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Mark your calendars for next year's Harrisburg Fringe Festival, July 15-18, 2027! It is a weekend filled with performance and art with something for everyone. You do not want to miss it!

Francesca Moody Productions announced its first full season of work at London's The Other Palace, marking a significant expansion for the production company.

Atlantic Theater Company has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring four world premiere works and an Atlantic for Kids New York premiere musical. Learn more about the lineup here!

Cleveland-based playwright Lisa Langford has been named the fourth recipient of the Dominic Orlando Playwriting Award, earning a $12,000 unrestricted grant. Her winning play will have its world premiere in Cleveland Heights.

The award-winning rock musical Jimi Darkness: Alcoholic Superhero will return to Los Angeles for a limited engagement before heading to Soho Playhouse in New York City, after winning the International Fringe Encore Series Hollywood Prize.

The Teen edition of Heathers opens at Playhouse Teater the 7th of January for a limited run.

National Black Theatre announced its 2026–2027 season, themed 'Just Beyond the Horizon,' featuring five productions including Sarah Jones' North American Premiere and a new musical by Lynn Nottage and John Legend.

Ballet Rhode Island has revealed its 2026-2027 season, Icons In Motion, featuring a mix of world premieres, reimagined classics, and returning favorites. Highlights include The Nutcracker, Ballet Meets the Beatles, a new children's ballet inspired by Princess Diana, and Yury Yanowsky's new interpretation of Carmen.

MassOpera will present a one-night-only Pride Month concert at Piano Craft Gallery in South Boston, featuring local opera and musical theater artists in an evening of camp, queer identity, and collective action.

King's Head Theatre announced its autumn season, featuring the London premiere of South Korean musical YOU & IT, a return run of THE GANG OF THREE, and an LGBTQ+ double billing transfer.

The 92nd Street Y, New York's Harkness Dance Center has announced its 2026-27 season, featuring world premieres, returning festivals and performances from acclaimed dance artists and companies from across the United States and around the world.

It's time to do the Time Warp... at Sphere! The Rocky Horror Picture Show is taking a strange journey to Las Vegas, where the venue will use its advanced technologies to create a newly enhanced experience of the original 1975 film.

The Museum of Arts and Design will present the U.S. premiere of Nike: Form Follows Motion, a comprehensive exhibition tracing 50 years of Nike's design history, drawn from a collection of over 200,000 archival objects.

The RSC and Factory International production blending Shakespeare's Hamlet with Radiohead's album, co-created by Thom Yorke, Steven Hoggett, and Christine Jones, will run at the Barbican Theatre following sold-out runs.

Opera audiences know Jack Swanson for his performances on many of the world's leading stages, from the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera to engagements across Europe. But it wasn't a role onstage that recently caught his attention—it was what singers were finding offstage in pharmacies abroad.

Rambert's stage adaptation of IT'S A SIN, with Russell T Davies, Pet Shop Boys, and Glyn Fussell as executive producers, is set to tour the UK, premiering in Manchester before visiting venues nationwide.

Massey Hall will present YAMATO, Drummers of Japan in their new world tour, Tamayura: Echoes of the Soul, featuring over 40 drums on the Allan Slaight Stage in Toronto.

In New York, awards season rolls on: Schmigadoon! and Ragtime led the 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards, Dorian Award nominations have been announced, and John Lithgow is slated for a lifetime achievement honor. Chicago’s Jeff Awards have halted non-Equity adjudication to overhaul policies following community backlash, while the UK’s National Theatre is launching a 12-venue partnership to rescue a collapsing regional touring network. We round out the news with a wave of key executive appointments in Massachusetts, Dallas, and London, a breakdown of Australia’s complex new $1.1 billion arts budget, and the return of BroadwayWorld's My Show’s Curtain Call for the 2025-2026 season.

Washington National Opera has unveiled its 2026-2027 season—its first full season as an independent company, following its departure from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in January 2026

Jason Fox announced a 2027 UK extension of his live tour EMBRACE THE CHAOS, adding 28 dates across the country due to demand, following the show's earlier run this year.

Porchlight Music Theatre announced Klaus Peter Schuller as its new executive director and Michael Weber as The Elaine Cohen and Arlen Rubin Artistic Director, with Schuller set to join the Chicago company later this year.

It's a political comedy parody. In the broadest sense, we're making fun of all things Trump and MAGA.

As New York prepares for the 2026 Tony Award nominations and honors the recent Lucille Lortel winners, producers are facing tough questions about whether traditional 8 PM curtain times are driving audiences away. The business landscape is shifting heavily behind the scenes, marked by the merger of licensing giants BMG and Concord, looming strike ballots in the West End, and the Kennedy Center's controversial two-year shutdown. Despite these logistical and financial challenges—including a devastating embezzlement case at a Pennsylvania community theatre—there is plenty of positive momentum to report, from the rapid financial recoupment of the Suffs national tour to new initiatives supporting theater education and large-scale playwriting.

The Charleston Gaillard Center announced its 2026–2027 season featuring Yo-Yo Ma, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and a world premiere from Beeple and Sō Percussion.

Royal Ballet and Opera announced its 2026/27 Season, featuring 10 new opera productions including PARSIFAL, GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, and LA GIOCONDA, plus ballet masterworks and Wayne McGregor's 20th anniversary. Tickets go on sale June 24, 2026.