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Though it’s a musical about a support group for internet addicts, Dave Molloy’s Octet is delightfully analog. And that’s precisely the point — Molloy’s musical invites audiences to look away from their screens and lean into this intimate, inventive, and fully a cappella show. Molloy (perhaps best known for Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812) has written the kind of show that gives me hope for the future of new musicals. Octet is timely, creative, often funny — and truly, wholly original. And based on the recent news about the forthcoming movie musical directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, it has commercial legs.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons will present a nine-performance European tour, their eighth and final international tour together, with guest soloist Lang Lang.

Annette Bening and Ella Beatty recently paid a visit to The Balusters, which is now playing on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The pair posed with the cast backstage after the performance. Check out the photos here!

Citadel Theatre has announced its 2026-27 mainstage season, featuring EUREKA DAY, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and the musical ORDINARY DAYS.

La Jolla Playhouse has announced the cast and creative team for THE MONSTERS, a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Playwright Ngozi Anyanwu stars alongside Sullivan Jones in the sibling drama set in the world of mixed martial arts.

Secret Improv Vice a monthly improvised detective show set in 1940s San Francisco, will present a Birthday Edition at Shelton Theater, where audience suggestions shape each case of murder, blackmail, and deceit.

Playwright Lauren Gunderson is giving France’s Reign of Terror a sharp-tongued makeover with The Revolutionists, next up at International City Theatre.

Riverside Theatre announced a new production set for its world premiere in Vero Beach, FL. A developmental reading in New York will feature Max Mendoza Crumm, James Taylor Odom, and Richard B. Watson, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.

Mockingbird Improv in San Diego will present RADIO '47's new program, THE DARK ATTIC, an improvised retro horror comedy described as 'the Goes Wrong Show meets a Vincent Price movie.'

Lyric Stage Boston announced its 2026-2027 season, featuring ALL MY SONS, PETER PAN GOES WRONG, AGATHA CHRISTIE'S THE MIRROR CRACK'D, KING JAMES, and a yet-to-be-named musical.

Pleasance Theatre Trust has added 95 new shows to its Edinburgh Fringe programme, featuring Tim Vine, Alex Edelman, and Flo & Joan among the highlights spanning comedy, theatre, and new writing.

Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre and North Carolina Black Repertory Company will present the New York premiere of BLOOMING IN DRY SEASON, a Caribbean family drama by Eljon Wardally, directed by Jackie Alexander, at WP Theater on Broadway.

Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre has revealed its 65th anniversary season, featuring six productions with Broadway veterans Angie Schworer, Jonathan Hadley, Natascia Diaz, and others.

Juggerknot Theatre Company and Live Arts Miami announce the inaugural Miami Immersive Summit, the culminating fourth day of the Miami Immersive Intensive, taking place Sunday, June 7, 2026 at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus Auditorium in Downtown Miami.

As New York prepares for the 2026 Tony Award nominations and honors the recent Lucille Lortel winners, producers are facing tough questions about whether traditional 8 PM curtain times are driving audiences away. The business landscape is shifting heavily behind the scenes, marked by the merger of licensing giants BMG and Concord, looming strike ballots in the West End, and the Kennedy Center's controversial two-year shutdown. Despite these logistical and financial challenges—including a devastating embezzlement case at a Pennsylvania community theatre—there is plenty of positive momentum to report, from the rapid financial recoupment of the Suffs national tour to new initiatives supporting theater education and large-scale playwriting.

What did our critic think of THE INVISIBLE at National Arts Centre?

Out of the Box Theatrics announced its 2026-2027 season, including industry presentations of DINO NUGGETS ARE GAY and THE WORLD'S CASSETTE LIBRARY as part of its 'Building the Box' series, plus a new development initiative called 'World Builders.'

FAIRLIGHT, an electropop musical retelling the origin story of lawn tennis as a queer love story, will tour across the UK, performing on actual tennis courts from Birmingham to Wimbledon and Crawley Pride.

Wharton Center is set to host & Juliet this summer. Featuring songs by Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Max Martin, a book by the Emmy-winning writer from “Schitt’s Creek,” David West Read, direction by Luke Sheppard.

Musical Theatre of Anthem announced its 19th season lineup. Full details on the upcoming productions are available via the company's official press release.

TimeLine Theatre has released a new video offering an inside look at the first rehearsal held in its new Uptown venue for AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, the company’s inaugural production at 5035 N. Broadway in Chicago.

Debut playwright Geve Penn's two-act kitchen sink drama FINN'S will receive a one-day-only staged reading at Purgatory in Brooklyn, exploring work-life balance, masculinity, and race through the lens of a single bar shift.

​​​​​​​DanceCleveland’s 69th season came to a satisfying close Saturday night at Playhouse Square’s Mimi Ohio Theatre with the Northeast Ohio debut of YY Dance Company.

Heartsink, a bittersweet medical comedy by Unequal Productions that's premiering at Riverside Studios, is a little gem. In only 85 minutes (no interval) writer Farine Clarke, a former GP, deftly deals with weighty issues such as an overstretched NHS, technology versus humanity, racism, assisted dying, the generation gap and how physicians need to learn to heal themselves. 

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are turned on their heads in this fast-paced, rollicking ride as two narrators and several actors attempt to combine all 209 stories ranging from classics like Snow White, Cinderella, and Hansel and Gretel to more bizarre, obscure stories like The Devil’s Grandmother and more!. A wild, free-form comedy with lots of audience participation and madcap fun!