Practice - 2025 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 8

Choreographer Adam Kerbel premieres LIVING/EDGE, a solo dance-theater work blending improvisation, humor, and physical risk to examine grief and vitality, at Wanda's in Venice, CA.

This autumn, The Royal Opera launches Dark Nights, a new Linbury Theatre series showcasing one‑off performances by leading vocal innovators and experimental composers. Celebrating new music, the programme explores the theatrical possibilities of the human voice.

New York Live Arts announced its fall 2026 season, headlined by a Bill T. Jones world premiere commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, alongside works by Benjamin Akio Kimitch, Joanna Kotze, Ain Gordon, and Dorothée Munyaneza.

Producers of HOT MESS at The Other Palace announced a series of post-show panel events and a workshop curated by Pollinate, exploring musical theatre, climate, and cultural change for ticket holders.

Totally Thames has revealed the first wave of programming for its 2026 festival, featuring large-scale public artworks, immersive performances, new writing and community events celebrating the River Thames. Highlights include a major installation by Turner Prize-nominated artist Catherine Yass, live performances aboard the historic SS Robin and site-specific works throughout London.

Flinders Drama Centre will present two new performance projects, ORANGES AND LEMONS and WRESTLING WITH CATASTROPHE, pairing students with internationally recognized artists including Glace Chase, Basil Hogios, and Gerrard McArthur.

Charlotte Street has announced the selection of 17 artists for the two-year Studio Residency Program. The group of 9 visual artists, 5 performers, and 3 writers were selected from a highly competitive pool of 167 applicants.

The Young Entertainer Awards announced nominees for a combined 10th and 11th ceremony at Hollywood's Harmony Gold Theatre, with Greg Evigan set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cincinnati Opera announced GOOD BONES, a new opera from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels and playwright James Ijames, as the third work in The Black Opera Project trilogy, set to premiere at Cincinnati Music Hall.

The Barbican announced its autumn/winter Theatre & Dance programme, featuring the European premiere of Haruki Murakami's END OF THE WORLD AND HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND, the UK premiere of PAM TANOWITZ DANCE'S PASTORAL, and London premieres of TOM AT THE FARM and DANCE IS NOT FOR US.

Theatre Exile has extended Nia Akilah Robinson's dark comedy THE GREAT PRIVATION through June 20 due to strong audience demand. The Philadelphia premiere explores the city's history of grave robbing, set across 1832 and the present day.

Grace Malouf's debut play FIRST, DO NO HARM, directed by Charley Allanah, will receive its world premiere at NIDA, exploring medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and trans and disabled communities' rights.

Romanian director Carmen Lidia Vidu's documentary theater work MIGRATION DIARY: NEW YORK CITY EDITION will have its world premiere at La MaMa, presented in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute and the National Theatre of Bucharest.

Theatre Communications Group named five emerging theatre artists and leaders to its 2026 Rising Leaders of Puerto Rico cohort, a yearlong professional development program supporting early-career professionals across Puerto Rican theatre.

There is a particular kind of designer who thinks about space the way a writer thinks about language. Not just what it looks like, but what it means, and what it does to the people inside it. Fan Yu is that kind of designer.

TEN WAYS TO DIE HAPPY, an Italian quiz theatre show adapted from Dieci Modi Per Morire Felici, will make its international premiere at Underbelly's Cowbarn during the Edinburgh Fringe, with ten audience members navigating choices about love, ambition, and risk.

Initial casting has been announced for the return of GREASE: The Immersive Movie Musical, with Stephanie Costi and Lucy Penrose reprising their roles as Sandy and Rizzo at Evolution London in Battersea Park.

Concert Theatre Works' theatrical concert COPLAND & TWAIN, directed by Bill Barclay, will blend Aaron Copland's incidental music with Mark Twain's writings at Open Jar Studios, conducted by Ken-David Masur.

Dito van Reigersberg, co-founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of Pig Iron Theatre Company and the performer behind drag persona Martha Graham Cracker, has died at 53 following complications from a bone marrow transplant.

Kiln Theatre announced its upcoming season, featuring the UK premieres of TABLE 17 and BERLIN, a new production of NINE NIGHT directed by Artistic Director Amit Sharma, and a community production with 80 cast members.

Norwich Theatre announced Creative Intent 2026–2032, a six-year strategy built on Bold Theatre, Social Impact, and Creative Endeavour, including impact-led seasons and a new commercial company, INTREPID.

New Perspectives Theatre Company's Gilder-Coigney International Theatre Forum will present a free live stream reuniting Hungarian theatre artists from THEATRE FROM THE STREETS, moderated by Anikó Szűcs in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons.

SHELL, a solo show by Ana Evans fresh from a five-star Edinburgh Fringe run, opens at SoHo Playhouse's Huron Room in a limited engagement blending drag, clown, and queer sex education.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee presented the 2026 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to four outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry - 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin, and Loren Plotkin. Watch their acceptance speeches here!

The Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum will present a summer calendar featuring live music, sound baths, restorative yoga with violin, and the premiere of a newly donated photo exhibition of the museum's namesake in her historic studio.