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To accompany the release of his new album, Joe Jackson and his band will embark on a major North American tour from May to July 2026, including a stop at BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre.

MAYBE HAPPY ENDING has launched a special digital lottery ticket initiative titled “Club 2064,” (named after the year the show takes place) available for performances starting tomorrow in honor of the production’s one-year anniversary on Broadway.

The stateside debut of three new musicals that were first conceived and produced in Korea, and are now being further developed for the U.S., will premiere at the 2025 K-Musical Roadshow next week.

​​​​​​​Stories on Stage will present 'Making Merry,” celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah with stories and songs, December 12 – 14 in Arvada, Boulder and Denver.

The Short+Sweet Hollywood 2025 semi-finalists have been announced, marking what organizers call “one of the best seasons the festival has seen.”

SMOKE Jazz Club in New York City will launch its new Steinway Spiriocast Concert Series, an innovative collaboration with Steinway & Sons that brings live jazz performances from SMOKE’s stage to audiences around the globe.

Even in a nation celebrated for its singers, Lea Salonga occupies a realm entirely her own. Her distinction lies not in her crystalline tone, but in the intelligence that animates it—the deliberate thought, the emotional architecture of each phrase. She sings with an actor's intuition and a philosopher's clarity. Her voice doesn't simply ascend; it unveils.

For Filipino performers of my generation, Lea Salonga has always been both. Her voice was a map homeward and outward at once: the sound of possibility breaking through perceived cultural ceilings.

wild project has revealed the diverse slate of programming scheduled to be presented in their space this December. All events will take place at wild project.

Manual Cinema is a Chicago-based collective that creates what can best be described as live movies onstage using shadow puppetry, hand-built miniature sets, silhouette performers, and original music all layered together in real time.

This week’s roundup highlights major leadership changes, funding shifts, and renewed investment in the performing arts. OPERA America has named Michael J. Bobbitt as its next President & CEO, while Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS announced $1.5 million in emergency food grants nationwide. In New York, The Joyce Theater Foundation received a landmark $15 million gift, and Broadway productions prepare to take the stage at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Regionally, Chicago’s cultural department faces a proposed budget reduction, Theatre Washington released a new industry impact report, and Houston Grand Opera appointed James Gaffigan as its next Music Director. Meanwhile, in the UK, opera and arts education take center stage with efforts to broaden access and strengthen creative learning.

Fresh from winning the 2025 Olivier Award for Best Family Show, the science sensation Brainiac Live! will tour the UK in 2026, following its festive run at Birmingham Town Hall on 28 & 29 December 2025.

English National Opera's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's nautical love triangle-themed opera HMS Pinafore returns to the London Coliseum this winter for its first revival, with a major guest star headlining the cast, Mel Giedroyc.  

K-pop girl group FIFTY FIFTY has quickly earned attention for their distinct sound and emotional honesty. Blending pop and R&B influences, their music bridges global trends with authentic expression. Since their debut in 2022, the group has shown a rare ability to connect through sincerity and simplicity rather than spectacle. Now, with their latest release “Too Much Part 1,” they are ready to reveal a new side of themselves, capturing the thrill and uncertainty of first love through catchy melodies and confident performances. 

The Pearl (Morvarid), a contemporary Iranian stage adaptation of the classic work by acclaimed playwright Ghotbeddin Sadeghi, will premiere at HERE Arts Center in New York City from December 3 to 7, 2025.

Check out photos from The Game's Afoot: Or Holmes for the Holidays, now on stage through November 15 at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell, New Jersey.

See photos from West End Productions' Translations, a play by Brian Friel, running through November 23, with shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat will present a new program, The Fantasy of Reality, featuring celebrated author and Hermitage Fellow Joseph Earl Thomas on Thursday, December 18, 2025, at Bookstore1 in downtown Sarasota.

Lovely intimate adaptation of immensely popular novel is a pleasing diversion in these troubled times

Pianist and composer Chloe Flower has released her new album, She Composed: The Holidays, just in time for the holiday season. The album serves as the first-ever instrumental holiday album entirely made up of music composed by women. Listen to it now.

The Old Globe has revealed the full cast and creative team of a special concert presentation of ¡Cómo el Grinch robó la Navidad!, the world premiere Spanish language version of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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. 

The National Theatre of Scotland has announced its upcoming season for 2026, including three world premieres, five tours across Scotland, gig theatre, and much more.

All new photos have been released from the gala night for ELF the Musical on 6 November. In attendance were Dani Dyer, Faye Tozer, Juliet Mayhew, Rob Madge, Vanessa Feltz and Ranj Singh amongst others. Check out the photos here!

An intermission-less, two-character, conversational-centric play that focuses on a pair of women's specific immigrant experiences—marked with loneliness, hopes, fears, and puzzlements big and small—Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh's absorbing, touching, and occasionally (thankfully) very funny play explores the emotional tug-of-war between comfortable, familiar cultural traditions left behind and the need to accept, learn, and assimilate to the often confounding realities of their new home environment—a sometimes exciting, but sometimes heartbreaking concept that many first-generation immigrants know all too well. Continues at South Coast Repertory through November 16, 2025.