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Austin's Indie Meme Film Festival returns for its 11th annual edition, presenting 27 films from 14 countries at AFS Cinema, with filmmaker appearances and screenings spanning narrative features, documentaries, and short films.

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A stage musical adaptation of FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY is in development with Seven Bucks Productions, co-founded by Dwayne Johnson.

Virginia Woolf isn’t the easiest author to adapt for the stage, and her lesser-known 1931 experimental novel The Waves presents a particularly interesting dramaturgical challenge.

DANCE IN FLUX, a faculty dance concert at the University of Texas at Arlington, will showcase new works by Laurie M.

Jonny Bird performs the Jimmy Buffett catalog at WASTIN' AWAY, a new poolside residency at Alexis Park Resort Hotel in Las Vegas, running Sundays through Tuesdays at sunset.

Lincoln Center Theater has announced the complete cast and creative team for A WOMAN AMONG WOMEN, a new play by Julia May Jonas.

Rehearsal photos have been released for CANCIONES, an immersive, site-specific production in Brooklyn.

THE VERDICT, adapted by Margaret May Hobbs from Barry Reed’s novel, will be presented at Vertigo Theatre.

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EUPHONIA, a one-woman comedy by Kendall Davis, will be presented at SoHo Playhouse in New York City.

FENIX Rising will launch a new residency at Groove in Greenwich Village.

THE BURNS PROJECT will return to Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre following previous sold-out runs.

New Art City Theatre will present a four-day festival of new plays in Ventura.

BETWEEN IN BETWEEN, a new play by Amy Helms, will premiere at The Tank in New York City.

Laura James, Tim Realbuto, and four-time Emmy winner Nigel Lythgoe will lead a staged reading of Bertolt Brecht's MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN at Theatre West in Hollywood, directed by Louis Fantasia.

Thorington Theatre, a 350-seat outdoor woodland venue in Suffolk, announced its upcoming summer season featuring more than 50 shows spanning music, theatre, comedy, and family programming, plus two major community arts initiatives.

Broadway Dream Roles lit up the Al Hirschfeld Theatre with performances by Jordan Fisher, Santino Fontana, Ali Stroker, and Lillias White.

The Southland has had its share of memorable Fugard stagings, and the newly-opened revival of “MASTER HAROLD” at the Geffen Playhouse boasts an impressive roster of artists and creatives – onstage and off – who bring this tale vibrantly to life.

Production photos have been released for THE PRICE at Marylebone Theatre, directed by Jonathan Munby.

Arctic Playhouse’s remarkably stylish, extraordinarily well-acted production of Noël Coward’s 1930 farce, ‘Private Lives,’ pokes fun at the idea of marriage as little more than a social construct while speculating whether a toxic relationship is conceivably better than one without any passi

Decade By Decade: 2000s, curated by Sydney Stephan, will present its sixth installment at The Green Room 42 in New York, featuring music by Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Justin Timberlake performed by a live cast and band.

San Francisco’s acclaimed Merola Opera Program will kick off its 2026 season with L’Anima Napoletana, a Neapolitan-inspired vocal/piano recital celebrating the lyrical richness and emotional depth of Southern Italy.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has completed its sold-out world premiere run of safronia, the landmark new opera by Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate avery r.

Greg Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and celebrated Shakespearean, revives his acclaimed production of Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's greatest narrative poem, for a limited UK tour starting in June.