Fall - 2018 - Boston Articles Page 6

Emmy & Golden Globe Award-nominated actress and singer Chrissy Metz will make her Broadway debut in & Juliet! Metz will star as ‘Angelique’ for a limited engagement.

The Rogue Theater Festival returns to The Flea Theater in Tribeca for its 8th season, presenting 37 original productions in partnership with Abingdon Theatre Company, including fully staged plays, staged readings, and digital streaming performances.

The Stratford Festival's 74th season officially opened last night and it is fitting that the play on stage for Antoni Cimolino’s final Opening n=Night as Artistic Director is THE TEMPEST. It was famously the final play that Shakespeare wrote solo, and it follows the protagonist Prospero as he lets go of one way of life and moves on to the next. Cimolino directed this stunning production which possesses beauty and magic in its design and effects as well as in the message it delivers.

Fake Escape will present SAVING BRITNEY at Edinburgh Fringe, a solo show by Shereen Roushbaiani exploring celebrity obsession, the #FreeBritney movement, and sexual identity through one millennial's parallel journey with Britney Spears.

Global superstars Stray Kids will play a series of special performances across Latin America this September. Titled ‘STRAYCITY,' the group will visit Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bogotá, Colombia, and Mexico City, Mexico.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet announced its 26th Summer Programs, welcoming 234 dancers from the U.S., Canada, and Sweden for a three-tiered training program in San Francisco, with two public performances at the Cowell Theater.

The Egg at Theatre Royal Bath announced a disability-led reimagining of THE SECRET GARDEN, adapted by Tom Wentworth and directed by Stephanie Kempson.

The North/South Chamber Orchestra will present a retrospective concert honoring late Cuban-American composer Aurelio De La Vega at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York, featuring five works spanning fifty years of his career.

Actress and comedian Meg Stalter will make her Broadway debut in Oh, Mary! this summer. Stalter, the breakout star of HBO’s TV comedy “Hacks,” will join the company as “Mary Todd Lincoln.'

New York Festival of Song announced the release of MY BROTHER'S KEEPER on NYFOS Records, featuring six leading Black male vocalists co-produced by baritone Justin Austin and GRAMMY-nominated pianist Steven Blier.

Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, a new musical with music & lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winner Duncan Sheik, will premiere off-Broadway at a brand-new venue, The Night Egg at the Culture Club. Learn more here!

San Francisco Opera will present Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE with two international casts led by conductor Benjamin Manis, featuring baritones Joshua Hopkins and Justin Austin sharing the title role.

Grammy-winning Punch Brothers will perform at Boston's Boch Center Shubert Theatre in support of their seventh album, THE UNSUNG ADVENTURES OF PUNCH BROTHERS, their first all-instrumental record featuring new member Brittany Haas.

The National Theatre announced further casting and dates for its 2026 season, including Cate Blanchett in ELECTRA/PERSONA, Anne-Marie Duff in SOME WOMAN, and new casts for CLOUD 9 and THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE.

Lukas Nelson and Molly Tuttle will join forces this fall for a special co-headline tour, with confirmed stops at Hyannis, MA’s Cape Cod Melody Tent, Cohasset, MA’s South Short Music Circus, Albany, NY’s Palace Theatre, and more.

Smuin Contemporary Ballet announced its 33rd season, SMUIN IN FRAME, featuring world and regional premieres by Val Caniparoli, Nicolo Fonte, My'Kal Stromile, and Amy Seiwert across four programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

NEW YORK CITY CENTER announced programing for the 2026 –2027 Season—the largest in the institution’s history. It will include Encores! productions of Kiss of the Spider Woman, Hallelujah Baby, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and more.

The New Harmony Project announced collaborators joining its annual Writers' Residency, including Matt Williams, Angelo Pizzo, and Aurin Squire, alongside virtual industry workshops led by writers from The Handmaid's Tale, Maid, and more.

BrightSide Theatre announced the cast and production team for THE PRODUCERS, the 12-time Tony Award-winning Mel Brooks musical, closing the company's 14th season in Naperville.

Lisa Lampanelli has joined Cause Célèbre Productions as associate producer for the world premiere of THE PEOPLE VERSUS LENNY BRUCE, a play by Susan Charlotte directed by Antony Marsellis at Theatre Row in New York.

Chicago Opera Theater will close its season with the concert world premiere of TRUSTED, a new opera composed by Aaron Israel Levin with a libretto by Marella Martin Koch, at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building.

Paper Mill Playhouse announces its 2026-27 season featuring Mary Poppins, Dear Evan Hansen, Million Dollar Quartet & Lend Me a Tenor in Millburn, NJ.

Dominic Fike has unveiled the dates for the North American leg of his “Comedy Tragedy Parody” Tour, a series of intimate headline shows taking place this fall. The dates will run alongside supporting Tame Impala’s arena tour.

For BroadwayWorld's Debut of the Month, we are featuring Esteban Andres Cruz, who is currently making their Broadway debut in Dog Day Afternoon, opposite Jon Berthal. Read the full interview with Esteban here!

South Coast Repertory has announced its expanded 2026–27 season, featuring Into the Woods, Hamlet, and a rotating repertory of Mother Russia and The Importance of Being Earnest.