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A Play, A Pie and A Pint Announces Autumn 2025 Season
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 15, 2025

PPP announced 12 new plays as part of their 2025 Autumn season. A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has today announced its Autumn 2025 season, with 12 brand-new productions performing weekly from Monday 1 September to Saturday 22 November 2025 at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and on tour across Scotland in Ayr, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Paisley.

Individual Tickets on Sale For Opera Orlando Summer Concert Series
by Stephi Wild - Jun 24, 2025

This 2025-26 season, Opera Orlando is celebrating its 10th Anniversary, and the festivities kick off in August with its annual Summer Concert Series at the University Club of Winter Park.

THE MEETING Opens Tomorrow At Thymele Arts
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 13, 2025

Theatre Unleashed returns to the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June with The Meeting, a powerful new play by acclaimed playwright Brian James Polak that imagines a not-so-distant dystopia in which all forms of artistic expression are banned.

Brooklyn Art Song Society's 16th Season Features Return Of New Voices Festival and More
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 13, 2025

The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced its 2025–2026 season, its sixteenth, under the banner Cycles. This year-long exploration of the most ambitious song cycles in the canon also includes a three-part New Voices Festival: Longing.

THE MEETING Comes to Hollywood Fringe Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jun 10, 2025

 The Meeting, a new work by accomplished playwright Brian James Polak, produced by veteran company Theatre Unleashed will be presented at Thymele Arts in Los Angeles.

Full Cast & Creative Team Set For PASSION At Blank Theatre Company
by Emmy Rice - Jun 1, 2025

Blank Theatre Company has announced the cast and creative team for the second musical of their 2025 season, Passion, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by James Lapine and is based on the film 'Passione d'Amore', originally directed by Ettore Scola.

Review: PINOCCHIO, Lanternhouse
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Dec 14, 2024

All Pinocchio has ever wanted is to be a real boy. But hold on…if he wants things, surely that means he has thoughts and feelings. And if he has thoughts and feelings, then doesn’t that mean he has a brain and a heart? And if he has all that, doesn’t that make him a real boy already?

Review: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS - IN THE 302 - at DE Theatre Co
by Greer Firestone - Dec 13, 2024

Delaware Theatre Company serves up a frothy confection of a Christmas juke box musical in HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS -IN THE 302. Juke box refers to the likes of MAMMA MIA, JERSEY BOYS Sand BEAUTIFUL: The Carol King Musical. They are popular for people enjoy hearing the tunes they’re already familiar with. To understate, the Christmas season provides a cornucopia of possibilities for this jukebox.

MACBETH Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo to Play Movie Theaters
by Stephi Wild - Oct 9, 2024

Macbeth, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, which is currently playing to sold out houses in the West End, will come to cinemas next year. Learn more about when the show was captured and when it'll be released in movie theatres.

OPERA America Announces 2024 National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards
by Stephi Wild - Sep 20, 2024

OPERA America has announced the recipients of the 2024 National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards, which honor outstanding trustees of North American opera companies for their exemplary leadership and service on behalf of their respective organizations.

Review: THE LAST CABARET ON EARTH, Oran Mor
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Sep 15, 2024

An electrifying show full of music and laughter by Brian James O’Sullivan that asks “how would you want to spend your last hour?”

A Play, A Pie and A Pint Announces 2024 Autumn Season
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 18, 2024

A Play, A Pie and A Pint announce their 2024 Autumn season.

Complete Cast and Production Team Set For LES MISERABLES, Presented By Uptown Music Theater Of Highland Park
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2024

Through special personal arrangement with renowned producer Cameron Mackintosh, Uptown Music Theater of Highland Park has been granted an exceptional license to produce LES MISERABLES, at the new Deerfield Performing Arts Center.

MACBETH With David Tennant and Cush Jumbo Will Transfer to the West End
by Stephi Wild - Apr 23, 2024

The Donmar Warehouse's critically acclaimed production of Macbeth, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, and directed by Max Webster, will transfer to the West End.

Pigs Do Fly Productions' THE AFFECTIONS OF MAY Opens At Empire Stage Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Feb 6, 2024

Pigs Do Fly Productions' second show of the 2023-2024 season will be The Affections of May, Canadian playwright Norm Foster's delightful comedy that explores love, loss, and new beginnings.   The production will run from March 8th through March 31st at Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale.  

Photos: First Look at David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in MACBETH
by Stephi Wild - Dec 15, 2023

All new photos have been released for Macbeth at the Donmar Warehouse, starring David Tennant (Macbeth) and Cush Jumbo (Lady Macbeth). Check out the photos here!

Review: UGLY! A CINDERELLA STORY, Lanternhouse Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Dec 9, 2023

In this magical makeover journey, the Fairy Godmother and Ugly Sister must work together to achieve a transformation really worth doing and discover that true worth is on the inside, not the outside. But will the Ugly Sister accept the help she needs or has she been wearing this ‘ugly’ label too long to change?

Photos: First Look at UGLY: A CINDERELLA STORY at Cumbernauld Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Nov 27, 2023

Cumbernauld Theatre is ready to transform into the magical Wondernauld with Ugly: A Cinderella Story, an unforgettable new spin on the classic Cinderella story from writer Gary McNair, opening this week. Check out all new photos here!

Photos: Inside Rehearsal For Donmar Warehouse's MACBETH, Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo
by Stephi Wild - Nov 24, 2023

All new rehearsal photos have been released for Macbeth with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo at the Donmar Warehouse. Check out the photos here!

Full Cast and Creative Team Set For MACBETH at Donmar Warehouse
by Stephi Wild - Oct 31, 2023

With the critically acclaimed production of Clyde's currently running at the Donmar, Artistic Director Michael Longhurst and Executive Director Henny Finch have announced the full cast for Macbeth.