American Ballet Theatre News

The Pollstar-nominated Disney Junior tour is back with an ALL-NEW show, Disney Junior Live On Tour: Costume Palooza!

Casting for the final three weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s 2022 Summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House has been announced. 

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: Summer for the City and American Ballet Theatre present ABT Silent Disco with DJ Remeice and Connor Holloway on Saturday, June 25 at 10:00 pm at The Oasis on Josie Robertson Plaza.

Veteran performer Anne Merino graces the stages at the Lincoln Civic Auditorium on June 23 and the Parkview Room on June 29 as the uniquely eccentric character Dr. Dessa Dagmar in Placer Repertory Theater's performances of Ghosts of Placer County, a new work being featured at the show Haunting History. 

​Placer Repertory Theater’s ColLABoration LAB this June 22nd at 7 p.m. will bring “Prismatic Views” into focus by examining the myriad facets of self-identification and how they impact our works, roles, aspects, and mindsets.

​​​​​​Berkshire Theatre Group has announced casting for shows in BTG’s Late Summer 2022 Season. The full season will feature B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching, a world premiere play and an award recipient of the GRANTS FOR ARTS PROJECTS from the National Endowment for the Arts; Once, a Tony Award-winning musical; Songs For a New World, the first musical by a Tony Award winner; Dracula, a classic gothic tale of horrors; and Edward Albee's Seascape, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. 

Stella Abrera, former Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, has been named Acting Artistic Director of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. The appointment, effective August 22, was announced today by Kevin McKenzie, Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre.

Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union to the West, has issued a searing criticism of President Putin and the war in Ukraine, accusing him of creating a “world of fear”, according to The Times.

On Saturday, June 18 at 10:00 pm, leave your troubles at the dock and sail along to the land of disco and funk!

The School Of American Ballet celebrated Suki Schorer's 50th Anniversary at SAB on Friday evening, June 3rd, 2022. Since joining the permanent faculty in 1972, Suki has touched the lives of countless young dancers, imparting her wisdom and singular understanding of Balanchine's teaching and aesthetic to generations of students. The School will honor Suki at its 2022 Workshop Performances.

Mickey Mouse is taking over the Lied Center!

The Washington Ballet today announced that five members of its Studio Company have been promoted into the Company. The dancers are: Andrea Allmon; Rafael Bejarano; Nicholas Cowden; Audrey Malek; and Isaac “Rench” Soriano. 

Ballet Hispánico School of Dance announces that registration is now open for a week-long summer professional development program for dance teachers, July 11-15, 2022. The program is $525 for in-person attendees and $435 for virtual attendees, with discounts available for School of Dance partner organizations, including NDEO and NASD members.

Casting for the first two weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s 2022 Summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.

The School Of American Ballet invites alumni near and far to celebrate Suki Schorer's 50th Anniversary at SAB! Since joining the permanent faculty in 1972, Suki has touched the lives of countless young dancers, imparting her wisdom and singular understanding of Balanchine's teaching and aesthetic to generations of students. The School will honor Suki at our 2022 Workshop Performances and we invite alumni to join us in celebrating her this spring.The School Of American Ballet invites alumni near and far to celebrate Suki Schorer's 50th Anniversary at SAB! Since joining the permanent faculty in 1972, Suki has touched the lives of countless young dancers, imparting her wisdom and singular understanding of Balanchine's teaching and aesthetic to generations of students.

Two legends in experimental theater – the iconic writer/director Martha Clarke and the Tony Award-winning La MaMa ETC – will collaborate for the first time when La MaMa presents the world premiere of Ms. Clarke’s newest full-length work, GOD’S FOOL.

PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL is coming to Segerstrom Center for a limited two-week engagement from July 5 to July 17.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts expands its Juneteenth Celebration this year with a weekend long festival of events– Good Vibrations and Liberation! – on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza, Friday, June 17- Sunday, June 19.

Ballet Tech’s Kids Dance will return to The Joyce Theater (175 Eighth Avenue) with a program devised by the organization’s new artistic director, Dionne D. Figgins. The production celebrates founder Eliot Feld, featuring some of his early Kids Dance pieces as part of Ballet Tech’s expanding repertory.

American Repertory Ballet (ARB) celebrates its spring season finale at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, June 3rd - 5th, 2022, with Movin' + Groovin', featuring world premieres by three of today's most exciting and innovative choreographers.