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The National Ballet of Canada has announced its 2026/27 dancer roster, adding First Soloist Sasha Mukhamedov, six new Corps de Ballet members, eight RBC Apprentices, and Moisés Martín Cintas as Rehearsal Director.

The Mark Morris Dance Group will return to Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York, on July 30, 2026, with a program of live music and contemporary dance. A free Dance for PD workshop led by David Leventhal will be offered July 28.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will premiere Power of Love, a newly commissioned ballet choreographed by Jamar Roberts, celebrating Luther Vandross with arrangements by Marcus Miller and Ron Gillyard.

Noted jazz drummer and longtime Disney Cast Member Matt Johnson & The New Jet Set present “Swingin’ the Disney Songbook,” a critically acclaimed program of original retro-cool jazz arrangements of beloved hits from timeless Disney animated films, at Campus Jax in Newport Beach, on Thursday, July 16, 2026, 6:30 PM (doors open at 5 pm).

Sadler's Wells East will present THE DANCE FLOOR IS BLACK under a Queer Frequencies theme, while Matthew Bourne's THE CAR MAN continues its run at Sadler's Wells Theatre this summer.

New York Festival of Song announced its upcoming season, featuring four mainstage concerts at Merkin Hall co-presented by Kaufman Music Center, plus standalone programs including A GOYISHE CHRISTMAS TO YOU! and a Juilliard collaboration.

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…

Princeton Summer Theater’s (PST) 2026 season continues with THE 39 STEPS, a noir farce full of danger, mystery, and laughs.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the first North American touring production of the musical presented by Disney in over 25 years, will celebrate its one-year anniversary, and welcome new cast members.

Theatre By The Sea announced its 2026 Children's Festival, featuring multiple productions including DREAMERS ON ADVENTURES: SING-A-LONG at its Rhode Island venue.

Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2025 character show Side Eye, 'Rock 'n' Roll Star of British Comedy' (Rolling Stone) Rachel Fairburn is back with some new personalities (and some old favourites) for you to love and hate. Expect sharp wit, biting social commentary, and lots of big laughs! As seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (Dave), Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC Two), and Russell Howard Hour: Life Lesson (Sky) and Co-Host of International smash hit podcast All Killa No Filla.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum presents Waiting in the Wings, a vibrant, funny, deeply humane comedy by Noël Coward that reminds us that a life well-lived is measured not by applause, but by connection. Set in “The Wings,” a charity home for retired actresses, Coward’s 50th play is a witty and poignant portrait of nine opinionated, funny, difficult and full of life women, each of whom once basked in public admiration.

OPERA America announced $135,000 in commissioning grants to seven opera companies through its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation since 2014.

Weathervane Theatre in New Hampshire will present Noël Coward's PRIVATE LIVES, directed by Broadway's Christina Sajous, with a cast led by Shinnerrie Jackson and Robert H. Fowler as feuding ex-lovers.

American Ballet Theatre dancer Jake Roxander has been promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer, effective in September 2026. Roxander recently performed the lead role of Basilio in Don Quixote.

The Company Theatre in Norwell, Mass. will present the South Shore premiere of Jagged Little Pill, the musical inspired by Alanis Morissette's 1995 album.

Little Theatre of Fall River is presenting Pageant, a musical by Bill Russell, Frank Kelley, and composer Albert Evans, at Little Theatre's Firebarn. Get a first look at production photos!

The initial principal cast has been revealed for The Broadway Guest Artists' October production of The Addams Family. Essaying the malevolent matriarch Morticia Addams, Sara Gettelfinger comes to the Warwick Valley.

The Jette Parker Artists will close the 2025/26 Season with their annual summer performance on the Royal Opera House Main Stage, featuring scenes from works by Stravinsky, Leoncavallo, Bellini, Léhar, and Bizet.

Mariska Hargitay will kick off TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 23rd Annual New Works Festival, performing in a benefit presentation of Every Brilliant Thing.

Donizetti’s Don Pasquale returns to the stage at Theatro São Pedro as part of the theater’s 2026 lyric season, with performances on July 10, 12, 15, 17, and 18. Conducted by Ira Levin and directed by Lívia Sabag, the production brings new life to one of the finest examples of Italian comic opera. Premiered in 1843, Don Pasquale combines sparkling humor, lyrical beauty, and dazzling bel canto writing in the story of an aging bachelor whose marriage plans are hilariously undone by a pair of young lovers. A cornerstone of the operatic repertoire, the work remains a showcase of Donizetti’s melodic genius, theatrical wit, and unforgettable characters.

The beautiful island of Jeju lies in the Korean Strait some fifty miles south of the Korean Peninsula. Today, it is a popular holiday destination with striking vistas, beautiful waters, and lush vegetation. Beneath this verdant landscape and tourism infrastructure, however, lies a tragic history.

Prospero Arts will present GILBERT & SULLIVAN: A SOIREE OF SONG & SATIRE at QPAC Brisbane, following a successful Melbourne season with Opera Australia. The production features a 19-piece orchestra and cast including Billy Bourchier, Ben Mingay, and Jason Barry-Smith.

Tony-nominated singer Ann Hampton Callaway will bring HERE'S TO LIFE to LTV Studios in East Hampton as part of the Hamptons Summer Songbook By the Sea series, performing songs by Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, and her own originals.

The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation will present its 32nd annual HELP IS ON THE WAY: BROADWAY & BEYOND concert and gala at Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco, benefiting Project Open Hand and REAF's Small Emergency Grants Program.