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The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts in Stillwater, Oklahoma has announced its 2025–2026 season, featuring an array of world-class performers, international ensembles, and Broadway productions.
This fall marks the 70th anniversary of Café Carlyle. Tucked inside The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, the legendary cabaret supper club has been a home for timeless performances. See the lineup here!
Kevin Irving will begin his new role with the York Symphony Orchestra. With experience in the arts sector and a passion for music, Irving is poised to elevate the YSO to new heights.
Violinist Sarah Fazendin will lead the Broadway North American tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music as concertmaster. Set to launch September 9, 2025 at The Kennedy Center, this national Broadway tour will continue into 2026.
Disney has revealed the official teaser trailer for the upcoming original series “Vampirina: Teenage Vampire”. The first two episodes of the music-driven series will premiere on Disney Channel on Friday, Sept. 12. Check out the first-look now!
Shrek 5, the previously announced installment in the hit DreamWorks franchise, has shifted its release date a full six months, moving from December 23, 2026, to June 30, 2027.
The word legend is tossed around quite a bit when talking about performers. Sometimes it’s true but many times it isn’t. This past Friday evening at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center two true modern day legends of musical theatre took the stage to pay homage to two all-time legends of entertainment.
John Proctor is the Villain, Gypsy's Audra McDonald, Betty Boop, and more were honored during the Las Culturistas 2025 Culture Awards last night. The award show celebrates culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year.
Recasting a star who is above the title of a musical is a tricky endeavor. That balance of someone who artistically fulfills the role and someone who can sell enough tickets to be worthy of the above-the-title placement is a complex one, and it seems to becoming a more and more common trend recently for shows, particularly star-driven revivals, to not do a second casting, even if they are financially successful.
Lea Salonga, Jeremy Jordan and more are a part of the Broadway series at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts during the venue's 50th anniversary season. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets!
Tony Award winners Sutton Foster (THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, LITTLE WOMEN, SHREK THE MUSICAL, ANYTHING GOES, THE MUSIC MAN) and Kelli O’Hara (THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, SOUTH PACIFIC, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, THE KING and I) stunned with the Utah Symphony at the Deer Valley Music Festival in Park City on Saturday, July 26.
Tony Award winners Sutton Foster (“Anything Goes,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie”) and Kelli O’Hara (“The King and I”) – each acclaimed as a Broadway performer and song-and-dance artist of the first order – are also known for solo concert appearances.
What did our critic think of PICKNIC POPS: “PATRIOTIC POPS” at Grand Rapids Symphony? The Grand Rapids Symphony is reviving its most iconic and popular summer tradition. The Family Fare Picnic Pops has moved to Secchia Meadows at Millennium Park, and a unique concerts for every music lover! Picnic Pops debuted at Cannonsburg Ski Area in 1995 and quickly became a family-friendly West Michigan summer favorite. The series was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and since then, the Symphony has been working to bring Picnic Pops back to the community.
Bobby Flay is cooking up a Broadway show. On a visit to The Tonight Show, the prolific chef shared that his long-running cooking show, Beat Bobby Flay, will be heading to a Broadway stage at some point in the future.
Some classic musicals will live on forever thanks to that perfect blend of book, musical score,and dance. Cole Porter's ANYTHING GOES continues to enchant audiences 90 years after it's Broadway debut. Multiple versions have taken to the stage and silver screen, cementing such classics as 'You're The Top,' 'Anything Goes, ' Friendship,' and 'It's De-Lovely.'
Broadway favorites come to life in Grand Rapids this summer with Tony Award-winning stars Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara, in a one night show with the Grand Rapids Symphony’s Picnic Pops Series: “A Night of Broadway with Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara” The celebrated duo will pay homage to icons of stage and screen, including Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, as well as fan favorites from their Tony Award-winning and nominated shows. This is a show that the Broadway fan will not want to miss, and it is already the buzz in the theatre community! Broadway World Michigan had the chance to interview the Tony Award winner, Emmy and Grammy-nominated actress Kelli O’Hara, ahead of the show in Grand Rapids, discuss the show, and get a taste of what we might see!
Oliver Roth and LD Entertainment have announced the UK premiere of Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale), coming to the West End for a strictly limited run this autumn.
The new national tour of the iconic musical Beauty and the Beast is now traveling across America. Read the reviews as they come in here and learn more about the production!
Ogunquit Playhouse has revealed that Tony Award nominee Robyn Hurder (Broadway’s Smash, Moulin Rouge!) will star as Tracy Lord in their upcoming production of High Society, alongside previously announced star Max Clayton (The Music Man).
With a dreamy blend of nature and showtunes, Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap delivered a sparkling evening of performances at their fifth annual Broadway in the Park concert.
