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Nicholas Payton and Jon Batiste will perform at NJPAC's TD James Moody Jazz Festival, premiering Louis Armstrong at 125: A New Orleans Celebration, featuring fellow New Orleans musicians Reginald Veal and Herlin Riley.

Roots rock band BoDeans will perform at the Temple Theater in Des Moines, marking their first Des Moines Performing Arts appearance since 1993. VIP packages are available for the show.

NJPAC's NORTH TO SHORE FESTIVAL returns for its fourth summer with hundreds of free events across Asbury Park, Newark, and Atlantic City, featuring big-name artists, local talent, and community performances.

Grammy-winning singer and guitarist Molly Tuttle will perform at The Newton Theatre in Newton, NJ, supporting her critically acclaimed album 'So Long Little Miss Sunshine,' nominated for two Grammy Awards.

Prescott Park Arts Festival announced the return of its Rain or Shine Concert Series, now presented by Avery Insurance in partnership with The Music Hall, guaranteeing seven concerts proceed regardless of weather in Portsmouth, NH.

Review: Even if you leave wanting a few more cannon blasts from Theatricum Botanicum's 2026 adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND, you'll be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful place to spend a summer evening.

92NY's Harkness Dance Center announced its 2026/27 Harkness Mainstage Series, featuring Trisha Brown Dance Company, Doug Varone and Dancers, and an inaugural Dance on Film Festival.

Little Island has unveiled programming details for its 2026 summer season. This season includes concerts, world premieres, live radio shows, culinary events and parties in Little Island’s open-air performance spaces—The Amph and The Glade.

It is only fitting, then, that Break a Leg Legally should deliver a production that feels so profoundly inclusive, energetic, and thoroughly joyful in The Strand theater in Dover.

Matt Bomer, Michael Ball, Simon Russell Beale, Layton Williams, and others announced as rotating King Herods joining Sam Ryder in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Jesus Christ Superstar will tour the UK starring Sam Ryder, following the conclusion of its West End engagements at The London Palladium and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, visiting over 20 cities.

Stephanie Lake Company will premiere VISTA at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, with costumes by fashion label Alpha60. The work examines human perception through repeated choreographic sections altered in tempo, cast, and mood.

Equality Stage Theatre Company announced its inaugural production of Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT in Fremont County, WY, with free performances at Lander City Park and Central Wyoming College, plus a free community workshop.

What did our critic think of SONS OF VAO at ASB Waterfront Theatre?

THE DIVINE SISTER is a devilishly funny. It is a fun, comedic, irreverent, and enthralling. It's unlike any of the works that inspired it. The play will seem vaguely familiar at times, but it stands on its own as uniquely creative!

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.

Sweden's 'Queen of Swing,' Gunhild Carling, will perform at Jimmy's Jazz and Blues Club in Portsmouth, bringing her signature multi-instrument act, including playing three trumpets simultaneously.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY will present eleven concerts and events spanning American roots, jazz, and global music genres across five distinct performance spaces on its 81-acre estate.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is embracing American Roots, Jazz, and Global Music with eleven events and concerts from June to August. Events include Dedicated Men of Zion – Celebrating Juneteenth and more.

Known for her captivating presence, free form, and expressive movement, Camryne Quinn works closely with decorated choreographers like Madison Hicks, Baye and Asa, Greg Lau, Jason Williams, Chris Hernandez, and Yoshito Sakuraba. Her work has spanned millions of views across social media.

Island City Stage will present Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector's Tony Award-winning comedy about parenting, privilege, and a mumps outbreak at a progressive California school, as the finale to its 14th season in Fort Lauderdale.

The crowd itself remains unseen, but a growing cult hangs over nearly every scene, transforming Emery’s private sanctuary into something far more complicated. Michael Zimmerman's sound design gives the invisible crowd a character of its own, a foreboding entity lurking just behind the treeline. The production's real challenge lies in sustaining the sense of a growing

Prescott Park Arts Festival and Seacoast Jazz Society will present the 43rd Annual Seacoast Jazz Festival, a full day of jazz on Portsmouth's waterfront featuring bebop, New Orleans brass, Latin swing, and more.

MUSE/IQUE will present DEFIANTLY JONI: A Singer/Songwriter Bares Her Soul at the Mark Taper Forum, led by Rachael Worby with Chris Pierce, Effie Passero, and the MUSE/IQUE Orchestra, in partnership with Center Theatre Group.

All new photos have been released from Redtwist Theatre's production of Deserted, now playing. This world premiere by Melanie Coffey is directed by Laura Sturm at Redtwist Theatre. Check out the photos here!