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Battery Dance will present its 45th Annual Festival at Wagner Park, featuring a week of free nightly performances, community workshops, and a one-night commemorative show marking the U.S. semi-quincentennial.

Theatre Under the Stars announced its 86th season, with SISTER ACT and DISNEY'S THE LITTLE MERMAID set to perform at Stanley Park's Malkin Bowl in Vancouver.

The North/South Chamber Orchestra will present a retrospective concert honoring late Cuban-American composer Aurelio De La Vega at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York, featuring five works spanning fifty years of his career.

The New School's College of Performing Arts will present its 11th annual SANDBOX PERCUSSION SUMMER SEMINAR, celebrating Steve Reich's 90th birthday year with free public concerts, including a full performance of his landmark work DRUMMING.

August Wilson is back on Broadway with Taraji P. Henson and Cedric “The Entertainer” and more in a new production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone, directed by  the legendary Debbie Allen. The critics are weighing in on the show! See what they're saying in tonight's review roundup!

WhaSwan Lake was presented one night only, March 26, at Century II Concert Hall. The visually stunning ballet was presented by International Ballet Stars under the direction of Producer Ekaterina Vaganova-Yachmennikova. The North America ballet tour will present anywhere from 72 to 150 performances across the United States, creating one of the largest classical ballet tours in North America.t did our critic think of SWAN LAKE at Century II Concert Hall?

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Suzie Miller’s new play, Inter Alia, will be coming to Broadway this Fall for a strictly limited engagement, starring Rosamund Pike. We have all of the details here!

Boston Ballet will present Spring Experience, a compelling mixed-repertory program that highlights the Company's versatility and artistic depth through three distinct works.

The Newport Classical Music Festival will present 30 concerts across 11 venues from July 2-19, 2026, showcasing a wide range of classical music performances.

The North/South Chamber Orchestra will present a special free concert at St. John's in The Village, NYC, to welcome spring. The evening will feature a blend of new music and engaging discussions.

Palo Alto Players will present the beloved musical FROZEN from April 24 to May 10, 2026, as part of their 95th season. The production, based on Disney's Academy Award-winning animated film, will be staged in Palo Alto, CA.

The Grand Theatre has announced its upcoming 2026/27 Season “All in Grand Time” – including four plays, two musicals, five symphonic rock concerts, and a new live comedy series. Learn more here!

Beauty and the Beast undoubtedly has a very important place in Broadway history. For Disney Theatricals, it was the show that started it all, and proved that there was an appetite on Broadway for family fare.

The Grand Theatre has announced its upcoming 2026/27 Season “All in Grand Time” – including four plays, two musicals, five symphonic rock concerts, and a new live comedy series.

Next month, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond for Women's History Month, including Linda Eder, Kate Baldwin, Jenn Colella and more. 

What did our critic think of SPRING AWAKENING at Volksoper?

Bestselling recording artist Jackie Evancho will duet with the late Dan Seals on a single from his forthcoming album Dan Seals & Friends: The Last Duet.

Since its 1980 debut in Paris, Les Misérables has transcended the medium of musical theatre to become a global cultural force.

The Silence of the Lambs will make its world stage play premiere in 2026. Television writer and playwright Gina Gionfriddo will bringThomas Harris' gripping literary masterpiece to the stage in a new modern adaptation directed by Nikolai Foster.

English National Opera has released new production photos for PARTENOPE, returning to the London Coliseum from 20 November to 6 December 2025. The revival of Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-winning staging features Nardus Williams in the title role and is conducted by Christian Curnyn.

Dallas Theater Center will continue their 2025-2026 season with its beloved holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, running at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre.

Not many directors could helm a blockbuster stage adaptation of a hit film starring George Clooney, the Broadway transfer of a dark and quirky musical about a Dead Outlaw, and an off-Broadway meditation on the root and consequences of AI all in the span of four months. If anyone could, however, it would certainly be David Cromer, who achieved that impressive feat last spring. Rocketed to fame by his revelatory 2009 production of Our Town, he has become one of New York’s most in-demand directors, noted for his versatility, sensitivity, and ability to create theatrical magic. 

Composer Frank Wildhorn has joined the creative team of Chimney Town the Musical, the theatrical adaptation of Poupelle of Chimney Town, the book-turned-anime film from Akihiro Nishino.

ENO's award-winning production of Handel's classic love quadrangle, Partenope, will return to the London Coliseum stage this November, starring former Harewood Artist Nardus Williams as the eponymous arch socialite.

Nocturne Theatre co-owner talks to BroadwayWorld about extending the Glendale theater's sold-out run of DRACULA—as well as how the timing of the show plays perfectly with this year's vampire-themed 'Haunted Soiree' monthlong cocktail party.