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The Long Beach Shakespeare Company's New Works Festival will present three original plays at the Helen Borgers Theatre, featuring works by emerging and established writers on love, labor history, and memory.

BAM Rose Cinemas will present FILMAFRICA 2026, a showcase of contemporary and classic Pan-African cinema curated by the New York African Film Festival, featuring world, US, and North American premieres from Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, and beyond.

Everyman Theatre will present Kate Hamill's adaptation of EMMA, directed by Laura Kepley, featuring the theatre's Resident Company in a feminist, contemporary take on Jane Austen's classic.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee will present the 2026 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to four outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry - 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin, and Loren Plotkin.

English National Opera has announced its 2026/27 Season across London and Greater Manchester, featuring nine operas, with six new productions, four operas by contemporary female composers and opportunities for the next generation of opera makers.

Cape Rep Theatre has announced its 2026 season, featuring plays and musicals including a world premiere and a Cape Cod premiere. The season will take place in Brewster, Massachusetts and includes both indoor and outdoor programming.

A new revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is set to come to Broadway next year, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold. Learn more here!

Center Theatre Group has added ten new members to its Board of Directors: Stephen Cheung, Nancy Dennis, Sutton Foster, Jennifer Lewis, and more, bringing the number up to 56.

The acting in this production of Assassins is phenomenal, giving the audience the unsettling experience of relating to these characters as they plot and execute their assassination attempts. Assassins is a musical that will speak to many today.

Since the start of television’s legendary Saturday Night Live in 1975, there has been cross-over between the show and Broadway. Actors who have started out on Broadway have ended up gracing our televisions on Saturday night as cast members in the sketch comedy program.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra will present PSO BRAVO! MUSICAL FAMILIES at the Princeton Public Library, honoring the memory of Ingrid W. Reed and Former Mayor Marvin Reed through a free, newly endowed annual program focused on the strings family.

Marking the first West End transfer for The Bridge, the multi-award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into The Woods will run in the West End this Autumn.

Gordon Bovinet has had long and storied career in Musical Theater, Opera and as one of the most in-demand vocal coaches in Europe. He is in town this week to celebrate his 80th birthday and to take in a performance of the show that launched his career: CATS – or in this case: CATS: JELLICLE BALL!

LIVERPOOL OLYMPIA officially launched its new CIC status with a special event for local schoolchildren, featuring a magic circus show and a first look at the restored Elephant Pit.

Performances are now underway for  CATS: The Jellicle Ball, which begins preview performances Wednesday, March 18 at the Broadhurst Theatre ahead of a Wednesday, April 7 opening night. Meet the cast here!

The Simon & Garfunkel Story will return to the road with a North American tour to nearly 60 U.S. cities, including East Lansing's Cobb Great Hall Stage at Wharton Center.

The new Broadway season is in full swing, full of exciting new shows and revivals of beloved classics. While many of them are original concepts or based on plays, 12 have related films or series that you can watch from home. If you are seeing any of the below productions in 2026, check out how you can study up beforehand or unpack afterwards!

The historic Liverpool Olympia is set to become a Community Interest Company (CIC), enhancing its role in local community development and cultural engagement.

Andy Paluselli will present Real Men Wear Scarves in Pittsburgh, written and performed by Andy Paluselli and directed by Herman Sebek. The production will be presented as part of the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival.

Puffin Cultural Forum will present a special staged reading of In Equal Measure, followed by a facilitated community discussion on police accountability, communal grief, and the moral consequences when justice systems fail.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the nation’s premier ensemble theater company, is pleased to continue its 50th Anniversary Season with August Strindberg’s master class in marital warfare The Dance of Death, adapted by Conor McPherson, directed by ensemble member Yasen Peyankov and featuring an all ensemble cast. 

Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, who made her Broadway debut as Persephone in Hadestown in 2024, will hit the road for her Spirit Of Love tour, an extensive run of live performances for the spring and summer of 2026.

Carolyn Lucas was studying dance in college when a friend took her to see iconic postmodern dance choreographer Trisha Brown (1936–2017) and her eponymous company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The experience changed her life and launched her career, according to Lucas.

Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will join forces with her mother, Linda Benanti, for a special performance of MOTHERS KNOW BEST at Westport Country Playhouse on February 28.

Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will headline the Winterlude Jazz Festival at Johnson County Community College's Midwest Trust Center this March.