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Lyric Stage Boston will open its 2025–2026 season with Thornton Wilder’s classic drama OUR TOWN, directed by Producing Artistic Director Courtney O’Connor.

Emmy Award winner Liz Callaway will bring her one-night-only cabaret Broadway and Beyond to Riverside Theatre Works in Hyde Park on September 20, 2025.

Tony and Grammy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Liz Callaway will take the stage at RTW's French's Opera House for a one-night-only cabaret performance, Broadway and Beyond.

ArtsEmerson will present Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer at the Emerson Paramount Center.

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Celebrated circus performer and social media personality Jack Lepiarz (“Jacques ze Whipper”) will join DUNGEONS & DRAGONS The Twenty-Sided Tavern as “Mischief” during the Boston engagement.

Cape Rep Theatre will continue its 2025 season with Trad by Mark Doherty directed by Alison Weller.

While on the surface, a play with basketball and one of its prominent players may seem a bit odd, KING JAMES proves to be a deep exploration of male friendship, its complexities, and how sports can bring people together and create a bond that goes beyond just grabbing a beer and watching the game.

Emerald City Theatrical will present the hit Broadway musical LEGALLY BLONDE at the Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center in Foxboro, MA.

Get ready to kick up your heels with the return of the heartwarming hit musical, KINKY BOOTS in Boston.

International Music Network has transitioned ownership to veteran IMN agents, Jeanna Disney & Alycia Mack, effective January 1, 2026.

The Black Box will bring back THE BLACK BOX SINGS… Concert Series outside under the stars this summer.

Broadway actor Johanna Day will star in Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley at The Hanover Theatre Repertory.

Brian Stokes Mitchell says he doesn’t recall exactly when it was that he met Keith Lockhart, but he’ll never forget his first impression of the Boston Pops conductor.

On September 27, Club Passim will host the third annual Reimagining Lilith Fair, a powerful evening of music that honors the spirit of the '90s feminist festival while embracing today's intersectional voices from across the local music scene.

Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out returns to Cambridge’s Lizard Lounge on September 17, 2025, with performances by Haasan Barclay, David Champagne, Ezra Furman, Bob Pernice, Veronica Robles, and Ryan Walsh.

Boston Dance Theater will receive a $10,000 grant from the Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation to support its Trainee Program, a pre-professional training initiative for dancers ages 17–24.

Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen has announced the Company’s 2025–2026 roster, featuring 69 professional dancers from around the world.

The Spire Center for Performing Arts has revealed four new shows.

Boston's waterfront will be alive with soul, funk, and jazz when The GroovaLottos take the stage at Boston Jazz Fest on Saturday, August 30, 2025 at Maritime Park in the Seaport.

Fans of soul, blues, jazz, and funk will want to mark their calendars as Mwalim, the award-winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, brings SOUL, BLUES & GROOVES back to the Sandbar Lounge (150 Warren Ave, Plymouth) on Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 7pm.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) just announced Katie Đỗ as the inaugural recipient of the Sokhary Chau Playwriting Fellowship for her new play, love you long time (already).

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) just announced its 2025-2026 season—a line-up of bold new plays that cross cultures, generations and borders, featuring stories of love, intersectionality and resistance.

When “Grease” premiered in 1971, the Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey musical about working-class teenagers at a Midwestern high school in the late 1950s was a gritty satire, first performed at a Chicago nightclub.

BSC’s production of King James stars Gregory Perri (Off-Broadway: King James) as Matt, and Blake Morris (Off-Broadway: Ain’t No Mo’) as Shawn.