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The National Film Board of Canada's landmark works, including films by Norman McLaren and Theodore Ushev, will be featured in continuous screenings at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.

SOMM Recordings will release three chamber music recordings featuring British composers Ivor Hodgson and Sir George Dyson, performed by the ensemble I Musicanti and conducted by Leon Bosch.

Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith releases a new album featuring four ensembles with musicians including Bobby Naughton, Bill Laswell, and Marcus Gilmore on Burning Ambulance Music.

NEA Jazz Master and 15-time GRAMMY winner Chucho Valdés releases his first solo piano album in 20 years, recorded as one continuous session with no edits. Landmark 85th birthday celebrations will take place at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Blue Note LA.

'Evita' is making its way back to Broadway, but it’s been more than four decades since Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Tony Award-winning musical first arrived in New York City. BroadwayWorld looks back at the original cast.

An exciting change is coming to the world of youth musicals. Effective October 1, 2026, ShowKits of materials created by Music Theatre International (MTI) for their Broadway Junior musicals will be printed and distributed by GIA Publications, Inc., in addition to MTI.

Kansas City Repertory Theater’s new production of “Come From Away” is top notch in every possible way. “Come From Away” is about how one remote Canadian town rallied in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America to embrace neighbors they could not have imagined they shared on the day before.

Trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith will release a new album featuring four ensembles, including collaborators Sylvie Courvoisier, Bill Laswell and Pheeroan akLaff, via Burning Ambulance Music.

American jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire joins the BBC Concert Orchestra and Miho Hazama for a celebration of jazz legend Miles Davis on the centenary of his birth. Although diverse and enjoyable, it is a little less Davis and a little more everything else thanks to some over-orchestration.

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.

San Francisco Opera’s 2026–27 Season begins with Opera Ball, the opening night benefit co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, and Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim leading an international cast in Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra.

O Céu de Bibi Ferreira celebrates Brazil’s legendary “Grand Dame of Theater” in a poetic musical journey through her extraordinary life and career. After successful runs in Rio, the production arrives in São Paulo August 20 for a free season.

From August 4 to 8, the world-renowned guitarist, vocalist, and Grammy Award-winning producer celebrated Tony Bennett with a concert at Birdland Jazz Club

With more Top 10 hits than Journey, and as many as Fleetwood Mac, FOREIGNER features strongly in every category in Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time” listing. At times, the band’s weekly catalog sales have eclipsed those of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Aerosmith, and most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: Nielsen SoundScan).

There are certain phrases in life that get me highly excited. When I watch a movie the phrase “Music by John Williams” puts me in a very good place for the duration of that particular film. The phrase “Directed by Steven Spielberg” has the same effect. These two men have a collaboration that’s unheard of in Hollywood. For over 50 years and 30 films the team of Williams and Spielberg have collaborated on some of the biggest films to ever grace the movie screen.

The Criterion Channel is streaming a curated collection of seven films centered on the journey home, including THE SEARCHERS, AFTER HOURS, and O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU.

Fantasy Records announced a vinyl reissue of Chamaco Ramírez's 1979 solo debut, ALIVE AND KICKING, bringing the classic recording back to physical format for collectors and fans.

Tennessee Performing Arts Center will present eight productions in its Discovery Series, featuring JEREMY JORDAN, RENT IN CONCERT, PARSONS DANCE, URBAN BUSH WOMEN, and CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT, among others.

Burbage Theatre Co announced its 15th season, subtitled 'Past is Prologue,' featuring five plays at its Pawtucket, RI home, kicking off with MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING directed by Stephen Thorne.

American Ballet Theatre revealed its upcoming seasons at the David H. Koch Theater, featuring a world premiere by Brady Farrar and company premieres of Helen Pickett's Petal, and more.

Orinda Starlight Village Players will present Noel Coward's classic comedy PRESENT LAUGHTER, directed by Patrick Atkinson and starring Matt Cardigan-Smith, at the Orinda Community Park Amphitheater.

Luna Stage and Richard Jordan Productions bring MRS. STERN WANDERS THE PRUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, inspired by Hannah Arendt's arrest, before transferring to 59E59 Theatre in New York City.

The REV Theatre Company announced its 2027 season, featuring SISTER ACT, the regional premiere of SOMEBODY TO LOVE, and a return engagement of FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, which made its North American premiere at the Auburn, N.Y. venue.

Florida Grand Opera CEO Maria Todaro will make her stage directing debut at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, conducting TOSCA at the lake where Puccini himself composed, deepening Miami and Viareggio's twin-city cultural bond.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that David Clayton-Thomas, the Grammy Award-winning Canadian singer and songwriter of Blood, Sweat & Tears fame, has passed away at 84 years old.