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MasterVoices Now almost one year into the COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered most live performances worldwide, theatre fans have become more than acquainted with watching virtual performances by actors and singers in a grid of Zoom squares. But Broadway King and I conductor-music director Ted Sperling, now at the helm of New York City community choir MasterVoices, is bursting outside of that box with a project that has mixed the world of choral performance, musical theatre, visual art, and filmmaking. The group is presenting Light in the Piazza-composer Adam Guettel's song...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. View here and for 24 hours. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Jewish Diaspora. Rec...

These young artists are now ready to unleash their dazzling skills, performances, readings, and exhibitions on the public. Week two of National YoungArts Week + goes down January 25-30, with a nightly string of online events. The events are free and open to the public and include showcases in jazz, theater, dance, film, writing, visual arts, and seemingly everything in between. Notably, things kick off on Monday, January 25, with a virtual celebration hosted by singer and YoungArts alum Josh Groban and the world premiere of YoungArts’ short film, Together. (The full schedule of events is...

National YoungArts Week has added a big ol' plus at the end of its name for 2021. Why the plus? Well, while “week” may be in its name, this year’s event has been split and expanded into two weeks. The first week — an intensive program chock-full of educational and interactive opportunities for top-notch, budding artists looking to hone their respective crafts — is in the books. That went down January 3-9. These young artists are now ready to unleash their dazzling skills, performances, readings, and exhibitions on the public. Week two of National YoungArts Week + goes down January...

Take a look at a music video featuring a powerful pairing of Ragtime's “Make Them Hear You” and John Bucchino's "Grateful,” which premiered at the November 2 Actors Fund Virtual Gala, above. Jelani Alladin, Chuck Cooper, André De Shields, Brandon Victor Dixon, Joshua Henry, and Billy Porter sing Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's “Make Them Hear You,” followed by the chorus of the Tony-winning Broadway Inspirational Voices, led by founder Michael McElroy and Norm Lewis, singing Bucchino's “Grateful." “To those in need in performing arts and entertainment...