PRELUDE 2026 Festival to Expand Into Brooklyn at Segal Theatre Center
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 5, 2026
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center will present its 23rd annual PRELUDE Festival, featuring works-in-progress, performances and conversations across contemporary theatre, dance and interdisciplinary performance. Events will take place at multiple venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with free admission.
REWRITE to Make World Premiere at MadLab Theatre
by Rachel Stone - Sep 26, 2026
MadLab will present the world premiere of Greg Vovos' REWRITE, a play about a writer grappling with personal tragedy through a new theatrical work that defies his creative control.
THE FAG WARD and THE FAG FOLLIES Presale Access Ends
by Rachel Stone - Sep 22, 2026
Life Jacket Theatre Co. offers priority presale access to two new musicals based on 1930s prison history. THE FAG WARD and THE FAG FOLLIES tell the stories of inmates imprisoned for homosexuality at New York's Men's Penitentiary.
Tove Styrke Shares New Single ME/YOU (ALWAYS & FOREVER)
by Rachel Stone - Sep 18, 2026
Swedish alt-pop artist Tove Styrke released the new wave-inspired single and announced her forthcoming album I THOUGHT THIS STORY WASN'T ABOUT ME, an introspective meditation on self-relationship.
RADDERALL Release 'Everything is Perfect' Single
by Rachel Stone - Sep 17, 2026
Cleveland psych rock band RADDERALL released the single 'Everything is Perfect,' addressing themes of endless war, media numbness, and political conflict through hypnotic grooves and vintage synthesizers.
THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS Presale to Launch
by Rachel Stone - Sep 15, 2026
Life Jacket Theatre Co. will present a new musical about six inmates in the 1930s Men's Penitentiary's Fag Ward, weaving their stories into high-camp numbers from the ward's annual Christmas pageant.
WILDWOOD to Open AFI FEST 2026 with Stop-Motion Epic
by Rachel Stone - Sep 9, 2026
LAIKA Studios' WILDWOOD will serve as the opening night film of the 40th AFI FEST. The stop-motion fantasy is directed by Travis Knight and features voice performances from Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali and Angela Bassett.
Maxim Chlumecky, Nathan Levy, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer & Ruthie Ann Miles Will Lead THE FANTASTICKS on Broadway
by Nicole Rosky - Aug 25, 2026
Second Stage Theater just announced complete casting for the upcoming Broadway premiere of THE FANTASTICKS, directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. The company of THE FANTASTICKS will feature Maxim Chlumecky (Appropriate, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) as The Boy (Matt), Kevin del Aguila (Some Like It Hot, Frozen) as The Man Who Dies (Mortimer), David Patrick Kelly (Once, The Warriors) as The Old Actor (Henry), Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Spamalot, Beetlejuice) as Matt’s Mother (Mildred Hucklebee), Nathan Levy (& Juliet, Aladdin) as The Boy (Lewis), Ruthie Ann Miles (Sweeney Todd, The King and I) as Lewis’ Mother (Bessie Mae Bellomy), Zane Phillips (“The Comeback,” “Mid Century Modern,” Fire Island) as The Narrator (El Gallo), and Ahmad Simmons (Illinoise, Hadestown) as The Mute. Mr. Phillips will be making his Broadway debut.