The Garden of Words

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.

Composer Rene Orth's award-winning opera 10 Days in a Madhouse will receive its Canadian premiere at the Luminato Festival, co-presented by Tapestry Opera and the Canadian Opera Company.

The Fisher Center at Bard has revealed its SummerScape 2026’s Spiegeltent programming, June 26 – August 15. Expanding the Fisher Center’s engagement with a vast range of artists, this year features 14 Spiegeltent debut performances.

Prospect Musicals announced the return of the IGNITE Concert Festival of work-in-process musicals and related events, launching with musicalized book reading of Alexandra Silber’s After Anatevka, and concluding with a concert of the genre-bending new pop musical Proud Marys, presented in partnership with National Asian Artists Project.

Recently, Broadway and Off-Broadway have seen a preponderance of one-man-shows; some wildy imaginative some not so much.  This critic has grown just a bit tired of the formant becuase far too frequently they come across as little more than vanity projects for an actor (often playing, with varying degrees of success, multiple characters. 

With frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in the news due to actor Bruce Willis fighting the disease for several years, I decided to speak with playwright Jake Broder, an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, about his motivation to create Unravelled and his research on the disease.

Six-time GRAMMY Award-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart has revealed his 2025-2026 season, highlighted by his first public performance of Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade with National Philharmonic, the world premiere of a new work, and more.

Hong Kong-based artists Kingsley Ng and Stephanie Cheung have created A Sea of Words for Portsmouth, a large-scale immersive experience shaped by the voices of Portsmouth.

The Mercury Theatre in Colchester has announced the full cast and creative team for Essex playwright Emma Jo Pallett's debut full-length play Flumps.

Side-splittingly funny and deeply moving, Insane Asylum Seekers, which explores the complexities of the British-Iraqi refugee experience, will open at Bush Theatre, London in May.

The Mercury Theatre in Colchester has announced the full cast and creative team for Essex playwright Emma Jo Pallett's debut full-length play Flumps.

Bristol Old Vic has announced the full casting for the new production of The Beautiful Future Is Coming, a bold new play set to begin in May. Learn more about the show here!

The Bush Theatre has revealed its programme until early 2026 which includes some of the country’s most exciting new writing. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

Embraced Body, the Disability Justice and inclusive arts organization founded by artist and Disability Justice consultant India Harville in 2016, has revealed participants for its new How We Move program. Learn more!

Patrick Wolf has announced the release of his long-awaited new album Crying The Neck out April 25. Ahead of the album, Wolf has shared the first single 'Dies Irae', an anthemic 'affirmation of life.' Listen to it now.

Photos and video have been released from James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony Award-nominated play Fat Ham at the Goodman Theatre. Check out the photos and video here!

With an all-Chicago cast led by Trumane Alston, previews begin this weekend for the Chicago-premiere of James Ijames's Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony Award-nominated play Fat Ham.

The 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards Banquet will be held Wednesday, Jan. 15, 5-10 p.m. at the Casino Live Hotel Ballroom, 7002 Arundel Mills Circle, Hanover, Md.

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The score album for the documentary film 'The Lost Weekend: A Love Story' is out now, featuring the original music by composer Ace Vaptsarov.

Branford's Legacy Theatre has announced a star-studden lineup for the 2025 Sunday Broadway Concert Series lineup for the historic theatre's 5th anniversary season.

The Box Café JC is teaming up with OpenRoad Poetry to present the OpenRoad Poetry Spoken Word Celebration in December. Learn more about the event here!

Burundian-Australian singer-songwriter Beckah Amani has released her highly-anticipated debut album, This is how I remember it, which includes the new track “High On Loving You (Talk).' Listen to the album now!

BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB will present the special evening “We Love the Winter Weather: Songs of the Season” – starring KT Sullivan, Jeff Harnar, and more. See who else is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Red String will play Fringe Art Space beginning this month. Nessa Reilly is a writer...or at least she is trying to be; but she has been having the dreams again. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!