In the Heights

The Stage Managers' Association announced the upcoming 2026 Del Hughes Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Art of Stage Management. No additional details from an attached press release were available in the submission.

Indie-pop singer-songwriter-pianist Andrew McMahon has unveiled his 18-date, intimate,  solo fall tour, “An Evening with Andrew McMahon and His Piano,' which is set to launch October 9th in Boston with the first of two nights at City Winery.

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 Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will present 'Soul, Sound, and Voice: The Art of Jerry Pinkney,' a retrospective of over 75 works exploring music's influence on the late illustrator's career.

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?

Theater Resources Unlimited will host a Community Gathering via Zoom focused on licensing, featuring James Rocco and C. Michael Perry discussing legal rights, royalties, and how producers can navigate the licensing landscape.

Yale Repertory Theatre has revealed its 2026-27 season. 2026-27 kicks off with August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in October, and will be followed by world premieres and more.

Scottish trio Cantrip, featuring fiddler Jon Bews, piper Dan Houghton, and guitarist Eric McDonald, will perform at the Sudbury Meetinghouse, blending Celtic tradition with funk, metal, bluegrass, and klezmer influences.

The annual League Awards were held during The Broadway League’s 2026 Spring Road Conference as esteemed members and partners were honored for their achievements in support of Touring Broadway.

xThe LA Phil has unveiled the 2026 season at The Ford, its hillside open-air venue, running from May 8 to October 31. The 2026 season brings together a multidisciplinary mix of music, dance, film, theater, comedy and spoken word.

Wesleyan University has named its black box theater in the new Fries Arts Building the Lin-Manuel Miranda Theater, in honor of Lin-Manuel Miranda, who graduated from the university in 2002.

Bristol Riverside Theatre will present REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES by Josefina López, following five Latina seamstresses navigating identity, immigration, and self-worth, directed by Cuban American theater artist Leyma López.

9 Works Theatrical kicks off its 2026 season with 'Yemaya,' a Filipino adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’s debut play, 'Yemaya’s Belly' (2003).

Bursting with contagious rhythm, irrepressible heart, and an abiding sense of community pride, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning 2008 original Broadway musical IN THE HEIGHTS remains one of the most vibrant and emotionally resonant contemporary musicals to emerge from the early 21st century. For Musical Theatre West, this current 2026 production of the musical—which continues performances at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach through April 26, 2026—is an anticipated return of a musical that this company first staged back in the Fall of 2017. In essence, it's nice to come home to something comfortably familiar.

Turnpike Troubadours will continue to tour through this fall with newly confirmed shows. Tickets for the tour (promoted by Live Nation) go on sale this Friday, March 27, at 10:00 am local time.

LA Phil President & CEO Kim Noltemy has unveiled the 2026/27 LA Phil season at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The season features figures including Esa-Pekka Salonen, who takes up his newly established role of Creative Director.

Directed magnificently by Elijah Green, with energetic choreography by Katie Powers-Faulk and musical direction by Miki Yokomizo, the totally entertaining and artistically brilliant production pulled me in from the moment it started.

Next month, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond for Women's History Month, including Linda Eder, Kate Baldwin, Jenn Colella and more. 

Netflix has debuted the teaser for their forthcoming Pride and Prejudice series featuring Elizabeth Bennet (Emma Corrin) and Mr. Darcy (Jack Lowden). Check it out now.

Second Stage Theater has revealed the complete cast for its upcoming production of Adam Bock’s dark comedy, The Receptionist, directed by Sarah Benson.

Current star of Masquerade Telly Leung discusses with Jennifer Ashley Tepper playing the Phantom in the immersive production, the full circle from Rent fan to Rent actor, Gavin Creel’s leadership during a production that never was, and much more. 

Rock band Simple Plan has announced the next chapter of their U.S. headline run with the “Bigger Than You Think! Tour – The Sequel!”, returning to the road this summer. 

Get a first look at 'The I Love You Song' from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Theatre Under The Stars. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a fast-paced musical comedy following six quirky kids as they compete for glory in a cutthroat spelling showdown.

Watch a video of I Speak Six Languages from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Theatre Under The Stars Perfection takes practice — and Marcy Park (Gemini Quintos) makes it look easy.

While different tryout theaters have different relationships to the development of new shows, it’s worth looking at both which commercial rental theaters and which non-profit theaters have had the most Best Musical Tony Award winners come from their stages.