Luna Composition Lab announced its 2026-27 season, continuing the Luna Lab@10 anniversary initiative featuring over 90 new commissions for 50 alumni, with premieres by Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and more.
Seattle Theatre Group announced its 2026/27 Performing Arts Series, featuring 15 performances spanning jazz, dance, global music, and theatre, including a newly commissioned work from Perfume Genius and Kate Wallich.
National Theatre of Scotland's THROUGH THE SHORTBREAD TIN will tour Glasgow Cathedral, Stirling Castle, and Urquhart Castle following an Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, with Gaelic singers joining writer-performer Martin O'Connor.
Shawn Hann of Denver School of the Arts has been named the 2026 Stephen Schwartz Musical Theatre Teacher of the Year by The ASCAP Foundation and the Educational Theatre Foundation.
Playwright Cris Eli Blak's CHALLENGING BROWN, a winner of the 2025 Fade To Black Arts Festival, will receive its world premiere at Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston, directed by Alric Davis and produced by Shabach Enterprise.
Cellist Miles Goosby and horn player Douglas Nunes have been named Minnesota Orchestra Fellows, following a competitive audition process. The two-year fellowship supports emerging orchestral musicians through performance experience and community engagement.
English Touring Theatre announced a season of five plays, including world premieres of APPLICATION 39, LANNY, and PERICLES, alongside a new production of ROMEO AND JULIET, touring venues across the UK.
Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute will present Queer Butoh Festival, marking a decade of radical performance at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, featuring artists from Mexico, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore, Chile, and the U.S.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames directs August Wilson's The Piano Lesson at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, marking the company's 35th anniversary season at DeSales University's Schubert Theatre.
Concert Theatre Works' theatrical concert COPLAND & TWAIN, directed by Bill Barclay, will blend Aaron Copland's incidental music with Mark Twain's writings at Open Jar Studios, conducted by Ken-David Masur.
Anne Ishii, former Executive Director of Asian Arts Initiative and Program Director at United States Artists, announced as the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage's new Director of Grantmaking Programs. Zach Blackwood was also named Program Officer for Fellowships.
Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) recently held its fifth annual awards celebration, honoring Debra Martin Chase, Whitney White, Alana Raquel Bowers, and Destiny Lilly for their contributions to the theater industry. The event was hosted by BWOB co-founders Danielle Brooks, Amber Iman, and Jocelyn Bioh.
The Prince Fellowship, in association with Columbia University School of the Arts, announced applications are open for its 2026 program, offering early-career producers a $10,000 stipend, a $20,000 production budget, and mentorship from industry leaders.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre will present NuWorks 2026 at Theatre Row, featuring self-created works by 11 artists spanning poetry, dance, music, and text.
The Tank NYC announced the lineup for PRIDEFEST 2026, an annual festival of new performances by queer artists curated by Max Mooney, featuring theater, comedy, puppetry, storytelling, and music at The Tank in New York City.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center announced 12 individual artists and one ensemble selected for its competitive Bowers Program, a three-season residency chosen from 192 international candidates.
Haston House will present RIP HER TO SHREDS, a dark comedy written by Isabelle Barbier examining internalised misogyny and early 2000s girlhood through witchcraft, rivalry, and surrealist satire at Underbelly Cowgate during the Edinburgh Fringe.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced violist William Mathangani and violinist Keshav Srinivasan as the newest cohort of its Paine Resident Fellowship, a program supporting early-career symphonic musicians from underrepresented communities.
Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute announced a five-week Butoh course in Brooklyn, culminating in a student performance. Taught by choreographer Vangeline, the program is open to dancers and non-dancers with sliding-scale tuition.
Eric Marlin's WHAT A WORLD! WHAT A WORLD!, directed by Ilana Khanin, will receive its world premiere at The Tank NYC, featuring Queen-Tiye Akamefula and Annie Hoeg in a two-hander centered on a 1943 melodrama.
Hyundai Artlab announced Travis Jeppesen and Yutong Lin as recipients of the 2026 Artlab Editorial Fellowship, now in its fourth year. Now in its fourth year, the Artlab Editorial Fellowship extends Artlab Editorial's mission to foster writing about today's most compelling artists, celebrate connectivity in all its forms, and envision the future.
Black Women on Broadway announced its 2026 honorees, recognizing the contributions of Black women to the Broadway community. Learn more about the honorees here!
Luna Composition Lab announced three NYC performances this spring as part of its 10th anniversary celebration, featuring world premieres by alumni composers performed by Ensemble Ipse, New York Festival of Song, and International Contemporary Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.
Steep Theatre will present a one-night-only staged reading of THE MAKING, a new play by Dan Aibel reimagining the creation of Star Wars, at the Edge Theater in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.
The Off-Broadway League has established the Paul Libin Leadership Award. George Forbes will receive the inaugural honor at the 2026 Lucille Lortel Awards. The ceremony will take place in New York.
