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Bleachers have partnered with The Ally Coalition to host local LGBTQ Youth and Leaders at the Bleachers show at Madison Square Garden on June 23rd. To make the show even more accessible to all fans, the band is offering a limited number of tickets to the MSG show for $30, inclusive of all fees. 

Jinkx Monsoon will reprise her Broadway-acclaimed role as Mary Todd Lincoln in OH, MARY! for a strictly limited six-week season at London's Trafalgar Theatre, marking her West End debut.

The Board of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet Foundation decided upon the appointment of  Dima Slobodeniouk. Prior to the decision, the Board heard personnel groups of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet. 

The Carbonell Awards announced it is seeking nominations for up to eight Special Awards to be presented at its 49th annual ceremony in Boca Raton, with a submission deadline in early July.

Gary Schweikhart, president of the Carbonell Awards, announced that “South Florida’s Theater & Arts Honors” is seeking nominations for up to eight additional Special Awards that will be presented at the 49th annual Carbonell Awards Ceremony on Monday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. at FAU’s University Theatre in Boca Raton.

An Evening With Isabel Leonard and Friends has been cancelled at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall due to personal family reasons. The performance will not be rescheduled this season.

You can now watch the acceptance speeches from this year’s Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre recipients André Bishop, Jules Fisher, and James Lapin, and Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award winner Mary-Mitchell Campbell.

Today’s subject Maria Rizzo is currently living her theatre life onstage at Signature Theatre playing the role of Fastrada in Pippin. The production runs through July 26th in Signature’s MAX space.

Theatre Communications Group named five emerging theatre artists and leaders to its 2026 Rising Leaders of Puerto Rico cohort, a yearlong professional development program supporting early-career professionals across Puerto Rican theatre.

Violinist and violist Patrick Yim is set to release Bamboo Grove on PENTATONE, an album of world premiere recordings created in close collaboration with Chen Yi and Zhou Long

The SF Neo-Futurists will present INFINITE PRIDE, an annual benefit show featuring 30 gay plays in 60 minutes, with performances at El Rio and The Stud. Half of proceeds benefit Bay Area Workers Support.

Queen Latifah has joined the first-ever Board of Advisors at BET Media Group alongside BET Founder Bob Johnson, Grammy Award-winning artist LL COOL J, National Football League's Executive Vice President of Football Operations, Troy Vincent, and more.

The Prince Fellowship, in association with Columbia University School of the Arts, announced applications are open for its 2026 program, offering early-career producers a $10,000 stipend, a $20,000 production budget, and mentorship from industry leaders.

On the legal and legislative front, a federal judge ordered the removal of President Trump's name from the Kennedy Center and temporarily blocked its planned closure, while New York State added $150 million to its theatrical production tax credit program. Broadway closed out its 2025–2026 season with a new all-time box office record of $1.91 billion, and the Broadway League and Actors' Equity announced a new audition initiative called LEAP.

Prior to their stop here at Proctor’s in Schenectady, I had the opportunity to connect with Andrew Cekala, currently playing the role of Bob in the national tour of THE OUTSIDERS.

On the business side, ATG Entertainment is reportedly being prepared for a possible sale by its private equity owner, while Pittsburgh Public Theater terminated its staff ahead of its merger with Pittsburgh CLO — two stories that speak to the consolidation and financial pressures reshaping the industry. Against that backdrop, Milwaukee Repertory Theater stands out as a striking counterexample: the company has nearly doubled its operating budget since 2020, opened a landmark $80 million theater complex, and is expanding its season to 13 productions, fueled by a philosophy of investing in artists and audiences rather than contracting.

Ed Harris has revealed that he will be returning to the stage this year, starring alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Allison Janney in a production of Jon Robin Baitz's family drama, Other Desert Cities.

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet Foundation's board proposed Dima Slobodeniouk as Principal Conductor, while extending Thomas de Mallet Burgess's tenure as Artistic Director through 2030.

New Jersey Symphony will present its season finale concerts featuring pianist Emanuel Ax performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, and the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull's Doublespeak.

The Joffrey Ballet announced the promotion of Rehearsal Director Adam Blyde to Associate Artistic Director, a newly created position and the first of its kind since Ashley Wheater MBE was appointed Artistic Director in 2007.

Nederlander Concerts has acquired the Vina Robles Amphitheatre, a 3,000-capacity outdoor venue in Paso Robles, CA, expanding its California portfolio alongside the Greek Theatre and Grove of Anaheim.

Manhattan School of Music will confer Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degrees on mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, Misty Copeland, Donna McKechnie, Jane Chu, and Jason Moran at its annual Commencement Ceremony at The Riverside Church in New York City.

Broadway In The HOOD brings a profound theatrical experience with its latest production, I Got the Last Laugh, written by James E. Carter and based on the life of legendary comic Jackie 'Moms' Mabley. The play showcases Mabley’s career and cultural significance, with performances running until May 31 at The Legacy Theatre of Excellence.

J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf will receive an honorary degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design at its 2026 Commencement in Boston, alongside photographer Abelardo Morell and Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis.

The age-old literary mystery of the circumstances surrounding the death of the perennially wedding-dress-clad Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ 1851 novel “Great Expectations” is reexamined through a contemporary lens in “(re)Dressing Miss Havisham,” by local playwright John Minigan, being performed May 19–24 at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre as part of the company’s New Play Incubator program.