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​Flat Rock Playhouse will present Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, the legendary Broadway comedy that inspired the Academy Award-winning 1968 film and the beloved television series.

Michael Wanzie will bring back his longtime character Deloris Scrud in a new stage show at OUT FEST, presented at the Starlite Room at SAVOY Orlando. Learn more here.

The 12th Annual LaBute New Theatre Festival features new works by playwrights who hail from Kentucky, New York, Utah, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, plus a new work from festival’s namesake Neil LaBute. This year’s crop of plays, produced by St. Louis Actors’ studio includes three comedies, two comedic dramas, and a more serious piece. Best in Show – Erin Fitzgerald’s witty and pun-filled Junk Drawer, hilariously directed by Eric Dean White, examines what life must be like for a forgotten penny, poker chip, and magic marker stuck in the back of the kitchen junk drawer. White elicits wonderful portrays from this trio of actors whose characters are desperate to escape their forgotten existence. Fitzgerald’s clever tongue-in-cheek script is reminiscent of the forgotten toys in Pixar’s Toy Story movies. The 15-minute laugher has more giggles than many full-length comedies.

Festival of Cinema NYC returns to Regal UA Midway in Forest Hills for its 10th Anniversary edition, featuring over 100 independent films, world premieres, free workshops, and a special appearance by director Todd Strauss-Schulson.

Allan Harris brought the spirit of an intimate Harlem house party to Birdland with Harlem After Dark, joined by Maya Azucena, AC Lincoln, and a stellar jazz trio for an evening of blues, swing, tap dance, and irresistible musical chemistry.

Beast Philanthropy, Stand Up To Cancer, Amgen, and St. Baldrick's Foundation launched a global pediatric cancer fundraising campaign on MrBeast's YouTube channel, with LeBron James joining to support a new SU2C Pediatric Cancer Dream Team.

Connor Hellebuyck and Griffin LaMarre of Team USA Men's Hockey competed in the Fast Money round on Celebrity Family Feud, taking on the clock-driven survey challenge.

Patrick Droney has released his new album 'Made You Look' via Warner Records, marking his latest full-length project from the singer-songwriter.

Alternative artist and multi-platinum songwriter MOD SUN released '2am' via Big Loud Rock, an upbeat track he wrote about one of his first nights out after moving to Nashville.

Netflix's quick-turn documentary series turns its lens on prediction markets, featuring Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan and Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, as over $5.6 billion was wagered on the World Cup final alone.

GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning composer Mark Isham released 'Tales of the Street Piano,' a new single from his upcoming album At the Carousel Club, his first solo record in 15 years.

Randy Graff and Alfred Molina will lead a one-night-only performance of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. The Core Theatre Group fundraising performance will take place in August.

Cult heroes of youth culture; Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud, Tommy, and Kelly are back, alongside an ensemble cast and a live band. Featuring some of the electrifying tracks from the film that defined a generation, together with catchy, confrontational and celebratory original songs, set to become singalong, dance-along classics, this is more than nostalgia amplified, it’s a genre-defying new musical that speaks to our contemporary malaise of defiance in the face of an uncertain future.So what did the critics think?

Irvine Welsh and Stephen McGuinness make their Musical Theatre debuts - and it shows

It's a murder mystery. It's a thriller. It's a modern thriller. The main character, Rachel, is sort of an unreliable narrator. She has a history of substance abuse, and she's kind of trying to figure out what happened, what she witnessed on a train

The film adaptation of Reading Lolita in Tehran is set for a nationwide theatrical release, bringing Azar Nafisi's acclaimed memoir about women, literature, and resistance in Iran to the big screen.

Sario Solomon, Jason Leigh Winter, Ross Chisari, and Diana Vickers will star in DEEP-HEAT RIVALRY, a porno panto parody on ice written by Olivier nominee Trevor Ashley and Phil Scott, at The Other Palace Studio.

If the Last Night is about waving Union Jacks until arms ache, the First Night had some of that feeling too — albeit a different flag. The Proms this time around will commemorate the 250th anniversary of United States declaring bye-bye to Blighty and plotting its own course into history. Before the strains of “Jerusalem” fade away for another year, the Royal Albert Hall will see both the LA Philharmonic and New York’s Met Orchestra take the stage and Marin Alsop will conduct a night of Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin. Yuja Wang gives Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto its first Proms outing on the Last Night, there are world premieres from Wynton Marsalis and Jessie Montgomery plus a centenary celebration of Miles Davis’ work.

In a candid conversation with BroadwayWorld, beloved actor Aaron Lazar discusses the progression of his ALS diagnosis and says his purpose ‘feels more exciting to me than dying.’

Feuille Dooley Productions and Very Rascals Productions will present the world premiere of RELATIVE MOTION, a new play by Stephanie Greenwood blending romantic comedy and psychological thriller to examine coercive control through Newton's laws of motion.

American Ballet Theatre announced the promotion of SunMi Park to Principal Dancer. ABT Artistic Director Susan Jaffe made the announcement on stage at the Metropolitan Opera House following a performance of SWAN LAKE.

A friendship lies at the heart of Nobel laureate Han Kang’s acclaimed 2021 novel We Do Not Part. Kyungha and Inseon are colleagues turned confidantes living in Korea.

FringeArts announced programming for the 30th annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival, featuring over 330 productions across nearly 100 venues, including world premieres and Philadelphia premieres from local and international artists.

Spaceballs: The Plot. The official synopsis has been revealed for Spaceballs: The New One, the highly anticipated sequel to Mel Brooks' 1987 sci-fi comedy.