For eighteen seasons, Leona Mitchell's voice filled the Metropolitan Opera House, one of the grandest stages in American music. As a leading spinto soprano, she brought dramatic weight and soaring color to roles like Aida, Liù in Turandot, and both Leonoras in Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Il Trovatore. She sang for four U.S. presidents. She stood before audiences at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and opera houses across Europe and beyond. By any measure, Leona Mitchell built one of the great careers in American opera.
Country duo Presley & Taylor released the emotionally raw track SO BADLY from their forthcoming album ACT MY AGE, exploring the aftermath of ignoring warning signs in a failed relationship.
Today’s subject Trevor Nunn is most definitely one of the most versatile directors to ever work in the theatre. Through his long and distinguished career, he has helmed some of the biggest theatre events to ever hit the stage on both sides of the Atlantic. He is currently living his theatre life as the director The Score which is currently running at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) through October 25th at Harman Hall.
Begin Again composer Pat Monahan, director Lorin Latarro, and stars Emma Busse (Gretta) and Patrick Heusinger (Dan) have shared insight into the new musical's pre-Broadway engagement at The Old Globe in a new exclusive video.
The Coolidge Corner Theatre will present the second season of CINEMA MASALA, a monthly series of Indian films presented in association with the Mumbai-based Film Heritage Foundation. The series will feature eight screenings of Bollywood classics including DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE and THE LUNCHBOX.
A collection of 30 original photographs from Elvis and Priscilla Presley's Las Vegas wedding, plus intimate images from Graceland, will go under the hammer at Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen.
Featuring book and lyrics by Dan Marshall and music by composer Julianne Wick Davis, WILD CHILD is an ambitious, sincerely earnest, and, at times, cleverly innovative new musical about a group of teenagers who are forced to join an outdoor wilderness therapy program where they must grapple with identity, self-acceptance, and belonging. The world premiere production continues through October 4, 2026 at the Laguna Playhouse.
Historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams will present TO KILL A QUEEN at G Live in Guildford, examining the relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I through historical research and theatrical storytelling.
Roundabout Theatre Company will soon present the New York premiere production of The Heart with book and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, music and lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath, music supervision and arrangements by Ian Eisendrath, choreography by Mandy Moore and direction by Tony Award-winner Christopher Ashley based on Maylis de Kerangal's novel Réparer les vivants. The cast just met the press and you can check out photos here!
Austrian songwriter Oskar Haag shares a new single ahead of his North American debut album LOST CAUSE, due on Lullaby Records. The intimate ballad precedes a European tour and performances at major festivals.
Ballet Theatre of Maryland, the state's premier professional ballet company, kicks off its 2026-2027 season with the company premiere of La Sylphide, October 16-18. This story of love and the supernatural, set in the rugged hills of the Scottish Highlands, has captivated audiences for almost two hundred years.
There is a distinct, defiant magic that happens when queer storytelling plants its roots exactly where it is needed most. Austin Rainbow Theatre is presenting the regional premiere of THE RECIPE BOX, the latest work from legendary Southern storyteller Del Shores (SORDID LIVES, SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES). Produced alongside his longtime collaborator Emerson Collins and Austin Rainbow Theatre’s Artistic Director Clinton Williams, the play brings Shores’ trademark blend of hysterical Southern grit and devastating emotional honesty to Austin.
Historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams present a theatrical examination of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I, challenging centuries of historical interpretation that cast the cousins as bitter rivals.
With the Wuthering Heights film adaptation this February, critics everywhere saw how easy it is to strip the Brontë sisters’ particular brand of Gothic novel down to its bare essentials, and lose everything of substance along the way. This musical version of Jane Eyre fares slightly better, but still makes a complex novel a hollow shell of itself.
Kansas City Repertory Theater’s new production of “Come From Away” is top notch in every possible way. “Come From Away” is about how one remote Canadian town rallied in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America to embrace neighbors they could not have imagined they shared on the day before.
Odyssey Opera will open its season with a one-night concert at NEC's Jordan Hall featuring rarely performed works by Edward MacDowell, Amy Beach and George Whitefield Chadwick, including a Boston premiere.
Write Out Loud, the annual contest creating opportunities for musical theater’s next generation of songwriters, has announced the cast of its upcoming eighth studio EP. BroadwayWorld shares exclusive photos from inside the studio.
There is no doubt that Östgötateatern’s production of *Mrs. Doubtfire* will be loved just as much as the movie. Funny, heartwarming, and touching. A wonderful family musical. As the curtain falls, I have a happy tear in the corner of my eye and a big smile on my face.
I never thought I would have such a good time watching five women talk about their sexual organs, but I absolutely understood every moment as if I had been lucky enough to have been assigned female at birth.
John Strysik is the adaptor/director of The Case-Book of C. Auguste Dupin in with its world premiere engagement opening at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills opening September 17, 2026. It brings three of Edgar Allan Poe’s foundational detective stories - The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, and The Purloined Letter - into a single, cohesive evening of theater. Here’s my conversation with him about his inspiration for the play, his dual role with the production, and what inspired him to bring its world premiere to Theatre 40.
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