Emily Dickinson News

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will return to Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for her popular series of master classes for young professional opera singers.

This year’s Spectrum 2026, produced by First Run Theatre, was unique. The six-play festival featured four wittily written plays that stood on their own. Two were flat-out funny, one was a bit macabre, and Tortured Poets Department was beyond charming.

Local audiences are invited to experience an evening of choral and orchestral splendour as Guildford Choral returns to Holy Trinity Church in Guildford on Saturday 14th March 2026.

Write Out Loud has announced American Literary Heroes, part of the Celebrating America250: Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Though only a handful of Emily Dickinson’s hundreds of poems were published during her lifetime (more than 1700 others were found posthumously), she is best known as a risk-taking writer whose work straddled the line between the straightforward and the more abstract. Inaddition, she has long been an inspiration to composers who clearly found the music in her work. The most recent of these was heard at Carnegie Hall late last week in the local premiere of EMILY—NO PRISONER BE, a song cycle by Kevin Puts that looks long and deep into the eyes of the poet.

Danse Lumière will present Pop Up Ballet at City Center, an evening of highlights from The James Joyce Ballet and other works by Artistic Director Kathryn Roszak, at Studio 5 at City Center, 131 West 55th Street.

The popular literary event, Letters Live, will return to the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 22 April, in support of climate charity Greenpeace. Learn more here!

Write Out Loud is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for Celebrating America250: Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes.

Carnegie Hall has announced its schedule of partner events presented by leading cultural and academic institutions across New York City and beyond from February through July 2026 as part of the Hall's United in Sound: America at 250 festival.

Sparks & Wiry Cries will present the sparksLIVE Song Festival, featuring notable performances including 'The Invisible Man' with Stephanie Blythe, from February 19-21.

The 92nd Street Y in New York will present concert titled Our People, featuring Grammy-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine and acclaimed pianist Kunal Lahiry.

A reading of Emily Dickinson: Paranormal Investigator in Poe’s Finest Hour comes to Portland Stage’s Studio Theater this month. Performances are January 16, 17, and 18 at 7:30pm.

Cynthia Nixon has a lot to celebrate this holiday season! The acclaimed actress is back on Broadway Marjorie Prime, now running at the Hayes Theatre.  On opening night, she hit the red carpet to share some of her favorite holiday tunes. 

Combined Artform + Asylum will present the return of the second annual 30 Minutes or Less Festival, running at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre in Los Angeles.

I love when a school gets creative and develops a concept that truly spotlights the strengths of their students. This was absolutely the case with Joe T. Robinson High School’s theatre program as they presented The Robinson Comedy, directed by Caitlin Peterson. The Senator Stage Team not only studied a wide range of public-domain works but transformed them into a highly entertaining, cleverly cohesive performance that celebrated theatrical history and youthful creativity all at once. 

Second Stage Theater's production of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime begins previews tonight, November 20, on Broadway, directed by Tony Award Nominee and Obie Award-winner Anne Kauffman. Meet the cast of Marjorie Prime here!

Carnegie Hall will launch United in Sound: America at 250 in January 2026, a six-month festival celebrating the evolution of American music across genres and generations.

After touring Los Angeles & Chicago this summer, THEATRE: The Improvised Play returns to the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City. Learn more and see how to join.

Portsmouth NH’s Pontine Theatre will kick off its 49th Season with performances of Tell It Slant: Leaning Toward The Light in a Dark Time by guest artist, John Perrault. Learn more!

Singer-songwriters Anya Turner and Robert Grusecki​​​​​​​ are bringing a new show, Joy & Love, to Sid Gold's Request Room in Chelsea for three performances: Tuesdays September 16th, October 14th, and November 11th.