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Leadership changes at The Public, New Village Arts, Pacific Conservatory Theatre, and the Dallas Arts District, and new opportunities for UK musicals and BroadwayWorld's Stage Mag.

For Steven Maler, founding artistic director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” holds special significance as the first free outdoor Shakespeare production he directed with CSC, in 1996 in Copley Square. This summer Maler is again directing the comedy – through August 9 at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common, in partnership with the City of Boston’s Parks and Recreation Department and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture – to mark CSC’s 30th anniversary.

Lundstrum Performing Arts will present SISTER ACT, the musical comedy based on the 1992 film, at its North Minneapolis location, featuring student performers including scholarship-bound lead Aniyah Warren.

The cult classic film BATTLE ROYALE is set to screen in a 4K presentation during its final weekend of engagements.

Burbage Theatre Co announced its 15th season, subtitled 'Past is Prologue,' featuring five plays at its Pawtucket, RI home, kicking off with MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING directed by Stephen Thorne.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts announced its upcoming holiday lineup, featuring ELF THE MUSICAL, Nevada Ballet Theatre, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and performances by Antonia Bennett, Clint Holmes, and more.

“Good Guy with a Gun,” the title track from the upcoming musical comedy concept album, is now available to stream. Chris Sullivan, who voices the character of NRA lobbyist Ron Barkley, performs the song as a duet with Kimiko Glenn, who portrays his liberal daughter, Jenna. Listen to it now.

Westport Country Playhouse will present a free public symposium titled 'Christie at 100...Still Going Strong,' featuring bestselling authors and a veteran book discussion moderator exploring why Christie's mysteries endure.

OFC Creations founder Eric Vaughn Johnson discusses the 2026-2027 Broadway in Brighton Series, a season of six musicals featuring rarely produced titles, a North American premiere of THE OSMONDS, and a New York State premiere of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will present its upcoming Rosen House Concert Series, featuring 21 performances spanning classical, jazz, folk, and global music, plus a new Juilliard Extension collaboration.

Cyril Nri will take on the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN at the Liverpool Everyman, directed by Olivier Award-winning Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu.

Some choreographic works become audience favorites, performed over and over as part of a dance company’s repertory. Others quietly wait in the wings of a company's history for the right moment and the right artists to bring them back to the stage.

Axial Theatre will present a staged reading of Silenced Voices: The Life and Death of the Federal Theatre Project, written by Brian Rose, at St. John's Episcopal Church in Pleasantville, NY, followed by a moderated post-show discussion.

THE DEBUT release date is set! Jesse Eisenberg's theater-themed film starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti hits theaters December 11, wide Christmas.

Stockard Channing makes her directorial debut with Samuel Beckett's KRAPP'S LAST TAPE at Latitude Festival's 20th edition, starring David Westhead, before the production heads to Edinburgh Fringe.

First Coast Opera announced its 2026-2027 season, featuring comic works by Bach and Donizetti, THE ELIXIR OF LOVE on New Year's Eve, and THE TENDER LAND at Ancient City Farmstead. Free tickets for under-18 attendees are also introduced.

Noted jazz drummer and longtime Disney Cast Member Matt Johnson & The New Jet Set present “Swingin’ the Disney Songbook,” a critically acclaimed program of original retro-cool jazz arrangements of beloved hits from timeless Disney animated films, at Campus Jax in Newport Beach, on Thursday, July 16, 2026, 6:30 PM (doors open at 5 pm).

Tony Award-winning songwriting duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will be honored with the Ockie Award at the Oscar Hammerstein Museum's Something Wonderful Gala, featuring a concert by Liz Callaway.

Twenty-eight years ago, The Ladyboys of Bangkok made a brief appearance at what was then the Queen's Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue (now the Sondheim, which has committed itself to Les Misérables with a fervour that makes Swifties look fickle). Now the company has finally brought its full touring operation to London. The Sabai Pavilion — a vast pink tent pitched on Shepherd's Bush Green, fragrant with pad thai and ambition — houses what the company bills as its official London debut: a two-hour kathoey cabaret revue now in its twenty-sixth year of nine-month UK tours.

Gregor Fisher will perform his first one-man show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, joined by director Nigel West for an evening of stories and reminiscences from his decades-long career.

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.

The Washington Ballet announced its 2026/27 season, marking the company's 50th anniversary with five programs at venues including Warner Theatre, Sidney Harman Hall, The National Theatre, and Wolf Trap.

The Theater Project will present KALEIDOSCOPE KABARET 'Lotta Laughs' Edition, a festival of live music and short comedic plays, at DMK Black Box Theatre in Union Township, NJ, featuring works by playwrights workshop members and a Young Playwrights Competition winner.

The Victoria Wood sitcom dinnerladies will return more than a quarter of a century after it was first screened on BBC One. Learn more about the show here!

The full cast for the UK premiere of JANE EYRE, a musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon, has been announced for Southwark Playhouse Elephant, with Broadway's Megan McGinnis co-directing alongside Caird.