Audra was a surprise special guest on NBC’s Emmy-nominated series Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. The five-time Tony Award winner stopped by the studio to help Fallon out with a Suggestion Box request to give voice to some Yahoo! Answers in her own special way. Click below to watch.

On July 21 and 22, Audra joins frequent collaborator and Sirius/XM Radio host Seth Rudetsky for two performances at 5pm and 7pm at The Art House in Provincetown, MA. The concerts are part of the 2013 Broadway @ The Art House series and mark Audra’s debut in the famed Cape Cod resort town. Shortly after these performance, Audra returns to New York on August 3 for a one-night-only concert at the Caramoor Music Festival in Katonah, NY. Visit Audra’s schedule for a full list of performances.

Last week Audra McDonald was featured on PBS Newshour, speaking with the show’s Art Beat correspondent Jeffrey Brown about her new album, Go Back Home. Audra, whom Brown describes as “a leading lady of musical theater and much more,” discussed her connection to the songs on the album, her most personal yet, and the sense of home she found in the theater at an early age. You can watch the complete Newshour piece below.

Audra McDonald—whose first solo album in seven years, Go Back Home, was released last week on Nonesuch Records, and who was recently featured on NPR’s Tell Me More —has announced a number of new tour dates across the United States for this summer and fall, starting with a performance at the Midland Center for the Arts in Midland, Michigan, on June 8. The tour, with currently announced dates running through December, includes performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by John Williams at Tanglewood, San Francisco Symphony’s Opening Night led by Michael Tilson Thomas, shows in Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Kansas City, and much more. Get schedule and ticket details here.

Go Back Home features songs by composers with whom Audra has long been associated (Adam Guettel, LaChiusa, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim) and some, like the Kander & Ebb title track, relatively new to her repertoire; in addition, Audra continues to champion works by an emerging generation of composers. Audra McDonald discusses this most personal of her albums, her connection to the songs, and more in a new video piece, produced by Matthew Beighley and featuring excerpts from her recent Live From Lincoln Center concert on PBS, in this video below.

“If there were a Broadway show that were written about my life, especially the last seven years,” she says of the album, “this would be the soundtrack.”

Tune in tonight at 9pm EDT to watch “Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home” on PBS’s Emmy-winning series Live From Lincoln Center (check local listings). The concert was recorded live earlier this month at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall and features the five-time Tony Award-winner performing songs from her new solo recording for Nonesuch, Go Back Home, as well as some of her other personal favorites. In his review of the concert, Stephen Holden of the New York Times wrote: “Absolutely thrilling. That describes Audra McDonald’s Avery Fisher Hall performance at Lincoln Center’s spring gala on Thursday evening… One of Ms. McDonald’s greatest gifts is to find the story inside the song and deliver it with immediacy and clarity, in a voice that finds a flexible, intuitive balance between storytelling and singing – a defying voice of our time.” This telecast caps off her first season as host for Live From Lincoln Center.  Click here to watch a trailer for “Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home.”