVID-19 came on the scene.But in the last couple of years, […]

todaySeptember 28, 2023 2

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New theater company stages rousing gospel musical ‘Crowns’ in Simpsonville

A rousing gospel musical will mark the first collaboration between the Simpsonville Arts Center and a new theater company focusing on the Black experience. The new company, No Dreams Deferred, will stage “Crowns,” a Gospel musical play in which church hats become a springboard for a group of women to explore Black history and identity. The show weaves together faith, fashion and family. “Crowns” opens Oct. 6 with six performances […]

todaySeptember 26, 2023 2

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Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance celebrates 20 years

During Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell’s 1989-92 tenure as a performer with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the company was itinerant, constantly shuffling among venues, including the Goodman Theatre, CIBC Theatre (formerly the Shubert Theatre) and the Lyric Opera House (formerly the Civic Opera House.)But when she returned in 2021 as Hubbard Street’s artistic director, Fisher-Harrell was delighted the company had found a home at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, becoming one […]

todaySeptember 7, 2023 3

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“Baked! The Musical” comes to Evanston’s Theo Ubique Cabaret Theater

The first time is the charm for Jord Liu and Deepak Kumar. “Baked! The Musical,” for which they cowrote the book, lyrics, and music was one of eight musicals selected out of a field of over 500 shows for the prestigious National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals in 2022. Now the all-Asian musical, the first show the pair has written, will be staged at Evanston’s Theo Ubique […]

todaySeptember 5, 2023 4

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Leavenworth Summer Theater gives theatrical tropes in meta-musical

LEAVENWORTH — Like the main character in “The Drowsy Chaperone,” fans of musical theater might not only attend every Broadway-based performance possible, they could devote themselves to listen to original cast-album soundtracks of their favorite shows, memorizing lyrics and obsessing over trivial production facts. Audiences for Leavenworth Summer Theater’s “The Drowsy Chaperone” could come to appreciate the history of musical theater since the whole thing is a send-up of a […]

todayAugust 13, 2023 8

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The Collins Theater wraps up a 3-day music festival

PARAGOULD, Ark. (KAIT) - The theater’s largest bluegrass festival yet wraps up with performances from three bands.The final shows for the Big Grass Bluegrass Festival began at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 22 at the Collins Theater in Downtown Paragould.VP Programming Gina Garrett said they have hosted this festival for 3 years now, but this is the first time it’s been a 3-day event.“It’s music it’s all about the music,” […]

todayJuly 23, 2023 2

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