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Jayson Borenstein will produce and star in the rarely staged Mel Brooks musical, with Julia Germer, at the Ethical Society Auditorium during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Metrograph will present CLASSICAL CINEMA, a 20-film showcase exploring cinema inspired by ancient Greece, featuring rare prints of ANTIGONE, THE ILLIAC PASSION, and ULYSSES' GAZE.

Theater Resources Unlimited will hold its Writer-Producer Speed Date, pairing writers with producers for one-on-one pitch sessions and coaching in a virtual format.

PLUTO TV will add free streaming premieres of MEAN GIRLS and SMILE, expand its anime lineup with ONE-PUNCH MAN and KENICHI: THE MIGHTIEST DISCIPLE, and present live sports and Double Feature Fridays.

THE ANIMEROS' debut album ¡QUÉ BÁRBARO!, produced by Dan Auerbach, arrived via Easy Eye Sound alongside an expanded fall headlining tour and an Austin release show at The Continental Club.

Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced the complete cast and design team for the upcoming production of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière translated by Doug Skinner, adapted by Tony Award winner Bill Irwin (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) with direction by Tony Award nominee Brandon J. Dirden (Waiting for Godot) making his Broadway directorial debut.

Elizabeth Cook released her new studio album Great Television, featuring a Wynonna Judd collaboration, and is set to perform on CBS Saturday Morning's Saturday Sessions.

The building, fittingly, used to be a church. Though it has been repurposed to house the CLOG, it retains many elements of a house of worship. Instead of your average seating arrangement, the audience members fill rows and rows of pews.  

She bounds on stage in sunglasses, fur and foulard like she’s just taken a Vespa from the Trevi Fountain. The Floria Tosca in Wolf Trap Opera’s stylish new production of Puccini’s classic is fully 20th century woman — an Italian film star of 1970s Rome whose poster hangs alongside those for films by Fellini and Argento. She still sings though, and this Tosca her dulcet tones can be heard through the town before she makes her entrance in the church where her lover is painting a Madonna on the wall. 

Malcolm McDowell and James Paxton star in Adam Rifkin's Western comedy LAST TRAIN TO FORTUNE, set for a theatrical run in New York, Dallas, and Los Angeles ahead of a digital release.

Emmy Award nominee Eureka O'Hara, known for “RuPaul's Drag Race' and HBO's “We're Here”, will step into the pumps of drag icon Divine, leading Divine: Beyond The Flamingos!, a new play written and directed by Donnie. 

The Animeros announced Austin LP release shows and a West Coast tour supporting their Dan Auerbach-produced debut on Easy Eye Sound.

The Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum will present a lineup including The Brian Barlow Big Band performing Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder and a one-night-only reading of The Amateurs, a new TV series from the creators of Slings and Arrows.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that longtime stage and screen performer Tom Ligon, known for his screen roles in projects like Paint Your Wagon and The Young and the Restless, passed away at 85 years old on June 26, 2026.

GREASE, Porthouse-style, is a nostalgic reminder of the era of mid-1900’s and left those of a certain-age satisfied and maybe those of the Information Age/Digital Age asking “what was the attitude, grease and angst” all about.  

It's a very rare treat—particularly all the way here in Orange County, California—to hear Broadway songs and the stories behind them performed directly by the legendary composer himself, even for just a one-night-only event. But that is exactly the gift bestowed upon a rapt audience recently when the Irvine Barclay Theatre presented DEFYING GRAVITY: AN EVENING WITH STEPHEN SCHWARTZ & FRIENDS to a sold-out crowd on the evening of May 23, 2026.

Deep Flight Productions will present an encore engagement of WHO WE BECOME, a program of rarely produced Lanford Wilson one-acts, at Factory Series at the Chain Studio Theatre in New York.

Tom Jones will perform at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL as part of his Come Gather Round Tour. The Welsh singer, whose career spans over six decades, has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

TUTS makes it live up to its name. It’s a handsome production, a great cast, and it feels like an old faithful friend. When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand, just call the box office. 

Music Director Jeff Cox brings us into the musically daring and vivid score of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Its breadth of genres, rich chromatic harmonies, and the terrific orchestra come together to paint the magical world we know and love.

Signature Theatre has revealed its 2026-2027 Season. The 37th season features six musicals and two plays, including a world premiere musical, a regional premiere musical, and a DC premiere play.

Multi- Award winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz has had a long and distinguished career in writing for both theatre and film. He is probably best known nowadays for his work on Wicked, but his career goes far beyond that one hit show.

We learn that the suburban fantasy is not sustainable, primarily because such a fantasy can only ever be a dream. The reality of suburban living, as told by Kimberly Akimbo, shows there is much more nuance to everyday life than the nuclear family with a white picket fence and a wholesome dinner at eight. If everyone got what they wanted, after all, they wouldn’t want for more.

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera will present a seven-stop Music Elevated State Tour running June 30–July 10, 2026, featuring free outdoor concerts celebrating America's 250th birthday and Utah's cultural heritage.