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The Stanford Jazz Workshop has announced the 54th annual Stanford Jazz Festival at Stanford University. This year's festival will feature a diverse lineup including jazz legends and contemporary artists across various genres.

Broadway Dreams will present its 2026 Summer Performing Arts Intensive Tour, Greatest Hits, launching at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. The milestone tour marks Broadway Dreams’ 20th Anniversary Season.

Adrian Blake Mitchell, a Vaganova Academy graduate and former soloist at Mikhailovsky Theatre, has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Westside Ballet. Mitchell's return marks a full-circle moment to the institution where he began his dance training.

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. 

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL will embark on a national tour, opening at Sunderland Empire on 4 November 2026 where it will play until 28 November 2026 before ts first return to the West End in over 10 years.

L.A.’s Latino Theater Company will enter its 41st season with a dynamic slate of productions and arts education programming that celebrates its 20th anniversary operating The Los Angeles Theatre Center. 

SFJAZZ will present a diverse lineup of jazz performances in February 2026, featuring renowned artists and ensembles. The month-long event will take place at the iconic SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco.

The biggest issues with the musical adaptation of 'Water for Elephants' is that it doesn’t seem to know what it’s trying to be, and the choreographic and performance talent in this tour would be better served by stronger material.

Lily Allen may be bringing her new album to the stage. During an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the musician confirmed that a theatrical adaptation of 'West End Girl' is currently in development in London.

The Foyle Foundation has announced £2.2 million in funding for Community Foundations across the nations and regions of the UK and Northern Ireland as it completes its 25-year grant giving journey.

The Joyce Theater Foundation has revealed its programming for the Spring/Summer 2026 season in the newly named Tino & Rajika Puri Auditorium at The Joyce Theater.

KILLER GRANNIES, the new horror comedy short film by Jack Truman, will be having its West Coast Premiere at the Culver City Film Festival in Los Angeles.

The 2024 production earned seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, which I feel is an earned acknowledgment that speaks more to the craftsmanship, the ambition, and the emotional journey present in the show. The stage production’s direction, choreography, puppetry design, and ensemble synergy create moments of theatrical awe that are impossible to deny. What the songs lack in dramatic momentum, the production more than makes up for in its combination of narrative intimacy with large-scale visual storytelling.

WICKED, the West End stage musical phenomenon that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, has become the ninth longest-running production in West End history, following the completion of Saturday's matinee performance.

In October of 2025, 54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Joy Woods, Adrienne Warren and more. Learn more!

Wicked has released a new series of photographs, entitled ‘5 Minute Call’, which document members of the company making their final preparations ahead of the curtain going up.

The opening of The Ensemble’s 49th season is a H-I-T!

Regal Entertainments Ltd will present Dick Whittington - the first time in the company's 25-year history. The tale will run from Friday 28 November to Sunday 11 January 2026.

Playwright and performer Abigail Hood reprises her Offie-nominated role alongside Kevin Tomlinson, joined by four new cast members for the powerful drama exploring childhood violence, trauma and redemption.

​YoungArts revealed the 2025-2026 YoungArts Fellows, the institution's most significant award given to five mid-career artists across disciplines from around the country. Learn more!

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has revealed its 25/26 season of programming, running September 2025 through May 2026. See full programming here!

Bare Bones Theatre Ensemble’s production of Spring Awakening is well-crafted, taking the audience on a heartrending journey which, through everything, still ends in hope.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 17, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced the cast and creative team of the world premiere play Billie Jean, about sports icon and equality champion Billie Jean King.

Tony and Olivier Award-winner Lea Salonga is set to return to stages across North America with her highly acclaimed concert experience Stage, Screen and Everything In Between including dates in Ridgefield, Toronto, Las Vegas, Tucson, Palm Desert, Miami and more.