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This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

One of the most glorious attributes of the theater is the experience of seeing a play you know quite well due to multiple productions over the years and to somehow find it fresh and invigorating, as if it is the first time all over again. Such is the case with Alfred Uhry’s seemingly ubiquitous Driving Miss Daisy, which has been presented in countless productions of varying degrees of professionalism since its 1987 debut.

ou have to hand it to Mitch Albom (the well-known sportswriter turned memoirist turned playwright turned heartland media mogul): the man knows how to craft a tale certain to appeal to a wide swath of his audience, manipulating and cajoling them along the way with good humor and sometimes incisive wit before going for the jugular of the sentimental with a dramatic payoff that’s sure to wring tears, sell tissues and send the aforementioned audiences into the real world with something to think about.

Cumberland County Playhouse has recently announced the remainder of its 2021 Season, featuring the currently running revival of Duck Hunter Shoots Angel and the upcoming opening of Driving Miss Daisy.

Luckily, for audiences at Crossville's Cumberland County Playhouse (where Elf, The Musical runs through December 21 in a delightful and sparkling production helmed by producing director Bryce McDonald), the role of Buddy is entrusted to Chris Hallowes, who has proven himself the personification of the term a?oesong-and-dance mana?? during his tenure at the Playhouse, and who once again proves his mettle with his latest onstage assignment. Were it not for the fact we've always considered Hallowes a star, we'd say Buddy is a starmaking performance for him.

Who'd have ever thought a seven-foot-tall, dark, handsome and green chap a?' crafted from the bits and pieces of various fellows gone home to meet their maker, as it were a?' could prove to be so likable, charming and, we daresay, sexy? But leave it to Mel Brooks (and Gene Wilder, his co-writer on the 1974 film) to create such a protagonist and to surround him with memorable characters in a story set to music that's a wonderful homage to the very best of classic Broadway and silver screen musicals!

With only 50 more days to go, New York's most anticipated music festival Electric Zoo: Evolved has just announced its stage-by-stage daily line-ups for the big event happening over Labor Day weekend August 30, 31 & September 1 at Randall's Island Park in New York City.

Now, through August 18, audiences at Crossville's Cumberland County Playhouse have the opportunity to fall in love with Matilda and her ragtag and inspiring band of schoolmates as they take on an adventure that is certain to delight and to engage. Directed by Jess Griffin and featuring a cast of fresh and energetic performers who bring Matilda The Musical to glorious life onstage, CCP has another resounding hit to its credit, which might be quite unlike anything that's come before it and heralds even more technical and design innovation that sets the company apart from all others in the region.

WarnerMedia's truTV is expanding on its roster of original comedies as the network today unveiled its 2019-20 programming slate ahead of next week's first-ever WarnerMedia Upfront event at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. The cable network, which since 2014 has established itself as the home to a portfolio of distinct, creator-driven comedic shows, announced greenlights of its first animated series, This Functional Family from comedian Jo Koy, as well as new series Game Changers (wt) from Clayton English and Noah Gardenswartz. Additionally, the network has ordered a third season of its Emmy-nominated and critically lauded series At Home with Amy Sedaris, as well as announced new seasons of Laff Mobb's Laff Tracks and The Carbonaro Effect, and additional episodes of Adam Ruins Everything, all launching later this year.

'Based on a true incident' seems a phrase best reserved for a hardboiled television detective series, circa 1954 - perhaps followed by a title card reading, 'A Quinn Martin Production' (if you're of a certain vintage, you'll get my meaning) - but in the case of Bright Star, the Tony Award-nominated musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell now onstage at Cumberland County Playhouse through June 6, it's definitely fitting.

Bright Star - the five-time Tony Award-nominated musical with "a glorious score and moving story," according to Cumberland County Playhouse's producing director Bryce McDonald - opens in Crossville this Friday night, April 26 and continuing through June 6.

Made Event, the producers behind Electric Zoo Festival, has released the lineup for ELECTRIC ZOO: EVOLVED. For its 11th edition at Randall's Island Park in NYC – taking place over Labor Day Weekend August 30 & 31, September 1 – festival attendees can expect a bigger and better star-studded lineup featuring dance music titans of the likes of Dog Blood (Skrillex & Boys Noize), recent Billboard cover star and DJ/expert producer Alison Wonderland, dubstep mastermind Flux Pavilion, alongside EZoo veterans Kaskade, Armin van Buuren, Diplo and so many more! Festivalgoers will also experience multiple B2B sets such as DJ Diesel and Borgore, NGHTMRE and SLANDER, Cookie Monsta and Funtcase, plus more.

Similar to David Bowie's awe-inspiring physical transformation in the title role on Broadway, the current production of Bernard Pomerance's THE ELEPHANT MAN, a classic true-life tale and heart-wrenching story that depicts the best and the worst of humanity, presented by Thursday Night Theatre Club at the El Portal in NoHo, features an amazing performance by Tom Vitorino in the title role. His first appearance occurs with Merrick completely covered by filthy rags and laying in the dirt at a travelling Freak Show. But it is Vitorino's physical transformation, dressed only in Victorian-era underwear, as his deformities are described by his friend and savoir, Dr. Frederick Treves (John Ralston Craig), that sets the stage for the incredible production which follows that scene.

React Presents is thrilled to announce the full artist lineup for Spring Awakening Music Festival (SAMF) 2019!  Following this week's headliner announce, over 60 incredible artists have been revealed to perform at the Midwest's largest all-electronic music festival, which will return to the Chicagoland area for its eighth year on June 7th through 9th at Poplar Creek at 59-90 Entertainment District in Hoffman Estates, a Northwest Chicago suburb.

Michael Frayn's Noises Off, considered by many as the greatest farce ever written, opens Friday, March 8, at Cumberland County Playhouse, featuring a cast of CCP favorites bringing all the onstage/offstage/backstage hilarity to life in Crossville.

Diskolab has long been one of dance music's fastest growing brands and after another record breaking year, it now makes a huge statement with more than 30 parties announced for this year's Miami Music Week. They will once again take over the best venues in the city from raw and artistic warehouse spaces to luxury pools, and welcome the world's most recognised brands and globally acclaimed DJs to party with them. The likes of Above & Beyond, Fisher: Catch & Release, elrow, a huge 10th Anniversary for No Sugar Added, Brownies & Lemonade with Dog Blood (Skrillex and Boys Noize), Green Velvet's La La Land, Do Not Sit, Spinnin' Hotel, Steve Aoki and Dim Mak, Mixmash, All Day I Dream, Gareth Emery's Laserface, Robin Schulz, Heldeep, and many more all host spectacular parties covering all forms of electronic music in late March.

As the resident DJ of the global Formula E event season, EJ has been churning out a range of impressive anthems. Seeing that, it was only a matter of time before he would come up with an entire album worth of Formula E soundtrack goodness and that moment has arrived today with the launch of 'Formula E: The Soundtrack – Vol. 1 (Mixed by EJ)'. 

Thursday Night Theatre Club is proud to present a classic true-life tale and heart wrenching story that depicts the best and the worst of humanity. The Elephant Man is an eloquently written play by Bernard Pomerantz, that's being directed by Robyn Cohen at The Historic El Portal Theatre.  Running March 21 - 23 and April 3 - 14, 2019. Tickets:  www.ElPortalTheatre.com

Cumberland County Playhouse - winner of the First Night Award for Outstanding Musical of 2018 for Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - has announced its lineup for the 2019 season.