Barack Obama News

Centenary Stage Company's 2025-26 Season will kick off with a Curtain Up! concert performance by John Lloyd Young in September. Learn more about the upcoming performance here.

Following its acclaimed, sold-out runs in Chicago and LA, the smash-hit musical comedy 44 -THE MUSICAL returns to Chicago for a second term, playing at The Studebaker Theater in the historic Fine Arts Building, August 23 – September 21, 2025.

GRAMMY® nominee and Broadway harpist Kirsten Agresta Copely has released Kuruvinda, a ten-track, harp-driven album of original music. Listen to it now.

The musical comedy 44 – THE MUSICAL, will play The Daryl Roth Theatre for a limited eight-week engagement this fall following a return engagement in Chicago this summer. Learn more here!

Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David is teaming up with Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama for a currently untitled half-hour sketch comedy limited series honoring America's 250th anniversary in 2026. 

Multi-Grammy and Emmy Award-winning SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR will return to North America. CAPA will welcome the SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR to the Southern Theatre for a concert this fall. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Unscripted: An Evening with Robert Reich, the next installment in BroadwaySF’s Unscripted series, is taking place at BroadwaySF’s Golden Gate Theatre. Learn how to attend.

Double-platinum rapper, singer, and songwriter Paul Russell has announced his upcoming Family Reunion Tour. The five-stop tour kicks off on August 5th in Santa Ana, California.

New Carpa Theater Co. will present a special Juneteenth weekend performance of A Time for Healing, A Time for Change, A Time for Theater, featuring two short plays, Lost Boys Found and The Moment.

Floyd Brown, a pro-Trump activist and former Kennedy Center executive, says he was fired after refusing to recant views on same-sex marriage. The dismissal follows months of leadership upheaval under Donald Trump’s chairmanship.

Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit (Moulin Rouge), Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele (Funny Girl) and Nicholas Christopher (Sweeney Todd) will lead the first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS. We have all of the details on the production here, plus watch a promo video!

Philadelphia-based rock & roll artist Low Cut Connie has released “Livin in the USA,” his first new song of 2025. Along with the song release, Low Cut Connie announced additional tour dates in his 2025 headline tour.

Cherry Street Music, the chamber music program of The Allen Center presents Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Musical Celebration featuring the Howard Gospel Choir of Howard University (HGC), with a guest appearance by singer Donna McElroy, Thursday June 19th at 4pm at The Allen Center in Newton MA. 

Today’s subject Francesca Zambello is currently living her theatre life as the Artistic Director of Washington National Opera (WNO). She has been in the position since 2012. Her production of Porgy and Bess begins performances this evening in the Opera House at Kennedy Center where it will play through May 31st.

George Clinton's P-Funk alum and host of PBS's “Detroit Performs LIVE,” Satori Shakoor, breaks the menopause stigma with her bold, comedic stand-up storytelling concert film, Confessions of a Menopausal Femme Fatale.

May 20, 2025 will mark the 31st anniversary of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA) given to ten risk-taking, mid-career artists - experimenters - who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.

Tony and Grammy Award winner JOHN LLOYD YOUNG will return to the FEINSTEIN'S stage with Mostly Soul. Beloved Hits from Motown to Broadway. Learn more here!

The Drama Book Shop will present, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, author events designed to entertain and enlighten. Learn more and see how to attend.

44: The Obama Musical is returning for second terms at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City from May 2 – June 22, 2025, and then at The Studebaker Theater in the historic Fine Arts Building in Chicago from August 23 – September 21, 2025.

A strange, insistent music is coming back to Broadway. BroadwayWorld has just learned that Lincoln Center Theater will soon present Ragtime at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Performances begin September 26. Member onsale May 13. Public onsale May 28.