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Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet will return to Vancouver as part of a multi-stop British Columbia tour. The mixed program will include Carmina Burana alongside the West Coast premiere of T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods.

Following 25 years of producing multidisciplinary arts programming, uplifting historically excluded stories, and fostering connections through the art of story, Mirror Stage has announced it will be sunsetting operations and active programming.

Karen Mason will return to Green Room 42 for a three-night engagement of her holiday program CHRISTMAS! CHRISTMAS! CHRISTMAS!. The show will feature her interpretations of seasonal standards alongside newer material.

Les Misérables has seen major success in China with the launch of its staged concert production at Shanghai Grand Theatre, reports China Daily. The musical began performances on November 4 and will run through December 28 as part of the “See You in Shanghai!” initiative from SMG Live.

Audible Theater will present the special 25th anniversary reading of Tectonic Theater Project’s The Laramie Project, live for four performances only at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT)’s magical, time-honored holiday tradition, The Nutcracker, will open on December 5, 2025, at the Benedum Center. Learn more about the show here!

Grammy-nominated recording performer Nick Jonas, most recently seen on Broadway in The Last Five Years, has officially revealed the highly anticipated release of his new solo album, Sunday Best, arriving February 6th.

Latino Theater Company will bring its beloved holiday pageant La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin back to Los Angeles on December 5–6, 2025. Presented for free at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

The Actors' Gang is presenting the World Premiere of Children of the Winter Kingdom – The Bonkers Adventures of Holly and Spruce, an original family-friendly fantasy fairy tale for the theater written by Adam Dugas and Mary Eileen O’Donnell and directed by Dugas for a limited three-week engagement from December 4 to 20 at the Actors’ Gang in Culver City.

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.

​The Joyce Theater Foundation will welcome the return of Compagnie Hervé KOUBI, making its fourth appearance at The Joyce and its third presentation of What The Day Owes To The Night.

Paranormal Activity officially opened at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on Friday, November 14. Check out photos from opening night and learn more about the show here!

Production photos have been released from Center Theatre Group’s presentation of Paranormal Activity, the new stage production with an original story inspired by Paramount Pictures’ film franchise. 

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 years.

Axis Theatre Company will present the 24th annual production of its beloved family holiday show, Seven in One Blow, or the Brave Little Kid. The play is written and directed by Axis Artistic Director Randall Sharp.

The Liverpool Everyman and Octagon Theatre Bolton have announced complete casting for the 30th Anniversary production of Shelagh Stevenson’s Olivier Award-winning comedy, The Memory of Water. 

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) will present The Nutcracker from December 5–28, 2025, at the Benedum Center. Set in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh, Terrence S. Orr’s staging highlights local landmarks, sports traditions, and the city’s history.

The Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet has announced that former Milwaukee Ballet principals Annia Hidalgo and Cristian Laverde König will appear as guest artists in its 2025 production of The Nutcracker.

WICKED, the West End stage musical phenomenon that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, has become the ninth longest-running production in West End history, following the completion of Saturday's matinee performance.

Latino Theater Company will return with La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, the company’s signature holiday pageant that has been a Los Angeles holiday tradition since 2002. 

Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet has announced the presentation of a double header, as part of its 2026 BC Tour, with Carmina Burana, featured alongside the evocative West Coast premiere of the Indigenous-led T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods.

Audible Theater will present a special 25th anniversary reading of The Laramie Project, written by Moisés Kaufman, live for four performances only this December at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City.

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.

Today’s subjects Edwaard Liang and Dwight Rhoden make up two fourths of the choreographic team for The Washington Ballet’s program of Moving Forces. The production will be presented in the Eisenhower Theater at Kennedy Center on October 24th through 26th.

What did our critic think of HAIRSPRAY at Scherr Forum Theatre? 5-Star Theatricals' production of Hairspray, which opened October 10 at the Scherr Forum Theatre in Thousand Oaks, is the bubbly, effervescent morality tale about civil rights in Baltimore in the early ’60s that won Tony awards for best musical, book, and score.