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Created by the Vazquez family, this intimate big top experience has consistently entertained audiences around the country with its high-energy, family-friendly, edge-of-your-seat production. 

Theatre has a way of getting under your skin. It’s in those unexpected moments—a scene that makes you laugh harder than you expected, a sudden shift in lighting, or a rhythm you’ve never heard before—that the stage truly comes alive.

Downtown Sioux Falls Art & Wine Walk will take place in August as the Visual Arts Center at the Washington Pavilion joins in the celebration with extended hours, featured artists and new exhibitions. Learn how to join!

For ten days this September, the urban, rural and coastal landscapes of Dorset will once again be transformed by live art and performance as the biennial Inside Out Dorset festival returns to the county.

The original cast recording for Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical is now available. Check out the album for the show, which is now running at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London’s West End. 

90 year old D'yan Forest, the Guinness World Record Holder for Oldest Working Female Comedian in the World, will premiere her new solo show D'yan Forest: A Gefilte Fish Out of Water at the iconic Joe's Pub.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem will present a special edition of Person Place Thing with host Randy Cohen and guest Will Power, acclaimed playwright and creator of CTH's highly anticipated summer production, MEMNON.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater will present the world-famous Circus Abyssinia on Navy Pier this summer for a limited engagement beginning July 10. Check out photos and video highlights from the show!

Just For One Day brings the iconic Live Aid concert to life.

ETHIOPIA - Black artists come together! The long-awaited world premiere of the first “living newspaper,” ETHIOPIA concludes IN Series’ 2024-25 season. The work was banned by the Roosevelt administration and never performed, until now.

Last week (May 22nd), The Classical Theatre of Harlem welcomed artists, philanthropists, and poker lovers to the seventh annual Hold ‘Em in Harlem fundraiser—a high-energy evening of Texas Hold ’Em, community, and culture held at the stunning Renaissance New York Harlem Hotel. Check out photos from the event.

AIDA, long celebrated as one of Verdi’s most moving tragic operas, has been performed regularly since 1871 .This adaptation, however, is like nothing you have seen before. Set in 3025, this ethereal production draws on futuristic and visually breathtaking elements, rendering this production out of this world.

Over two weekends, events will take place at iconic Corfe Castle, the coastal towns of Christchurch and Weymouth, Moors Valley Country Park and Forest, one of Dorset’s most popular tourist destinations and, for the first time, Yeovil in Somerset.

A radical reimagining of the classic Elton John song, 'I'm Still Standing' has been released as the first single from Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical (Original Cast Recording). Check it out now!

The award-winning YPC (Young People's Chorus of New York City) has announced an exciting lineup of spring and summer events, featuring concert tours in Japan and Canada, a Spring Celebration Concert, performances in Lincoln Center's Summer for the City festival, a screening of its award-winning documentary This Time Round at the New York City Independent Film Festival, and more.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem is among a number of New York cultural institutions that have lost critical federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts due to recent directives from the current administration.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem has announced that MEMNON will take center stage as the 2025 Uptown Shakespeare in the Park production, bringing a lost epic to New York audiences for the first time.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) Artistic Director Edward Hall and Executive Director Kimberly Motes have announced the 2025/26 season lineup. The season includes 12 productions across CST’s three stages, with two world premieres, three North American premieres, and six Shakespeare and Shakespeare-adjacent productions.

The Classical Theatre of Harlem will present the return of the popular Hold 'Em in Harlem event for the seventh year-a high-stakes evening of poker, camaraderie, and philanthropy to support the theatre's mission. Learn how to join!

On Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 8:00pm, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland will present Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian and South African-American director and writer/director Nigel Maister's Paper Pianos, commissioned and performed by Alarm Will Sound.

Pushcart Players has been awarded a $40,000 Institutional and Financial Stabilization Grant from the New Jersey Cultural Trust. This funding will support the organization's long-term sustainability, ensuring that its high-quality educational theater programs continue to enrich children and families throughout the state.

Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ little known 1974 concert album, Saturnight: Live From Tokyo, will be released in the U.S. in multiple formats for the first time ever, more than 50 years after it was originally released only in Japan.

Giffords Circus will celebrate its 25th anniversary year with Laguna Bay with a new show from acclaimed director Cal McCrystal, featuring the return of Tweedy the Clown. Giffords Circus produces shows worthy of the West End but staged in a 600-seat Big Top in the green fields of the Cotswolds and beyond. Laguna Bay will tour from 17th April - 28th September.

On July 13, 1985, history was made with the first ever global concert taking place simultaneously in London's Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy's Stadium. The line up was a dazzling who's who of music's top artists of the era from David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and Queen to Madonna, Phil Collins, and Led Zeppelin.

Emmanuel Jal has teamed up with South African producer Bun Xapa to release a new collaborative single, “Chaak.” Listen to the new track, available now.