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FOGHAT released its first live album featuring the current lineup, a triple-vinyl set that also includes the vinyl debut of SHAKEN & STIRRED by Earl & the Agitators.

The New York Pops surely earned their musical “license to kill” with this concert, featuring guest artist Lena Hall (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH on Broadway).

Singer-songwriter Jim Messina has extended his 2026 tour through November with 15 shows across the United States, including stops in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Maine, and Pennsylvania.

Scott Fagan released a new song from his long-lost 1971 Broadway rock opera SOON, which starred a young Richard Gere. The album arrives via Fire Records after 55 years in development.

Roger Waters will present an all-new live production featuring a 10-piece band led by his son Harry Waters, performing selections from Pink Floyd's 1971-1979 catalog. The tour will visit more than 100 cities across North America and Europe starting February 2027.

NYC rock band NICOTINE DOLLS released a new single and music video co-produced by frontman Sam Cieri and hitmaker Marti Frederiksen. The track appears on the band's self-titled sophomore album via BMG.

Scott Fagan released the title track from SOON, an album drawing on his long-lost 1971 Broadway rock opera that once starred a young Richard Gere.

Metrograph will present CLASSICAL CINEMA, a 20-film showcase exploring cinema inspired by ancient Greece, featuring rare prints of ANTIGONE, THE ILLIAC PASSION, and ULYSSES' GAZE.

Craft Latino will reissue Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe's 1975 salsa album THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY on vinyl, featuring contributions from Rubén Blades and Yomo Toro.

Fritz Lang's film noir SCARLET STREET, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, will make its UK 4K UHD and Blu-ray debut as a limited edition dual format release from Eureka Entertainment.

THE ANIMEROS' debut album ¡QUÉ BÁRBARO!, produced by Dan Auerbach, arrived via Easy Eye Sound alongside an expanded fall headlining tour and an Austin release show at The Continental Club.

Scott Fagan is set to release an album recorded decades ago that never previously reached the public, according to a new announcement from the singer-songwriter's camp.

SPIKE F*CK has signed to Sacred Bones Records and announced a debut album titled evidence, accompanied by the release of a new single and video for ALL BY MYSELF.

The Animeros announced Austin LP release shows and a West Coast tour supporting their Dan Auerbach-produced debut on Easy Eye Sound.

Seattle Theatre Group announced its 2026/27 Performing Arts Series, featuring 15 performances spanning jazz, dance, global music, and theatre, including a newly commissioned work from Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich.

A special kind of magic fills The Theatre at Solaire as a major international tour arrives. Beyond the resort’s radiant lights, the lobby buzzes in eager anticipation, drawing together theater purists, chic weekenders, and families teeming with excitement.

The Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum will present a lineup including The Brian Barlow Big Band performing Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder and a one-night-only reading of The Amateurs, a new TV series from the creators of Slings and Arrows.

It's a very rare treat—particularly all the way here in Orange County, California—to hear Broadway songs and the stories behind them performed directly by the legendary composer himself, even for just a one-night-only event. But that is exactly the gift bestowed upon a rapt audience recently when the Irvine Barclay Theatre presented DEFYING GRAVITY: AN EVENING WITH STEPHEN SCHWARTZ & FRIENDS to a sold-out crowd on the evening of May 23, 2026.

The musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that has just landed at the Sands Theatre leans into celebrating a world of vivid invention. It keeps the heart of the beloved material and commits even further into its absurdity. It guarantees a night at the theatre that will leave you going “what…was…that.' A night you won't soon forget. 

Multi- Award winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz has had a long and distinguished career in writing for both theatre and film. He is probably best known nowadays for his work on Wicked, but his career goes far beyond that one hit show.

Two-time Tony winner Christine Baranski and Academy Award nominee Richard E. Grant will star in Noël Coward's HAY FEVER at Wyndham's Theatre, marking Baranski's West End debut and Grant's return to the West End stage after 20 years.

Sometimes alchemy really happens. A blockbuster title with a perfect cast at the most appropriate time of year makes up the spectacular new production of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR now playing at Shea’s 710 Theatre.

The San Francisco Symphony has revealed details of the Orchestra’s 115th season. The 2026–27 season features 26 guest conductors, including five making their Orchestral Series debuts, alongside a lineup of returning and debuting guest artists.

A new documentary film will be released about blues musician Bobby Rush. Titled King of the Chitlin’ Circuit, the movie explores the life of the 92-year-old musician and his 70-plus-year career. 

A highlight of enjoying any mystery is trying to figure out the endgame before you reach it to see if your powers of perception are good enough to beat the detective to the punch. Well, take that plan and throw it in the nearest garbage because Sleuth, the Guthrie’s newest production, is a mystery that will have you guessing until the final moment. Even then, you will be wrong.