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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are back on Broadway in the revival of Othello. As these two mega-stars make their Broadway returns, we're taking a walk down memory lane and reliving some of their stage highlights from their careers!

Award-winning SF contemporary group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will bring its  successful 17th season to a close with 'Mujeres Ahora' (Women Now) in San Francisco, in collaboration with the San Francisco International Arts Festival.

Roundabout Theatre Company is getting ready to bring a new version of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, The Pirates of Penzance, back to Broadway in 2025. Pirates! The Penzance Musical is a reimagined version of the 1879 operetta. Check out photos of the new marquee at the Todd Haimes Theatre here.

In partnership with Cinemateca Brasileira and Goethe-Institut, Theatro São Pedro will show Noferatu, Ganga Bruta, Time and the Wind, The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger and Moustapha Alassane and The Adventures of Prince Achmed, in sessions preceded by debates with experts in the works, which feature original arrangements in the soundtracks, under the musical direction of Marcelo Falcão.

Roundabout Theatre Company will bring a new version of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, The Pirates of Penzance, back to Broadway in 2025, led by Jinkx Monsoon, Ramin Karimloo, David Hyde Pierce, and more! Meet the cast here!

The Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater (April 29 - May 4) with a program celebrating Trisha Brown’s Unstable Molecular Structure cycle.

What did our critic think of PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center?

Walnut Street Theatre will bring the acclaimed award-winning musical DREAMGIRLS to life as they close their 216th season of dreams. This dazzling production begins previews on March 25, opens April 2, and runs through May 4.

Rock legend Billy Idol is set for the release of his first full-length album of new music in over a decade. In anticipation of the forthcoming record, Idol has debuted the new single “Still Dancing.” Listen to it here!

Asolo Repertory Theatre has announced complete casting for the Olivier and Tony Award-winning memory play Dancing at Lughnasa, which begins previews on March 19, 2025.  

Teatro Público de Cleveland and Cleveland Public Theatre will present El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom by Matt Barbot. Featuring: Roxana Bell, Nathalie Bermudez, Alisha Caraballo, Angelluis Centeno, Alejandro Martinez Jr., Elena Grace Thomson (Understudy).

OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Learn more about the program and the awardees.

In a vigorous virtuoso performance that demands to be seen, Jack Holden brings to exhilarating life a true-life crime story from half a century ago.

Rock n' roll legend Billy Idol, recently nominated for the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, returns to the UK for a very special date at the OVO Wembley Arena on Tuesday 24th June 2025.

English punk band Conflict is set to release the new album This Much Remains, the band's first in over two decades. A new single from the album, which will hit shelves on April 25, is available now. Listen to it here.

Acclaimed pianist and NEC faculty member Jason Moran offers a three-day residency, Monday through Thursday, March 3-6 including a masterclass and other events culminating in a special concert on Thursday, March 6 in Williams Hall.

New Conservatory Theatre Center has announced the World Premiere of Eric Reyes Loo's wonderfully bewitching family dramedy, Simple Mexican Pleasures.

Rochester storyteller Penny Sterling's one-woman show, Mounting Washington, the Story of a Mountain & a Miracle, has been accepted into the 18th annual United Solo Festival, the largest solo theatre festival in the world.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will return to Brooklyn with a spring program that includes a world premiere from choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in collaboration with Samantha Figgins and Chalvar Monteiro. Learn how to purchase!

Some of the shows that the Orpheum has been best known for are Stomp, which ran there for an astounding 29 years, from 1994 to 2023, and the original production of Little Shop of Horrors which spent over five years at the theater from 1982 to 1987. 

Due to popular fan demand, comedy icons, writers, producers, actresses and Saturday Night Live alumni Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are adding an early show at Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston, MA. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Following the season at Theatre Royal Sydney from 17 June, CATS would also be playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide from September and at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne from December.

PROVA A PRENDERMI al TEATRO BRANCACCIODebutto al Teatro Nazionale di Milano il 27 febbraio per poi approdare a Roma il 19 marzo per l'adattamento in italiano del musical ispirato al celebre film

YoungArts has announced the nominees for the 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students who exemplify artistic and academic excellence.

Award-winning comedians and actresses, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey,  haveannounced their critically acclaimed Restless Leg Tour will return to Resorts World Theatre.