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Jerry Seinfeld, Bert Kreischer, and Seth Meyers will headline the National Comedy Center's annual comedy festival in Jamestown, New York, August 6–9, 2026, alongside Carol Leifer, Gina Brillon, and others.

The Young Vic Theatre and JMK Trust have announced Ewa Dina as the recipient of the 2026 JMK Award, which offers early career directors the opportunity to direct a full-scale professional play.

Wagon Wheel Professional Theatre in Warsaw has announced its 2026 summer season, featuring CATS, CAROUSEL, FOOTLOOSE, DIAL M FOR MURDER, and ANYTHING GOES, running June through August.

This is the final chance to vote the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year.

Former congressional staffer Lauren Mueller's debut play LIVING THE DREAM receives two staged readings at Chapel Theater in Milwaukie, OR on April 15 & 17, 2026.

Tanya Perez's NSFW solo show WELCOME TO CLOWNTOWN, fresh off its 2023 Off-Broadway run at The Tank, will have its Southeast premiere at the 35th Annual Orlando Fringe Festival in May 2026.

Ballet West will present BROADWAY & BEYOND at Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City April 10–18, featuring works by Jerome Robbins and Christopher Wheeldon, with guest artists Robbie Fairchild and Georgina Pazcoguin.

The GILDED AGE star will appear at 54 Below on 4/3, 4/4, and 4/15.

The Desert Fringe Theatre and Cultural Arts Festival will present three days of performances, music, and workshops April 17-19, 2026, across multiple venues in 29 Palms, CA, featuring artists from Los Angeles, San Diego, Arizona, and beyond.

ROSENFELD’S ATTRACTIONS premiered March 27–29 at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), presented by seniors from the School of Drama.

Karen Mason marked her birthday with a concert at Birdland Jazz Club on Monday evening, performing a program of songs and stories in front of a live audience.

The October Project Poetry Contest, co-founded by poet Julie Flanders, vocalist Marina Belica, and composer Emil Adler, opens April 1 and closes April 30, with judges including Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco.

You can now get a first look at Bent Through Glass, a new play written and performed by Alex Koltchak, chronicling a father’s loss of his daughter by suicide, now at The 30th Street Theater.

The world premiere of Camping by Victoria Lynne Barclay, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, will be presented at HERE Arts Center in New York, running June 13 through July 11.

Award-winning performer Glenn Close will be honored with a Hand & Footprint Ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, May 1, 2026, as part of the 2026 TCM Classic Film Festival.

Viral vocalist Rosie Webber will make her New York City debut at The Green Room 42 on July 30, 2026, in The Show That Got Away, a Judy Garland tribute written and directed by Emmy nominee Danny Salles.

The Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, Ohio will present MAMMA MIA! for six performances April 24 through May 3, featuring local cast members and Broadway actor Jamie Karen.

Roy Thomson Hall will present Simple Too: An Evening With Yotam Ottolenghi on October 4, 2026, celebrating his forthcoming cookbook and the follow-up to his bestselling Ottolenghi Simple.

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Christine Baranski will be honored with Shakespeare Theatre Company's inaugural Michael Kahn Lifetime Achievement Award.

Broadway in Portland will host the city's first Career Day at Keller Auditorium.

As Dionne Warwick took the stage at Groton Hill Music Center in Groton recently, before she had sung a single word, she was met by a rousing standing ovation.

Come From Away is based on a true story of when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland played host to the world.

For Starra Jones, a baller from rural Plainnole, Arkansas, fulfilling her mother’s dream of basketball glory is her prime motivation.

When it comes to the arts, there are a lot of things in DC that go either unnoticed or get lost in the shuffle.