An Enemy of the People

In celebration of its 58th anniversary awarding recognition for Equity theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards announces its nominations for the 2025 –2026 season, including the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and more.

The Carbonell Awards announced director Ali Tallman as the first recipient of the Christine Dolen Award for Outstanding Debut, recognizing her work on THE 39 STEPS at New City Players.

Joy Machine Records announced the release of PENELOPE: Live at Joe's Pub, a chamber musical starring Broadway's Grace McLean, as the one-woman show prepares to run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Director Bart DeLorenzo is bringing Henrik Ibsen’s Enemy of the People into the 21st century with a new adaptation that thrusts the play’s central conflicts into sharp contemporary focus.

PHILADANCO! returns to The Joyce Theater featuring a world premiere by Rennie Harris, two NY premieres, and the 25th anniversary revival of Christopher Huggins' Enemy Behind the Gates.

Following it's run in Boston and the award-winning success of Our Class, Craig Balsam, Patrick Catullo, and Thomas M. Neff have announced the New York Premiere of the -Arlekin! production of Delirium.

The Union Avenue Opera gives us brilliant voices in an intimate space.  It’s done that for thirty-two years now.  Their current production is an enormously gratifying Fiddler on the Roof.  

Birmingham, forget traditional 'sit back and relax' theater. Starting July 17th, director and playwright Robert Fuson unleashes a high-octane, interactive 'spectacle of uncertainty' at Encore with Romeo vs. Juliet: Grudge Match. Born from an MFA thesis at the University of Alabama, this choose-your-own-adventure production shatters the mold with 16 unique story tracks shaped entirely by audience energy and real-time voting. Divided into rival houses, theatergoers don their colors—red for Capulet, blue for Montague—to cheer their sect to victory like a high-stakes sporting event. Featuring quick-witted improvisation and a striking visual aesthetic from costume designer Laura DeRocher that blends Shakespeare with early WWE, your voice becomes the ultimate weapon in determining plot and character survival. Presented by Birmingham Festival Theatre, this full-throttle arena experience runs July 17–19 and 24–26.

Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums. 

It is 75 years since Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd first appeared on stage: a collaboration between himself and novelist EM Forster to adapt Herman Melville’s novella.

James Norton will play the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, conceived and directed by Thomas Ostermeier in the West End in Autumn 2027. Learn more here.

Berkshire Opera Festival announced a new production of Donizetti's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, conducted by Brian Garman and directed by Jonathon Loy, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA.

Carrie Keating's surreal dark comedy THE BEAR, EVERY TIME advances as a finalist in Soho Playhouse's Lighthouse Series, with Kate Neuman and Andrés Petruscak joining the cast for an extended run.

THE BEAR, EVERY TIME, a new play by Carrie Keating, is set to run at Soho Playhouse in New York City, produced by ToastCo. Learn more about the upcoming show here!

The Theatre Group at SBCC announced a production of ANYTHING GOES, set to run at the Garvin Theatre in Santa Barbara. Learn more about the upcoming show here!

An interview with the director of Beth Antikoni, now on stage at Bag & Baggage Productions in Hillsboro.

Comedian Sarah Roberts, named in Rolling Stone's Rising Stars of 2024, will bring SCARY MOVIE 7 to Edinburgh's Monkey Barrel 2, blending horror and absurdism to explore loneliness, social media, and human connection.

Theatrical publicity firm Polk & Co. announced that longtime press agents Colgan McNeil and Kelly Stotmeister have been named partners alongside founder Matt Polk, expanding the leadership of the Tony Award-winning firm.

The RSC and Factory International production blending Shakespeare's Hamlet with Radiohead's album, co-created by Thom Yorke, Steven Hoggett, and Christine Jones, will run at the Barbican Theatre following sold-out runs.

The Theatre Group at SBCC will open its upcoming season with Cole Porter's Anything goes, directed by Katie Laris, at the Garvin Theatre on SBCC's West Campus in Santa Barbara.

Tony Award winner Jeremy Strong is taking on a tech giant in the first teaser for The Social Reckoning. Check out the teaser for the film, which serves as a companion piece to David Fincher's The Social Network.

2026 is halfway over, which means that the 2026/27 Broadway season has just begun! Now that the 79th Annual Tony Awards have concluded, all eyes are already on the lineup for the new Broadway season and many Broadway productions have already revealed full details of their upcoming engagements.

The Season, in association with Tony Lance, Mr. Eagle NYC 2026, will present a benefit reading of Mr. Leather, 1976, a new play by Zackary Grady and directed by Ryan Dobrin at The Eagle NYC.

The Warehouse Theatre will present the world premiere of FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL (Or I Love Lave Dash), a new comedy by Kristoffer Diaz, on its Main Stage in Greenville, SC.

The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts will present Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY and Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY in 70mm, alongside a repertory series pairing classic films from both directors.