Peg-O'-My-Dreams 1924

San Francisco Opera released production photos for Jules Massenet's romantic masterwork MANON, starring soprano Amina Edris and tenor Pene Pati, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim at the War Memorial Opera House.

Sono Luminus has released HER ONLY LIGHT, a new album featuring 13 arrangements of music by pioneering singer-songwriter Connie Converse. Vocalist Emmy Bean performs the chamber music arrangements composed and arranged by Ronnie Kuller.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater will present nightly performances throughout October, featuring The Hot Sardines, Ron Carter, and birthday celebrations for Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.

The Dallas Opera will present the North American premiere of director Barrie Kosky's production of Janáček's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN at the Winspear Opera House, marking the company's first staging of the Czech opera in 26 years.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre and The Ira & Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund launched a new granting program providing $2,000 to $5,000 to member organizations developing musicals from existing songs, stories and cultural touchstones.

An immersive cocktail cabaret set in 1920s Seattle transforms Reverie Ballroom's Grand Ballroom into a prohibition-era speakeasy with live music, social dancing, aerial performance, and historic characters.

San Francisco Opera will present Massenet's MANON at the War Memorial Opera House, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and starring Amina Edris and Pene Pati in Vincent Boussard's production.

Eureka Entertainment will release a five-film Swedish noir collection spanning the 1930s to 1950s, featuring Ingrid Bergman, restored by the Swedish Film Institute for Masters of Cinema.

Fritz Lang's film noir SCARLET STREET, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, will make its UK 4K UHD and Blu-ray debut as a limited edition dual format release from Eureka Entertainment.

Music Director Francisco Noya will lead the Boston Civic Symphony in works by Brahms, Stravinsky, and Beethoven, including a collaboration with Chorus pro Musica at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.

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.

Doug DeVita's new stage adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel will be celebrated with a talkback, live podcast recording, and book signing at The Drama Book Shop in New York.

Broadway's biggest landmarks are easy to spot, but some of the Theatre District's most fascinating stories are hiding in plain sight. From historic theaters and legendary rehearsal spaces to tucked-away tributes and unexpected Broadway landmarks, these lesser-known stops will add a whole new act to your next walking tour!

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. While last week’s column focused on spouses penning shows together, this week is all about blood relatives partnering to write work. 

What better way to spend a warm summer evening than sitting in a park listening to Broadway tunes. Renaissance man Sam Jewison – an accomplished singer, jazz pianist and, surprisingly, conductor – duly delivers what the audience hankers after in a one-off performance at Opera Holland Park.

A wonderful production that provides a heavy dose of optimism that's needed now more than ever!

Who doesn’t enjoy an evening of young musical theater performers strutting their stuff on a professional stage? Not me and certainly not the enthusiastic Opening Night audience of ANNIE now playing at The Candlelight Theatre.

What did our critic think of ANNIE at ZACH?

Doug DeVita's stage adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India will be presented at the American Theatre of Actors' Cullum Theatre for an invite-only industry audience, featuring Broadway veterans Joy Franz and David Sabella.

Omaha Community Playhouse announced the appointment of a new Executive Director, marking a leadership transition at one of the country's largest community theaters.

Hay Fever is a classic comedy by Noël Coward, written in 1924 and first performed in London in 1925. The play became one of Coward’s most enduring successes, running for 337 performances during its original West End season.

Joy Franz and David Sabella will lead an industry-only staging of A Passage to India at the American Theatre of Actors, in playwright Doug DeVita's adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel.

Insight Colab Theatre will present SHADOWS & SECRETS, a staged multimedia whodunit radio play by Nancy Wang, at Vintage Theatre in Aurora, CO, exploring the mysterious 1924 death of restaurateur Chin Foin in mob-era Chicago.

Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt follows multiple generations of an Austrian Jewish family from prosperity to despair — spanning over 50 years from 1899 to 1955. Now in its Chicago-area premiere at Writers Theatre, the late Stoppard’s final play includes a cast of 24 actors and many, many characters. Leopoldstadt (named after the Jewish quarter of Vienna) is a sprawling and ambitious work.

Marc Elliott of EastEnders joins Mad Men's Bryan Batt in the world premiere of HERE COMES J EDGAR!, a comedy musical by Harry Shearer and Tom Leopold, at King's Head Theatre in London.