The Life - 2017 - West End Articles Page 12

Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point, NJ, is partnering with People and Puppies at Work for Sight during rehearsals for 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL, allowing service dogs in training to work alongside the cast.

Touchstone Theatre and Glitch Theatre will co-produce the world premiere of Jordyn Wood's VASCULAR NECROSIS, a queer zombie love story, at The NEST on Granville Island.

Avon Players will open its 80th season with Come From Away, directed by Ryan Moore and running September 11-26, 2026 in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park will present Playwrights' Platform, a live anthology of new short plays, on its outdoor Meadow Stage and in the Black Box Theater as part of its Annual Festival.

Vocalist Denise Donatelli will release a new recording featuring Kenny Rampton, Donny McCaslin, Geoffrey Keezer, Yotam Silberstein, and Reuben Rogers, arranged and produced by Keezer.

Concord Music Publishing has signed Tony and GRAMMY Award-nominated theatrical songwriting duo Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, known for co-writing the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Death Becomes Her.

Underbelly's eighth annual Big Brain Tumour Benefit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe raised £20,000 for Professor Richard Gilbertson's Lab at the Cancer Research Centre.

RAVEN will begin the second European leg of its "Can't Take Away The Fire" 2026 tour September 3 in Belgrade, with stops including Zagreb, Essen, Den Haag, Tilburg, Stuttgart and Diest through September 13.

The Steve Bardwil Band has released an official video for the title track from its new studio album STARDUST IN DISGUISE, produced by Grammy-winning producer Joe Chiccarelli.

Ndeya, the label founded by the late Jon Hassell, will release previously unreleased music from the Fourth World pioneer, with the single BLUE BA-YA (EXCERPT) out now.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater will kick off its 2026/27 Season, it’s second in the Associated Bank Theater Center, with The World Goes ’Round, a vibrant musical revue celebrating the legendary songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Jo Koy: Blue in the Face, filmed before a sold-out Stockton, CA crowd, premieres globally on Netflix September 2026. Here's what to know.

A new school year is about to begin on Broadway! Manhattan Theatre Club will kick off its season with Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, directed by Whitney White, and BroadwayWorld recently stopped by rehearsals to catch up with the playwright, director, and cast. Watch in this video!

Polka Theatre in Wimbledon marked two decades of FREEFALLING, its fully funded drama programme for children in Merton facing challenges at home or school.

The musical about Woody Guthrie will run at Underbelly Boulevard Soho, with David M. Lutken reprising the title role alongside a cast of actor-musicians.

Amy Kolling is the Senior Director of Artistic and Production for Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, she curates a multi-disciplinary performance series, and engages artists from around the world in teaching, research, and creation. She played a lead role in developing CPA’s first festival, All. Together. Now., and its newest venue, CURRENT ArtSpace and Studio. I had the great pleasure of speaking to her about a lot of this and more.

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association will present ECHOES OF ETERNITY, pairing Mozart's Requiem with Ola Gjeilo's Sunrise Mass at the Great Auditorium, led by Maestro Jason Tramm and the MidAtlantic Philharmonic Orchestra.

Trish Toledo, known for reviving classic pop and soul ballads, will perform at the Fox Theatre, blending music from an earlier era with today's audiences.

Wilmington drummer and bandleader Jonathan Whitney will release a new album honoring enslaved people and freemen tied to the Cooch's Bridge Revolutionary War site in Delaware.

Butcher Babies announced their new album NIGHTBLOOM, produced by Howard Benson, and released a music video for the single "Blame It on the Wind."

That Parenting Musical recently recorded a studio cast album starring Christopher Jackson, Kara Lindsay, Bonnie Milligan, Max Mendoza Crumm, Vidushi Goyal, and Scott Rathbun, with a release date yet to be revealed.

IKON Presents and Dr. Holly Carter will add an extra performance to the Las Vegas gospel residency featuring THE CLARK SISTERS, Fred Hammond and Deitrick Haddon at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.

The Joffrey Ballet will open its season with the Chicago premiere of John Neumeier's LILIOM, performed at the Lyric Opera House with a live 16-piece jazz band and orchestra.

Shattered Globe Theatre's new season under Producing Artistic Director Ian Frank will include Midwest premieres of VLADIMIR and THE WATERFALL alongside BRACE BRACE at Theater Wit in Chicago.

Steppenwolf co-Artistic Director Audrey Francis discusses the company's 2026/27 season, including TOPDOG/UNDERDOG and ADIRONDACK CHAIR CIRCLE, and stepping onstage herself in the psychological thriller ELLEN B.