Jean Cocteau News

Tony Award winner Frances Ruffelle and Olivier Award winner Stephen Ashfield will star in I CAN DIE TOO, a new play with music co-written by Ruffelle, Sally George, and Alan Cumming, at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Un musical que resignifica el mito de Orestes para demostrar que el amor, el dolor de una separación, y el empoderamiento femenino, son temas tan reales hoy como lo fueron en la antigua Grecia.

Opera Parallele will present an engaging lineup for its 2026 spring season, featuring a mix of contemporary and classic operas. The season aims to attract a diverse audience with its innovative productions.

While the large majority of plays that make it to Broadway were written in English, a small fraction of plays were originally penned in a different language and translated. 

Por primera vez en el Teatro Colón, se presentará la que Satie consideró su obra maestra: Sócrates (1918), un «dramasinfónico» basado en tres diálogos de Platón. Se trata de una obra sumamente particular, pocas veces interpretada en vivo.

Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times has announced the guest pianists for its E4TT/RMF New Music Piano Summit. Learn more here!

​​​​​​​The LAB, a new performance and production company, will present the New York City premiere of Hopper Haiku, an original music and multimedia experience inspired by the paintings of American realist Edward Hopper.

Opera Parallèle, San Francisco's contemporary opera company now in its 16th anniversary season, is on the move—stretching its wings across North America and beyond. Learn more here!

Madison Lyric Stage will present an original evening of suspense, music, and murder: FOUR MURDERS IN FORTY YEARS, running September 19–21 at the historic Deacon John Grave House. 

Watch a video of 'Kaboom' from the Signature Theatre's DC premiere of The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis (Be More Chill, NBC’s Smash) and a book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss.

Signature Theatre has revealed a new look at the DC premiere of The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis (Be More Chill, NBC’s Smash) and a book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss (Indian Summer, Reunion). Check out brand new video of 'Nixon's Big Number' from the show.

Signature Theatre has revealed first look photos of the DC premiere of The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis (Be More Chill, NBC’s Smash) and a book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss (Indian Summer, Reunion).

Watch a preview of Joe Iconis' The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical at Signature Theatre! It stars Eric William Morris, George Abud, Darlesia Cearcy, George Salazar, and more.

As Joe Iconis' The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical prepares for its Washington DC premiere at Signature Theatre, watch an exclusive video of George Salazar performing 'Brown Buffalo.' 

Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine is a spellbinding, one-act, one-woman opera based on a play of the same name written by Jean Cocteau, who directed the first production of the opera in 1959.

Signature Theatre has revealed the cast and creative team for the DC premiere of The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

Opera Parallèle will present the West Coast debut of Harvey Milk Reimagined, a bold and timely refreshed version of the groundbreaking opera originally composed by Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie.

Theater 2020 will bring COMPANY to Brooklyn this spring. The 12-time TONY Award winning musical will run at The Mark O'Donnell Theater for a limited engagement, April 17th through May 11th, 2025.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has unveiled details of its 2025/26 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the last in which legendary maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, will serve in his current role.

Des Kennedy, Artistic Director of The Everyman in Cork, launched his inaugural season today with EVERYMAN MADE: world-class theatre, made by The Everyman, for Cork and beyond. Learn more here!