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Dolly Parton's SONGTELLER HOTEL and DOLLY'S LIFE OF MANY COLORS MUSEUM officially opened in downtown Nashville, offering guests a 240-room hotel with dining, live entertainment and an immersive museum experience celebrating Parton's life and career.

This holiday season, bells will ring and Angels will get their wings! BroadwayWorld has just learned that It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live  Radio Play, directed by four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, will have its Broadway  Premiere at the Broadhurst Theatre.

Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear stars as John Maynard Keynes, the radical economist and member of the influential Bloomsbury Group who became the singular driving force behind arts funding in Britain and built a new and fairer financial model, that ultimately helped reshape the Western World in the aftermath of the First World War. Royal Ballet Principal Natalia Osipova makes her West End debut as the celebrated ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova, a soloist with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes who was considered the embodiment of the new era of modernist ballet.

Outhere Music will release recordings featuring violinist Geneva Lewis performing Barber, Zorn, and Glass; mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor's recital debut; and Paavo Järvi conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.

Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre announced its 66th season lineup, featuring six productions including LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE: THE MUSICAL, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, THE COLOR PURPLE, FATHER OF THE BRIDE, THE LITTLE FOXES, ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

The Austin-based string quartet will perform at The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, collaborate with the Isidore String Quartet at Yale University and Music Mondays in New York City, and appear with clarinetist David Shifrin in Virginia and Michigan.

Pittsburgh CLO and Pittsburgh Public Theater have merged into a single organization called Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh, combining more than 130 years of combined history in musical theater and drama.

Repertory Dance Theatre will open its season with LEGEND & LORE, a program exploring Utah's myths, memories, and landscapes at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City.

Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

SOMM Recordings will release Telemann's Paris Quartets, Vol. 2, performed by the London Handel Players, following the acclaimed first volume marking the ensemble's 25th anniversary.

SOMM Recordings will release new albums including a second volume of Telemann's Paris Quartets performed by London Handel Players and a Cyprus-inspired work centered on the Othello legend.

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Martha Graham Dance Company will present masterworks, new commissions, and Lamentation Variations while touring the US, Canada, England, Spain, Mexico, and China.

The Nashville Symphony announced a free outdoor concert featuring actor and humanitarian Gary Sinise, with Music Director Leonard Slatkin conducting at Walk of Fame Park in downtown Nashville.

Everything old is new again. And our old sleuth Sherlock Holmes is back at it in an all new adventure with more twists and turns than ever. Playwright Kevin Cirone was a winner of the 2025 Maxim Mazumdar New Play  Award for his new play HIS GIRL WATSON: A SHERLOCK NOIR, based on the beloved characters of Arthur Conan Doyle. The prestigious award is presented by  Buffalo's Alleyway Theatre, who now produces the play in it's world premiere.

The National Arts Club will present an evening with the Limón Dance Company, featuring excerpts from works spanning eight decades of American modern dance, alongside a conversation with artistic leaders and company principals.

Citadel Theatre has announced its 2026-27 mainstage season, featuring EUREKA DAY, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and the musical ORDINARY DAYS.

The José Limón Dance Foundation announced its 80th Anniversary Gala, honoring Kristen Brogdon & Northrop and Anna Di Stasi, with the evening dedicated to Carla Maxwell at Lavan Midtown in NYC.

MTI Concert Dance, a division of Music Theatre International, has announced that the company has entered an agreement to exclusively license a series of works created by renowned choreographer José Limón to professional companies, the second choreographer's works to be included in the MTI catalogue.

In 2026, Ontario will host the NTS DramaFest, marking 80 years of theatrical excellence. This event will showcase a variety of performances, highlighting the rich history and ongoing innovation in theater.

Four of Broadway’s ten longest running musicals are currently on the boards: Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, and The Book of Mormon. One, The Phantom of the Opera, closed in 2023 after attaining the title of longest running Broadway show of all time.  But what about Broadway’s longest running plays?

Tony Award–nominated Broadway actress, singer, and author Melissa Errico has released her new American Songbook album, I Can Dream, Can’t I?, now available on all digital streaming platforms. Listen to it now.

This history gives context to the legacies of theatrical dynasties—considered to consist of at least three subsequent generations of theatre creators. In 2026, there is a stigma around any successful professional who follows a parent into their line of work, with this being seen as a pattern of nepotism.

Desert Ensemble Theatre’s (DET’s) world premiere production of DISPERSION OF LIGHT, a historical drama by Richard Rubin, is, as usual, brilliantly directed and acted and technically superb. Mr. Rubin has written a dark psychological study that requires a great deal of thought on the audience’s part. The production is a must-see.

 In February, Plymouth’s Spire Center for Performing Arts is launching the Spire Classic Film Series, celebrating timeless movies—presented the way they were meant to be seen. Learn more about the lineup here!