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 Profile Theatre will welcome two-time Guggenheim Fellow Jen Silverman and Richard Rogers award winner, Tony Voter, and Dramatist Guild Council Member Mike Lew for their residency in Profile’s 2025-2027 cycle! 

Inman Park's Horizon Theatre is hosting over two dozen talented young playwrights from across the country in its 27th Annual New South Young Playwrights Festival. Learn more and see how to attend.

Amidst a national funding crisis, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference will return to McCall, Idaho June 2-14 to celebrate its 25th year with a powerful lineup of new plays and events.

Including their Christmas offering – a  comedy reimagining of Dracula written by Mock the Week creator Dan Patterson and Artistic Director Jez Bond – Park Theatre has announced four new shows.

Queer Theatre Kalamazoo is premiering the award-winning musical Turnover: A New Leaf to conclude their 11th season. Learn more!

Beloved Scottish nanny Euphegenia Doubtfire will be packing up her suitcase and hitting the road next year as her West End and Broadway musical Mrs. Doubtfire tours the UK and Ireland for the first time.

MGM+ has ordered the original thrilling anthology series American Hostage, starring award-winning actor Jon Hamm in the role of Fred Heckman. The show is based on the scripted podcast of the same name.

Danny Dyer is developing an idea for a new play about his close relationship with playwright Harold Pinter. The idea is in its early stages and he's still working on putting together the team.

Cathy Weis Projects will present four Sundays on Broadway events this spring. Co-curated by Cathy Weis and Martita Abril, the evenings will feature new and in-progress works by nine visionary artists.

Portland Stage Company will present a new play by John Cariani, NOT QUITE ALMOST! John Cariani returns to Maine to bring a new play to life at Portland Stage. Learn more here!

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced the recipients of the 2025 Keep it Fringe fund. This is the third year of the fund, an initiative created to support Fringe artists to realise their professional ambitions, and in 2025 funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

The full cast and creative team have been announced for Speed a break-neck journey through the daily annoyances and deep-buried secrets that leave us spinning which opens at the Bush Theatre in April.

OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Learn more about the program and the awardees.

Jay Gatsby and Frances Mayli McCann will play Daisy Buchanan when his smash hit new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's landmark novel The Great Gatsby makes its West End debut at The London Coliseum this spring. 

In the movie, Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families.

WICKED has announced its full new London cast who are set to begin performances at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre in March. Learn more about the full cast here!

Nick Freed is joining artistic forces with Kay Ailee Bush, Summer Baer, and Kayla Lindsay to create Glass Elevator’s first full season. Freed shared that there are richly gifted professionals in St. Louis who are eager to experiment and create cool new things. Glass Elevator will open its season in July with a new play development series called their “Ground Floor Series” that will feature a play that is 90-minutes or less. They will begin accepting script submissions in February from emerging St. Louis playwrights. Following their summer production, Glass Elevator will stage VAMPIRE DATING SHOW in the fall, a devised production that is based around a captivating vampire mistress in a macabre dating show parody set in a surreal gothic style studio.

Rock band L.S. Dunes has shared the title track from their forthcoming album, Violet, which will be out on January 31st, 2025. Listen to the new song now.

MUBI, the global film distributor, streaming service and production company, has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette for Coralie Fargeat’s electrifying body-horror, The Substance. Watch it now!

wild project in association with Contemporary Performance will present the 7th Annual Special Effects Festival at wild project beginning next week. Learn more about the lineup here!