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The annual Chita Rivera Awards was particular overflowing with love and positive energy this year, as members of the dance community showered each other with praise.

The Stand Restaurant & Comedy Club will present the NY Laughs Festival across Union Square and Lower Manhattan venues, featuring Jeff Ross, Dave Attell, Andrew Dice Clay, and others in a four-day event with expanded programming and a Funny Or Die partnership.

BroadwayWorld chats with Shawna Lucey, Opera San Jose's General Director & CEO, about being one of a cohort of women in leadership roles in the Bay Area classical music scene.

“Stories are stories are stories, whether it’s Wagner’s Wotan and Fricka (in the Ring), Handel’s Jupiter and Juno (in Handel’s SEMELE) or Broadway’s Tevye and Golde (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) and they repeat in different cultures and traditions,” General Manager and Artistic Director of the Atlanta Opera, Tomer Zvulun, said to me. “And whether it’s talking about siblings or spouses, or parents and children, we always end with similar concerns.” Our conversation was about his company’s new production of Wagner’s TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, better known to Wagner aficionados as GOTTERDAMMERUNG, which opens on May 30 at Atlanta’s Cobb Performing Arts Center.

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program will kick off its 2026 season with L’Anima Napoletana, a Neapolitan-inspired vocal/piano recital celebrating Southern Italy.

Kate Hamill’s cheeky feminist reimagination of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a lot to chew tacking issues of toxic masculinity, female empowerment, and even a political message on unchecked power and megalomaniacal dangers. It’s a times bold, moody, haunting, well-acted and unusually comic.

The Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards has been renamed the Cape Town Theatre Awards, marking a new chapter under a newly established NPO. CATS leads with 11 nominations among 65 eligible productions across 23 categories.

Acclaimed English comedian Simon Brodkin announced an Australian tour, with stops in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth as part of his UNLEASHED stand-up show.

Tom Gold Dance will perform Mad About the Boy in the open-air Amphitheater at Untermyer Park and Gardens in Yonkers, NY, featuring dancers from New York City Ballet and live musical accompaniment.

Myron's at The Smith Center in Las Vegas announced a new lineup of performers, including Judy Collins, THE FAMILY STONE, Mindi Abair, Mike Dawes, Yuko Mabuchi Trio, and a tribute to Electric Light Orchestra.

Looking back on this experience, I have learned a considerable amount  about myself as a writer, theatremaker, and student. However, I am most surprised by how this experience has reignited my love of casual writing, along with just how deeply it has aided in personal reflection as an artist.

“I’ve been singing since I was three,” he said. “I’ve been acting since middle school.”

Cape Town Opera's presentation of Georges Bizet's Carmen is red, funny and devastating: everything you didn't know opera could be.

This one-man show is adapted from a work of a similar name, I Miss the War, which was originally commissioned by the BBC to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. This production serves as both a response to and homage to that piece.

Philadelphia Theatre Company will present a free one-night-only concert reading of LA GUAGUA 47: A PHILADELPHIA MUSICAL, a new work by Alba Martínez, directed by Laurie Woolery, ahead of a planned full production.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present Di Shvegerins, a Yiddish translation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Sœurs, performed with English and French supertitles for audiences of all backgrounds.

National Youth Theatre announced a second wave of 70th anniversary projects, including THE BIG PLAY with playwright Chris Bush, STORYFEST 2026 supported by StudioCanal, and LETTERS TO MY YOUNGER FUTURE SELF at the Royal Festival Hall, backed by Netflix.

Hennepin Arts announced its Spotlight Showcase 2026 Select Tracks participants, including students chosen for Triple Threat on Hennepin, Technical Theater Career Pathway, Student Publicist, and Spotlight Orchestra at Minneapolis' historic State Theatre.

Based on the adventures of Johnston McCully's legendary pulp hero, Armienta infuses his opera with the music and sounds of early-19th century Alta California, including flamenco, corrido, and mariachi, with all performed exquisitely by the 24-member POP Orchestra.

IATI Theater announced its 2026 Cimientos Staged Readings Series, featuring ten new plays by an international cohort of playwrights from the U.S., El Salvador, Argentina, and Nigeria, presented in English and Spanish.

The Toledo Repertoire Theatre will present the classic musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF this June on its Tenth Street stage. Rich in historical and ethical detail, this Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of milkman Tevye and his five daughters as they navigate changing social norms while trying to hold onto their traditional values.

Ellen Relac's debut play, I TOTALLY WOULD'VE HAD A THREESOME WITH YOU, will receive its world premiere at The Actors Company in Los Angeles during Hollywood Fringe, exploring college drinking culture through a summer camp satire.

Drag king Bi-Curious George will present SNAIL TRAIL at Pleasance Below, a solo show drawing on personal experiences of hormone therapy and transitioning to explore trans-masculinity through the lens of snail biology.

Sitara Effat Ahangari was named the 2026 June Bingham New Playwright Commission recipient by Live & In Color for DAR TARJAMEH [IN TRANSLATION], a new play exploring identity and language between Farsi and English.

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program, one of the world’s most prestigious opera training programs, will close its 2026 Summer Festival with the annual Merola Grand Finale.