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Classic American Tales (CAT) will present Tales at the Dormer House in which guests are treated to lemonade and tasty treats while listening to stories written by noteworthy authors, read by a variety of performers.

La Poubelle, a new cabaret venue, is a hidden gem. We visited on May 23 and experienced great staff and service, and the food was, quite simply, delicious. See photos and a write-up of the night.

BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT will present a free concert at NEC's Jordan Hall featuring world premieres by John Aylward and Avner Dorman, alongside New England premieres by Paul Moravec and Bernard Rogers.

Musicals and plays based on movies? Many. Based on books? Also plentiful. Based on true stories? Of course. But musicals and plays based on or inspired by magazine articles? These are a rare breed. One recently opened on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre.

The Dallas Opera has announced the winners of the 2025–2026 Dallas Opera National Vocal Competition following the live finals held March 6 at the Winspear Opera House.

Classic Stage Company has revealed the final two Rediscovery Readings of the 2025-2026 season. CSC will present RUR by Karel Čapek, and Rope by Patrick Hamilton.

The Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach is now accepting applications for its longstanding and highly competitive Scholarship Program for the 2026–2027 academic year. Learn more here!

Wagner College Theatre has revealed that James Still is the winner of the 2026 Stanley Drama Award for, Haunt Me. As fiction and reality blur onstage, Haunt Me becomes a surreal, compassionate exploration of identity, memory, and creation.

The winners of the 42nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Contests have been announced, showcasing a range of talents in commemorating the legacy of Dr. King.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that actress, choreographer, and dancer Carmen de Lavallade has died at age 94. Learn more about her and read the full obituary here.

Rosana Paulino was selected as the recipient of the $20,000 annual grant for international or national artists working in the spirit of Black Mountain College (1933-1957). Learn more here!

The National Youth Opera Academy, in collaboration with the Young Voices of the Santa Fe Opera, will offer an intensive new summer program for aspiring high school vocal artists.

What do you call a gaggle of nuns and a monk or two who sing and dance at Christmas? “Nuncrackers; THE Nunsense Christmas Musical,” playing weekends at Theatre 29 through December 7.

Myles Frost will headline Arena Stage's upcoming production of Chez Joey. Following a run as Michael Jackson in MJ the Musical, the Maryland-native Broadway sensation will return home to the DC area this winter.

While the large majority of plays that make it to Broadway were written in English, a small fraction of plays were originally penned in a different language and translated. 

While different tryout theaters have different relationships to the development of new shows, it’s worth looking at both which commercial rental theaters and which non-profit theaters have had the most Best Musical Tony Award winners come from their stages.

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced additional events running alongside the October – April Season, kicking off next month. Learn more about the upcoming events here!

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will host a three-night event series this fall featuring Aphorisms: A Tribute to Ursula Mamlok with New Chamber Ballet and a Momenta Quartet tribute to Stefan Wolpe and John Cage. Presented in conjunction with Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College, the programs celebrate the College’s lasting impact on dance and music.

In many of America’s cities, theatre history exists in plain sight. Whether inside a museum or on a street corner, fascinating pieces of theatre lore exist, waiting to be discovered by an interested passerby. Here are ten inspiring displays of theatre history I saw up close and in person this summer, from New York City to Washington D.C. and beyond. You can visit them too—and many are free to see! 

“The role requires quite a range of acting; it calls for all the colors of true love, as well as grief, anger frustration, the whole spectrum playing out in the two-day time period of the show. And Bernstein’s score is groundbreaking. It’s full of so many colors that accurately express the emotions and subtexts of all the characters through these little motifs.  It stands alone; it’s unique in style.” Actor Coleman Cummings is musing on the challenge he is undertaking in making his role debut as Tony in Maine State Music Theatre’s WEST SIDE STORY, which runs from August 6-23, 2025 at Brunswick’s Pickard Theater. For Cummings, this will be his second appearance with the company, having portrayed Dimitry in ANASTASIA earlier in the season.

The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, will return to the Great Stage at Radio City Music Hall this holiday season to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Rockettes. Learn more here!

Tom Troupe, actor, director, and writer who was married to the late Carole Cook, has passed away at the age of 97. He began acting in local theater productions before moving to New York City in 1948.

Dezart Performs has announced its new home: the Dezart Playhouse, formerly the First Church of Christ, Scientist, an architectural landmark designed in 1957 by Robson Chambers and Albert Frey.

Reimagined by an international team of creative minds together with Hong Kong Ballet's Choreographer-in-Residence HU Song Wei Ricky and MAI Jingwen, The Butterfly Lovers is a legendary Chinese folktale about humble scholar Liang Shanbo and aristocratic heiress Zhu Yingtai.

Dear Readers, there are some shows that just hold a special place in your heart, even if they may not age as well as you hoped. Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’ classic “Bye Bye Birdie”, currently playing at the 5th Avenue Theatre, is one of those shows for me. I loved both movie versions, saw what I consider to be the quintessential production back in 1990 starring Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking. Hell, I’ve even done the show several years ago. So, I’m a little picky about it when I see it again, and while this current production doesn’t surpass my previous experiences (I doubt anything could), it was certainly a solid production with a lot of fun moments going for it.