Caroline, or Change

PrideArts has announced its 2026-27 season of six productions of plays and special showcases, to be performed in the company’s resident space – the Hoover Leppen Theatre in Center on Halsted. In a change from previous seasons, all evening performances will have a curtain time of 7:00 pm. 

Featuring music and lyrics by Gloria Estefan and Emily Estefan, a book by Karen Zacarías, and direction by Michael Greif, BASURA is a vibrant, uplifting new musical filled with heart, hope, and the transformative power of music.

With so many artists making their New Village Arts debuts in this 'Hairspray,' there is a palpable sense of excitement and discovery throughout the evening, complementing the musical's themes of young people finding their voices and stepping into the spotlight.

Producer Jeffrey Seller and PNC Broadway in Louisville have announced a digital lottery for HAMILTON tickets will begin in conjunction with the show’s first performance in Louisville, KY at The Kentucky Center.  A limited number of tickets will be available for every performance for $10 each.

Almost Tamed Productions will present Beyond Encounters, three one-act plays by Lanford Wilson, Miriam Kulick, and Hannah Benitez, running for six performances at Teatro Circulo in New York City. Enjoy a first look photos.

A TIMELESS PRINCESS, an original musical inspired by Princess Kaʻiulani, will premiere at the historic Royal Hawaiian Theater in Waikīkī, featuring a present-day Marine transported to 1898 Hawaiʻi.

New production photos have been released for A Walk on the Moon, the new musical inspired by the award-winning film. The production stars Talia Suskauer, Max Chernin, Sam Gravitte, and Andréa Burns, and features the voice of six-time Emmy and Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh.

Composer Ayn Inserto and the WDR Big Band are set to release a live album featuring trumpeter Sean Jones, capturing a collaborative performance from the acclaimed jazz ensemble.

Museums, libraries, artists, and youth organizations nationwide are joining Civic Season 2026, a summer tradition co-designed with Gen Z featuring thousands of events between Juneteenth and July 4.

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres announced casting for its upcoming fall and holiday main stage production, set to run at the Minnesota venue located at 501 West 78th Street in Chanhassen.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has released exclusive rehearsal photos from Broadway Bares: License to Strip, the annual fundraising extravaganza returning to New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom for one night only on Sunday, June 21. .

The Aspen Music Festival and School's eight-week summer season, titled 'For All,' will feature world and Colorado premieres, a fully staged opera, and guest appearances by Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson and more.

Dezart Performs’ launches its 2026-2027 Season with the Tony Award-winning musical COME FROM AWAY, featuring book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, running November 18-December 6, 2026. The season launch coincides with the completion of Phase Two of the adaptive re-use transformation of its Palm Springs home from a former church into the Dezart Playhouse at 605 S. Riverside Drive, Palm Springs.  

Merola Opera Program will present Strauss' Ariadne Auf Naxos at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, featuring rising opera artists in a fully staged production conducted by Ann-Katrin Stöcker.

Twelve Hours with Tracy Letts, a marathon theater reading festival celebrating the works of Pulitzer Prize winner Letts, has revealed more participating stars, including Sam Tutty, Dylan Mulvaney and more.

Young performers overcame weather and sound issues to bring the vibrant, musical retelling of the 2004 film Mean Girls to the vintage, nostalgic Akron Civic Theater.

'...today's musical theater performer kids are smart...they understand...that there is an innate honesty to the material, all the while inhabiting this kind of stylistic choice in allowing it to be bigger than life.'

The hit musical has arrived at the Ordway in Saint Paul through June 28, and from the moment the queens step onstage, the show feels more like a pop concert than a traditional musical. The audience was clapping, laughing, and cheering throughout the performance, and by the end many people were on their feet.

The Actors Studio of New Jersey will present Rock of Ages at the historic Dunellen Theatre in Dunellen, NJ, featuring a cast led by Jason S. Kopp and Callie Henrysen in this 1980s rock musical comedy.

Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger's two immersive video and sound installations, 'Perennial Land - The Data Forest' and 'Qualia - You Matter to Me' , are on view at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City as part of the Voices International Festival.

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Sophia Talwalkar, who understudied Marianna Gailus in NEW BORN and Ella Beatty in SEXUAL MISCONDUCT OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES, earned both her first professional and off-Broadway credit for her performance, and was met with support from a huge group of family and friends. She is telling us all about the experience in the exclusive essay below:

Following two sold-out engagements in London, MIDNIGHT, an original musical written and directed by Todrick Hall, will make its New York premiere at the Daryl Roth Theatre. Learn more about the production here!

Producers of HOT MESS at The Other Palace announced a series of post-show panel events and a workshop curated by Pollinate, exploring musical theatre, climate, and cultural change for ticket holders.