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GRAMMY Award-winning baritone and composer Will Liverman announced a publishing partnership with Just a Theory Press, releasing three works including song cycles and arrangements of spirituals.

William D. Caballero's Sundance Award-winning hybrid animated documentary THEYDREAM will open in New York City before expanding to additional U.S. cities. The film blends animation, motion capture, and live-action footage to explore Nuyorican identity and family memory.

French producer Arandel announced his sixth studio album, featuring guest appearances by Ben Shemie, Meryem Aboulouafa, Douglas Dare, and Félix Maritaud. The first single, L'Heure du Loup, is out now.

BLONDIE announced HIGH NOON, their first album of new material in nine years, featuring contributions from Johnny Marr, Glen Matlock, and Zach Condon of Beirut. The album marks the final recording of co-founding drummer Clem Burke.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Music Director Radu Paponiu will present a season of five concerts featuring works by composers including Michael Tilson Thomas, Beethoven, and Ravel.

Jason Kravits will present an improvised musical residency where every song, lyric, and melody is created on the spot from audience suggestions at a new Manhattan venue.

Vineyard Theatre named Nigerian American playwright Onyekachi Iwu as the recipient of the 2026-2027 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, which includes a cash prize and yearlong residency.

The Fisher Center at Bard, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, will present EVIDENCE: 2026 LAB International Festival.

Composer David T. Little announced season highlights including the New York premiere of WHAT BELONGS TO YOU at NYU Skirball, a 20th-anniversary release of SOLDIER SONGS by Opera Philadelphia, and new productions of DOG DAYS and JFK across North America and Australia.

Miami New Drama, revealed the five recipients of the Miami NEXT Drama Fellowship. The season-long fellowship gives the Miami-based theatre artists access to a full professional season inside a working theatre company.

Shaw Festival will present specially adapted versions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at its Festival Theatre and Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Theatre, marking the production's tenth anniversary. A new holiday cabaret will also debut at the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre.

Sweat Variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, will present the New York premiere of ADAKU, PART 2: SHE SHIVERS WITH IT at Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the 2026 Next Wave Festival.

Tis the season, in spite of today's unseasonable temps, as A Christmas Carol begins rehearsals for The Goodman's 49th annual production of Charles Dickens' classic favorite. The cast of the production has been revealed. 

Notch Theatre Company will present the world premiere of CREATION STORY, a Chicanofuturist musical written and co-composed by Octavia Chavez-Richmond and directed by Rebecca Martínez at Teatro Círculo in New York.

Seattle Opera will present two recitals at the Opera Center featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton with pianist Kathleen Kelly.

Conductor Benjamin Zander leads the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 at Symphony Hall, with a pre-concert talk.

Vocalist Celia Berk released her fourth album, a 17-track song cycle combining her seasonal EPs with works by Sondheim, Berlin, and Styne, co-produced by Tony and Grammy winner Scott Lehrer.

Sky Arts Award-winning comedian Elf Lyons will perform THE WOMAN ON THE EDGE at Soho Theatre Walthamstow from January 27-30, 2027, following Edinburgh Festival Fringe and New York runs.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It is fitting that a play about questioning the stories we inherit has a story of its own worth revisiting. Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain, now being presented by Kansas City Repertory Theatre at the downtown Copaken Stage, has so far traveled a remarkable road.  I Imagine Kimberly as Luke Skywalker with a laser pistol taking comic potshots at almost everyone in her galaxy. But there is something darker going on in this play too

The musical based on the 1992 Whitney Houston film will perform at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in Greensboro, North Carolina, featuring Brooke Bailey and Jonathan Blansfield.

André Rieu's new Christmas concert film will screen in cinemas, featuring the Johann Strauss Orchestra, a 100-voice male choir, and guest Emma Kok performing festive favorites and classical selections.

The little OPERA theatre of ny will present Carlisle Floyd's WUTHERING HEIGHTS, an opera adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel, at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in lower Manhattan. General admission tickets range from $30-60, with student rush pricing available.

Brandon Isaak released his eighth solo album, LOOKIN' OUT MY WINDOW, featuring the single World's Got the Blues on Modern Primitive Records. The album follows his 2025 release WALKIN' WITH THE BLUES, which won three Canadian Blues Music Awards.

New World Symphony will present three chamber music concerts this fall showcasing Fellows, alumni, and guest artists performing works spanning the Baroque, Debussy's influence, and a tribute to cofounder Michael Tilson Thomas.

Alt rock band SELFISH THINGS released their new studio album RECEPTIVITY via FLG, featuring focus track Cracks with an official visualizer.