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​3Arts has revealed the recipients of its 3Arts Next Level Awards—$50,000 unrestricted awards given to past 3Arts awardees—during the festive 3Arts Awards Celebration held last night at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

​The Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet will present five world premieres in the culmination of Joffrey's national call for emerging artists to submit applications for the Winning Works Choreographic Competition.

Pentabus has named writer and performer Sid Sagar as the new 2025 Jerwood Writer in Residence at Pentabus. Recruitment for the 2026 Writer in Residence continues.

This whole thing started with James Demaine. He’s into his occult, his gothic horror, his folk tales, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. It started with a raised eyebrow. It started in a technical rehearsal for another play entirely, three years ago.

As the holiday season approaches, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) has announced the cast for its upcoming production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) will bring a beloved holiday tradition to life with It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, running December 3–28, 2025, at the F.M. Kirby

The Toronto Stage Company has announced its upcoming season, featuring Wintersong – Dances for a Sacred Season in December and Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, opening January 20, 2026, as the first production in its new home, The Terminal Theatre.

Back in 2017, Marin Theatre Company staged Thomas Bradshaw’s historical fiction Thomas and Sally to a firestorm of criticism, with critics damning the production for its hypersexualized view of Sally Hemings and downplaying her position as Thomas Jefferson’s slave.

The 2024 production earned seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, which I feel is an earned acknowledgment that speaks more to the craftsmanship, the ambition, and the emotional journey present in the show. The stage production’s direction, choreography, puppetry design, and ensemble synergy create moments of theatrical awe that are impossible to deny. What the songs lack in dramatic momentum, the production more than makes up for in its combination of narrative intimacy with large-scale visual storytelling.

BroadwayWorld chats with Lance Gardner about directing Suzan-Lori Parks' 'Sally & Tom' at Marin Theatre, where he serves as Executive Artistic Director. It runs through Sunday, November 23rd in Mill Valley, CA.

DanceHouse will present the Vancouver premiere of Taiwan’s award-winning Hung Dance in Birdy, on stage November 28 and 29, 2025, at 8 p.m. at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Moses Pendleton, founder and artistic director of the dance-theatre company MOMIX, will receive The University of Texas at Dallas’ 2025 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts on November 1. The biennial award, which carries a $150,000 prize, is the highest honor the university bestows upon artists.

Watch Amaya White sing 'Waiting for Life' from Theatre Raleigh's Once On This Island accompanied by Brian Whitted. The production runs November 12th through November 23rd, 2025.

The American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association will award writer and producer Citlali Pizarro (she/her) the fourth annual Edward Medina Prize for Excellence in Cultural Criticism on Nov. 8 during its 2025 conference in New York.

The Theater Project, in partnership with the Friends of the Cranford Library, will present a free staged reading of B.B.’S, a new play by Bill Mesce, Jr., inspired by the writings of three acclaimed New Jersey authors.

The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke, will begin performances on Broadway on Thursday, October 30, 2025. Meet the cast of Oedipus here!

Adventure Theatre MTC will present Frosty the Snow Man from November 26, 2025, through January 11, 2026, directed by Danny Tippett. The family-friendly musical, based on the beloved holiday song, will feature Christian Montgomery as Frosty.

ENO's award-winning production of Handel's classic love quadrangle, Partenope, will return to the London Coliseum stage this November, starring former Harewood Artist Nardus Williams as the eponymous arch socialite.

San Francisco Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's PARSIFAL runs from October 25 through November 13 on the War Memorial Opera House stage, and the production released photos.

Pioneer Theatre Company’s professional production of DEAR EVAN HANSEN could easily be at home on a Broadway stage, and it is certainly one of Utah’s best shows this year. The original production is rightfully beloved, but this iteration adds even more layers, brilliantly flitting between realism and theatricality in arresting ways.

Center Theatre Group is offering a slate of artistic programming that helps identify and support the next generation of great plays and playwrights. Learn more!

While different tryout theaters have different relationships to the development of new shows, it’s worth looking at both which commercial rental theaters and which non-profit theaters have had the most Best Musical Tony Award winners come from their stages.

DON GIOVANNI, an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, is now playing at KLPAC. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!

Washington Concert Opera will open its 2025–26 season with Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride on Sunday, November 23, 2025, at 6 p.m. at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC.

The International Human Rights Art Festival (IHRAF) will return December 8–14 to The Tank in New York City with its 7th Annual Festival, presented by the International Human Rights Art Movement.