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Performances are underway for Roundabout Theatre Company's new version of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, The Pirates of Penzance. Meet the cast of Pirates! The Penzance Musical here.

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the most prestigious honors in American theater, celebrating outstanding works that have made a significant impact on the stage. Here's a closer look at what the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is, how it works, and why it matters.

On Wednesday, Marvel slowly unveiled the star-studded cast of the upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday. Several of the newly announced cast members are Broadway and West End veterans, including Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, and more. Check out the full list!

Japanese power pop trio SHONEN KNIFE has announced their 2025 'Everyone Happy U.S. Tour' across North America. The tour features dates in NYC, LA, San Diego and a headline performance at The Music is Art Festival in Buffalo, NY.

The Spire Center for Performing Arts in Plymouth, Massachusetts announced three new shows. World-renowned guitarist Stanley Jordan will pay tribute to Jimi Hendrix in his new show “Stanley Jordan Plays Jimi' on June 21, Pink Floyd tribute band Floydian Trip will play on June 27, and Steely Dan Tribute band Hey Nineteen! will perform on August 16. Tickets go on sale for these shows on Saturday, March 22, at 6:00 a.m. at spirecenter.org. 

Award-winning SF contemporary group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will bring its  successful 17th season to a close with 'Mujeres Ahora' (Women Now) in San Francisco, in collaboration with the San Francisco International Arts Festival.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater (April 29 - May 4) with a program celebrating Trisha Brown’s Unstable Molecular Structure cycle.

Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced complete casting for the Olivier and Tony Award-winning memory play Dancing at Lughnasa, which begins previews on March 19, 2025.  

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.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen actor Bruce French has passed away at age 79 due to complications of Alzheimer's disease. French is best known for his recurring role as Father Lonigan on the NBC daytime drama Passions.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will return to Brooklyn with a spring program that includes a world premiere from choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in collaboration with Samantha Figgins and Chalvar Monteiro. Learn how to purchase!

Some of the shows that the Orpheum has been best known for are Stomp, which ran there for an astounding 29 years, from 1994 to 2023, and the original production of Little Shop of Horrors which spent over five years at the theater from 1982 to 1987. 

Internationally renowned taiko performing arts ensemble KODO is ready to drum its way from Japan to North America in 2025 – bringing heart, history, and high-energy taiko drumming to more than 30 cities.

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La forza del destino is making its comeback to the Greek National Opera after 27 years of absence. Giuseppe Verdi’s iconic opera will debut in the Stavros Niarchos Hall.

The nonprofit Sundance Institute has announced the artists selected for the 2025 Merata Mita Fellowship and the Graton Fellowship for Artists from California-Based Tribes.

Palm Beach Symphony welcomes piano virtuoso Jean-Yves Thibaudet for a special performance of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, which is the composer’s thrilling homage to the hurried pace and enthralling rhythms he discovered during his jazz age trip to America.

Mosaic Theater Company’s benefit The Spark 2025 will honor philanthropists Joan P. & David O. Maxwell, for their dedication to new plays, and award-winning playwright Mona Mansour, for her commitment to art and activism.

The 92nd Street Y, New York's 2024/25 Harkness Dance Center season will continue with a new program from David Dorfman Dance - Downtown to Uptown. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The 92nd Street Y, New York’s 2024/25 Harkness Dance Center season will continue with a new program from David Dorfman Dance – Downtown to Uptown. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The Yale Philharmonia will return to Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2012 and the first time ever under internationally renowned conductor Peter Oundjian.

Get all the details on jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running December 2nd - December 15th.

FALSETTOS, originally written as two-one act musicals set in 1979 and 1981, respectively, feels simultaneously dated and prescient. In this co-production from Court Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company, director Nick Bowling leads a first-rate ensemble that preserves the musical as a period piece but also makes it feel utterly alive. Lauren Nichols’s set design evokes a 1970s retro roller rink and Theresa Ham’s costume designs also use extremely ‘70s colors (and each character wears a signature color). But many of the show’s central themes hit now as ahead of their time and eerily relevant. In particular, the musical’s reverence for Jewish culture and tradition and its unabashed embrace of queer love are especially moving at a time when anti-Semitism and homophobia seem tragically on the rise in America.

In celebration of Rita Moreno’s upcoming 93rd birthday, Barbie is honoring her with a doll as the newest addition to the Barbie Tribute Collection. Learn more and check out the doll here.

BAM has revealed its 2025 Winter Spring Season, featuring Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire, Whitney White's Macbeth in Stride, and more. Learn more about the full lineup here!