The City of West Hollywood has opened application opportunities for its 2023 Arts Grant Program. Grant opportunities are available to individuals and nonprofit arts organizations. Arts grants are for varying amounts and they include funding for City arts projects, individual artists, and organizational development. The City will host four Arts Grant Program informational workshops for…
While Tennessee Williams had a talent for showing the less seemly side of life, Beth Henley captures the off-kilter humor and warmth of a good Southern upbringing in several of her plays. “Crimes of the Heart,” opening at 30 by Ninety Theater in Mandeville, is a funny, fractured and realistic look into the lives of…
Astoria Performing Arts Center, in association with Dutch Kills Warehouse and Lawryn LaCroix, will present the US premiere of Buggy Baby by Josh Azouz, which marks the playwright’s American debut. Directed by Rory McGregor, Buggy Baby is a surreal horror comedy about trying to build a normal life when nothing about life is normal. The…
Join Cirque Kalabanté for an afternoon of dazzling circus arts and cultural exploration on June 26. PHOTO PROVIDED BY PETER GRAHAM NORTH ADAMS – After two years of limited performances, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts has a summer season bursting with performing arts events. The season kicks off Memorial Day Weekend with the return…
With kinetic dancing, catchy anthems, and a hilarious sense of humor, the musical “The Prom” conveys “such genuine joy rolling off the stage,” as Sarah Holden put it in a review for New York Magazine. But the show also has a serious storyline about acceptance and inclusivity. “It has such an important message,” noted cast…
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Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts this weekend: FUN: Plaza Party Party at the Plaza, a benefit for Arkansas Hospice, 2-10: 30 pm Saturday in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District, centering on the Argenta Plaza, 510 Main St., focusing on food, art, music and “family fun,” including the Paw- ty at the Plaza…
The local weather may be unpredictable, but one can count on local talent shining onstage as Henry Ford College, Trenton High School, Dearborn’s Edsel Ford High School and the Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center in Trenton launch end-of-April productions. HENRY FORD COLLEGE PRESENTS, “FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS” Anyone who has ever been a…
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Trash the mask? That’s not what the CDC or most medical professionals suggest as COVID is still with us and will be the foreseeable future. But many places are relaxing mask mandates. On April 18, 2022, a Florida federal judge reversed a national mask mandate for public transportation. Many venues have followed suit, like schools,…
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While Emily Winn is only a high school freshman, she is already a superstar and making a big splash. At Davenport Central, she’s the luminous, feisty title character in the beloved Disney musical, “The Little Mermaid,” which opens Thursday, April 21, at the school’s Performing Arts Center, 1120 Main St. Performances are 7 pm Thursday…
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April 20. The Hugh Torance House and Store has appointed three Cornelius residents — Michael D. Connor, Randolph Lewis and Ron Potts – to the board. “We’re very excited to welcome their experience and talents to further our historic preservation goals as well as help drive our new HEARTS initiative,” said Bill Russell, president of…
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