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BalletMet's NUTCRACKER returns to the Ohio Theatre from Dec. 12-28. The production will have 22 performances, including two My First Nutcracker iterations, and feature more than 180 Academy students and trainees alongside the professional company

Graham Abbott will conduct Handel's Messiah at the Sydney Opera House this holiday season. Learn more about the upcoming performances and find out how to get tickets here!

What did our critic think of Theatre Raleigh's CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS?

Read our interview with Brian Jucha of LOVE BOMB at Catastrophic Theatre.

A&M/UMe has released Carpenters’ Christmas Once More, an all-new Christmas collection featuring 16 timeless Carpenters holiday classics personally curated by Richard Carpenter. Listen to it now!

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this November with a full slate of nightly performances. Learn more about the November 2024 lineup, featuring a diverse array of performances from renowned jazz musicians and emerging artists.

Kumu Kahua Theatre, in collaboration with Bamboo Ridge Press announce the November prompt for their monthly play writing contest, Go Try PlayWrite. Thanks to a generous donation from an anonymous donor, contest winners in 2024 will receive a $100.00 check as well as a subscription to Bamboo Ridge Press.

​GREASE is the word, as the title song goes from the Blockbuster movie musical that had an all star cast including Olivia Newton John, John Travolta, and Stockard Channing. Next weekend  STARRING BUFFALO presents  the stage version in it's signature concert, semi staged style. And some of Broadway's newest rising stars  come to town for 3 performances of beloved 50's High School musical.

A sold out two-night engagement at Feinstein’s at the Nikko was a testament to the enduring draw power of veteran actor/director/song stylist Lucie Arnaz. Those in attendance were treated to a reprise of her well-crafted, autobiographical concert performed and recorded live at the Purple Room in Palm Springs last year.

Experience a reimagined holiday classic as Manual Cinema brings A CHRISTMAS CAROL to the Studebaker Theater from December 13-29.

The start of Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here sees girlies being girlies in 1978 Iran. While more protests keep breaking out around the country, five friends plan their lives between waxing each other’s legs and dreaming about their future husbands. Their youthful Iranian bliss is rudely interrupted by the escalation of the Islamic revolution of 1979.

How is it done? Wonderfully writes BroadwayWorld's critic.

Jobsite Theater once again dives headfirst into a world only they know how to portray. A world reveling in the strange, the unorthodox, and yet proving to be a masterclass of all things twisted and warped. This production which harkens back to their production of Shockheaded Peter, a few seasons back, once again dives into a little unfamiliar territory than we normally witness in the area, but an area so well known to Jobsite and its followers. Perfectly demented and, perfectly placed this deranged grouping of child-like tales have a bleak ending for most of the characters involved.

She's the Scottish actor, comedian and legendary panto queen who has entertained audiences in a 40-year stage and screen career. And now, Elaine C Smith is helping to pave the way for aspiring comedy actors to follow in her footsteps.

Tickets for the Boston engagement of THE WIZ are currently on sale.  THE WIZ returns “home” to stages across America in an all-new Broadway tour, the first one in 40 years. 

Esteemed American playwrights Cherríe Moraga and Richard Wesley have been announced as the 2024 recipients of the Legacy Playwright Awards. Learn more about the playwrights and about the awards.

Structured as a non-stop song-and-dance revue without any dialogue, the Fats Waller tribute musical relies on its spunky live band and its crazy-good, five-person cast to sing a songbook filled with (mostly) joyful and (some) sorrowful jazz tunes. The show continues through Nov. 3, 2024 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, CA.

Kansas City's historic 18th and Vine district is set for a significant transformation as plans move forward to restore the 100-year-old Boone Theater. The $8.7 million development project seeks to return the dilapidated building to its former prominence.

Read our critics coverage of the first three shows in Toronto Fringe's annual curated festival.

Experience the closing performance of the New York Butoh Institute Festival with Akihito Ichihara, ELF dancers, and students. The event is free and open to the public.

Vanguard University's Department of Theatre Arts announced a production of GREASE, celebrating 1950s rock 'n' roll, at the Lyceum Theater from October 17 to November 3, 2024, directed by Susan K. Berkompas.

Korean pianist Jimin Han will perform contemporary Korean and American works in a solo piano recital at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, showcasing a blend of cultural influences. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Comedy Works Entertainment and Steve Litman Presents will welcome VICKI LAWRENCE & MAMA: A TWO-WOMAN SHOW coming to Denver’s Paramount Theatre on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 3:00pm.

Joyce Carol Oates and Bill Connington will present a special event at the New York Society Library. The event will feature discussions and readings, offering insights into their creative processes.

I Am Harvey Milk, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, will be making its European premiere at Cadogan Hall on 27 October. Joel Harper-Jackson will star alongside Sierra Boggess. The work, part choral and part theatre piece, tells the story of Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist and politician in the United States who was assassinated.