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A VOTE OF HER OWN, a historical musical about the ratification of the 19th Amendment, announced its New York City debut at The Producers Club as part of the Next Step Theatrical Festival, following 15 international film festival awards.

Weimar-era music hits the high notes with Haan's one-woman show, Margo- A Woman in Berlin. This reviewer felt as if she was sitting in a Weimar era cabaret with the rest of the audience! Bravo! Bravo!

BroadwayWorld is saddened to learn of the passing of playwright and performer Andy Halliday. Halliday passed away at age 73, and was known for his work Off-Broadway, and with longtime friend Charles Busch.

Rubicon Theatre Company is inviting the community to an Opening Night performance of Eleanor, a solo play celebrating the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Sarasota Opera will present a special Opera Lovers Weeks during its 2026 Winter Festival, allowing attendees to experience four operas in just three days.

Headlong has announced details for their 2026 season including a brand-new production of August Wilson's Fences directed by Daniel Bailey (Red Pitch) in a co-production with Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and HOME Manchester.

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, is presenting Zao Wou-Ki: Master Printmaker. Learn more here!

While the large majority of plays that make it to Broadway were written in English, a small fraction of plays were originally penned in a different language and translated. 

For 250 consecutive weeks, Crytzer will release one track of SONGBOOK SESSIONS at a time. Read a conversation about the album, dedicated to music of the first half of the 20th century played authentically to the times.

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, will present Zao Wou-Ki: Master Printmaker. Learn more here!

A new documentary entitled This Place Matters! Ten Chimneys is set to premiere at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City. Learn more about the film here!

Multiple lost Broadway theaters intersect with the Hammerstein family. This follows since Oscar Hammerstein I was a theater owner and builder. In addition to Hammerstein’s which was named after him and is now the Ed Sullivan, and the New Victory which he originally built, there is also the Hammerstein Ballroom. Read more here!

Today, Tuesday, August 26th, is National Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the certification of the 19th Amendment granting women a constitutional right to suffrage. Even after female suffrage was granted in the United States in 1920, women still struggled to defy social norms and break out of traditional gender roles. However, one major example of women getting to make their mark as part of the global fight for freedom occurred during the Second World War. The hit Broadway musical Operation Mincemeat tells the story of some of the women who helped make the allied success possible. 

Laguna Playhouse has announced it has received a $4,000 grant from the FOA Foundation to support its year-round educational programming for children and teens in Orange County. The grant will help fund the theatre’s monthly workshops, summer camps, Youth Theatre Conservatory productions, and TheatreReach student matinee series.

Kyiv-based theater company Theater on Podil will make their New York debut with a limited run of WHEN THE HURLYBURLY'S DONE at The Public Theater. Learn how to purchase tickets.

History Theatre has revealed the line-up for the Fall Raw Stages Festival. HT celebrates entering the third decade of commissioning and developing new works with an expanded festival with 6 staged readings.

Rubicon Theatre Company is well underway with its 2025 Summer Youth Season, with two productions already completed and two more performances just around the corner! Learn more!

The Desert Southwest Conference of The United Methodist Church, Phoenix Art Museum, and Phoenix Theatre Company are collaborating to embark on a 99-year lease of the existing Central United Methodist Church property. Learn more!

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC) will bring G. Bernard Shaw’s masterwork of spiritual, political, and human inquiry, Saint Joan, to the Tabor Stage April 4-19.

Audiences are being offered the chance to be a part of the development of brand-new musical, Bordello, The Musical with two public workshop performances this month at the Royal Academy of Dance, London. 

54 BELOW will present Columbia University's Varsity Show Through the Ages on March 28, 2025 at 9:30pm. Celebrating 131 years of Columbia's longest performing arts tradition through the music of current and past productions.

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning will present the 2024/2025 season of 'Meet the Playwright,' a free theater series featuring semi-staged readings by BIIPOC playwrights from November to February. Learn how to attend.

This autumn, Bozar is devoting a major exhibition to one of the most important artist-couples in art history: Hans/Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, two central figures of 20th-century abstract art. 

KEVIN RAY | WORKS will present eleven performances of 'WE', a theatrical adaptation of the banned dystopian novel by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin at The Mark O'Donnell Theater.

Cincinnati Opera and CCM have announced a workshop for 'HILDEGARD,' a new opera by Sarah Kirkland Snider, commissioned and produced by Beth Morrison Projects, through the Opera Fusion: New Works Partnership.