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Beck Center for the Arts has announced a classic musical that will steal your heart and entertain your ears with bluegrass music, The Robber Bridegroom.

Desert TheatreWorks is to be congratulated for mounting a successful production of DIARY OF ANNE FRANK at the Indio Performing Arts Center April 4-13, 2025. A strong cast of 10, starring Tess Martinez in the title role, recalls the desperation of millions of innocent people during the Second World War in their attempt to survive the Nazi Holocaust.

 In honor of Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day - Yiddishkayt Initiative will present a staged reading of Drama Desk Award-winner Jeff Cohen's (The Soap Myth) new play The Righteous. Learn how to attend.

Sierra Madre Playhouse, noted for its wide-ranging programming, to present John Schneider: The Well-Tempered Guitar, a captivating exploration of classical and experimental guitar styles, on Saturday, April 26, 2025, 7:30 pm, at Sierra Madre Playhouse.

Opening this December, After the Rain will feature 10 large-scale, multi-disciplinary installations that celebrate inter-generational legacies and cultural warriors of the past, present and future.

Following its critically acclaimed production of The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 and 2, Troupe returns to Park Theatre in 2026 with Bill Rosenfield's reimagining of Noël Coward's The Rat Trap.

Production photos have been released for the limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar at Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC). Check here for the photos!

54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, will present the one-night-only concert debut of the new Broadway-bound musical, Picasso in Paris. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Nonprofit The Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center will offer tours of Hammerstein’s Doylestown home at Highland Farm six times weekly this Spring. Learn more!

The Theatrical Division of International Literary Properties has acquired The American Play Company from Academy Award-winning actor Michael Douglas and his business partner Mark Shankman. Learn more.

This time, the reader question was: How Often Do Broadway Musicals Tackle the Topic of War? There are actually many musicals about war in the canon. The rare feat of Operation Mincemeat lies in its tone. The show is a fast-paced, zany, comedic take on a mission that used a dead body to mislead the Axis forces, leading to the successful Allied invasion of Sicily.

On Friday, May 9, 2025, violinist, composer, and educator Austin Wulliman will release his second album of original music, Escape Rites, performed alongside his fellow musicians of the JACK Quartet on Sono Luminus.

The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, has appointed Shawn Yuan as the Elizabeth B. McGraw Senior Curator of Asian Art. Learn more about Yuan!

American Theater Group will present the premiere reading of King of the Hollywood Fixers by Douglas J. Cohen as part of its free Monday Night Play Reading Series. Learn how to attend.

A free reading of King of the Hollywood Fixers is coming to Hamilton Stage next month. Union County Performing Arts Center’s Free Play Reading Series will resume with the reading of this play by Douglas J. Cohen.

 Riverside Theatre has announced the final production of the 2024-2025 season, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Learn more about this upcoming performance here!

AC Petersen, librettist; and Jeremy Berdin, composer, will present an original live operetta, Currents, portraying a Japanese American family from Bainbridge Island 1937-1952, at McMenamins Anderson School. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Museum of Toronto will present the exhibition, The 52: Stories of Women Who Transformed Toronto. The exhibit is organized into themes of science, arts and culture, politics, sports, and civic life. Learn more!

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR, a new musical play.

Last Call, a new play by Peter Danish and directed by Gil Mehmert, is currently in performances at New World Stages, Stage 5. Check out photos from the production.

Into the Breeches! delighted the audience on opening night at the Irving Arts Center. The comedy is set in Irving, Texas, in 1942 at the beginning of World War II. Into the Breeches! uses a familiar trope about a play within a play.

Last Call begins previews at New World Stages this week The cast of Last Call, including Helen Schneider, Lucca Züchner, and Victor Petersen, as well as playwright Peter Danish, and director Gil Mehmert, recently met the press. Check out photos!

HFP LIVE & THE TOWN HALL will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder in Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, a new musical play, for one night only. Learn more.

The play before Nick Payne hit big with Constellations, fails to ignite

In 1942 during World War II, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry - two-thirds of whom were American citizens - were unjustly incarcerated in concentration camps within the United States. Inspired by these events, and given how the rise of bigotry is rearing its ugly head in the world today, it’s most appropriate that a new American opera titled The Camp is making its world premiere in Los Angeles. I decided to speak with director Diana and The Camp’s associate director John Miyasaki about this world premiere opera and what inspired her to direct it, how she envisions staging it, and what messages they hope reach audiences.