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Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' ubiquitous 1996 novel (and its popular 2004 film iteration featuring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling), THE NOTEBOOK - THE MUSICAL re-stages a generational love story into a quietly sweeping, memory-fractured stage romance that subtly promotes emotional accumulation over plot novelty. Now on stage at OC's Segerstrom Center for the Arts, this 2024 three-time Tony-nominated Broadway musical's first national tour continues performances in Costa Mesa through February 8, 2026.

Titled after Neil Diamond’s 1976 album of the same name, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL aims for something more intimate and riskier than the average jukebox musical. Rather than simply charting a performer’s rise to fame, it presents a man in conversation with his past where he’s both haunted and sustained by the songs he wrote to survive it. The structure is unorthodox and quietly daring.

FRIGID New York will present the 19th annual New York City Fringe Festival across multiple venues in New York City. The festival will feature a diverse array of performances with all box office proceeds directly benefiting the artists.

Sound designer and audio engineer Sophie Yuqing Nie has been building bold sonic worlds across the downtown stage, and helped shape SpaceBridge, Irina Kruzhilina’s multimedia documentary work featuring Russian refugee youth and their American peers. After its New York premiere at La MaMa as part of Under the Radar, the production went on to a Boston engagement at ArtsEmerson.

The 2/8 show is the latest installation in the pay-what-you-can VERSES AND VOICES series, highlighting emerging voices from musical theater songwriting.

Mercury Theatre Colchester has announced the full casting for the world premiere production of award-winning Mercury Playwright Ava Pickett's new play The Manningtree Witches.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the complete cast and design team for the upcoming production of Fallen Angels by Noël Coward. Learn more about the full cast here!

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos, composer of the stage musical The Light Princess, has set the release of her 18th studio album, In Times of Dragons, which will arrive alongside a summer tour.

54 Below will honor the Black performers, producers, and artists who are vital members of our artistic community this Black History Month, featuring performances by Vanessa Williams and more.

Ehsaas-e-Qalam aur Pashm, a collaborative cultural initiative by QCCT, India International Centre (IIC) and EHSAAS, will be inaugurated on Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 at 6:00 PM at the Main Art Gallery.

While much of the dramatic weight of Angels in America undeniably stems from the specter of AIDS, it would do the play a huge disservice to reduce it to a story about disease alone. What Theater West End makes clear is that Kushner’s work is as much about identity, loss, and the human struggle to reconcile who we are deep down with who we present to the world.

The final cast members have been revealed for the star-studded Love Life concert in London, alongside additional information on the setlists for the night.

Gloriæ Dei Cantores and Creare Symphonia Present GRANT US PEACE, a concert featuring sacred works by Arvo Pärt and Pēteris Vasks. Performed at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans.

FROM EAST, LIKE THE SUN is a multi-generational drama, a mystery, a comedy, a coming-of-age story, a social commentary and a completely captivating experience. It explores themes of stability, opportunity, other-ness, connection and growth in a fresh way that feels completely natural and heart-wrenchingly honest. The real-people characters navigate emotional and physical obstacles that they often aren’t able to completely articulate, even to themselves.

54 Below will present “Songs I Wrote” – a raw, soul-stirring concert from multi-award-winning composer/arranger Germono Toussaint – as part of their “Verses and Voices” concert series.

GatherNYC, a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd, continues its expanded 2025-2026 season at the series' home venue, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) (2 Columbus Circle).

Emerson Colonial Theatre has revealed a star-studded lineup featuring Alex Edelman, Darren Criss, and Anne Lamott & Neal Allen for its 125th anniversary celebrations.

Stephen Sondheim’s fabulous music is presented in a different ‘light’ as songs from across four decades of the maestro’s work come together for PUTTING IT TOGETHER.

South Coast Repertory will open 2026 with a rotating repertory of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton.

The Braid opens its 2026 season with Do The Right Thing, a new Salon Theatre production examining moral choices through true stories rooted in Jewish ethics. The world premiere begins January 20, 2026, in Santa Monica, followed by Los Angeles, Bay Area, and live Zoom performances. The production features five actors performing curated first-person stories.

Nicole Scherzinger has been added to the cast of Love Life: West End Unites Against Cancer, a major one-night-only concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in support of One For The Boys.

NYC Winter Jazzfest will return for its 22nd edition with performances across Manhattan and Brooklyn, featuring the festival’s signature Marathon nights and additional shows and talks.

One of the most powerful love stories of modern times arrives on Brazilian stages. Brokeback Mountain makes its São Paulo debut at Teatro Itália on January 14, marking only the second official stage production of the work worldwide. Adapted by Ashley Robinson from Annie Proulx’s acclaimed short story, the musical revisits the intense, unspoken romance between cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar in 1960s rural America. Directed by Moacyr Góes, the Brazilian production stars Marcéu Pierrotti and Júlio Oliveira and features an original score by Dan Gillespie Sells. Following a highly praised London run, the show blends music and drama to explore love, repression, intolerance, and the lasting cost of silence.

What did our critic think of THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at Broadway San Jose?

Think of it not as a “Best of” but as a yearbook of some of the San Diego shows that lingered with me long beyond closing in 2025