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Houston Grand Opera has put single tickets on sale for its upcoming season, featuring 38 performances across six productions, including SUSANNAH, SHOW BOAT, and a new staging of AIDA.

Jonathan Edwards Winery in North Stonington, Conn., announced its 2026 Summer Concert Series, featuring national touring artists including Everclear, Matisyahu, Los Lobos, and G. Love performing across the winery's vineyard grounds.

It's a very well done, confrontational hour-long play at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, but also life-affirming to know none of us are alone in the struggle for emotional maturity rather than turn to the easy crutches of overeating, alcohol abuse, drug use or unbridled sex to forget about where the Rage holding our emotions in place is rooted.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is  June 17, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours

Disney has released a new documentary about the Broadway sensation Hamilton, which spotlights the connections between the stage musical, the hip-hop roots that inspired it, and “The Hamilton Mixtape” that followed. Watch it here.

Ava Della Pietra, known for her role in SCHOOL OF ROCK, won the Music/Song Award at the 17th Annual New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles for her musical short 2 Can Play, directed by Azzie Scott. Learn more here.

Rising Waters Collective and Theatre Off Jackson announced the North American premiere of disPLACE, a chamber opera about gentrification and belonging, performed in Seattle's International District.

Four new shows have been announced for October at Plymouth’s Spire Center - Big Yellow Taxi, Adam Ezra Group, Bywater Call and Greg Piccolo and Heavy Juice.

Channing and Westhead have created an artistic collaboration and a unique legacy for themselves, exploring the intricate layers of Samuel Beckett's 50-minute masterpiece and Krapp's solitary world

Performa/Dance will present BLUEGRASS JUNCTION at Ballet Austin's AustinVentures Studio Theater, featuring live music by singer-songwriter Tim Eriksen and Austin's Wayside Bluegrass alongside choreography by Jennifer Hart.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival kicks off its 35th anniversary season with MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, directed by Jim Helsinger and starring national tour veterans recreating the legendary 1956 Sun Records jam session at DeSales University.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre has revealed the Summer Residency Lab participants of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work.

SAVAGE, a brand-new comedy and drag extravaganza, about Lily Savage, will make its world premiere next year. Learn more about the upcoming show here!

With the recent Rocky Horror revival reminding everyone how much fun the macabre can be, how lucky is Columbia County to have its own creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky night out right there at the Mac-Haydn? The production runs through 6/21.

This grand and heartwarming spectacle is not only a fantastic stage musical appealing to all ages, but it also provides reminders about the dangers of tyranny and dictatorship, as well as the need for creativity and diversity in theatre.

Gloria Molina Grand Park's Sunday Sessions will present two free outdoor house music dance parties in Downtown L.A., featuring DJ collective Baile World and The Illustrious Blacks, plus a beer garden and local artisan marketplace.

Two-time Tony award nominee Sarah Stiles shares a preview of what’s to come in Goodman Theatre’s new summer musical Iceboy!, or The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write “The Iceman Cometh.”

Boca Stage will present A Human Being Died That Night, Nicolas Wright's adaptation of Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela's account of her interviews with apartheid-era mass murderer Eugene de Kock, at the Willow Theatre in Boca Raton.

I'll say this now: this Summer's most beguiling, most enchanting theatrical surprise is perhaps the brand new, gorgeously opulent regional production of ANASTASIA - THE MUSICAL, now on stage at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts through June 20, 2026. A visual stunner punctuated by remarkable musicality and an impressive acting ensemble, this epically-staged, winningly triumphant local iteration is an impressive presentation, from its thrilling technical aspects and grandiose (yet still grounded) storytelling to its superb, talent-bursting cast led by a fierce star turn by Lena Ceja in the title role that audiences will remember for a long time.

Acclaimed vocalist Michelle Johnson, known as “Las Vegas’ First Lady of Jazz,” performs Freedom – A Juneteenth Celebration. She returns to Myron's at The Smith Center on June 19 for an inspiring and deeply personal concert that honors the spirit of Juneteenth through music, movement, storytelling, and celebration.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota has revealed its 31st season, featuring 24 concerts across multiple series, including Soirée, Sunday Best, and Top Shelf Tuesdays, with performances at venues throughout Sarasota.

The Skirball Cultural Center announced the lineup for its 29th season of free outdoor SUNSET CONCERTS, featuring Terrace Martin, Cory Henry, Tortoise, Brandee Younger, and others in a jazz-themed series honoring America's 250th anniversary.

Philadelphia is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for June 2026 include Real Women Have Curves and more.

Olivia Cygan discusses making her Shakespeare Theatre Company debut as Desdemona opposite Wendell Pierce in Simon Godwin's production of OTHELLO, running May 19 through June 28 at Harman Hall.

Star Amerasu discusses joining the Off-Broadway cast of SILVERBACK MOUNTAIN as Miss Jackson, a diner queen and former special forces operative, in Mickey Gooch Jr.'s screwball comedy at AMT Theater.