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Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is August 14, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

On the 106th anniversary of the 1919 founding of Chorus Equity, the United States Congress recognized A Chorus Year and the importance of chorus performers. Learn more.

Northern Ireland Opera has announced the complete cast and creative team for its historic revival of Follies, running September 13-20, 2025, at the Grand Opera House in Belfast.

Northern Ireland Opera has announced the complete cast and creative team for its historic revival of Follies, running September 13–20, 2025, at the Grand Opera House in Belfast.

​​​​​​​The Whyte is presenting The Ancestors Are Talking: Paintings by the Indigenous Seven, a landmark exhibition now on view. Learn more and see how to attend!

Lookingglass Theatre Company will present its fifth annual Sunset 1919: A Ritual on Sunday, July 27, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at the Eugene Williams Memorial Marker, located 1/4 mile north of 31st Street Beach.

Lookingglass Theatre Company will present the return of the fifth annual Sunset 1919: A Ritual. Learn more about the event and see how to attend upcoming events here!

Mark Hadfield will star as Agatha Christie’s famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, in Lucy Bailey’s new production of the UK & Ireland Tour of DEATH ON THE NILE.

With direction by André Heller-Lopes and musical direction by Priscila Bomfim, this production brings together Italian composer Giacomo Puccini and German composer Richard Strauss. This time, we will be presenting Strauss's opera Friedenstag (Day of Peace) for the first time in Latin America. Alongside it, another rarity: Le Villi (The Fairies), Puccini's first opera, forming an exclusive double bill featuring two one-act operas.

The Truth About Blayds will open at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season in September. Learn more about the upcoming show here!

Nashville Tour Stop just announced a special, one-night-only live music event at Odie's Bar, the brand-new Midtown venue created in collaboration with country superstars Old Dominion and Good Time Design.

Pacific Resident Theatre launches the classic Victorian thriller, Gaslight, adding suspense and intrigue to its current season of world-class entertainment.

Kamilah Bush's new adaptation of Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST transplants the action to 1919, creating a world that mirrors contemporary D.C.'s obsession with wealth, identity, and reputation as social currency. 

Chicago's Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company has revealed its 2025 - 2026 season taking place in The Joan and Paul Theatre at Water Tower Water Works. Learn more!

Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced its 2025–2026 season, featuring two world premieres by Company Members Matthew C. Yee and Kevin Douglas, the return of the acclaimed Lookingglass Young Ensemble, and the continuation of the powerful annual ritual Sunset 1919.

A new version of the classic, The Pirates of Penzance, is currently commanding the stage at Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre on 42nd Street—formerly the American Airlines and before that, the Selwyn. This revisal of the beloved show is titled: Pirates! The Penzance Musical.

'This House', a world premiere opera at Opera Theatre of St. Louis is the saga of a Harlem family that is both blest and cursed.

Opera Montana - the state's oldest professional opera company -  has revealed its 2025-2026 season, the company's 48th. See the full season and learn how to purchase tickets.

Chicago’s Tony-Award winning Lookingglass Theatre Company has shared new summer programming tied to Iraq, But Funny. See full programming here and learn how to attend!

Total strangers from various backgrounds and ages signed up for Classic American Tales’ (CAT) Theater Workshop, and here they are performing, script-in-hand, under the direction of CAT’s artistic director Gayle Stahlhuth, in Scene Night. 

If you were to ask a modern day student what they know about WW1, they probably would give you a short answer seeing as it is rarely taught nowadays. Powerhouse Broadway performer Melissa Errico wants to change that and has done so brilliantly with her own creation entitled The Story of A Rose: A Musical Reverie on the Great War. Complete with a seven piece orchestra, superb arrangements by Tedd Firth, and mostly top notch technical elements, this show does a lot to teach us all about a forgotten generation of military and the time period in general.

The Sioux Falls Municipal Band will offer 19 free concerts in a variety of venues to bring all the big band sounds to the community this summer. The Sioux Falls Municipal Band is one of the oldest and most prestigious community bands in the Midwest and has been performing since 1919.

Portland Center Stage will present the world premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's iconic comedy of manners, newly adapted by playwright Kamilah Bush.

The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will present Spano Conducts Brahms’ Requiem for an upcoming performance at The VETS in Providence: Saturday, May 10 at 7:30pm as part of the TACO Classical Series.

Governors Island Arts has revealed a season of public artworks and performances as part of the 2025 season. See full programming for the season and learn how to attend!