Jerry-for-Short 1929

Corey Fogelmanis discusses his New York stage debut in The New Group’s ROPE, exploring the queer psychological thriller’s themes of love, manipulation, privilege, and the devastating consequences of misplaced trust.

Dave Palmer Trio Plays Cy Coleman (Volume 1) is a five-song EP celebrating the music of the legendary Broadway composer. The first single features GRAMMY-winning vocalist Gaby Moreno on the SWEET CHARITY standard.

Electronic composer Jeff Mills performs his 2023 METROPOLIS METROPOLIS soundtrack live to Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film classic at Nikolaisaal in Potsdam.

In a time when “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” could play in the background of so many different leaders’ speeches, “Cabaret,” is a musical that teaches a lesson with the glorious dreams of liberty, acceptance, and joy marched into death.

Four of New York State's leading opera organizations—The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Saratoga, Finger Lakes Opera, and Seagle Festival—will present their collaborative production of the Kurt Weill jazz musical in Manhattan at Kaufman Music Center.

Johann Strauss II’s beloved operetta Die Fledermaus brings Viennese waltzes, romantic intrigue, mistaken identities, and social satire to Theatro São Pedro, October 8–11, featuring the Academy of Opera and the theater’s Youth Orchestra.

New York City's philanthropic musical theater group will present a backstage whodunit and a brand-new adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta, with proceeds benefiting Kings County Tennis League.

The annual Village Trip festival will feature nearly a dozen concerts with world premieres by David Amram, Samuel Adler, and Anthony Davis, plus performances by the Horszowski Trio, Ahn Trio, and Cygnus Ensemble.

Marquee TV will offer documentaries and performance films spanning arts and culture, including a Vivaldi anniversary special, a Vermeer exhibition film, and opera programming.

Albany Park Theater Project's acclaimed immersive production PORT OF ENTRY will conclude its four-year run with a final season in Chicago, exploring immigrant stories through its youth theater ensemble in a transformed 1929 warehouse.

The Bronx's 97-year-old Loew's Paradise Theater, one of NYC's last surviving movie palaces, will reopen as a 4,000-seat performing arts center presenting theater, concerts, comedy, dance, and film.

The discourse surrounding reasons for reviving musicals on Broadway is a relatively recent phenomenon. These days, if a show is announced for a revival, a sentence that often follows is: “Why are they reviving it?” 

Patrick Hamilton’s bleak portrait of 1920s London arrives on stage in a new adaptation by Simon Reade, exploring the fragile connections between those searching for love, belonging and something more.

The historic Loew's Jersey Theatre in Jersey City reopens as a restored live performance venue with opening weekend concerts from Trey Anastasio Band and THE WAR ON DRUGS.

All new production photos have been released for the world premiere of Simon Reade’s new stage adaptation of Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton. Check out the photos here!

Pianist and composer Dan Siegel released a nine-song contemporary jazz album featuring collaborators including Jay Bellerose, Brian Bromberg, and Dean Parks, prioritizing raw first takes over polished perfection.

Documentary chronicles the life of 18-time GRAMMY Award-winning jazz musician Paquito D'Rivera, from child prodigy in Cuba to his defection to the U.S. and career as a composer and performer.

If you’re looking to dig deeper into Broadway gossip, why not check some federal financial databases? Producers usually like to keep their private fundraising out of the spotlight. Still, on a website run by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), producers disclose how much money they’re raising for upcoming Broadway-bound shows, national tours, West End transfers, and more. But why are multi-million-dollar Broadway productions making financial data freely accessible to the public? And what information are producers sharing with (or obscuring from) the public under mysterious, theatre-lyric-themed LLC names?

Guitarist Laura Lootens will release her second album SHAPE OF MY HEART on October 9, 2026, on the naïve classiques label. She will perform works from the album across 15 US cities beginning September 9 in Boston, with additional stops in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and other major cities through November.

Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) wrote his semi-autobiographical trilogy as a dark celebration of the seedy, smoggy, smutty London he inhabited in the late 1920s. Published first as Bob’s story (The Midnight Bell 1929), then with Jenny’s back-story (the salaciously titled The Siege of Pleasure 1932) and finally Ella’s simultaneous story to Bob’s (The Plains of Cement 1934, originally titled ‘Time, Gentlemen, Please’), Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky – A London Trilogy was compiled and published in one volume 1935.

A free ceremony in Ybor City will dedicate a new historic marker for the 1929 building that once housed the United Secret Orders Hall and La Benéfica Española clinic.

Christopher Wyze & The Tellers released the title track from their forthcoming album, an 11-song tribute to Indianapolis blues pioneers Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell.

Center Theatre Group will present Big League Productions' national tour of THE MUSIC MAN at the Ahmanson Theatre from October 27 to November 8, 2026, marking the show's first major Los Angeles engagement since 1980.

A new musical by Katharine McNair and Michael Gallant set in 1929 New Orleans' Storyville District will run as part of the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City.

CHRISTOPHER WYZE & THE TELLERS released a new single titled I'M GOING BACK TO TENNESSEE, adding to the band's catalog of original music.