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The Tank NYC announced its fall season lineup, featuring four new plays including world premieres of SHOW TRIAL and LEGERDEMAIN, alongside New York premieres of VERY BLUE LIGHT and FALLS FOR JODIE.

Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis announced single tickets are now on sale for its 2026-2027 season, featuring SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL, two world premieres, and the return of DR. SEUSS'S HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!

The White Plains Performing Arts Center (WPPAC) has revealed its 2026–2027 Mainstage Season, marking the professional regional theatre’s 24th season. This season features three Mainstage productions.

Cyril Nri will take on the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN at the Liverpool Everyman, directed by Olivier Award-winning Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu.

East Lynne Theater Company welcomed one of the nation's leading African American historians, John Whittington Franklin, for a special post-performance talkback following its presentation of “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years” at the Clemans Theater for the Arts.

The Mark Morris Dance Group will return to Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York, on July 30, 2026, with a program of live music and contemporary dance. A free Dance for PD workshop led by David Leventhal will be offered July 28.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen performer Louise Lasser, who was best known for playing the title role in the TV series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, has passed away at the age of 87.

The Theater Project will present KALEIDOSCOPE KABARET 'Lotta Laughs' Edition, a festival of live music and short comedic plays, at DMK Black Box Theatre in Union Township, NJ, featuring works by playwrights workshop members and a Young Playwrights Competition winner.

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 6/18/2026 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

Industry City, brooklynONE productions and Puppetworks have announced Puppetworks: Behind the Curtain, a special community celebration marking the organization's move to Industry City. The June 26 event will honor more than four decades of puppetry, storytelling and arts education while offering a first look at Puppetworks' future home.

The International Puppet Fringe Festival is set to return to the newly renovated Clemente Center in New York City, with this year's edition centering on a celebration of Women in Puppetry.

Actress Michèle LaRue will perform her nationally touring TALES WELL TOLD program at Classic American Tales and Historic Cold Spring Village in Cape May, featuring Gilded Age stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett.

Much has been written about the proliferation of pop singer-songwriters writing new musicals for Broadway and off-Broadway. Less covered is the trend of pop singers performing on Broadway, which has made for a number of memorable appearances in current and recent seasons. 

The 79th Annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, June 7, 2026. It's the biggest awards show of the Broadway season and it closes out a long awards season for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals and plays. Which Best Musical and Best Play nominees will take home the ultimate prize?

Awards were presented in over two dozen categories of outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and productions, and more at The 43rd Annual Elliot Norton Awards ceremony held at The Huntington Theatre in Boston.

Deep Flight Productions will present an encore engagement of WHO WE BECOME, a program of rarely produced Lanford Wilson one-acts, at Factory Series at the Chain Studio Theatre in New York.

Charles Dennis, interdisciplinary artist and co-founder of P.S. 122 and AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA, has died at his home in Hurley, NY. He performed in Robert Wilson's EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH and championed experimental arts in the Hudson Valley.

Vassar College has announced the lineup for the 40th Powerhouse Theater Season. The artists that join the lineup in 2026 include Drew Droege, Will Roland, and more.

American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin will be the recipient of the 2026 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The hono recognizes a regional theatre company that has displayed a continuous level of artistic achievement.

It was good to be back at the Washington National Opera for their thrilling performance of West Side Story after a year of extreme change for this vital world-renowned artistic organization/institution. As many people already know, the Washington National Opera has had to relocate to other venues to proactively create new artistic paradigms after some tough challenges at the Kennedy Center. (I was pleased to review this production on the night of May 14, 2026, at The Music Center at Strathmore

Set in the late 1980’s, Robert Harling’s STEEL MAGNOLIAS expresses the enduring power of the sisterhood in helping face the challenges of life. 

The Mississippi Museum of Art will present Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, featuring approximately 150 works by over 100 artists, including Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, and Dawoud Bey, organized by the National Gallery of Art.

The Theater Project announced the Douglas Michael Krueger Black Box Theater in Union, NJ as its new mainstage home, with a summer season featuring HAVING OUR SAY, ALABAMA STORY, and two additional productions.

BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT will present a free concert at NEC's Jordan Hall featuring world premieres by John Aylward and Avner Dorman, alongside New England premieres by Paul Moravec and Bernard Rogers.

Pearl Louise's debut solo show, directed by David Ford, traces a Black family's journey from Louisiana to 1980s East Oakland amid the crack epidemic. The autobiographical work has been extended by popular demand at The Marsh Berkeley.