(Dec. 20 4:45 AM) - New York’s smash hit play FREUD’S LAST SESSION is opening its first foreign production tonight, December 9th at the Stockholm City Theatre, Sweden’s most popular theatre.

(Dec. 9 1:44 PM) - New York’s smash hit play FREUD’S LAST SESSION is opening its first foreign production tonight, December 9th at the Stockholm City Theatre, Sweden’s most popular theatre.

(Dec. 8 5:00 AM) - Joseph Calleja is the latest artist to be chosen as the featured soloist at the Nobel Prize Concert, held annually in Stockholm on December 8 in honor of the year’s Nobel Laureates. For the 2011 concert, Calleja will perform a selection of favorite Italian and French opera arias with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic under Marcello Mottadelli. It was with a similar program that the singer’s most recent solo album, The Maltese Tenor, debuted last month in the number one spot on the Billboard Classical Traditional Chart in the US, having already topped similar lists in the UK and Germany. The disc includes an aria from Gounod’s Faust, and it is in the title role of a new production of this grand opera that Calleja returns to New York’s Metropolitan Opera in January 2012.

(Dec. 5 12:19 PM) - Joseph Calleja is the latest artist to be chosen as the featured soloist at the Nobel Prize Concert, held annually in Stockholm on December 8 in honor of the year’s Nobel Laureates. For the 2011 concert, Calleja will perform a selection of favorite Italian and French opera arias with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic under Marcello Mottadelli. It was with a similar program that the singer’s most recent solo album, The Maltese Tenor, debuted last month in the number one spot on the Billboard Classical Traditional Chart in the US, having already topped similar lists in the UK and Germany. The disc includes an aria from Gounod’s Faust, and it is in the title role of a new production of this grand opera that Calleja returns to New York’s Metropolitan Opera in January 2012.

(Nov. 30 4:06 PM) - The National Theatre has announced additional show titles for the third season of National Theatre Live (NT Live), a successful initiative to broadcast live performances from the National’s stages to cinemas worldwide.

(Nov. 17 5:00 AM) - An impressive ensemble of Broadway leading men and women are traveling to Romania to perform A Medley of Sondheim, a concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim's iconic musical numbers, presented within the framework of the 4th edition of the International Festival for Musical Performing Arts "Life is Beautiful."