Encounter 2004

HERE's 2024-2025 season features four world premieres and a diverse lineup of innovative performances. See the full schedule here!

Bill Kenwright Ltd has announced the cast for the globally acclaimed Ghost the Musical. The tour will open on 22 August 2024 at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre ahead of a major national tour continuing into 2025.

There’s been a number of skill-based shows in London of late, and joining the current trend is Afrique en Cirque created by Yamoussa Bangoura, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Karen O and Danger Mouse return with “Super Breath”, their first new song since the critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated 2019 album Lux Prima. Co-Written by Karen O and Danger Mouse, and Produced by Danger Mouse “Super Breath” extends the beguiling creativity of the project, as O sings of unfulfilled love. Listen to it now!

Sceneworks Studio presents ANASTASIA at Ciccone Theatre this month. Directed by Ariela Pizza-Hindley, this drama follows Anya's journey to uncover her true identity as the lost Russian Grand Duchess. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Franco Ambrosetti releases his second album of ballads with strings, Sweet Caress, arranged by Alan Broadbent and featuring John Scofield, Peter Erskine, Scott Colley, Sara Caswell, and Orchestra. Available August 9, 2024.

Having just completed a slew of headlining shows, acclaimed singer-songwriter-bassist Karina Rykman has announced more US headline dates. New dates include performances in Amagansett, NY, Portsmouth, NH, Amherst, MA, Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, Cambridge, MA, Philadelphia, PA, and Portland, ME.

Starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy comes Focus Features’ captivating gritty biker film inspired by true events, THE BIKERIDERS. Releasing in a special Collector’s Edition with exclusive bonus content, THE BIKERIDERS will be available on Digital August 9, 2024 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-rayTM and DVD on August 13, 2024. The movie will be streaming exclusively on Peacock beginning August 9. 

The Festival has unveiled 30 productions in its 2024 programme, featuring new voices as well as familiar faces, a wealth of Irish and International work, exploring stories about family, identity, migration, climate, colonial legacies, conflict and its resolution.

Experience the magic of CHRISTMAS WITH C.S. LEWIS, starring David Payne, at the Eisemann Center from December 19-22.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has approved the full site plan for its new home, following a multiyear public process. Learn more!

We TV has released an exclusive 15-minute sneak peek of the brand-new season of fan-favorite series, Love After Lockup. The new season of Love After Lockup follows seven couples, including two fan favorites from Love During Lockup, as they discover more love, new doubts, and encounter unforeseen obstacles in their relationships.

Nashville-based heavy duo Friendship Commanders have released their new album BILL - The Steve Albini Mixes, on what would have been Albini's 62nd birthday. The album, which follows the recent single and video 'OUTLIVE YOU,' showcases Albini's mixes and marks a poignant tribute to the late recording engineer and producer. Listen to it now.

Emery Entertainment will bring back 'Christmas with C.S. Lewis' to the Westport Playhouse stage starring St. Louis's own Gregory Williams Welsch, November 29-December 15.

Shakespeare & Company’s colorful, fun, and zany production is set in the seaside Vaudeville of New York City, 1912 – a mystical and sometimes strange place filled with as much magic and mischief as sailors and sea captains!

Partnering with oceanographer Georgy Manucharyan and six visionary composers, violinist Rachel Lee Priday will embark on a musically rich project that blends classical music with the visual poetry of fluid dynamics experiments, including a new album, Fluid Dynamics, with pianist David Kaplan out Friday, August 23, 2024 on Orchid Classics. 

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is now on stage through Aug. 9 at the Straz Center, where Jobsite is resident theater company. Joining 2pm performances added last week for Sat. July 27 and Aug. 3, the resident theater company of the Straz Center has just added two final dates: Thu., Aug. 8, and Fri., Aug. 9, both at 7:30pm.

What did our critic think of THE WIZARD OF OZ at Queensbury Theatre?

In collaboration with Duluth Playhouse, New Native Theatre will present Fallenstar: The Watchoverers, an exciting new superhero play by Ramón Esquivel. Running October 11 - 13, 2024 at the NorShor Theatre, this Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) play has been commissioned by the BIPOC Superhero Project.

Violinist Rachel Lee Priday releases her new album Fluid Dynamics, featuring works by Smith, Wiancko, Spinei, Andres, Lanzilotti, and Cerrone, with pianist David Kaplan.

The second Greenhouse Festival will return this Autumn, from 2 to 7 September, continuing the collaboration between the Orange Tree Theatre and the drama school LAMDA, celebrating the talents of emerging directors and artists.

The Sundance Institute has unveiled the 2024 Trans Possibilities Intensive Fellows, celebrating emerging transgender artists and their innovative work in film and media.

See the full cast of Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shaw. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Opera Holland Park delivers two short pieces - an ideal introduction to the form's unique capacity to bring emotional weight to any story

Due to overwhelming demand, two new dates have been added to Afterlife presents Anyma ‘The End of Gensys’ Live at Sphere in Las Vegas on December 29 and 30. These shows, all presented by Live Nation, join their highly anticipated New Years Eve show on December 31, 2024.

Singer, songwriter, and activist Joan Baez takes on a new role as a published poet at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). The event will take place on Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 8:00 p.m.

Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea presents Sal Viviano: Perfectly Frank - A Century of Sinatra, Saturday, July 20, 7:30PM at LTV Studios in East Hampton.

]The Virginia Theatre Festival is wrapping up its 50th Anniversary season with the two-time-Tony Award-winning, hilarious whodunit The 39 Steps which opens on July 25.