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BrightSide Theatre announced the cast and production team for THE PRODUCERS, the 12-time Tony Award-winning Mel Brooks musical, closing the company's 14th season in Naperville.

Art House Productions will present Playing Favorites, a solo exhibition by Bryant Small curated by Andrea McKenna, at the Art House Gallery in Jersey City, NJ, featuring works never before exhibited publicly.

Galleria Fort Lauderdale will present Take PRIDE! 2026, a benefit reception and exhibition honoring LGBTQ+ leaders in South Florida.

Seattle Theatre Group and the Broadway League released economic impact data showing Touring Broadway generated $42.

Floyd Nation will bring its Inner Light Tour to Ruth Eckerd Hall this November.

The BorderLight Theatre Festival has announced its 2026 lineup, featuring more than 120 performances across Cleveland’s Playhouse Square District.

54 Below will present 54 SINGS LERNER & LOEWE, featuring four Tony Award nominees including Robert Cuccioli and Josie de Guzman, with a special 70th anniversary tribute to MY FAIR LADY.

TEN31 Productions and The Harpies will present Obscura: Murder at the Fantasy Ball, an immersive murder mystery set in a Faerie Court, at Pawtucket, RI, featuring live performances, dance, and interactive puzzle-solving.

Des Moines Performing Arts announced lineups for four returning series, including the Dance Series featuring Ailey II and Ballet Hispánico, the National Geographic Live Speaker Series, and comedy and concert series at the Temple Theater.

The Factory at Franklin will present An Evening with Nashville Ballet 2 this June at Turner Theatre.

Morrissey announced a US summer and fall tour in support of his new album MAKE UP IS A LIE, with a stop at Shea's Buffalo Theatre.

National Black Theatre announced its spring/summer programming, including a co-commission with Oxford University featuring Tony Award-winner Sarah Jones and a theatrical reimagining of Amy Sherald's American Sublime, directed by Zhailon Levingston.

Classic American Tales will present a series of storytelling performances across New Jersey, featuring works inspired by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, and Paul Robeson, alongside a Revolutionary War-era diary performance at historic venues.

CAPA announced that FESTIVAL LATINO, the largest Latino event in Ohio, will move from its longtime home at Genoa Park to Columbus Commons and the Ohio Theatre, citing improved safety, accessibility, and infrastructure.

Coney Island USA announced Jesse Malin and two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones as King Neptune and Queen Mermaid for the 44th Annual Mermaid Parade, the nation's largest art parade.

Charlotte Cohn has been appointed Producing Artistic Director of American Theater Group, succeeding founder Jim Vagias, who is retiring after leading the organization since its founding.

BAM will present the world premiere of STEVIE: A LIFE IN THE KEY OF SONGS, a three-night concert series at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House performing all five of Stevie Wonder's landmark albums, coinciding with his 76th birthday.

Hershey Theatre announced its 2026-27 Broadway Series, featuring nine touring productions including DR.

Kelly Wohlford and Quintin Harris are making it fun, they are making it entertaining, they are making it comfortable, casual, and safe to sing out loud.

Head First Acrobats will present RETURN OF THE GODZ at London's Peacock Theatre, featuring an expanded cast of five acrobats in an adults-only show blending circus, acrobatics, and slapstick comedy set in ancient Greece.

Watch the video as Ben Platt takes the field with the viral Savannah Bananas baseball team, putting his Tony-winning pipes to the best use possible: to help soothe the rift between the Bananas and their archrivals, the Party Animals.

JUSTB is having a well-deserved moment right now.

For a play ostensibly about wildlife photography, we don’t actually see too many photographs in Firewing.

Three-time Grammy Award-winning superstar Megan Thee Stallion will play her final performance as 'Harold Zidler' in Broadway's Moulin Rouge! The Musical this Friday, May 1, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

ATTACK ON TITAN: SYMPHONY FROM PARADIS will make its world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall, featuring the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra performing newly created symphonic arrangements by the anime's original composers.