Silence! The Musical

Riverside Studios announced the full programme for Bitesize Festival VII, featuring over 50 performances across theatre, comedy, cabaret, dance, film, and live music as the venue marks its 50th anniversary.

Courtney Bryan's first stage work, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, a new opera based on Tennessee Williams's play, will have its world premiere at the Fisher Center at Bard, directed by Tony-nominated Daniel Fish.

Jaelon 'Majiggk' Harris discusses portraying Jesus in Market House Theatre's contemporary production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, exploring power, identity, and the human pressures behind an icon.

Second Stage Theater has announced five productions for its upcoming 48th Season, including the Broadway premieres of The Fantasticks and Gloria. Learn more about the full season here!

Divina de Campo, runner-up on RuPaul's Drag Race UK, will star in the London debut of AMANDA – THE NIGHT BEFORE ME, a solo musical about gender identity, at The Bridgehouse Theatre in South London.

Voices of Ascension announced its 37th season, The Radiant Depths, featuring programs spanning Renaissance masterworks to newly commissioned works, including a Nico Muhly commission written for organist James McVinnie.

There is a moment, somewhere between the knife-thrower's insane grin and Brian the Goose making his entrance with the unruffled authority of a minor aristocrat, when you simply have to give in to the magic. Giffords Circus has this effect on people. It has had this effect on people for twenty-six years, and Waterfield — this season's new production, themed around the riverbanks and hedgerows of an England that exists mainly in children's literature — gives absolutely no indication that the spell is about to wear off.

McKoy will direct and produce the world premiere of ANTIGONE 1989: A Town Hall Musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The production is an artistic expansion of McKoy’s decades-long commitment to the Bay Area theater community.

Brian Leonard's current show, Therapist Zero, is directed by Ken Sonkin, in a raw and deeply human production that recently completed a limited Off-Broadway run and was named a San Francisco Chronicle “Critic’s Pick.” The performance traces Brian’s two-decade journey parenting an emotionally volatile daughter through a confounding mental health system, while reflecting on his own unconventional Southside Chicago childhood.

The Rogue Theater Festival returns to The Flea Theater in Tribeca for its 8th season, presenting 37 original productions in partnership with Abingdon Theatre Company, including fully staged plays, staged readings, and digital streaming performances.

The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival announced its 2026 season lineup, featuring world premieres of two musicals and ten new plays at AMT Theater in NYC's Theater District.

For the Staatsoperette Dresden, the German-language premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s classic “Pippin – Die Kunst des Lebens” is a triumph on every level. Visual opulence, sharply played tragicomedy, a thunderously powerful orchestra, choreography overflowing with highlights, and a vocally formidable cast come together here in perfect symbiosis.

The festival's second weekend kicks off with intestinal trouble, a footloose priest, and imperialist clowns.

The sold-out show featured the premiere of BABE: ELABORATIO, a symphony dedicated to Connick's mother, whose lifelong dream was for her son to perform at Carnegie Hall

Adam Enright and Aaron Fuksa bring back 2SCOOPS, their fictional 90s girl group comedy show, to Joe's Pub for three performances featuring throwback jams, tabloid chaos, and sharp comedy.

Mountain Theatre Company announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere of DANCIN' IN THE STREET, a jukebox musical featuring Motown, soul, and disco hits, playing at the Highlands Performing Arts Center in Highlands, NC.

“Into the Woods, it’s time to go, I hate to leave, I have to though.” There’s something haunting about those lyrics from Into the Woods. The older I get, and the more I write about theater, the more I realize they’re really about memory.

Island City Stage announced its 2026-27 season, marking its 15th anniversary with productions including WHO KILLED JOAN CRAWFORD?, GREY GARDENS, a world premiere political satire, and a classic play.

Juilliard has revealed its 2026–27 season programming for the Music Division under its dean and director, David Serkin Ludwig, across Orchestra, Chamber Music, Vocal Arts, Jazz, and Historical Performance, students, faculty, and guest artists.

Sam LaFrage has never been interested in making safe theater. Now, the creator behind some of downtown’s most daring queer work is helping shape SILVERBACK MOUNTAIN, Mickey Gooch Jr.’s outrageous new comedy about love, identity, and survival.

Indie theater company Dialogue with Three Chords will present short plays exploring faith, royalties, and survival in the country music world, as part of the group's 15th season at Brooklyn's Tom Kane Theatre.

2026 marks the first time that Glyndbourne has staged Puccini's Tosca, a devastating opera of love and betrayal. It’s also a first for Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati, who conducts this powerfully dramatic piece, as well as a Festival debut from exciting American director Ted Huffman.

JCWK Dance Lab will bring GLACIER, a 22-minute contemporary dance work exploring climate change through STEAM, to the inaugural Lancaster Fringe Fest at Tellus 360 in downtown Lancaster.

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has revealed the full cast and creative team for Million Dollar Quartet, directed by Jonathan O'Boyle, with Darren Day leading a cast that includes Connor Payne as Elvis and Joe Bence as Jerry Lee Lewis.

Beautifully acted, engagingly riveting, and populated with impactful characters, Reggie D. White's thoughtfully sprawling and emotionally layered new play—directed by Lili-Anne Brown—delivers an ambitious, deeply affecting examination of generational legacy, Black identity, masculinity, and the elusive pursuit of emotional healing. Set almost entirely within the walls of a suburban home in Southern California, the touching, and, often times, quite humorous play unfolds across multiple decades, chronicling the intersecting lives of three generations of African-American men connected not only by blood, but by inherited silence, buried resentment, generational trauma, and a complicated yearning for deep connection.