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The selection of Frozen as the summer musical served multiple masters. Thematically, it fit within Encore’s 2025-2026 season’s theme of “Finding Yourself,” as the story of Queen Elsa discovering how to better control her powers also serves as a metaphor for self-love, self-acceptance, and self-esteem. Frozen also, let’s be honest, has always been a crowd-pleaser. It has a near universal appeal for various attendees who’d be interested in seeing a production at Dr. Phillips Center. Musical Theatre Acolytes. Disney Adults. Families looking for kid-friendly entertainment.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will present its upcoming Rosen House Concert Series, featuring 21 performances spanning classical, jazz, folk, and global music, plus a new Juilliard Extension collaboration.

Next week, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including The Scarlet Pimpernel in Concert, Ray Angry, featuring WAyne Brady & Orfeh, plus more.

The Tanglewood Music Center kicked off its 2026 season with the first TMCO concert and its annual Opening Exercises convocation in Ozawa Hall. This summer's cohort includes 122 Fellows from 24 states and 11 nations.

There are musicals that entertain, and then there are musicals that completely overwhelm your senses in the most glorious way imaginable. Winner of 10 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, now playing at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville through July 12, is firmly in that second category.

Carlos Santana will play November 2026 performances of An Intimate Evening with Santana: Greatest Hits Live: Presented by SiriusXM at House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. 

Tony winner Cynthia Erivo and musical theater performer Michael Feinstein are among the headliners confirmed for The Library of Congress National Book Festival, returning on Saturday, Aug. 22, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. 

OPERA America announced $135,000 in commissioning grants to seven opera companies through its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation since 2014.

Rhode Island's only Renaissance Faire returns to Saugatucket Park and The Contemporary Theater Company in Wakefield, featuring sword fighting, artisan vendors, live Dungeons & Dragons, and a new four noble houses storyline.

What did our critic think of 42ND ANNUAL POPS ON THE RIVER at First Security Amphitheater?

The Laugh Factory out of Hollywood delivers a lineup of laughter at its all-new Laugh Factory Las Vegas Theater at the Horseshoe Las Vegas. The Laugh Factory is set to present two shows nightly ranging from a residency with legendary impressionist Rich Little and the classic comedy club three-person lineup of headliner, feature act and host.

The Green Room 42 will present Almost Midnight, a one-night concert celebrating the Broadway eleven o'clock number, featuring a cast of 18 performers and music direction by Noah Turner.

The Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum will present a lineup including The Brian Barlow Big Band performing Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder and a one-night-only reading of The Amateurs, a new TV series from the creators of Slings and Arrows.

Papatango Theatre Company and Pentabus announced a new collaboration to produce and tour two world premieres by prize-winning playwrights Tom Powell and Laura Waldren to venues across the UK.

Fontainebleau Las Vegas invites audiences to experience the impossible as internationally acclaimed mentalist duo MIND2MIND performs their exclusive residency at the resort's intimate Azul lounge.

Tony Danza returns to 54 Below with his Sinatra tribute show this July, joined by Linda Eder and a packed lineup of Broadway and cabaret stars.

Comedian Joe Lycett will perform his new stand-up tour, DO YOU REALLY LYCETT? IS IT, IS IT WICKED? WE'RE LOVIN' IT, LOVIN' IT, LOVIN' IT, WE'RE LOVIN' IT LYCETT, at Bradford Live for two nights.

MIGRATION DIARY: NEW YORK CITY EDITION, a multimedia documentary theater work by Romanian director Carmen Lidia Vidu, will have its world premiere at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, presented in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 25, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park announced its 2026 Annual Festival in Tivoli, NY, featuring three consecutive Saturdays of dance, music, and storytelling curated by Michèle Steinwald, with performers including Valerie June, Calpulli Danza Mexicana, and EVIDENCE.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis bring WARRIORS to Broadway in 2027! Everything you need to know about the new musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 23, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Matt Bomer, Michael Ball, Simon Russell Beale, Layton Williams, and others announced as rotating King Herods joining Sam Ryder in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Rice University's Shepherd School of Music announced its 2026-27 season, featuring orchestral, chamber, opera, and faculty recital programming, including a Texas premiere of Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice and multiple World Premieres.

Dancer-choreographer Melissa Ajayi's interest in creating her own dance works came at a young age in her hometown dance studio in New Philadelphia, Ohio. It only grew stronger over the years as a dance major at Kent State University and as a freelance dance artist living in New York City and Lexington, Kentucky. So, forming her own eponymous project-based dance company in 2021 was a natural next step in her evolution as a dancemaker.