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Guitarist and composer Max Light releases UNLEARNING, an album born from watching a loved one's memory fade. The project features pianist Julian Shore, bassist Walter Stinson, and drummer Steven Crammer.

The Tony Award-winning musical SIX will present four performances at the Playhouse on Rodney Square in Wilmington, with a cast led by Christina Jones, Brittany Smithson, and Melina Savannah Cruz.

Overture Center for the Arts has announced that tickets for the Tony Award-Winning electrifying musical phenomenon SIX by Tony Award-winners Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss will go on sale this week.

The Redneck Castaway Band will perform a tribute to Kenny Chesney at Jaffrey's Park Theatre on Saturday, October 3, at 7:30 p.m. The concert takes place in the theatre's award-winning 330-seat Eppes Auditorium.

Lightning Rod Theater will soon present the world-premiere of Paul Hoan Zeidler's historical reimagining, Hamlet in the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the committee composing the Declaration of Independence wrote a nation into existence.  

Performances are now underway for Other Desert Cities, which will play a 16-week limited engagement at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre. Meet the cast of Other Desert Cities here!

Philadelphia Theatre Company announced AZ Espinoza as the recipient of the Terrence McNally Award for the play CARIBBEAN KING, selected from a record 100 submissions. The award provides a $10,000 prize and career development support.

Matt Willis, BRIT award winner and CABARET emcee, will appear at the Kit Kat Club in conversation with journalist Bryony Gordon to discuss his debut memoir, Mending: Busted, Breaking and Getting Better.

Seth MacFarlane curates new film composer fanfares for Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, featuring John Williams, Thomas Newman and more in 2027-28.

The children's theatre festival will present six productions from the UK and Australia, including ROOM ON THE BROOM, THE 78-STOREY TREEHOUSE, THE LION INSIDE, STICK MAN, and two HORRIBLE HISTORIES shows.

Trumpeter and percussionist Amir ElSaffar and Susie Ibarra will present an evening of contemporary music at Harvard's Ming Mei Residency Concert, featuring ElSaffar's New Quartet and Ibarra's Pulitzer Prize-winning SKY ISLANDS.

Choreographer Joanna Kotze will present an interdisciplinary dance work examining history, leadership, and collective agency at New York Live Arts Theater.

3Arts named ten recipients of its 2026 Awards across five artistic disciplines. The Chicago nonprofit will honor the awardees at a ceremony featuring performances by past recipients.

Prospect Musicals will present a concert evening celebrating a decade of Fred Ebb Award-winning songwriters, with a cast including Tony Award winner Santino Fontana and stars from WICKED, SIX, and COME FROM AWAY.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will present two horror-focused exhibitions featuring artifacts and behind-the-scenes content from classic and contemporary films, with galleries exploring Gothic, psychological, science fiction, slasher, religious, and ghost-themed cinema.

Country singer-songwriter Jacob Hackworth released 'Last Night I Got Lonely,' the fourth track from his concept debut EP WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG, which chronicles a breakup that led him to Nashville.

Toronto grunge punk band MENSA DROPOUT released its long-awaited debut EP NUCLEAR SLUSH BREAKER after a two-decade journey marked by lineup changes and side projects.

Caramoor's Rosen House Concert Series will present countertenor Iestyn Davies with harpist Oliver Wass, pianist Jonathan Biss, and a conversation with Anthony Roth Costanzo about his new book.

Mike Hadreas and choreographer Kate Wallich reunite for THE LESSON, an evening-length music and dance work premiering in Los Angeles in February with subsequent performances in New York City, Paris, and London. The score features all new Perfume Genius music.

The discourse surrounding reasons for reviving musicals on Broadway is a relatively recent phenomenon. These days, if a show is announced for a revival, a sentence that often follows is: “Why are they reviving it?” 

TOMORA, the collaboration between AURORA and The Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands, announced a five-track EP via Capitol Records. The title track premiered today ahead of the full release.

Wiltshire Creative announced the full cast for its 2026/2027 pantomime BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, opening at Salisbury Playhouse on 2 December with previews from 28 November, running through 10 January 2027. The production stars Saffi Needham as Belle and Tommy Fouweather as the Beast.

Islandia Music Records released the third volume in the WEATHER SYSTEMS series from percussionist Steven Schick. The album features compositions exploring themes of time and temporal experience.

The Olivier Award-nominated POTTED PANTO, London's longest-running pantomime, will return to the West End. The production condenses seven classic pantomimes into 70 minutes at The Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.

SABATON released a new version of their 2025 hit TEMPLARS featuring POP EVIL frontman Leigh Kakaty. The bands debuted the collaboration at Louder Than Life and will tour North America together this fall.