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Before the hit movie-to-musical adaptations Legally Blonde and Heathers, Laurence O’Keefe wrote Bat Boy, a cult classic camp-horror musical about a boy who is half human and half bat.

As All Hallows’ Eve approaches when the witching hour will be upon us, there’s no more appropriate seasonal spookiness than Helen McKenna-Uff’s riveting one-woman show at the Ritz Theatre, Tell-Tale Poe, in which she is eerily transformed beyond recognition into Edgar Allan Poe (and Sarah Helen Whitman, a poet who was briefly his fiancée). 

Björk's concert with Iceland's Hamrahlíð Choir, recorded at Reykjavík's Harpa Concert Hall, will arrive as a physical release across multiple formats.

Björk's 2021 concert performance with Iceland's Hamrahlíð Choir, recorded at Reykjavík's Harpa Concert Hall, will be released on LP, CD, Blu-ray and DVD, featuring orchestral reimaginings of songs from across her catalogue.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 8, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

R.E.M. will release an expanded anniversary edition of REVEAL pairing the acclaimed 2001 album with THE BLACK SESSIONS REVEALED, a 17-song performance recorded for Radio France in Paris. The deluxe set includes a Blu-ray with high-resolution audio and music videos.

It’s been two years since Gavin Creel died on September 30, 2024, at age 48 after being diagnosed with cancer. Longtime friends and members of the Broadway community look back on his life and legacy.

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's landmark 1966 debut album receives a six-disc super deluxe edition featuring 105 tracks, including 90 rare live and studio recordings, many released for the first time.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will present two horror-focused exhibitions featuring artifacts and behind-the-scenes content from classic and contemporary films, with galleries exploring Gothic, psychological, science fiction, slasher, religious, and ghost-themed cinema.

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?” 

Islandia Music Records released the third volume in the WEATHER SYSTEMS series from percussionist Steven Schick. The album features compositions exploring themes of time and temporal experience.

When you go to a show and find out that an understudy is going on for one of the leading roles, you may actually be seeing a future Tony Award winner in the making.

I spoke with Howard Skora about his decision to write about the human story behind one of the most important civil rights decisions in modern American history, his vision for directing its world premiere production, and why he chose to write about the real-life events that took place in Houston in 1998 when two ordinary working-class men, John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, were arrested under Texas’s ‘Homosexual Conduct’ law which led to a landmark 2003 Supreme Court decision.

THE TEMPTATIONS will perform their farewell tour at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. The legendary group, known for hits like My Girl and Papa Was a Rolling Stone, continues to draw multi-generational audiences.

Mark Wills released the gospel standard "I'll Fly Away" featuring Grand Ole Opry members Ricky Skaggs and Rhonda Vincent from his upcoming GRAND OLE REVIVAL album, recorded live at the Grand Ole Opry Stage.

A chiropractor from Blaine, Minnesota, has released a song written in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. EAGLEYEZ will benefit a planned K-9 and Soldier statue at Veterans Memorial Park.

Carnegie Deli at 834 Seventh Avenue is one of New York’s most legendary dining institutions and one of the world’s most famous delicatessens, returns to Seventh Avenue on September 15th.

Post-hardcore pioneers Shudder to Think released their first project in nearly three decades via Dischord Records on September 11. The band shared a cover of Depeche Mode's "Something To Do" ahead of fall tour dates in Philadelphia, New York City, and Los Angeles.

On August 22, the new community theater Teater Asarua put on a production of RUMAH BONEKA at Teater Bulungan as part of Festival Teater Jakarta Selatan. The script is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play A DOLL’S HOUSE.

ATG San Francisco and Book Passage present Unscripted: An Evening with Michael Douglas—the next installment in ATG San Francisco's Unscripted series where culture-shaping luminaries and innovators bring their singular perspectives to San Francisco for an unforgettable evening of engaging conversation and captivating storytelling—taking place on Sunday, October 11 at 4 PM at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre. The one-night-only event will feature legendary actor and producer Michael Douglas in conversation about his extraordinary life and career and his new memoir, One Helluva Ride.

FRIGID New York will present its 5th annual Days of the Dead Festival at UNDER St. Marks, featuring Halloween and Día de los Muertos-themed plays curated by Martha Lorena Preve, Silvana Gonzalez and Federico Mallet.

OK GO released a deluxe edition of its breakthrough album OH NO, featuring new tracks and covers, as the record earned RIAA Gold certification and its single went 2x Platinum.

Halifax singer-songwriter Linda MacLeod, 75, released her new single as the first preview of her forthcoming album THE WELL KNOWN UNKNOWN, capping a six-decade music career.

Craft Recordings and HighTone Records will reissue Dave Alvin's 1998 album BLACKJACK DAVID with bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased Angel On Your Shoulder, on 2-LP, CD, and digital.

Grand Ole Opry member Mark Wills will release Grand Ole Revival, a live gospel album recorded inside the Opry Circle featuring Cody Johnson, Trisha Yearwood, Vince Gill and others, via Gaither Music Group.