Sick-a-Bed 1918

The co-writers of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are quick to acknowledge the strange geographic journey behind their eagerly anticipated musical: an American short story set in Baltimore, first adapted into a movie set in New Orleans, and now transposed for its stage debut to a Cornish village off the coast of Great Britain.

Composer David T. Little announced season highlights including the New York premiere of WHAT BELONGS TO YOU at NYU Skirball, a 20th-anniversary release of SOLDIER SONGS by Opera Philadelphia, and new productions of DOG DAYS and JFK across North America and Australia.

Jenny Seagrove reprises her role as a woman claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, in a touring production.

What did our critic think of THE MAGPIE’S CALL at Dolphin Theatre?

Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega will be honored with the 2026 Phoebe Jacobs Award at the Wonderful World Gala in New York City for her work using music to heal and connect audiences.

The acclaimed female vocal trio will release HYSTERÆ, exploring archetypal representations of the feminine through world music traditions, original compositions, and works by women composers.

A look at her lengthy list of credits – just a few of which are “Romeo and Juliet,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Macbeth,” “All’s Well That Ends Well,” and “Richard III” with Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP), of which she is a founding member, a trio of Elliot Norton Award-winning roles in “Miss Witherspoon” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”  at Lyric Stage Boston and “The Children” at SpeakEasy Stage, and other plays including “Breaking the Code” at Central Square Theater and “Barefoot in the Park” at Gloucester Stage – offer an unneeded reminder of why Plum has long been one of Boston’s most respected stage actors.

This show is not to be missed, and it bodes well for the remainder of Kumu Kahua’s 2026-2027 season to be starting off this strong.

MHz Choice released a teaser for the fifth and final season of the German drama series BABYLON BERLIN, set to arrive on the streaming service. The eight-episode season follows detectives investigating murders in 1933 Berlin amid rising political extremism.

New rehearsal photos have been released for SYLVIA: A MUSICAL REVOLUTION, starring Beverley Knight, ahead of the musical's UK tour launching September 24.

PlayMakers Repertory Company will open submissions for the North Carolina Folk Play Project from September 1 to November 15, 2026, with selected works read in Chapel Hill in February 2027 and touring during the 2027-28 season.

Buntport Theater will present THE VAMPIRE OF LAFAYETTE, a world premiere comedy inspired by Colorado vampire lore surrounding a cemetery in Lafayette, Colorado.

Khloé Kardashian and the cast of THE GIRLS: A KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN PROJECT gathered at Nobu Malibu to mark the Hulu series' debut, with all six episodes now streaming.

Kumu Kahua Theatre will present the world premiere of The Queen's Will, a Sean T.C. O'Malley play centered on the 1918 forgery trial of Princess Theresa.

Trumpeter Sam Butler and saxophonist Garrett Fasig lead the VISIONS JAZZ ENSEMBLE with vocalist April Varner on OF THE PEOPLE, an album reimagining American spirituals, folk songs and anthems as jazz.

Kumu Kahua Theatre will present the world premiere of THE QUEEN'S WILL, a play by Sean T.C. O'Malley based on the 1918 trial of Princess Theresa Owana Ka'ōhelelani La'anui Wilcox Belliveau.

This is a production that enthrals.

With more Top 10 hits than Journey, and as many as Fleetwood Mac, FOREIGNER features strongly in every category in Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time” listing. At times, the band’s weekly catalog sales have eclipsed those of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Aerosmith, and most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: Nielsen SoundScan).

Theater Latté Da’s My Ántonia is now a memory as the world premiere wrapped up its extended run on Sunday, July 19--a memory just like the one told in the 1918 Willa Cather novel the Latté Da-commissioned work was adapted from.

Full casting has been announced for the UK tour of Sylvia, with Naomi Katiyo joining Olivier Award winner Beverley Knight in the acclaimed musical. The production begins performances in Leicester this September before culminating in five performances at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Miss Maybell & Her Ragtime Romeos celebrated the release of Under the Midnight Moon with an infectious set of newly unearthed ragtime, blues, and early jazz. Brilliant musicianship, irresistible energy, and forgotten songs made for a fabulous set.

Jenny Seagrove and Simon Shepherd reprise their roles in Royce Ryton's thriller THE ANASTASIA FILE, returning to Theatre Royal Windsor before embarking on a multi-venue UK tour.

James Rana will read the first chapter of Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pnin” at The Dormer House in Cape May, NJ.  Every Thursday, Classic American Tales (CAT) presents stories written by noteworthy authors, read by a variety of performers, with lemonade and homemade desserts also served. 

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. 

Since The Lost Boys took Broadway by storm this spring, there has been much chatter about the “vampire curse” on Broadway being lifted. In the early 2000s, Broadway received a string of three vampire musicals, which all closed relatively quickly. Dance of the Vampires (2002), Dracula (2004), and Lestat (2006) each received attention in their own right, but they also received attention as a group, since it was remarkable that they came along in such quick succession. But the early 21st century wasn’t the first time vampires thirsted on Broadway. The play adaptation of Dracula was a hit all the way back in 1927 and an even bigger hit in a 1977 revival. And there have been vampires lurking in the theatre district in all sorts of other projects too…