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Sophie Power's CVNT, a bouffon-style clown show blending physical theatre and interactive comedy to reclaim feminine pleasure, is set to return to Assembly George Square at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Resolve Productions will present DIRTY DANCER, a one-woman parody of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, at Underbelly Cowgate during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Creator and performer Melissa Firlit plays every character from the film.

Acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated band Gov’t Mule, led by GRAMMY-winning guitar legend, vocalist, songwriter and producer Warren Haynes, and nine-time GRAMMY-winning reggae icon Ziggy Marley have announced the Dreaming The Same Dream Tour.

Some musicals fade with time, but more than 25 years after its London premiere, MAMMA MIA! seems determined to do the opposite. The musical continues to fill theatres around the world, introducing new audiences to the story while giving longtime fans another reason to revisit the songs they already know by heart. Few productions have maintained the kind of global appeal that MAMMA MIA! has enjoyed since its debut, and its latest stop at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, BC this week offers another reminder of why. 

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre will present NuWorks 2026 at Theatre Row, featuring self-created works by 11 artists spanning poetry, dance, music, and text.

SHELL, a solo show by Ana Evans fresh from a five-star Edinburgh Fringe run, opens at SoHo Playhouse's Huron Room in a limited engagement blending drag, clown, and queer sex education.

The Tank NYC announced the lineup for PRIDEFEST 2026, an annual festival of new performances by queer artists curated by Max Mooney, featuring theater, comedy, puppetry, storytelling, and music at The Tank in New York City.

Theatre Tallahassee's production of I HATE HAMLET has received a strong review, with particular praise directed at the performances of Andy Digby and Bob Myers as Andrew Rally and John Barrymore.

Kitty Falcon's dark comedy SITTING (IN SILENCE), a personal exploration of grief, mental health, and father-daughter estrangement set during a silent meditation retreat, heads to the Edinburgh Fringe after winning awards at Brighton Fringe.

Jacob Sparrow's debut play SANCTUARY, winner of the inaugural Leodis Prize, heads to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The drama draws on real events surrounding an AIDS hospice in a Suffolk village.

The Arkansas Country Music Awards have become one of the state's most anticipated celebrations of independent country music, honoring everyone from rising stars to seasoned veterans who continue to shape the Arkansas music scene.

Happy Tonys Week, BroadwayWorld! It is June 1, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Grammy and Emmy winner Will Roland, Tony winner Norm Lewis and more. 

This June, Broadway fans can beat the heat with a slew of new movies, shows, and music, including the movie musical Power Ballad, the disaster comedy Stop! That! Train!, and a new Hamilton documentary is coming to Disney+.

Ariana Grande releases 'hate that i made you love me,' the first single from her new album 'petal,' out July 31. Co-produced with Max Martin. Listen now!

GRAMMY-winning hitmaker David Guetta and megastar Jennifer Lopez have revisited their dance-pop single, 'Save Me Tonight,' dropping a new Spanish-language remix featuring Mexican singer-songwriter Gabito Ballesteros, titled 'Sálvame Hoy.' Listen to it now.

The Wilbury Theatre Group wrapped up it's 2025-2026 season with Conor McPherson's Tony-nominated stylistic musical 'Girl From The North Country'. Set in an a Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota boarding house in 1934, McPherson weaves a tale of multiple families and people's lives converging together at the house, many of those lives within hours of reaching a life-altering turning point that will change their course forever. In addition to wonderful prose that could very well be as pertinent today as then, McPherson intermingles reimagined Bob Dylan songs throughout the musical, not as a buffer between scenes but as a way to also tell the story through each character.

The Huntington's annual Spotlight Gala raised a record $1.7M at Boston's SoWa Power Station, honoring Karen Holmes Ward, playwright Mfoniso Udofia, and the Nancy and Edward Roberts Family for their contributions to the arts.

Singer, actress and Broadway star Katharine McPhee is the next artist to join the late Dan Seals for a newly reimagined version of “The Healing Kind,” releasing June 5.

Is there a world in which the Wicked movie could have starred a Jonas brother? On a recent episode of the Hey Jonas! podcast, Joe Jonas revealed some of the auditions that didn’t go in his favor, one of which was for Wicked. 

West End LIVE, Europe's largest free musical theatre festival, announced its 2026 line-up featuring over 50 performances at Trafalgar Square, including HAMILTON, WICKED, LES MISÉRABLES, MAMMA MIA!, and PADDINGTON THE MUSICAL.

Paul Shearman's solo show THE LAST AUDITION, which blends Shakespeare with a personal exploration of dementia and memory loss, will make its UK premiere at theSpace on the Mile during Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Comedian Garrett Millerick will bring a live comedy experiment to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, partnering with an AI expert to build a bot version of himself and test whether machines can replace comedians.

Bag&Baggage Productions and Native Performing Arts Network will co-present ANTíKONI, a Nez Perce reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone by Beth Piatote, directed by Jeanette Harrison, at the Vault Theater in Hillsboro.

Oh!Scare Wilde Productions will present the UK premiere of THE PIGEON FACTORY at Underbelly Cowgate as part of the Culture Ireland Edinburgh Showcase, a darkly absurd one-man show written and performed by Aaron O'Neill.