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Trustus Theatre announced Kelsey Mesa as its new Executive Artistic Director, marking a leadership transition at the Columbia, South Carolina theater company.

The ASCAP Foundation announced its annual Musical Theatre Workshop at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, featuring live readings and feedback panels for three new musicals by emerging writers.

City Circle Theatre Company will present THE DROWSY CHAPERONE at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

The Tony Award-winning Best Musical THE WIZ, a soul, gospel, and funk-infused twist on The Wizard of Oz, will play The Stranahan as part of its touring run.

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has announced its Autumn 2026 season.

The Frist Art Museum in Nashville will present An Indigenous Present, an exhibition featuring 15 artists spanning a century of modern and contemporary Indigenous art, co-curated by artist Jeffrey Gibson and curator Jenelle Porter.

American Stage announced its production of THE HOT WING KING, Katori Hall's 2021 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, directed by Kenny Moten at its St.

Tafelmusik will close its 2025/26 season with 'BEETHOVEN EROICA & BOLOGNE: THE WINDS OF CHANGE' at Koerner Hall in Toronto, featuring works by Beethoven and composer Joseph Bologne.

Nickel City Opera will present A CANDLE OPERA CONCERT at Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center, featuring a 15-piece orchestra, international soloists, and over a thousand flickering candles.

The Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth announced its inaugural COUNTRYFEST, headlined by Grammy-nominated duo THOMPSON SQUARE, with additional performances by April Cushman and Sarah Martin.

JUNO-nominated comedian Graham Clark will perform 24 consecutive hours of stand-up at Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver for the fourth year, with partial proceeds benefiting the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre.

Theatre Exile will stage the Philadelphia premiere of THE GREAT PRIVATION, a dark comedy by Nia Akilah Robinson set in 1832 and the present day, examining grave robbing's impact on poor and Black communities.

TimeLine Theatre has released a new video offering an inside look at the first rehearsal held in its new Uptown venue for AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, the company’s inaugural production at 5035 N.

Check out brand new production photos of THE RECEPTIONIST, which opens Thursday, May 7 at the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

The Contemporary Theater Company has released photos of its production of The Moors, a gothic absurdist play by acclaimed playwright Jen Silverman, running May 1 through May 28 at The Contemporary Theater Company in Wakefield, Rhode Island.

Bump in the Night Theatre will present HOOKMAN, Lauren Yee's existential slasher comedy, at Bramble Arts Loft in Chicago.

IAMA Theatre Company will close its 18th season with a workshop production of .

Broadway In Chicago and Metra announced a free round-trip rail promotion for nine summer productions, including CHICAGO THE MUSICAL, LES MISÉRABLES, and THE OUTSIDERS.

HEART: DMV AAPI Theatre Alliance and Arena Stage will present a free pre-show conversation with Christopher Chen, playwright of THE MOTION, moderated by HEART co-founder Wonnie Kim, followed by a preview performance.

54 Below announced an upcoming lineup featuring MASQUERADE's Hugh Panaro, Tony winner David Yazbek, Grammy winner Melissa Manchester, Tony winner Matt Doyle, and MAYBE HAPPY ENDING's Claire Kwon, among others.

Students from the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School Pre-Professional Division will perform a new work by ABT dancer Melvin Lawovi and excerpted repertoire including La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beauty, and Frederick Ashton's The Dream.

True Colors Theatre Company announced finalists for the fifth anniversary of its Next Narrative® Monologue Competition, which draws high school students nationwide to compete for more than $16,000 in scholarship prizes.

Tony winner André De Shields returns as Hermes in the seventh and final season of LIVE FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS, the Onassis Foundation's Greek mythology podcast for kids, now featuring original songs in every episode.

Golden Thread Productions and SFBATCO will present the world premiere of ARAB SPRING, a dark comedy by Egyptian-American writer Denmo Ibrahim about two siblings planning an Islamic funeral for their estranged father, at Potrero Stage in San Francisco.

SING DEMOCRACY 250 will present its Washington, D.