Andy Warhol News

Bated Breath Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of DIRTY BOOKS, an immersive look at censorship and book banning. Learn more about the production here.

Six years after its sold out critically acclaimed world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe and London transfer, outrageous MUSIK by writer Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.

Beck Center for the Arts will present Brent Askari’s Andy Warhol in Iran October 3–November 2, 2025, directed by Sarah May. The play imagines Warhol’s 1976 trip to Tehran, where he encounters a young revolutionary in a gripping mix of comedy, thriller, and political drama.

Bated Breath Theatre Company, in conjunction with the New York Center for Immersive Theater, will open its first long-term home, on 14th Street in the heart of Manhattan.

Ryan Raftery will return to Joe’s Pub with his latest creation, The Ballad of JonBenét Ramsey, a satire about our society’s insatiable obsession with true crime. Learn more!

Joe’s Pub will present RYAN RAFTERY: THE BALLAD OF JONBENÉT RAMSEY, a new musical satire from the acclaimed performer and playwright, running September 12–17, 2025.

Following a UK and Ireland live tour last year, FANE are delighted to announce that author Fran Lebowitz will return to the UK with a strictly limited run later this year.

Playful, vibrant and language free children’s theatre show SPLAT! Is coming to London’s Underbelly Boulevard in Soho for 2 nights in July. Learn more here!

There's a playful, vibrant and language free children's theatre show coming to London's Underbelly Boulevard in Soho for 2 nights in July. Learn more!

YoungArts has revealed that Katerina McCrimmon (2016 YoungArts Winner in Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) has been selected as the 2025 recipient of The Ashley Longshore Excellence in the Arts Award. Learn more!

The Other Side of Silence’s Doric Wilson Playwrights Project will present a special reading of Paul Iacono’s new play HIGH PRIEST: Confessions from the Warhol Factory at The Flea Theater. Learn how to attend.

Festival veteran and Scotsman Fringe-First winner Bob Kingdom will return to Edinburgh with his work The Truman Capote Talk Show at The Pleasance Attic in July.

In celebration of its second anniversary, Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club has announced the launch of a companion podcast. Book club readers will now be able to listen to Dua’s one-on-one interviews with authors each month on the go via their preferred podcast platform.

Meg Duffy, the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter known as Hand Habits, has announced their new album, Blue Reminder, and a 2025 tour. Check out a new single and the tour dates now.

Mosaic Theater Company is extending the DC premiere of Andy Warhol in Iran to July 6, 2025. Written by Brent Askari and directed by Serge Seiden, this provocative, humorous portrait is a fictionalized account of the artist's infamous visit to Iran in 1976.

Andy Warhol really did go to Iran. In 1976, the Shah's wife, Farah Pahlavi, arranged to sit for Polaroid photos which Warhol would then use as a basecoat for a series of prints, and Andrew Cohen reproduces Warhol's image of her as a permanently present part of his set design. Warhol also could really order reasonably priced caviar from his hotel's room service

The New York Arab Festival (NYAF) culminates its fourth edition with a vibrant, day-long celebration titled The Alchemist’s Recipes, hosted at the iconic Atelier Jolie at 57 Great Jones Street.

Playful, vibrant and language free children's theatre show SPLAT! is coming to the Greenwich Theatre in June. SPLAT! is a high-energy physical comedy about art, creativity and collaboration.

Maatology Productions will return to the Hollywood Fringe Festival with its award nominated stageplay The Paintings of Lov-ve. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Six years after its sold out critically acclaimed world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe and London transfer, outrageous MUSIK by writer Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe is to return to London.