(01/07/2026) - That 80s Improv Challenge: Horror & David Lee Roth Edition comes to Young Ethels in Brooklyn on January 15. The improv showdown features teams creating scenes inspired by 1980s horror and David Lee Roth videos. Celebrity judges will rate the performances during the live competition.
(01/07/2026) - The Braid opens its 2026 season with Do The Right Thing, a new Salon Theatre production examining moral choices through true stories rooted in Jewish ethics. The world premiere begins January 20, 2026, in Santa Monica, followed by Los Angeles, Bay Area, and live Zoom performances. The production features five actors performing curated first-person stories.
(01/07/2026) - The Storm Theatre will present An Ideal Husband, the classic play by Oscar Wilde at The Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres. Check out photos of the cast!
(01/07/2026) - Dance/NYC will welcome Raquel Du Toit as Executive Director, ushering in a pivotal era grounded in sustainability, collective care, and long-term support for the dance field.
(01/07/2026) - Bristol Riverside Theatre will present The Net Will Appear, a poignant and thought-provoking play by Erin Mallon, directed by Amy Kaissar with assistance by Teayra Bowden.
(01/07/2026) - La Jolla Playhouse has revealed the cast and creative team for its world-premiere production of The Recipe, by Tony Award nominee Claudia Shear. The production will star Norbert Leo Butz and more.
(01/07/2026) - The name on everybody's lips is gonna be Whitney! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Broadway company of Chicago will welcome “Dancing with the Stars” semi-finalist and actress/breakout star of Hulu’s “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” Whitney Leavitt. She just met the press and you can check out photos here!
(01/07/2026) - You can now get a first look inside rehearsals for The Unknown starring Tony, Emmy and SAG Award winning actor Sean Hayes. Desperate to cure his writer’s block, Elliott retreats to a remote cabin—only to discover he may not be alone.
(01/07/2026) - Ballet Hispánico New York is hosting annual company auditions for the 2026/27 Season. As part of the Company, dancers perform on New York City's greatest stages, and tour nationwide and internationally.
(01/07/2026) - Theatre Ariel, Philadelphia's only professional theatre company dedicated exclusively to telling stories about the Jewish experience, will present the world premiere of Marsha Blovotnick and the Marvelous Magical Chicken Soup.
(01/07/2026) - FRIGID New York and The Apollo will present the 17th season of the Obie Award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, a platform for playwrights of African and African-American descent to write and produce evocative material for diverse audiences.
(01/07/2026) - Get a glimpse inside rehearsals of Holiday—a brand-new work by Richard Greenberg, the late Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright at Goodman Theatre.
(01/07/2026) - The Farm Theater has awarded playwright Nandita Shenoy with the 2026-27 College Collaboration Project Commission. Shenoy will collaborate with students at Centre College in Danville, KY and the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
(01/07/2026) - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present Revolutionary Voices, a season-long play reading series examining the promise and potential of America.
(01/07/2026) - The Movement Theatre Company has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, an nvestment that will empower Producing Artistic Leaders to strengthen and expand their leadership.
(01/07/2026) - 4th Wall Theatre Company will present public readings of Furlough's Paradise, the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner by a.k. payne.
(01/07/2026) - L'Alliance New York will present a screening of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, to take place at the Florence Gould Theater, L'Alliance New York. The Comédie-Française offers a bold new production of one of its patron playwright's seminal comédie-ballets.
(01/07/2026) - As the new year begins, the American Music Institute is marking 20 years of music excellence, inviting students, families, educators, and music lovers to set inspiring musical goals for 2026.
(01/07/2026) - In a non-verbal mime show combining hand puppetry, physical comedy, and a simple blackboard, Double Take weaves together eight short stories that invite audiences to look closer, think again, and delight in the unexpected at Adelaide Fringe.
(01/07/2026) - L'Alliance New York will present a screening of Twelfth Night or What You Will (La Nuit des rois ou Tout ce que vous voulez), set for Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 7PM at the Florence Gould Theater, L'Alliance New York,
(01/07/2026) - Centenary Stage Company will present the Six One Five Collective as part of the Winter THAW Music Festival. The performance will take place in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University.
(01/07/2026) - City Theatre will kick off 2026 with a highly anticipated two hander – the co-world premiere of Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy's Chicken Shack in Harlem by Jonathan Norton, directed by Dexter J. Singleton.
(01/07/2026) - Undead Arts, in collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony, will present a reimagined production of Mozart's The Magic Flute at The Harborside Atrium.
(01/07/2026) - Fergus Head's White Elephants will be presented at Canal Cafe Theatre. White Elephants is a nostalgic, melancholic look at communication, combining original music and drama to bring the atmosphere of small-town Spanish life to Maida Vale.
(01/07/2026) - A wild whodunnit is evolving at Circus Harmony inside City Museum! Circus Harmony, the internationally renowned social circus school located inside of City Museum, will present Misterioso.
(01/07/2026) - Dobama Theatre will kick off 2026 with the Cleveland Premiere of The Heart Sellers by celebrated American playwright Lloyd Suh. Learn more about the production here!
(01/07/2026) - Overshadowed Theatrical Productions will present The Adventures of Tom Saywer. This musical adaptation follows mischievous Tom Sawyer who unexpectedly stumbles into a mystery with hidden treasure, new friends, and a deadly foe.
(01/07/2026) - Finn Inman and a cast of transgender and queer aspiring actors brought a celebration of transgender stories in musical theatre to 54 Below on 1/2. See photos from the night snapped by photographer Conor Weiss.
(01/07/2026) - The world premiere workshop of Girl Crime, a new play by award-winning Chicago playwright Kendall Grenolds (A is For Festival, Playwrights Horizons) will open to a sold-out limited run at the Boston Center for the Arts this weekend.
(01/07/2026) - Performers Theatre Workshop (PTW) will welcome renowned actor, comedian and New Jersey native Jon Rudnitsky (Saturday Night Live, Curb Your Enthusiasm) as their first PTW Comedy Conservatory Masterclass guest of 2026 .
(01/07/2026) - Flamboyant spectre Hersh Dagmarr will bring Kabarett and Chanson to London’s Crazy Coqs on Sunday 1 February (7:30pm) in Dagmarr’s Dimanche: Songs from the Cinema.
(01/07/2026) - Producer and musician Elicia Palmer is developing a new concert series set within a World Trade Center venue in New York City. Learn more about the upcoming project here!
(01/07/2026) - On Sunday, January 18 at 2:00 pm, Vivid will co-sponsor a reading of Charlayne Woodard's play PRETTY FIRE with Interweave and Saint John's Lutheran Church of Summit.
(01/07/2026) - GableStage Theatre Company will present Sotto Voce, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Check out photos of the cast here!
(01/07/2026) - The Tony-nominated Callaway Sisters will raise the roof during Broadway the Calla-way at the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center on Friday, January 23 at 8 p.m.
(01/07/2026) - The hilarious dark comedy, Auntie Empire, will premiere at Summerhall Arts in February as part of Manipulate Festival 2026. Learn more about the upcoming show here!
