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Beloved Seattle theater mainstay, Director Timothy McCuen Piggee (Hello, Dolly!), brings a triumphant new take to Village Theatre's production of The Color Purple, a powerful musical celebration of resilience and self-discovery featuring a Grammy Award-winning score infused with jazz, gospel, ragtime and the blues, with music supervision by American theater legend Sheilah V Walker (Broadway's Porgy and Bess and Ragtime, The Color Purple National Tour).

The 92nd Street Y, New York will present Benjamin Verdery & Friends: Some Towns and Cities with special guests next week. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Claude-Michel Schönberg (Music) and Herbert Kretzmer musical theatre adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel, LES MISÉRABLES THE ARENA SPECTACULAR is a captivating, staged concert designed for large venues.

The American Theatre Guild has announced the 25–26 Season for The Buddy Holly Hall. Performances will begin in January with Water For Elephants. Learn more about the season here!

At an exclusive event at Wembley Stadium, it was announced that Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of Live Aid with a very special performance at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, on Sunday 13 July, followed by an exclusive after party with surprise special guest performances at Koko, Camden.

Back to the Future at the Straz wasn’t just a performance but a phenomenon. It was a collision of story, skill, and science fiction that made the impossible feel intimate.

Broadway Across Canada has unveiled its 2025 - 2026 Broadway season at Edmonton’s prestigious Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Learn more and see how to attend!

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), in partnership with Odyssey Opera, will present the New England premiere of Frederick Douglass at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. 

Queensland Performing Arts Centre has announced a free program of community events to reach more Queenslanders than ever as part of this year's QPAC International Series – an exclusive Australian season of Ballet Preljocaj's Swan Lake in the Lyric Theatre from Saturday 31 May to Saturday 7 June 2025. 

A bevy of Broadway’s brightest stars - from icons Jennifer Holliday and Andrea Martin to show-stopping newcomers Tom Francis and Jasmine Amy Rogers - lit up the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 28, 2025, at the inaugural Broadway Dream Roles. The lineup brought to life the characters they’ve always longed to play through spectacular performances and heartfelt storytelling. Check out photos of the show.

Wentworth Gallery will present an exclusive collection of works by Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Elvis Costello. Making his highly anticipated art showing, Costello will showcase his creations at two Wentworth Gallery locations on the East Coast.

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), in partnership with Odyssey Opera, will present the New England premiere of Frederick Douglass at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. 

Music Theatre International has acquired the rights to the “Hits Musicals Collection” from Lively McCabe Entertainment, the theatrical development company behind Clue and Mystic Pizza. Learn more!

“Clue,” the hilarious murder mystery comedy inspired by the Hasbro board game and adapted from the fan-favorite film, is coming to Overture Hall in May. Learn more here!

May at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will feature the New York premiere of Backbone, and more. See the full lineup here and learn how to attend upcoming events!

Short Story Theatre will present an evening of five warm, wise and wonderful true stories on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at The Art Center Highland Park.

Soundstreams has revealed the company's 43rd season, opening this November with Sarah Kirkland Snider's poignant choral work Mass for the Endangered. Learn more!

LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE will present one of August Wilson's greatest triumphs focusing on the decade of the ‘50s, the Pulitzer Prize winning play FENCES, directed by Yvette Freeman-Hartley (Laguna Playhouse acclaimed production of Ain't Misbehavin'). 

The curtain rises on Tina Turner (Jayna Elise) in her iconic red leather minidress and lioness mane about to ascend a set of stairs to a stadium of eager fans. She panics, steps back down the stairs, sits cross-legged on the floor, and begins chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, a Buddhist chant invoking inner strength and transformation of suffering.

With neon lighting, big hair, shoulder pads, and swagger, the Seacoast Repertory Theatre is journeying back to 1985, a time of change when the first mobile phones are big, bulky, and carried proudly by the upward moving yuppies of the time.

After a sold-out show at The Roundhouse in January 2024, Alix Perez's renowned bass music imprint ‘1985 Music' is returning to the capital for the labels biggest show yet - this time marking Perez's only UK appearance of the year.

Say “I Do” to the Most Totally Tubular Musical Coming Your Way! The Colony Theatre (Heather Provost, Producing Artistic Director) has announced a new production of The Wedding Singer, the musical comedy.

On May 2, 2025, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts will announce ten awards to risk-taking, mid-career artists who are challenging and transforming art, their respective disciplines, and society.

Craft Latino will release the first-ever vinyl reissue of Strikes Back, the GRAMMY®-nominated 10th solo album from legendary singer Héctor “El Cantante” Lavoe.

Kristine Nielsen has made her name on Broadway playing roles in all kinds of comedies and dramas, but only a very few musicals. She’s changing that up this season, however, portraying Susan Proctor, an Actors’ Studio teacher and confidante to Ivy Lynn, a Broadway star preparing to play Marilyn Monroe, in the new musical comedy “Smash,” at New York’s Imperial Theatre.