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Here are a few top picks to consider this week including jazz, a solo concert by Broadway star Lillias White (Hadestown), Lyrics and Lyricists celebrating the music of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and more.

At first, Wakey, Wakey feels like an eccentric conversation filled with dry humor and scattered thoughts. Then the truth lands. Hyde Park Theatre’s production of Will Eno’s play is intimate and funny, and Ken Webster delivers a deeply human performance.

TUBE : Formed by vocalist Nobuteru Maeda, guitarist and keyboardist Michiya Haruhata, bassist Hideyuki Kakuno, and drummer Ryoji Matsumoto, TUBE is a four-piece band that has long defined the sound of Japanese summer. Since their debut in 1985, the group has built an enduring legacy through sun-drenched songs. Launched in July 2025, their nationwide tour TUBE LIVE AROUND 2025-2026 Keep On Sailin’ spanned an extraordinary ten months, traveling from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south. Now that this passionate journey, befitting the band’s 40th anniversary, has reached its triumphant conclusion, this review looks back on one of its highlights: the January 11, 2026 performance at Grand Cube Osaka.

This reimagined staging promises a stirring, four-week theatrical journey that invites today's audiences to rediscover Don Quixote’s timeless quest for hope and inspiration.

Excitement filled the theatre from the area schools Saturday night, May 23, as they cheered on their finalists at Walton Arts Center’s second annual Diamond Awards. From deafening applause to waving signs and proud tears from directors, families, and classmates, the evening felt less like a competition and more like one giant celebration of Arkansas high school theatre.

CASHINO, starring musical theater powerhouse Susie Mosher (Pepper Cole) and John Boswell (Johnny Niagra) l, returns to THE BENT at the Palm Springs Cultural Center on May 28 and 29, 2026.Show Details & Ticket Information:Dates: May 28 and 29, 2026Time: 7:00 PM Location: THE BENT (Theater 3, Palm Springs Cultural Center), 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, CA See you there!

Cape Rep Theatre continues our 2026 season with The Real Inspector Hound, written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Holly Erin McCarthy. Considered by many as “nearly perfect,” this is Stoppard at his wittiest.

Dear Readers, the bio-musical is a tricky thing. Some love them, some hate them. For me, it all depends on if you have an affinity for the music of the subjects, plus it needs a strong book. And then there’s the current show from Village Theatre, “We Ain’t Ever Gonna Break Up: The Hymon and Parfunkel Musical”, a show bold enough to create a made-up songwriting duo and spend their time poking fun at the genre they attempt to fit into, the bio-musical. But, without recognizable songs to hook you, we’re left with the strength of the book. Luckily the book is hilarious, assuming you’re a fan of the well-crafted groaner. Which I am.

A year ago, I was nervous about entering my last year as a teenager. I had so many goals that I wanted to accomplish before I left my teenage years behind, yet they all seemed unattainable.

Pentabus is seeking an emerging playwright for its 2027 Jerwood Writer in Residence programme, offering a £12,000 bursary and up to a year at its base in Ludlow, South Shropshire, supported by the Jerwood Foundation.

Executive Director Chad Bauman on Milwaukee Rep's expansion, new play development, and why he sees this moment in American theater as 'a call to purpose.'

Fake Escape will present the world premiere of DAY OF THE LOCUST at Pleasance Courtyard, a solo show with live music adapting Nathanael West's classic novel through the lens of 2025's anti-ICE protests in LA.

The annual Chita Rivera Awards was particular overflowing with love and positive energy this year, as members of the dance community showered each other with praise.

The Royal Shakespeare Company announced a summer programme in Stratford-upon-Avon headlined by a world premiere of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, a retelling for ages seven and up created in partnership with the Unicorn Theatre.

BroadwayWorld chats with Shawna Lucey, Opera San Jose's General Director & CEO, about being one of a cohort of women in leadership roles in the Bay Area classical music scene.

You can now get a first look at production photos of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, starring Kyra Kennedy at Theatre Under The Stars, now playing at the Hobby Center.

Certain facets of the human condition are foundational to our very existence – change, connection, desire. One such particularly toxic universal truth is a constant need to be something more than we currently are. To search for happiness in external achievement rather than within ourselves, in our simple joys. Pippin at Signature Theatre breathes within that precise virulence, relatively orchestrated by a troupe of impeccably costumed and choreographed players. A feast for the eyes in all senses, Matthew Gardiner’s production surpasses even the highest of expectations.

“Stories are stories are stories, whether it’s Wagner’s Wotan and Fricka (in the Ring), Handel’s Jupiter and Juno (in Handel’s SEMELE) or Broadway’s Tevye and Golde (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) and they repeat in different cultures and traditions,” General Manager and Artistic Director of the Atlanta Opera, Tomer Zvulun, said to me. “And whether it’s talking about siblings or spouses, or parents and children, we always end with similar concerns.” Our conversation was about his company’s new production of Wagner’s TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, better known to Wagner aficionados as GOTTERDAMMERUNG, which opens on May 30 at Atlanta’s Cobb Performing Arts Center.

London-born singer and songwriter SIENNA SPIRO has set the release of her debut album, Visitor, for July 3rd. Three tracks from the album were previously released as singles, all of which charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

Bryce Pinkham has spent nearly a decade helping shape CHESS’ new Broadway life. With a Tony nomination for his Arbiter, the actor reflects on creativity, collaboration, family & why this long-complicated musical has finally found its moment.

Jesus Christ Superstar began as a concept album in 1970 before making its stage debut in 1971. The original 1970 concept album was the brainchild of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice.

This summer, Chicago is offering a wide variety of plays and musicals, as well as comedy, dance, music, and more. To highlight these productions, The League of Chicago Theatres is publishing its Summer Theatre Guide.

Music Director Jeff Cox brings us into the musically daring and vivid score of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Its breadth of genres, rich chromatic harmonies, and the terrific orchestra come together to paint the magical world we know and love.

When Hairspray opens the Muny’s 108th season, Katy Geraghty will don Tracy Turnblad’s bow adorned bouffant wig for the 5th time in her acting career. The scene stealing Geraghty turned in memorably hilarious performances at The Muny as Mary Patrick in Sister Act and as Bridget in Bring it On over the past two seasons.

Dennis Hensley's debut play, THE POINT OF PINECONES, a sex comedy about desire and regret, will play three staged readings at the Actors Company's Other Space Theater during the Hollywood Fringe Festival.