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Chris Mann is hailed by critics as “the best Phantom since Michael Crawford”. After 700 performances in Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of The Phantom of the Opera, Mann is inviting audiences to spend “A Night with the Phantom” to celebrate Broadway’s greater hits. Mann rose to fame on NBC’s The Voice. Since then, his albums Roads and Constellation have topped the … +

Rarely is an artist capable of touching the hearts and souls of people of all ages, cultures, and diverse musical backgrounds as guitar virtuoso Benise. In Spanish Nights, Benise takes us on an unprecedented and epic world music and dance adventure through Spanish Flamenco, Cuban Salsa, Brazilian Samba, Argentine Tango, Indian Bollywood, Parisian Waltz and African drumming! A concert perfect for family … +

South Florida Symphony: And the Tony Goes To
An Evening with Liz Callaway Broadway star, Liz Callaway, is a Tony nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer and recording artist. She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along; received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby; for five years, won acclaim as Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats; … +

With her sultry, expressive vocals and evocative piano playing, Grammy & JUNO Award-winner Diana Krall will mesmerize you with her take on the American Songbook. Krall, the only jazz singer to have eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums, reunited with Tommy LiPuma, the Grammy Award-winning producer of many of her acclaimed albums including All For You, The … +

Look Both Ways Before Talking: edgy, thought-provoking and always spectacularly funny. The Second City is celebrating nearly six decades of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest. Aventura Arts and Cultural Center Broward Center for the Performing Arts 201 SW Fifth Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 954.522.5334 www.browardcenter.org

With a reputation for spectacular live performances, the multi-platinum alternative rock band The Verve Pipe are recognized worldwide for their radio hits “The Freshmen,” “Photograph” and “Colorful.” With a new lineup and a renewed energy and focus, lead singer/principal songwriter and founder Brian Vander Ark and the band continue to deliver original music that is distinguished by innovative arrangements, soul-searching lyrics and … +

With its bizarre brew of eroticism and religion, Richard Strauss’s Salome was so disturbing when it first appeared that it was banned in Vienna and London. Today, it’s lost none of its power to send shivers through the audience, and this production eerily captures all the depravity of King Herod’s court in ancient Jerusalem. Starring as the princess whose sexually charged dance leads straight … +

Can two young friends—a writer and an athlete—break away from the inner city to live their dreams? With Darius’ mother barely scraping by, pressure from Twig’s uncle to give up racing, and bullies Midnight and Tall Boy constantly on their case, these true-blue allies may not truly be free to use their gifts. Based on the novel by Walter Dean Myers, this street-smart … +

In the Mood is a celebration of the music of the 1930s & 40s – the Big Band era. It was the last time that all Americans were listening and dancing to the same kind of music. With the sensational 13-piece String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra and fabulous singers and dancers, the great melodies and lyrics that are still with us … +

MISTER ACT marks the South Florida Premiere of San Francisco Icon Peaches Christ’s cult movie send-up. Peaches Christ, perhaps best known as the host of San Francisco’s Midnight Mass, created this drag parody of the film “Sister Act,” with the show having already seen sold out performances in San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. Drag superstar, Florida resident, and reformed criminal LATRICE ROYALE stars … +

Martha Graham Dance Company and the SFSO come together for the Symphony’s 20th Anniversary celebration performing Stravinsky’s revolutionary ‘Rite of Spring’ and Copland’s legendary Appalachian Spring to Martha Graham’s original choreography. Graham 2 choreographer Virginie Mécène brings alive the WORLD PREMIERE performance of her new work, A New Place, inspired by the creative genius of Tom Hormel’s Legend of Bird Mountain. Tickets … +

Fans of the most talked about show on television can now get their fantasy fix live on stage with the hilarious send-up Musical Thrones: A Parody of Ice and Fire. Composed by the hysterical mad men behind the long-running SILENCE! THE MUSICAL, Jon and Al Kaplan, Musical Thrones: A Parody of Ice and Fire brings the most beloved and be-hated characters to … +

With its genre-bending, multilingual glory, Pink Martini’s sounds are “rich, hugely approachable, cosmopolitan yet unpretentious” (The Washington Post). Join these amazing talents and the self-described “little orchestra” as they cross music genres such as jazz, Latin, classical and classical pop on a musical travelogue from a samba parade in Rio de Janeiro to a quaint piazza in Naples, Italy. Hear songs from … +

Classical music hits the street in a crackling performance by Black Violin. The duo of Kev Marcus and Wil B, classically trained musicians from Fort Lauderdale, have created an entirely new sound, a “classical boom.” This distinctive combination of virtuosic string talent mixes with a driving beat, shattering stereotypes with electricity, energy, and contagious enthusiasm. Au-Rene Theater Broward Center for the Performing … +

Featuring the incredible voice of Heather Lundstedt, Loesser Known is a tribute to Frank Loesser, the man who gave us: Guys & Dolls, How To Succeed, Where’s Charley?, The Most Happy Fella, Greenwillow and more. Broadway word says of Lundstedt: “Her voice is thrilling and with just the right amount of girlish charm, she keeps fans engaged and begging for more”! Stage … +

Seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner (Pixar’s UP, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant) and two-time Tony Award-nominee Johanna Day (Sweat, Proof) will star in the play reading along with Ned Eisenberg and Blair Baker. More than a half century after WW II at the desperate urging of a passionate survivor, a young investigative reporter finds herself caught between numerous versions of the same … +

A GrammyAward and Oscar Award-winner and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Darlene Love is “one of the greatest singers of all time,” according to Rolling Stone magazine. An iconic voice of the 1960s on The Crystals hits “He’s a Rebel” and “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” and tracks such as “Today I Met the Boy I’m Gonna Marry” and … +

Getting away with murder can be so much fun… and there’s no better proof than the knock-‘em-dead hit show that’s earned unanimous raves and won the 2014 Tony Award® for Best Musical. Coming direct from New York, where a most gentlemanly NPR critic said he’d “Never laughed so hard at a Broadway Musical,” GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant heir … +

A re-creation of one of the greatest rock ‘n’ soul tours of all time: Two amazing tribute bands – Elements and Beginnings – come together to bring audiences decades of timeless music by the sensational Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago in one unforgettable concert experience – “We Rock Then We Soul Tour”. Elements, a group of talented musicians and vocalists, bring … +

Audiences and critics are raving about Salome! When Salome premiered, it was so disturbing that it was banned in Vienna and London, and later in New York. Salome’s combination of eroticism and religion, spirituality and lewdness, and devotion and obsession, were appealing and appalling to early audiences. Today’s audiences are less easily shocked, but Salome has lost none of its power to … +

Blessed with what the New York Times described as a “beautiful countertenor,” singer Art Garfunkel has made an indelible mark on the music world as both a solo artist and half of the unrivaled Simon & Garfunkel. He has also enjoyed a successful film career, published a book of poetry and released 12 solo albums. Garfunkel’s new book, What Is It All … +