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Tony winner Richard Maltby Jr. will direct a new revue for Weathervane's 2024 season, featuring a mix of classic and contemporary musical numbers.

Welsh National Opera will showcase the talent of the Company’s award-winning Youth Opera in The Very Last Green Thing – an eco-friendly musical performance.

Students from the New York Youth Symphony's Musical Theater Songwriting program will take the stage at Joe's Pub on May 15th at 7:00pm. The fruits of their labor from an entire year will be showcased and premiered and proof of the successes of the program.

World premiering at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Norman Judd: A Life in Concert finds Judd, minor legend of the mid-century avant-garde, emerging from seclusion in his Death Valley compound for one last performance of his pioneering electronic music.

Join the celebration of the LGBTQ+ community at the 2024 Queerly Festival, presented by FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Stagecrafters has announced its upcoming production of Sunset Boulevard running from May 31 to June 23.

A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this 60 minute solo dance/theater performance. Writer and performer Maggie Cee draws on oral history interviews from The Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project to create fictional, history-based monologues that illuminate the feminine women whose stories are too often forgotten, but whose strength and determination made the gay girls’ bars come alive.

Yale Repertory Theatre has revealed its 2024–25 season of five productions. Learn more about the five shows in the season and see how to purchase tickets.

Full casting has been announced for Chester Theatre Company's 2024 season. 

Starring Peter Andre - The Best of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is a high-pitched celebration of timeless music from one of the biggest selling groups of all time. As part of a major UK Tour in 2025, the show will play one night only at The Dominion Theatre in London on Sunday 16 February. 

Pitlochry Festival Theatre will welcome back its award-winning production of the much-loved comedy Shirley Valentine this summer. 

Get ready to be swept away on a captivating journey as ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, the beloved Broadway musical, takes center stage. With its compelling story, vibrant characters, and unforgettable music, this Tony Award-winning production is set to astound audiences at the African-American Research Library & Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL, May 10th & 11th, in celebration of Haitian Heritage Month.

Lorna Luft captivated the audience at 54 Below on Friday night. The child of legendary performer Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft, Ms. Luft is no stranger to the stage, and she had the audience in the palm of her hand with this entertaining evening of music celebrating New York writers of Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building, and beyond!

A new chapter begins for Pacific Symphony and the Orange County community, when the orchestra settles into its brand new summer home at Great Park Live located in the heart of Irvine

Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will return to Broadway this year! The pair will star in the new comedy, The Roommate by Jen Silverman. Learn more here!

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that the honorees for the 2024 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, as well as Special Tony Awards.

This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life and times of visionary French composer Hector Berlioz, whose grand-scale works, startling sonorities, and advanced literary leanings helped redefine musical Romanticism.

Wagner College Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season of storytelling! Check out the lineup here!

The Audible adaptation of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face, announced last year, will premiere on May 2, 2024. The cast for the audible drama includes Jason Biggs, Daniel Dae Kim (CK), Ashley Park, Wendell Pierce, Benedict Wong, Noah Bean, Dick Cavett, Margaret Cho, Ronan Farrow, Fritz Friedman, Joel De La Fuente, Margaret Fung, Gish Jen, Francis Jue, and more.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater have announced all jazz programming running April 29th - May 12th.

Join the laughter as Juston McKinney headlines Comedy Night at Slater's in May. Learn more about McKinney and see how to purchase tickets!

Theatre Ariel will return to producing fully-staged performances this fall with a Philadelphia Premiere.

Some musicals from Broadway past, however, have used dance as the driving force of the musical narrative. Justin Peck continues in that tradition with Illinoise, now running on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. To celebrate it's arrival, check out a collection of videos of musicals in which dance is truly the star. 

“People know me as this light, fun person. They have a hard time seeing me play a character like that because it’s so different from (who I am).” Deon Releford-Lee

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