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Smart Arts: Professional Development for Artists and Arts OrganisationsMusicians and people involved in the music or wider cultural industries are invited to a free workshop designed for people working in the creative areas.Business and Legal Skills Workshop will be conducted by local solicitor, teacher of law, theatre and music buff, John Hindle.Topics will include: [...]

The Broadway musical 'Xanadu' will close on Oct. 12, Playbill reported.

Theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is offering free tickets to two of his West End musicals to bankers who have become unemployed in the credit crunch....

Music News: Executive takes VP slot -- Barb Dehgan has been upped to vice president, Communications & Media Relations, at the Recording Academy.

Music News: Wrote 'War,' 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine' -- Norman Whitfield, who co-wrote a string of classics including 'War' and 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine,' died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 67.

More than 50 years after Desi Arnazs television heyday, new Off-Broadway musical takes a look at the Cuban entertainer's life and legacy beyond the Ricky Ricardo persona.

Bryant Park Corporation announces the inaugural season of a series of early fall classical music concerts featuring musicians from the new york Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and The New York Pops. Entitled Bank of America presents New York Now in Bryant Park, the series runs for three weeks, from September 23 through October 8, kicking off with musicians from the New York Philharmonic, featuring Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker.

Rick Hilsabeck (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Kate Fisher (Les Mis), and Scott Barnhardt (Big River), will read 'I Love You Madam President' for this year's new york Musical Theatre Festival. The show also features the talents of Jerry Coyle (Room Service), Ric Ryder (Blood Brothers), Christine Rowan and Elizabeth Polito (Beauty and the Beast) and is stage managed by Jessica Balvanz.

Jazz clarinetist, composer, music historian's home was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina but rather than dwell on what was gone, he focused on the positive effects of jazz

Event, named after city's renowned Berklee College of music, features top jazz artists and is expected to draw 70,000 fans