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Lyn Paul will join the UK and Ireland tour of MARY POPPINS, as Bird Woman from Tuesday 18 November 2025.  Lyn joins the company in Milton Keynes Theatre.

Reimagined by an international team of creative minds together with Hong Kong Ballet's Choreographer-in-Residence HU Song Wei Ricky and MAI Jingwen, The Butterfly Lovers is a legendary Chinese folktale about humble scholar Liang Shanbo and aristocratic heiress Zhu Yingtai.

Des Moines Performing Arts (DMPA) has revealed the 2025–26 lineup for the Prairie Meadows Temple Comedy Series, featuring three productions in the season ticket package and one special add-on engagement.

Mr. Jacobs Will Perform J. S. Bach's Seldom-Heard The Art Of Fugue at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, and more. Learn more about the upcoming performances.

June 20th was the second anniversary of Steven Maglio’s residency at The Cutting Room, and he celebrated with a special edition of his Sinatra-themed show. Maglio evokes Sinatra through his atmosphere and aura.

The White Plains Performing Arts Center has unveiled its 2025-2026 Mainstage Season which marks the professional theatre venue’s 23rd Season. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Greg Reiner will be the new Managing Director of Barrington Stage Company. Reiner, who most recently served as Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), joins BSC as of August 4, 2025. 

Bill Callahan regressa a Portugal em julho para dois concertos especiais.  O músico norte-americano, atuará no dia 10 de julho, no Tivoli BBVA Theater, em Lisboa.

Loosely based on Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson’s 2004 novel, Peter and the Starcatcher upends the classic story of how a miserable young orphan became The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, otherwise known as Peter Pan. It begins when he and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff.

Before JVB was a sensation in New York City ( Tony-nomination (2007) GLAAD (2000), Obie (2001), Bessie (2004), Ethyl (2007), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2012) awards, and 2024  MacArthur Fellow), they were a cherished counterculture  icon in San Francisco.

Just a week after he wraps up his final performance in the titular role of FLOYD COLLINS on Broadway—a role that earned him a 2025 Tony Award nomination—musical theater icon Jeremy Jordan will head to Los Angeles to perform his long-running and (as of now) nearly sold-out one-man show at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, June 28–29.

Salford’s Lowry is to host an Open Day and Auditions for young dancers aged 11-16 from across the North West for the 2025 autumn intake for the Lowry Centre for Advanced dance Training (Lowry CAT).

The Huntington has revealed first look video of The Light in the Piazza, a contemporary musical based on the novel by Elizabeth Spencer, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, book by Craig Lucas, and directed by Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco (The Triumph of Love).

The paradigm-shifting Polish festival Jazztopad returns to New York City for its ninth edition from June 13–18, 2025, continuing its mission of building bridges between the most adventurous voices in contemporary improvised music.

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) will be inducting Long Island’s own 1960s era seminal rock-soul group, The Hassles, including acclaimed drummer-turned-video-director Jon Small

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) announced that singer-songwriter Missy Higgins would return to the Concert Hall in August for a one-night-only performance to raise funds for HEAL (Home of Expressive Arts and Learning). 

Artist, producer, and global cultural icon T-Pain has announced the TP20 Fall Tour, celebrating 20 years of legendary music, moments, and the Nappy Boy empire he’s built since the release of his debut album Rappa Ternt Sanga in 2005. 

See what the critics are saying about The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse, starring Kevin McHale and more. Read the reviews for the production, which features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim here.

West End stars, David Hunter and Grace Mouat, will star as Matt Flamhaff and Lucy Wyman respectively in the world premiere production of 13 GOING ON 30 - THE MUSICAL.

The recent UK premiere of Here We Are, Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, certainly demonstrated that the much-mourned legend had his flaws. His aficionados already knew this, though – Sondheim had nearly as many flops as he had successes, and The Frogs was one of them.

In his honor, the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) will be offering a special discount on tickets purchased for its exclusive Billy Joel My Life: A Piano Man’s Journey exhibit at its Stony Brook Village museum.

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM) is fast approaching! With just one month to go, concerts by Blue Rodeo and Monsieur Periné have been added to the outdoor programming, offered free of charge.

Up next at New Jewish Theatre is Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play The Heidi Chronicles, a semi-autobiographical story of Wasserstein’s life experiences over three decades. The play is considered groundbreaking for its examination of feminism, the changing roles of women, relationships, social consciousness, and shifting cultural norms. The comedic drama premiered Off-Broadway in 1988 before transferring to Broadway where it played 622 performances.  

National Sawdust has announced the formation of its inaugural Global Strategic Council, as it enters its second decade. Formed at a pivotal moment for the performing arts sector, this group of visionary leaders and advocates from diverse disciplines will offer connections, expertise, and insights that help National Sawdust model how a cultural institution can both catalyze artistic innovation and drive social change.

Few honors in entertainment are as coveted—or as rare—as achieving EGOT status. This elite distinction marks a career filled with versatility, longevity, and extraordinary talent across multiple mediums. What does it all mean? We're taking a closer look at the artists who have managed to join one of the industry’s most exclusive clubs.