OPERA America announced the recipients of its 2026 National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards, honoring outstanding trustees from North American opera companies for leadership and service. Winners will be celebrated at an awards dinner at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.
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.
Co-directed by Nat Wolff and Austin Cauldwell, WHERE WE PLAYED: VOICES FROM THE FIRE, a documentary short on children's experiences of the 2025 LA wildfires, will screen at Heartland Film's Indy Shorts Festival for Oscar qualification.
The six-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical MAYBE HAPPY ENDING, starring original Broadway cast members Steven Huynh and Claire Kwon, is set to play Tanger Center in Greensboro for eight performances.
Tangent Productions will present Katchafire, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Through the Roots, and Tomorrows Bad Seeds at The Mayan in downtown Los Angeles for a 21-and-over reggae event.
UNLABELED, originally developed at Hunter College in 2020 and delayed by the pandemic, will finally reach the stage at Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, featuring original monologues, music, drag, and spoken word from a multidisciplinary cast.
FRIGID New York will present END OF THE DAY, EP 1, a new play by Adrienne Dawes directed by Jenny Larson-Quiñones, at UNDER St. Marks in New York. The absurdist comedy follows reality contestants navigating love after a mass extinction event.
PlayGround will present a simultaneous four-city gala honoring Margo Hall, Jessica Kubzansky, Emily Shooltz, and Ericka Ratcliff, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the June Anne Baker Prize for women and non-binary playwrights.
The Cape Playhouse announced full casting for INTO THE WOODS, led by Javier Muñoz as Baker, with Nick Adams, Alex Finke, Pearl Sun, and others in the Sondheim-Lapine classic. Learn more here!
Pete Davidson has been named the 2026 ESL Rochester Fringe Festival Comedy Headliner, performing at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre in Rochester, NY in September.
Brenda Liz Henry will reprise her solo cabaret debut at The Green Room 42, performing a show spanning multiple musical genres, including Hip Hop, with musical director Gregory Toroian and a live band.
The biographical play with live music celebrating Dr Feelgood co-founder Wilko Johnson will tour 13 UK venues, with rock and roll guest performers joining the production that originated at Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.
Seattle Opera named composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Deborah Brevoort as Creative Directors of the Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab, a new-works incubator cultivating emerging Pacific Northwest opera composers and librettists.
Co-directed by Nat Wolff and Austin Cauldwell, WHERE WE PLAYED: VOICES FROM THE FIRE documents children's firsthand experiences of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and will screen in the Doc Shorts Block at TCL Chinese Theatre.
Theater Mu and New Native Theatre named four Twin Cities playwrights to the MU TANG CLAN Vol 3 incubator, supporting emerging AANHPI and Native American writers in developing full-length scripts.
The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Maybe Happy Ending, directed by Michael Arden, will launch its North American Tour at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, with original Broadway cast members Steven Huynh and Claire Kwon starring.
Actors' Equity Association announced the chorus of SCHMIGADOON! as the recipient of the 2026 ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus, honoring 16 performers for their skill, athleticism, and contributions to the production.
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.
Wilbury Theatre Group is presenting the Rhode Island premiere of GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY by Conor McPherson, featuring music and lyrics by Bob Dylan. See photos of the production.
Burning Coal Theatre Company's Second Stage Series will present three works by emerging artists — SHADOWS IN RED LIGHT, DANGER!, and DR. RIDE'S AMERICAN BEACH HOUSE — in repertory in Raleigh, NC.
Burning Coal Theatre Company will present WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2026, featuring three plays in repertory by emerging artists, including works by Roné Sargent, Lucius Robinson, and Liza Birkenmeier, at its Raleigh, NC venue.
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.
Island City Stage will present the Florida premiere of LIGHT SWITCH, a comedy by autistic playwright Dave Osmundsen following a young, gay, autistic man navigating modern dating through the lens of 19th-century romantic literature.
The Calgary Philharmonic announced its 2026/2027 season, with full program details available for the upcoming year of performances at Calgary's Arts Commons.
Obie Award-winning Harlem9 announced six playwrights, including Kermit Frazier, Kristen Adele Calhoun, and Naomi Lorrain, for 48HOURS IN…HARLEM®, marking 15 years of the festival with a tribute to the late Woodie King Jr.
