John Scott News

Penn Live Arts has announced its 2026–27 season, titled Belonging, featuring performances across dance, music, theatre, and family programming in Philadelphia. The season includes appearances by Tony-winners Audra McDonald and John Cameron Mitchell.

Dance Cork Firkin Crane will present its Winter/Spring season with an enticing programme of public performances and festivals, artist residencies, and professional development opportunities.

Dixon Place will present the prestigious Bessies award ceremony, recognizing outstanding dance and performance artists, on January 20. This event highlights the achievements in dance and provides a platform for artists to be acknowledged.

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories.

Witness the passionate drive of the GAA fused with dance, disco and comedy in HAM SANDWICHES AND DISCIPLINE - Nóra Ní Anluain Fay's perfect storytelling of the world of Irish sports. The production will tour to six venues this October and November:

You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown, the 14th animated Peanuts special, will receive its first-ever release of Vince Guaraldi's complete soundtrack. The full soundtrack album includes the original 16 cues that comprise the score of the special.

On Monday, March 24, more than 200 talented young NYC public school theatre artists made their Broadway debuts in The 2025 Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival for NYC Public Schools. See photos and video here!

For the first time, the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack for It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, is now available. Originally airing over fifty years ago, the special went on to be nominated for an Emmy. Listen to the soundtrack now!

In its 11th year, more than 200 young NYC public school theatre artists will make their Broadway debuts in The 2025 Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival for NYC Public Schools. Learn more and see how to attend.

John Scott's irish modern dance theatre will celebrate 33 years in the dance business and stage 2 spectacular new works together in a continuous dance event. Learn more!

The American Theatre Wing has just announced the winners of the esteemed Obie  Awards-Off and Off-Off-Broadway’s Highest Honor. We have the full list here!

Emma Martin /United Fall will present Birdboy in Sadler’s Wells East. This is Irish choreographer Martin’s London debut with her first solo work, and her first work for audiences of all ages.  

Lee Mendelson Film Productions has announced the release – for the first time ever – of the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack for Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, the 13th animated Peanuts special. It will hit shelves January 17, 2025.

Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) has released – for the first time ever – the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack for You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown, the timeless 8th animated Peanuts® special. Listen to it now!

Pan Pan will present EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR at Whyte Recital Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music, from October 3-13 as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Choreographer and dancer Mufutau Yusuf makes his London premiere in Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Studio with his new work Impasse on Thursday 14 & Friday 15 November 2024. The piece premiered at Dublin Dance Festival 2024 and goes to Dance Base from 13 – 25 August as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Dance Cork Firkin Crane's Summer/Autumn 2024 season will launch with a programme of performances, residencies, and workshops, celebrating dance from across Ireland and the globe, and offering unique opportunities for community engagement and artistic development from July to November 2024.

Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) is set to release – for the first time ever – the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack for You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown, the timeless 8th animated Peanuts® special, from writer and creator Charles Schulz, director Bill Melendez and producers Melendez and Lee Mendelson.

For the first time ever, the complete Vince Guaraldi soundtrack for It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown will be released on Friday, July 5. The album includes the original recordings that comprise the song cues of the special, plus another six bonus or alternative tracks that have never been released or heard before.

CM Performing Arts Center has announced the cast and creative team for WEST SIDE STORY, directed by Martin Aviles. The production runs from August 17 to September 8 at The Noel S. Ruiz Theatre.