Sun-Up Revival (1930 Broadway)

Thursday night my husband and I had a rollicking good time attending Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show at the B-29 DOC Hangar in Wichita, KS. If you’re looking for a fun Halloween night out, reserve your tickets NOW!

Emerging Artists Theatre will present the inaugural Spark Musical Theatre Festival NYC, showcasing 26 new musicals ranging from staged readings to fully produced works at the 28th Street Theatre in Manhattan.

Arts at the Edge will present select works from a collection of ten-minute plays by 36 women+ playwrights commissioned to explore the state of American democracy, with a free public reading at Manhattan University.

Isaac Mizrahi will perform his holiday music extravaganza at New York's Cafe Carlyle, backed by a six-piece jazz band. The show blends concert, comedy, and cabaret with music spanning from Noël Coward to Billie Eilish.

Co-founder and producing director Susi Damilano is at it again. Her previous comic stagings include Noises Off, Clue, The 39 Steps and the successful predecessor of this show, The Play That Goes Wrong back in 2024.

Canadian indie rock band GIZMO released their debut album ALL YOUR WORSHIPS via Victory Pool. The Charlottetown four-piece blend 1990s slacker rock influences with guitar-driven melodies and introspective songwriting.

Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

The GRAMMY-winning Experiential Orchestra will open its 2026-2027 season with a program celebrating composer Anna Clyne, featuring cellist Inbal Segev performing the New York City premiere of DANCE.

The Bronx's 97-year-old Loew's Paradise Theater, one of NYC's last surviving movie palaces, will reopen as a 4,000-seat performing arts center presenting theater, concerts, comedy, dance, and film.

The sun is hot. The air is dry. You have come to California to die. Award winning multi-instrumentalist and Pleasance stalwart storyteller Callum Patrick Hughes rips apart Nathanael West's 1930's Great American Novel, rebuilding it with loop pedals, guitar drones and a soundscape of broken dreams and fading stardom. The burning city of Hollwood's Golden Age collides with US contemporary chaos in a production described as part adaptation, part riot, part protest song.

Theater fans should run and catch Ronald Rand’s fascinating solo show about Harold Clurman's life and career, which is part of the Logan Festival of Solo Performance at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, Virginia through August 30.

BritBox has cast Miles Jupp, Bryony Hannah and Cara Theobold as G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers in THE DETECTION CLUB, a 10-part mystery drama now filming across the West Midlands.

SOMM Recordings will release Telemann's Paris Quartets, Vol. 2, performed by the London Handel Players, following the acclaimed first volume marking the ensemble's 25th anniversary.

SOMM Recordings will release new albums including a second volume of Telemann's Paris Quartets performed by London Handel Players and a Cyprus-inspired work centered on the Othello legend.

Little Island added a midnight performance of Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez's MARINA due to demand, with $25 tickets now on sale for the Amph show.

Martha Graham Dance Company will present masterworks, new commissions, and Lamentation Variations while touring the US, Canada, England, Spain, Mexico, and China.

The Martha Graham Dance Company will continue its centennial celebration with its 2026-27 season, marking the culmination of GRAHAM100. The season will feature Martha Graham masterworks, new commissions and Lamentation Variations, and more.

Broadway's biggest landmarks are easy to spot, but some of the Theatre District's most fascinating stories are hiding in plain sight. From historic theaters and legendary rehearsal spaces to tucked-away tributes and unexpected Broadway landmarks, these lesser-known stops will add a whole new act to your next walking tour!

Spiderwoman Theater has added performers to its Brooklyn block party marking the company's 50th anniversary, with drummers, dancers, and vocalists joining the free outdoor celebration.

Melbourne's Princess Theatre will host a new production of Noël Coward's PRIVATE LIVES following record-breaking ticket sales for the show's Sydney season.

Over the years, Broadway has seen a number of family acts sharing the stage. It’s extra special when family members team up to write a Broadway show together. The Great White Way has seen many instances of this historically, in a variety of different situations. While last week’s column focused on spouses penning shows together, this week is all about blood relatives partnering to write work. 

Theatre NOVA announced the 2026 Michigan Playwrights Festival in Ann Arbor, featuring four original full-length plays by Michigan-based playwrights, each presented as a reading with talkbacks and audience feedback sessions.

Drama professor, historian, director, and writer Amnon Kabatchnik has penned a new book in his reference series, Bloody Broadway: Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery, Volume II.

Miss Maybell & Her Ragtime Romeos celebrated the release of Under the Midnight Moon with an infectious set of newly unearthed ragtime, blues, and early jazz. Brilliant musicianship, irresistible energy, and forgotten songs made for a fabulous set.

Old showtunes prove there's life in old-school show tunes when the Pocket Change Combo combines forces with young singers. Terrific Tyler J. Landusky led the combo platter of jazz and Broadway in CURTAINS & CADENZAS at 54 Below.