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Thirty-four years is a long time to leave an opera in the attic, and I puritani has spent most of that period gathering dust for good reason. Bel canto — that Parisian tradition of vocal style over dramatic substance producing works that, to many, are all fur coat and no knickers — has never quite recovered its mass audience since the Sutherland-Callas generation retired, and Bellini's last opera, which substitutes plot for vocal spectacle with a candour that even its admirers find trying, is not the obvious place to start rebuilding one. That Richard Jones has now properly turned his attention to it for the first time in his long career suggests either a late conversion to the cause or, more plausibly, that he has simply run out of twentieth-century miseries to reframe as grand opera.

Sophie Okonedo will lead the cast of A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Lyndsey Turner. The production is Brian Friel's reworking of Turgenev's classic play.

Hay Fever is a classic comedy by Noël Coward, written in 1924 and first performed in London in 1925. The play became one of Coward’s most enduring successes, running for 337 performances during its original West End season.

Just egg-celent! Between Broadway, the Renaissance and Open-Air Magic – Something Rotten! Triumphs at the Bad Hersfeld Festival.

L'Alliance New York announced its 2026 CROSSING THE LINE FESTIVAL, an international survey of new work spanning film, music, dance, theater, and installation, featuring world and U.S. premieres from artists across the French-speaking world.

Japanese boy band member Tomohiro Kamiyama of WEST. has released “G.O.D.,” his first solo digital single, now available to download and stream worldwide on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Music, and more.

L'Alliance New York announced its upcoming CROSSING THE LINE FESTIVAL, an international survey of new work spanning visual art, music, film, dance, and theater, featuring world, U.S., and New York premieres from francophone artists.

Portland Opera has entered Phase Two of its SOS Fundraising Campaign, KEEP PORTLAND OPERATIC - Save our song. Secure our future, aimed at sustaining the company's operations.

Capital Stage's Apprentice Company will present THE BROTHERS GRIMM SPECTACULATHON by Don Zolidis, directed by Lydia Crist and James Simpson, as the culmination of its yearlong training program. Tickets are free.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 2, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Longtime The Lion King cast member Mduduzi Madela assumed the role of Simba earlier this year, and you can now see new photos! He is the second South African performer to hold the role of Simba in the Broadway company. 

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center have revealed six new board members for the upcoming season, including Lisa Barwick, Jake Bergstrom, Christopher Drees, Kristin Heiges, Amy Smith, and Tiffany Woelfel.

Happy Fourth of July weekend! In honor of the 250th celebration of America, BroadwayWorld brings you a guide to this year's Fourth of July television specials, featuring performances from the casts of Broadway's Ragtime and Just in Time, Tony-nominated stars Megan Hilty and Josh Groban, and more.

The Happy Together Tour is coming to Paramount Theatre. The 2026 bill features bands and artists including The Association, The Troggs, Chicago lead singer Jason Scheff and more.

STARTO ENTERTAINMENT, Japan's premier entertainment agency, has officially launched 'STARTO NEWS ARCHIVES,' a completely free subscription-based infotainment portal dedicated to its international fanbase. The newly established platform will provide curated articles and updates featuring the agency's talent and artist groups, with content available in four languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Thai, and Korean.

Oberonis Latino Shakespeare Company will present a bilingual Spanish/English adaptation of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at McCadden Place Theatre in Los Angeles, directed by Adrián Genésius Barrón and set in a vineyard-inspired Latino cultural world.

Heartbeat Opera announced its 2026-27 season, featuring QUEENEY TODD, RUSALKA, and FALSTAFF, plus its first-ever cast album, MANON!, releasing on Lexicon Classics.

OrSVP's production of THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD, the first Bay Area staging of Agatha Christie's story adapted by Mark Shanahan, wraps its run in Orinda with two remaining performances.

FX shared a new clip featuring Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac reflecting on their most memorable moments from their Wrexham ownership journey, including early struggles and a key win over Notts County.

Sasha Nezlobin, once one of Russia's biggest comedy stars, will perform his first full hour in English at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, drawing on his dramatic emigration after criticizing Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Secret Cinema announced the full cast for GREASE: THE IMMERSIVE MOVIE MUSICAL, returning to Evolution London in Battersea Park for a strictly limited run, with Kieran Alleyne, Charlotte Avery, and others joining previously announced leads.

Tickets for the World Premiere of Tartuffe (Remixed) starring Oscar and Olivier-Award winner Mark Rylance will go on general sale this week for a strictly limited 7-week season. Learn more here.

Like many in the audience, my introduction to To Kill A Mockingbird was at school, a set book on the English Literature curriculum. If you don’t count Enid Blyton and Edward Ardizzone, it was pretty much my introduction to books full stop.

At one point, in June 1939, the UK-US ‘Special Relationship’ was defined by the King eating hotdogs on the president’s lawn. King George VI and the future Queen Mother may not have persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to promise Britain his allegiance in the forthcoming war in Europe, but their state visit – the first for a British monarch in the US – provided a model of transatlantic friendship to be mimicked for decades to come.

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame awarded $10,000 in scholarships to ten graduating high school seniors across Long Island, with an additional Pat DeRosa Memorial Scholarship presented for the fourth consecutive year.