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BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical will arrive in Portland as part of the 2025-26 Broadway Season. This spectacular live experience is set for Keller Auditorium from June 16 – 21.

Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi is scheduled to perform at Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the LA Phil’s upcoming 26/27 season. Entitled, simply, Solo Piano, the new collection will be released in an album.

This February and March, Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY) will present a limited run of two original productions featuring Kānaka Maoli stories and artists. First up is Joseph Kekuku and the Voice of the Steel Guitar, followed by Pā Ka Makani.

Kathryn Adeline will assume the role of Lorraine Baines in the North American Tour of Back to the Future: The Musical in Baltimore, MD. The Broadway and West End show based on the film brings the cinematic classic to the stage

Sony Pictures Classics will release A Magnificent Life in select theaters nationwide on March 27, 2026. Written and directed by Sylvain Chomet, the animated English-language feature stars Laurent Lafitte and Géraldine Pailhas. 

The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President & CEO), along with Spectrum News NY1, announced the recipients of the 69th Annual Obie Awards. We have the full list of winners!

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.

Director Jodie Weiss understands the play's challenge and meets it head-on, shaping the production with an ear for the material’s alternating currents of terror and fragile joy.

Invictus Theatre Company has revealed the cast and production team for its 2026 season opener, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama will be the company's 20th onstage production since the company's founding.

This is a terrific concert, cabaret and revue rolled into one, feating rising star Adrian Galante's brilliant playing and orchestrations of Burt Bacharach songs, sung by three terrific singers. It runs through February 22

La Jolla Playhouse has announced a special presentation of SORPRESIMOVIL reloaded, a WOW (Without Walls) Experience created and performed by Poncili Creación. Learn more here!

Wagner College Theatre has revealed that James Still is the winner of the 2026 Stanley Drama Award for, Haunt Me. As fiction and reality blur onstage, Haunt Me becomes a surreal, compassionate exploration of identity, memory, and creation.

On February 13, the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra will present a symphonic tribute to jazz icon Charlie Parker, featuring saxophonist Vincent Herring. The concert, held at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, will showcase 'Charlie Parker with Strings', including previously unrecorded scores from the original project.

Playwright Robert Heide passed away. He spent the last year and a half of his life at Isabella Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care under the care of a nurturing and attentive staff of doctors and nurses.

The Mac-Haydn Theatre has announced its 2026 season, kicking off next summer. Tickets are now on sale. The lineup will feature The Addams Family, 9 to 5, and more.

Wharton Center is kicking off the New Year with its January lineup, featuring musicals, family performances, comedians and more, including Back to the Future: The Musical, Hadestown and more.

Mary Poppins star Karen Dotrice and filmmaker John Scheinfeld are celebrating Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday with a new documentary about the stage and screen legend.

Morte e Vida Severina, João Cabral de Melo Neto’s seminal poem about a migrant’s journey through the Brazilian Northeast, returns to the stage in a new production by Companhia Ensaio Aberto at Teatro Paulo Autran – Sesc Pinheiros. The staging features Chico Buarque’s iconic score, with 25 actors, four musicians. Revisiting themes of hunger, migration and resilience, the piece underscores the enduring relevance of Severino’s journey — a story rooted in Brazil yet resonant with global struggles today.

Back to the Future will play its final show at the Adelphi Theatre in London’s West End on Sunday 12th April 2026, before it begins a National Tour of the UK in October 2026.

If Encores can transfer many of its productions to Broadway, why not MasterVoices—starting with its current revival of Sweet Smell of Success? If you missed its brief run (November 21–22), keep an eye out for future MasterVoices offerings. The show proved to be an electric, full-throttle performance within the grand Frederick P. Rose Hall, part of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical's alumni cast Olly Dobson and Ben Joyce will make a special return to the production as ‘Marty McFly' to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the UK film release.

In this edition of Words From the Wings, Eric Williams and Zaynn Arora who share the role of 'A Boy' in Waiting For Godot on Broadway, take us backstage to share some of their favorite pre-show rituals, backstage moments, must-haves and more!

Australian producers Crossroads Live have announced Back to the Future: The Musical will play its final performance on January 25, 2026 at the Sydney Lyric.

Lead producer Colin Ingram together with Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the creators of the “Back to the Future” film trilogy, and Overture Center for the Arts have announced that “Back to the Future: The Musical” will arrive in Madison in March.

We spoke to Rob McClure about Arena Stage's Broadway-Bound revival of Damn Yankees. This newly-imagined take on the beloved classic stars Rob McClure (Applegate), Ana Villafañe (Lola), Tony Award nominee Jordan Donica (Joe Hardy), Grammy Award nominee Quentin Earl Darrington (Joe Boyd), Bryonha Marie (Meg Boyd), and Alysha Umphress (Gloria Thorpe).