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Legendary producer Salaam Remi remixed "Who The Cap Fit" from BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS' landmark album, marking a new chapter in the 50th anniversary celebration of RASTAMAN VIBRATION.

Canadian blues-rock band TRIBZ released the nostalgic single Young Love, a pop-rock ballad drawn from guitarist Earl Johnson's real high school romance and musical origins.

THE THREE DEGREES will headline the open-air concert at Arley Hall in Cheshire, joined by THE REAL THING, ODYSSEY, 5 STAR, SOUL II SOUL's Rose Windross, and Junior Giscombe for a celebration of soul, disco, and funk.

Gil Rose's Grammy-winning ensemble will present world premieres, two semi-staged operas, and over 10 new album releases celebrating American contemporary music.

Craft Recordings releases a 50th anniversary edition of Raffi's 1976 children's album on eco-friendly vinyl, marking the album's first LP pressing in over four decades.

BOND STREET THEATRE celebrates five decades of arts activism with a two-day event at La MaMa Theatre featuring performances, storytelling, live music, and international cuisine honoring the company's work in over 60 countries.

A look at her lengthy list of credits – just a few of which are “Romeo and Juliet,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Macbeth,” “All’s Well That Ends Well,” and “Richard III” with Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP), of which she is a founding member, a trio of Elliot Norton Award-winning roles in “Miss Witherspoon” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”  at Lyric Stage Boston and “The Children” at SpeakEasy Stage, and other plays including “Breaking the Code” at Central Square Theater and “Barefoot in the Park” at Gloucester Stage – offer an unneeded reminder of why Plum has long been one of Boston’s most respected stage actors.

Billy Bragg, Ruts DC, and Nine Below Zero will join the biographical play about Dr. Feelgood co-founder Wilko Johnson at the Palace Theatre in Southend. The run opens October 12 with a post-show Q&A featuring writer Jonathan Maitland and Dr. Charlie Chan.

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will release a 39-disc box set capturing the second leg of Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour, featuring 371 never-before-heard tracks from professionally recorded shows.

A new 50th Anniversary Broadway production of Annie will premiere on Broadway in Fall 2027, fifty years after its Broadway debut, directed by Sam Pinkleton. Learn more here!

ELYSIAN FIELDS, a new musical by Steve Fisher and Marc Fliedner, will premiere Off-Broadway at American Theatre of Actors. The production interweaves a contemporary wedding celebration with the historical relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed.

PEAK Performances will present dance, theater, film and music programming at Montclair State University, featuring works by choreographer Kyle Abraham, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a new three-film series on 1976 American cinema.

Emily Skinner, Laiken Jules, Christopher Swan and more will star in Goodspeed Musicals’ 50th anniversary production of Annie, running October 30-December 27, 2026 at The Goodspeed in East Haddam, Connecticut.

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The Coolidge Corner Theatre will present a repertory series spanning 100 years of cinema featuring demonic possession, Faustian bargains, and portrayals of Lucifer, including Häxan, Rosemary's Baby, and The Exorcist.

Carmel will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a city with an ice cream social featuring live music from Blair Clark & Fun Factor Band and Cool City Band, historic displays, and family activities at Carmel City Hall.

Z2 Comics, working with the Estate of Johnny Cash, will republish the singer's self-funded 1976 comic book with new variant covers and interviews with John Carter Cash and Alex Segura.

Odyssey Opera will open its season with a one-night concert at NEC's Jordan Hall featuring rarely performed works by Edward MacDowell, Amy Beach and George Whitefield Chadwick, including a Boston premiere.

Johnson Willis leads the cast of WILKO: LOVE AND DEATH AND ROCK 'N' ROLL as the UK tour kicks off in Coventry, visiting York, Durham and Southend through November.

Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem debuts in London on the 50th anniversary of its premiere. Directed by Diane Page, with original music by Jammz, the piece is a jubilant celebration of love and loss, grief and empowerment. The power of sisterhood manifests in a series of poetic monologues where seven women who have experienced abuse tell their stories. It’s time to listen. Set to Ingrid Mackinnon’s movement direction. The production is an exciting addition to the programme for the newly reopened Yard Theatre, but it’s a tad too long for what it is to be fully digestible.

THE FLESHTONES released a double-sided single, "Float Your Showboat" b/w "Hear Today," marking the band's 50th anniversary on Yep Roc Records as a limited-edition 7-inch and digital release.

Elvis Costello released the previously unreleased track "I Turn Around" (Hope & Anchor Studio), taken from the forthcoming My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition) box set.

Merrily We Roll Along tackles these behemoth existentialisms at a granular level in the lives of three old friends. It’s one of those shows that leaves you with something to ponder for days after the lights come up. In Signature Theatre’s hands, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s masterpiece is more intricate than ever before.

Soulpepper Theatre Company will launch a Civic Programming lineup in Toronto's Distillery District, featuring journalism talks, a Hot Docs screening series and free weekly Public Tuesdays events.