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Bristol Old Vic's re-energised Literary Department announced the second year of participants in the theatre's Early Career Writers initiative – a free-to-access programme of support for writers.

Ann Talman will present her solo cabaret Elizabeth Taylor and The Shadow of Her Smile at the Arts Club of Washington. The show explores Talman’s personal and professional relationship with Elizabeth Taylor through stories and music from Broadway and the Great American Songbook.

Dance on Camera and Symphony Space have unveiled the 54th edition of Dance on Camera Festival, running from February 6–9, 2026. All films screen at Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater. 

The American Mavericks Project (AMP) will present the world premiere of American Mavericks Project Vl. 1: Quest. Learn more about the upcoming event here!

Four-time Grammy Award-winning professional choir, The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, will continue its 2025-2026 Season with three December concerts featuring the world premieres of resident composer Sarah Rimkus' Nativity and more.

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has revealed this year's finalists for the prestigious international playwriting award- the largest and oldest award recognising women+ writers for plays of outstanding quality written for the English-speaking theatre. 

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room Festival, a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations.

The Fall 2025 season is in full swing, and with it, comes new plays for theatre lovers of all kinds. Whether you live for intense dramas or would rather escape with zaney comedies, there's something for everyone both on and off-Broadway in Winter 2025/26.

The Olivier Award-winning Oedipus, an adaptation created and directed by Robert Icke, will begin performances on Broadway on Thursday, October 30, 2025. Meet the cast of Oedipus here!

RADA and Trish Wadley Productions have announced Sinéad Rushe's polyphonic production of The Hamlet Project will have a week of previews at RADA to pilot a new RADA Residencies programme.

The benefit of a stage production means it will always be malleable to change, always willing to look at how a story written in the past can still be relevant in the present, and remain timeless for the future. What follows in this new production of The Wiz is a recontextualization of our favorite characters. While the structure of the story is faithful to the Baum novel and MGM film, it comes with small, but noticeable details that reframe this familiar story not just as a fantastical quest, but as a bildungsroman and revenge tale at the same time.

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) will return to the United States for the first time in over ten years under the baton of Music Director Jaap van Zweden. The tour will include a highly anticipated performance at Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 27, 2025.

Bristol Old Vic has announced the full cast for its swashbuckling Christmas production Treasure Island: A New Musical Adventure, a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Bristol-inspired tale of hidden treasure and daring deeds.

Guerilla Opera has announced the world premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible, a powerful and surreal new work in collaboration with the Urban Jazz Dance Company. T

Breakin' Convention will present the UK premiere of PRISM by Montreal-based company Tentacle Tribe at Sadler's Wells East in Stratford from Wednesday 8 – Saturday 11 October 2025.

El ensamble de música contemporánea TEMPLUM, procedente de Mazatlán, Sinaloa, ofrecerá un concierto en el que realizará una travesía musical entre lo físico, lo simbólico y lo invisible, con el programa titulado TEMPLUM Drei (Música contemporánea / Tres voces), que incluye obras de compositores de México, Japón y Cuba: Valeria Espinosa, Valeria Jonard, Toshio Hosokawa, Tania León y Arturo Fuentes.

Sam Macgregor will  debut his gripping new comedy-drama at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe; Hold the Line is a powerful two-hander show inspired by his real-life experiences on the NHS 111 frontline.

Award-winning director Igor Golyak will direct the UK premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers, opening at the Marylebone Theatre. Learn more about the UK Premiere and see how to purchase tickets!

The New Group has revealed the cast for the third annual Free Fest. See who is starring in the festival and learn more about the festival's lineup here!

Matt Fraser, whose television specials and hit Netflix series have made him a household name in psychic entertainment, brings a blend of mentalism, storytelling, and audience interaction.

The Grand Theatre Box Office is officially unlocked for the upcoming 2025/26 Season's Spriet Series after months of exclusive access for season ticket subscribers. Learn more about the season's artists and see how to purchase tickets!

Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute, in collaboration with The Brick, will present the ninth annual Queer Butoh from Wednesday, June 25 - Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8pm at The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn. Tickets start at $25 and are available for purchase here.

Back in 2023, the Royal Shakespeare Company celebrated the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio with a national playwriting competition. From over 2000 entries, 37, spanning all genres, were picked. Readings for the winning plays were held through the autumn of that year and subsequent productions have been popping up here and there ever since. Nancy Netherwood’s Radiant Boy now landing at Southwark Playhouse directed by Júlia Levai. The writer’s professional debut takes us back to the 80s in North-East of England, where it is believed that a young man is possessed. Back home from studying at King’s College Choir in London, he and his mother keep their friction at bay while they wait for Father Miller to arrive. Can they redeem Russell’s spiritual health? And what is it that’s haunting him exactly?

Sure We Can will host the World Premiere of RIVEN, a play based on the reality of waste pickers. This site-specific production will be staged at an actual recycling center in Brooklyn. Learn more!

This June, choreographer Catherine Tharin will premiere In the Wake of Yes, a work for four dancers featuring a film by award-winning filmmaker Lora Robertson, and music by renowned composer and jazz pianist Joel Forrester, who will play live.