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Palestinian-Syrian actor Arwa Omaren will present a one-woman reimagining of Euripides' 'The Trojan Women' at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, weaving her own experience of displacement and exile into the classical text.

For almost as long as this current iteration of the Cleveland Ballet has existed, dancer Erinn Crittenden has been a fixture. With her bright eyes, million-watt smile, and an affinity for playing charismatic characters, including the fiery street dancer Mercedes in Don Quixote, Collette in Dracula, Red Riding Hood in The Sleeping Beauty, and the comedic Grandmother in The Nutcracker and Tweedle Dee in Alice in Wonderland, Crittenden has endeared herself to Northeast Ohio audiences. 

“Steel Magnolias”, author Robert Harling’s 1987 stage play, became a cultural zeitgeist after the release of the 1989 film version starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah.

The nominations are here for the 2026 Tony Awards. This year, a high number of titles have onscreen counterparts, and we have rounded up how to watch these versions at home, from The Lost Boys to Schmigadoon!

Prescott Park Arts Festival revealed its River House Restaurant Concert Series lineup, featuring artists including Infinity Song, The Walrus, The Dip, and more on the Wilcox Main Stage in Portsmouth, NH.

MPAC announced the cast of its spring production of Disney's FROZEN, featuring 50 young performers from seven New Jersey counties, directed by Cathy Roy with music direction by Charles Santoro.

New performance clips have been released from the Great Performances presentation of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat, premiering on PBS this Friday, May 15. Watch renditions of 'No Strings' and 'Top Hat, White Tie and Tails' now.

Guildford Choral and Guildford Symphony Orchestra will reunite at GLive for a program featuring Puccini's Messi Di Gloria, Haydn's Te Deum, and Dvořák's Symphony No. 8, with soloists Sang Eup Son and Trevor Eliot Bowes.

The WATFORD FRINGE FESTIVAL marks its tenth year with a month-long programme of over 70 performances, including pre-Edinburgh previews, stand-up comedy, premieres, and live music across multiple Watford venues.

Classical Theatre Company announced its upcoming 2026-2027 Mainstage Season. Full details on productions and scheduling are available from the Houston-based company.

Merrigong Theatre Company will present TWO WEEKS, an intimate play by Siobhán Doran-Chaston, at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre. The production follows a young couple as a countdown begins toward a life-changing event.

Porchlight Music Theatre announced Klaus Peter Schuller as its new executive director and Michael Weber as The Elaine Cohen and Arlen Rubin Artistic Director, with Schuller set to join the Chicago company later this year.

Coppell Arts Center announced its 2026-2027 season, featuring eight shows including BEHIND THE LINES: A 9/11 STORY, URBAN SCUBA, VOICES OF ROCK, and ARRIVAL FROM SWEDEN: THE MUSIC OF ABBA.

Actor's Express will present WIT, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, directed by Freddie Ashley and starring Carolyn Cook, as part of the theater's 38th season in Atlanta.

The National Ballet of Canada will close its season with Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM, inspired by Margaret Atwood's trilogy with a score by Max Richter, at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto.

xThe LA Phil has unveiled the 2026 season at The Ford, its hillside open-air venue, running from May 8 to October 31. The 2026 season brings together a multidisciplinary mix of music, dance, film, theater, comedy and spoken word.

After decades of dismissing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats as a cultural punchline, Alexa Criscitiello attended THE JELLICLE BALL on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre expecting spectacle and irony. Instead, the acclaimed ballroom-inspired production revealed the emotional depth, existential themes, and surprising humanity at the heart of one of Broadway’s most debated musicals.

Josh Groban will embark on his new Stage, Screen, and Symphony tour, hitting U.S. cities this summer. The new run will spotlight music from Broadway alongside music from Groban's brand new album CINEMATIC, performed with full symphony orchestras across the tour.

The June 4th show, AND HAVE WE ALL THE TIME?, centers on the songs of Jacques Brel and reflections on life, love, and the human condition. We spoke with Rian Keating about the show.

Queen Latifah, the musician and actress who appeared onscreen in the films of Chicago and Hairspray, will join season 30 of NBC’s Emmy Award-winning musical competition series “The Voice” as a coach this fall.

Strictly Come Dancing stars Amy Dowden MBE and Carlos Gu bring their live tour REBORN to Swindon's Wyvern Theatre, celebrating Amy's return to dance after cancer treatment and Carlos's journey since moving to the UK.

Corrib Theatre announced its 2026-2027 season, 'Shared Senses,' featuring AN SCÉAL, the West Coast premiere of THE PERFECT IMMIGRANT, and Brian Friel's MOLLY SWEENEY, staged as a live soundscape in Portland, Oregon.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts broke ground on a major west campus redesign, including The Baron Theater, a 2,000-person venue, and the SNF Gardens at Damrosch Park, set to open in summer 2028.

Production photos have been released for Algonquin Arts Theatre’s production of PIPPIN. The musical stars Matthew Paul Johnson, Natalie Hayes-Scott, Savannah Fouchi, and David Fusco in the Stephen Schwartz classic about a young man’s search for meaning.

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music announced Lila Chrisp as the First Prize winner of the Lenya Competition, taking home $25,000. Claire Griffin and Ilanna Starr each received $20,000 Second Prizes.