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American Ballet Theatre corps de ballet member Madison Brown and ABT Studio Company dancer Kayla Mak are each the recipient of a 2025 Princess Grace Award for dance performance. Learn more here!

KCON LA 2025 took place from August 1-3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center and Crypto.com Arena. Find out how I spent my time at KCON LA 2025, as well as some of my recommendations for future convention-goers!

Ben Joyce, Zachary James, Christine Allado, Dex Lee and Adam Strong will lead an onstage company of over 50 in the UK professional premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Prince Edward Theatre. Learn more!

Writer and director Rynn Vogel and her husband, Adam J. Jefferis talk about their latest Shakespeare mashup, Roswell That Ends Well, running weekends, August 2–24, at Media Park in downtown Culver City.

Una de las principales figuras internacionales del piano, el japonés Kotaro Fukuma, ofrecerá un único concierto el sábado 2 de agosto a las 18 horas en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Propel Dance, the UK’s only professional all wheelchair-user dance company, is delighted to be getting its wheels spinning once again, as the creative team and six talented dancers have been working to create a suite of new short works.

Tony Award winners Sutton Foster (“Anything Goes,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie”) and Kelli O’Hara (“The King and I”) – each acclaimed as a Broadway performer and song-and-dance artist of the first order – are also known for solo concert appearances.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park will present the 2025 Annual Festival in Tivoli, NY. The festival will feature offerings and original performances by artists innovating in dance, music, film, archiving, storytelling, and more.Learn more about the festival!

Following its successful 56th annual summer festival, Newport Classical presents its fifth full-season Chamber Series held on select Fridays at 7:30pm, featuring twelve concerts held between September 2025 and June 2026.

Out 8/15, Cat & the Hounds is a bold new album that revives the spirit of early 1920s Black jazz and blues with historical insight and contemporary urgency, featuring GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Catherine Russell. Read a conversation about the album.

The National Theatre has announced casting news for its tour of Dear England. Leading the cast will be David Sturzaker as England manager Gareth Southgate, with Samantha Womack playing the role of team psychologist Pippa Grange. 

Set in a distant future where the human race teeters on the brink of extinction, the lastremnants of humanity reach back across two billion years in a stage performance that combines 16mm film with live performances.

Disney Broadway Hits: A beloved concert series that brings iconic Disney musical numbers to life, performed by acclaimed Broadway stars. Following the previous tour (Read more “Review: DISNEY BROADWAY HITS FEAT. Alan M at Tokyo International Forum (2023)”)—where every performance sold out—this much-anticipated return to Japan once again featured the legendary Disney composer Alan M (Read more “Interview: Alan M on DISNEY BROADWAY HITS FEAT. Alan M), just as in the last edition.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, under the leadership of Artistic Director Robert Garland and Executive Director Anna Glass, has announced the appointment of Marcie Cleary to its Board of Directors.

Everyone knows the beloved story of Camelot – the rise and fall of the legendary and idealistic King Arthur and the heartbreaking betrayals by his wife, his best knight, and his illegitimate son. The musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe never gets tired and seeing it again at the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts is more than just a pleasant theater experience.

Weston Theater Company brings a touch of holiday cheer to the summer season with its new production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, running July 16 through August 10 at Walker Farm in Weston, Vermont.

Dance legend Carlos Acosta will celebrate the tenth anniversary of his dance company Acosta Danza with a mixed bill in London this autumn. A Decade in Motion, which includes two UK premieres, comes to Sadler’s Wells Theatre.

Following a record-breaking UK, Ireland and European tour, ROYO, Runaway Entertainment and Curve have announced Johannes Radebe will make his West End debut, reprising the role of Lola in Kinky Boots.

With the original cast recording now streaming, we caught up with Dave Malloy and Lucy Kirkwood to discuss their musical of Roald Dahl's The Witches, which held its world premiere at the National Theatre in 2023.

We spoke with Charles Kirsch, host of the theater podcast Backstage Babble, about the 7/7 show, featuring Broadway luminaries Len Cariou (SWEENEY TODD), Annie Golden (XANADU) and more reprising songs they originated and sharing stories.

In a bustling corner of New York City’s theater scene, a quiet but deliberate revolution is underway. At its center is Nea Somogyi, a Costa Rican-born, multi-hyphenate artist whose passion for storytelling and community building has manifested in Suitcase of Dreams—a performance collective creating space for integration, representation, and healing through the performing arts.

Broadway shows 2026 are here! Daniel Radcliffe, Adrien Brody, Taraji P. Henson & more star in an incredible season of plays, musicals & revivals. See the full list!

Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the nation’s premier ensemble theater company concludes its 49th Season with Noah Diaz’s whimsical, wild, unpredictable and deeply moving Chicago premiere of You Will Get Sick, directed by Artistic Director Audrey Francis (Noises Off, POTUS–Director), now extended through July 20, 2025 in Steppenwolf’s Downstairs Theater, 1650 N.

'Shake It Away: The Ann Miller Story' will be presented by KB Productions at 59E59 Theaters as part of the 2025 East to Edinburgh Festival. The production is written by and stars Kayla Boye and is directed by Michael Weber.

Award-winning songwriter and performer Joel B. New will return to The Green Room 42 to celebrate 20 years of creating and producing original musicals in New York City. Learn more and see how to attend.