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Oregon Children’s Theatre (OCT) will present Impulse to Give, a one-night-only live improv comedy show and fundraising event, on Saturday, August 2, 2025, at Portland Playhouse.

The cast and the creative team has been revealed for Bull Durham, the first production of Paper Mill’s 2025-2026 season. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

Matilda began as a beloved children’s book by Roald Dahl, published in 1988, and was later adapted into a charming film in 1996—which I absolutely adored. More recently, it received a vibrant new life as a stage musical, debuting in 2010 with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly.

Charlie Sheen will share his story, his way at New Jersey Performing Arts Center this September. Learn more about the event and see how to purchase tickets here!

The original lineup of Béla Fleck & The Flecktones will return this winter for Jingle All the Way, a reunion tour spanning their catalog, including reinvented holiday classics from the album by the same name.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) will host a one-night-only celebration of one of Australia’s most beloved albums, 16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens, on Friday, 26 September 2025, in QPAC’s Concert Hall.

Hip-hop legend Masta Ace brings his new musical THE FALLING SEASON to The Green Room 42 for a one-night-only concert on July 17, 2025. Set in 1980s Brooklyn, the show blends powerful storytelling with original music inspired by Ace’s acclaimed albums.

This past season contained a higher than usual amount of Broadway shows involving death; in fact, Operation Mincemeat and Dead Outlaw both specifically revolved around transporting a corpse! And Death Becomes Her leans into the hilarity as two women become gorgeous living corpses before our very eyes, thanks to a touch of magic. But plays and musicals about death and its attendant macabre topics have been a part of the theatre landscape for many decades...

GRAMMY® Award-winning Sacramento band Deftones will release their 10th full-length studio album, private music, on August 22, 2025. Check out a new single, available now.

Briggs Opera House Inc and Shaker Bridge Theatre will present a one-night performance of Susan Edsall's original work Buen Camino: My Walk Through 540 Miles of Rain. Learn more!

Watch a video of Karis Oka singing 'Dead Mom' from Beetlejuice in Australia! Oka stars in the Melbourne production as Lydia Deetz, opposite the musical's composer, Eddie Perfect.

A brand new trailer has been released for the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro. Check out the video here!

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Will Return to China This Fall. The return was previously announced, but today's announcement in China Daily confirms a fall run. 

The National Constitution Center will award its 37th annual Liberty Medal to the Broadway hit Hamilton, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and the historian and biographer Ron Chernow, whose book inspired the musical.

Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam Volume 28: What in Gay Hell?! comes to Theatre Off Jackson for two nights only, July 18 and 19, in a no-holds-barred queer take on religion, puppetry, and the fine art of sacrilege.

BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL must leave Australia in September. This is the last chance for Australians to witness the phenomenon. The final performances are now on sale. 

Decades before cementing himself in the pop culture consciousness as Ali Wong’s curmudgeonly father in Beef, Yee originated the role of Bradley Yamishita (played in this production by Daniel J. Kim).

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, has announced its 2025-26 season of performances, including four Mainstage Series programs at Merkin Hall, co-presented with Kaufman Music Center. The season also includes the ​​NYFOS Next Festival at The Theater at 150 W 17 and NYFOS's annual residency at The Juilliard School.

Chess famously had an interesting road to Broadway in 1988 and has been through many changes since then. Learn about all of them, plus the historical context of the piece and the journey of its creators (Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus) in this documentary by Wait in the Wings. Watch in this video .

This Bitter Earth, the UK directorial debut of Tony winner Billy Porter, is a play with a lot to say – about race, about activism, and about love. First produced in 2017, the show follows the twists and turns in the relationship between Jesse (Omari Douglas), a Black writer, and his boyfriend Neil (Alexander Lincoln), a white BLM activist.

Renowned international music conservatory Manhattan School of Music has announced that acclaimed composer, conductor, and saxophonist Jim Saltzman has been appointed Dean of the School's prestigious Jazz Arts division, effective July 1, 2025.

Just In Time’s origin story as well as overall conceit has much in common with one of Broadway’s very first jukebox musicals, which was ahead of its time. In 1985, Leader of the Pack, telling the story of pop singer-songwriter Ellie Greenwich, opened at the Ambassador on Broadway. Learn all about pop music bio-musicals here!

The Citizens Theatre has revealed the full cast for Small Acts of Love, the first production to be performed on the theatre’s home stage in more than seven years when it reopens later this year.

After more than five decades of groundbreaking theater and artmaking, Ping Chong and Company has announced a historic evolution. Learn more about the rebrand here!

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park will present the 2025 Annual Festival in Tivoli, NY, featuring original performances by artists innovating in dance, music, film, archiving, storytelling, and more. Learn how to attend.