The cast of Groundhog Day, led by Tony nominee Andy Karl, turned Rockefeller Plaza into Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, April 27 as they showcased the new musical on The Today Show. Watch the performance, which was part of the NBC show’s “Best of Broadway” week, below. The company—with the help of The Today Show’s weather guru Al Roker—performed the Act II number “Philanthropy,” in which Phil Connors spreads cheer and good deeds around the small town.

The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation is raising the roof: it held a ceremonial “roof-breaking” performance on Tuesday to mark the beginning of a $25 million construction project that will add three more stories of studios, classrooms and offices to its Manhattan home. The expansion of the building, the Joan Weill Center for Dance, which opened in 2005, is being designed by Iu & Bibliowicz Architects.

This November World Spirit will be heading south of the border to deliver a workshop at the Platforma Festival 2013 in Manchester.

The festival, held from the 31st October 2013 – 1st November 2013 is the second to be hosted by the Arts and Refugees network and will be an opportunity for various groups run by and for refugees to perform their artistic work and discuss topics around the theme of refugee arts.

At the conference World Spirit will present and carry out a workshop introducing the art of forum theatre (or theatre of the oppressed) as a medium and tool for empowering audiences (and actors) to question and change their socio-political context.  We will be presenting our experience of Forum Theatre, through which we have mainly sought to tackle issues faced by asylum seekers and refugees in the UK and, more widely, the barriers to social harmony and multi-directional integration faced by communities as a whole.

You can learn more about the event at their website: http://platforma.org.uk/events/platforma-festival-2013