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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the most prestigious honors in American theater, celebrating outstanding works that have made a significant impact on the stage. Here's a closer look at what the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is, how it works, and why it matters.

Producer Mark Cortale has revealed his latest music and comedy season for the summer of 2025 at Provincetown’s largest entertainment venue, the Town Hall. See the full lineup here!

The Ravinia Festival has unveiled its 2025 summer lineup, which features more than 100 concerts and 40 artist debuts. Highlights include appearances by Cynthia Erivo, Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara. Check out the full lineup!

Legendary singer, songwriter, musician and social activist Judy Collins celebrated 85 years on planet earth along with International Women’s Day at The Town Hall on March 8 with a concert, many musical friends, and a full house.

Lakewood Theatre Company will begin its 73rd season with six productions on its Mainstage and three productions on its Side Door Stage beginning July 11, 2025.   Season tickets for the 2025-2026 season are now available for current subscribers.

Liz Larsen has been living her theatre life for many years turning out stellar performances onstage, on many recordings, and beyond. You can currently see her knockout talents at Arena Stage in the new musical The Bedwetter which runs through March 16th in Arena’s Kreeger Theatre space.

hile many of them are original concepts or based on plays, 14 are already films or series that you can watch from home now. If you are seeing any of the below productions in 2025, check out how you can study up beforehand or unpack afterwards!

Get ready for a night of timeless grooves and electrifying rhythms as WAR, one of the most influential soul and funk bands of all time, takes the stage at The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts with An Evening With WAR.

The 25th Anniversary Season of CASA 0101 Theater will kick off with the World Premiere of MUJERES ON THE VERGE (WOMEN ON THE VERGE), Four One-Act Plays in celebration of Women's “HER”story Month. Learn more.

DIETRICH, written by Willard Manus, starring Cindy Marinangel, Chicago Second City Conservatory graduate, directed by Glenda Morgan Brown and produced by Sea Angel Productions., LLC is based on a true story. Set in May 1960, the play takes place when the actress returned to the Berlin stage for the first time since fleeing the Hitler regime in the 1930’s. Inside her dressing room at the Tatania-Palast Theater, Dietrich weighs whether to go through with the live performance despite threats on her life by Nazi sympathizers who resented her for having spent much of World War II entertaining American soldiers on the front lines. To them, Dietrich is a turncoat; a traitor who deserves to be shot and killed on stage.

With its engaging and sentimental tale of “forbidden-love-that-could-of-been,” Robert James Walker’s 1992 best-selling novel, The Bridges of Madison County, was made into a 1995 successful movie of the same title starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. After the success of that motion picture, book writer Marsha Norman teamed up with composer Jason Robert Brown to create the 2014 Broadway musical.  Wichita audiences now have the opportunity to hear that luscious score performed once more.

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. 

The Citadel Theatre has announced a brand-new season of theatre. From familiar classics to new and groundbreaking scripts, learn more about the 2025/26 Season here!

The Town Hall will celebrate James Baldwin and the 60th anniversary of the Baldwin/Buckley Cambridge debate with the New York premiere of the chamber opera, THE TONGUE & THE LASH.

The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF) celebrated its annual awards honoring jazz education and music advocacy during Jazz Congress, a two-day series of workshops, panels and networking opportunities.

Walter Willison’s concert production of High Spirits on 1/6 at 54 Below, was delightful. The semi-staged concert featured Judy Kaye, Christine Andreas, Ann Kittredge and more in perhaps one of the most bizarre musicals of the 20th century.

FUNNY GIRL is one of the crown gems of the American Musical Theater. Kansas City audiences will be treated to a first-class production of a show that many theater buffs know about but have never seen. Tuesday night’s performance starred Leah Platt in the lead role of Fanny Brice. Leah has a gangbuster voice fully displayed as she plows through an excellent score with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill.

Whether you're into a more serious story like It's a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Carol, or something more silly and fun like Elf or How the Grinch Stole Christmas, there is a Christmas movie-turned-musical for everyone who celebrates!

Sir Derek Jacobi received the Critic's Circle’s 2023 Rosebowl for Distinguished Service to the Arts. The event took place on November 7th at the National Liberal Club.

Midnight at the Never Get is an intimate show that offers a wonderful musical experience and an entertaining and emotional look at how love, social justice, ambition, and some torch songs can create a life—but can they create a happily ever after?

As a part of its 2024-25 Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre - one of the nation's preeminent arts and culture organizations - will launch the inaugural “Black Narrative” theater series.

Do it for yourself, do it for your date, but do it. Go and see Marilyn Maye in her latest residency

In celebration of the Ives 150th anniversary year, Sony Classical will present two of the most authoritative collections ever released of works by this eccentric, prophetic American genius.

Registration is now open for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Ringling College's fall semester, running from September 30 to November 22, 2024. Explore a variety of courses designed for adult learners.

Legendary and multi-Platinum rockers Styx are already starting to lock in shows for their 2025 tour schedule, which will once again include an unforgettable five-night engagement at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. The shows will be held on January 24, 25, 29, 31 and February 1, 2025.