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San Francisco Opera will present the world premiere of The Monkey King by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, running November 14–30, 2025, at the War Memorial Opera House.

The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra (WSO) will open its 2025–26 Masterworks season on Saturday, October 25, with Painted on the Sky, a program featuring Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and a new collaboration with lighting and set designer Doug Fitch and Oglebay Institute’s School of Dance.

Pacific Jazz Orchestra’s 17-piece big band, led by composer, arranger, and conductor Chris Walden, will make its Blue Note LA debut on Wednesday, October 29, and Thursday, October 30, 2025, with two shows each night at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

The 29th Street Playwrights Collective New Works Series 2025 will present a staged reading of Winter Wheat by Michael Wells-Oakes on Monday, October 20 at 7 p.m. at the Attic Studio at The Tank.

Feinstein’s at the Nikko will present the debut of Bay Area vocalist Laurie Roldan in her acclaimed concert A Song for You: The Music of Karen Carpenter on Saturday, November 1 at 8 p.m.

Spooky season has arrived at the Straz Center with Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, the southern gothic supernatural musical by literary icon Stephen King and rock legend John Mellencamp. The production, presented by Jobsite Theater, runs through November 9 in the Straz’s Shimberg Playhouse. See photos of the production.

Anaconda Ensemble Theatre (AET) will present the world premiere of The Rope Trick by Steven San Luis, running November 14–23, 2025, at The Montana Hotel (200 Main St., Anaconda).

The nominees have been announced for the 15th annual World Choreography Awards, recognizing achievement in dance across film, television, music videos, and digital media.

Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis has opened the U.S. premiere of The Enormous Crocodile The Musical, the acclaimed production from The Roald Dahl Story Company, now running through November 23, 2025, on the Cargill Stage. Watch video highlights from the production.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will welcome renowned Indian singer Hariharan for a rare U.S. appearance on Saturday, November 1, 2025, at 8:00 p.m.

The Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir will present All God’s Creatures on Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at South Main Baptist Church.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) has announced ICONS 3: Prominent Figures Across the Landscape, a new installment in its commissioned monologue series spotlighting influential figures in Black cultural history.

Following award-winning runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Hollywood Fringe, Stacie Burrows will bring her acclaimed solo show No Good Drunk to Greenwich Theatre for two performances only, October 28–29, 2025, in the venue’s Studio space.

Kokandy Productions has released photos of its new production of Jekyll & Hyde — the first Chicago staging of the gothic musical in more than 15 years.

A new original musical, Once Upon a Time in Dubai, will make its world premiere on December 20, 2025, at The Agenda in Dubai Media City. The production, which runs approximately two hours with a 20-minute intermission, marks one of the UAE’s largest-scale musical theatre ventures to date.

Broadway performer Nance will return to her hometown this holiday season to play Miss Hannigan in Cadence Theatre’s production of Annie, running December 12–21, 2025, at the Dominion Energy Center’s Libby Gottwald Playhouse.

The New York Philharmonic, in partnership with Rolex and in collaboration with Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, and DOC NYC, will present the U.S. premiere screening of El Canto de las Manos on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall.

Eastbound Theatre, a division of Milford Arts Council (MAC), will present Remembrance, a program of four original Holocaust-themed short plays, on Sunday, November 16 at 4 p.m. at the MAC, 40 Railroad Avenue South in Milford.

Urbanite Theatre will present the regional premiere of Christian St. Croix’s Monsters of the American Cinema beginning October 31 and running through December 7, 2025.

The feature comedy Premarital, written and directed by Midwest filmmaker Robert Ingraham, will premiere at the Twin Cities Film Festival on Saturday, October 18, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.