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The Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet will present five world premieres in the culmination of Joffrey's national call for emerging artists to submit applications for the Winning Works Choreographic Competition.

Kansas City Ballet has announced a celebration of a quarter century of distinctive community engagement with the launch of the 2025-26 season's Reach Out And Dance Program (R.O.A.D.).

For many families across the state, the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without Ballet Arkansas’ Nutcracker Spectacular. Under the direction of Michael Fothergill, the beloved production stands as the largest and longest-running holiday performance in Arkansas and remains one of Little Rock’s most significant tourism events, drawing more than 10,000 patrons in a single weekend.

The National Chamber Ensemble is pleased to announce the results of the 2025 Nancy Peery Marriott Young Artist Competition. This year's event showcased an outstanding group of talented young pianists from Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia.

​The Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet will present five world premieres in the culmination of Joffrey's national call for emerging artists to submit applications for the Winning Works Choreographic Competition.

ABC is ringing in the 2025 holiday season with the official lineup of festive programming arriving in the coming months including holiday episodes of “Abbott Elementary,” specials like “CMA Country Christmas,' and more.

Sara Mearns is in the spotlight as a principal dancer at New York City Ballet, where she has spent the past two decades of her career. Yet, even at the top of her field, she relies on off-season gigs to cover New York rent on a 37-week contract.

DON GIOVANNI, an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, is now playing at KLPAC. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!

This Christmas, Birmingham Royal Ballet will present two beloved productions of The Nutcracker in both Birmingham and London. Learn more about the upcoming show here!

Los Angeles Ballet has revealed its 2025/2026 season, marking a major milestone with the Company’s 20th anniversary. Learn the full season lineup here!

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month, commemorating the moment in 1965 when it opened its doors as the nation's first public arts conservatory.

The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director Ashley Wheater has added three dancers to the Joffrey roster for the 2025-26 season. Learn more about the new dancers here!

​​​​​​​Nashville Ballet has announced the promotion of Katie Vasilopoulos to Director of Operations. Vasilopoulos will oversee the financial, organizational and operational health of the company. 

The full company for the first-ever stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s internationally acclaimed book The Hunger Games and Lionsgate’s hit motion picture of the same name has been revealed.

American Ballet Theatre corps de ballet member Madison Brown and ABT Studio Company dancer Kayla Mak are each the recipient of a 2025 Princess Grace Award for dance performance. Learn more here!

American Ballet Theatre has unveiled the dancer promotions effective September 2025. Learn more about the American Ballet Theatre artists and about the company here!

Reimagined by an international team of creative minds together with Hong Kong Ballet's Choreographer-in-Residence HU Song Wei Ricky and MAI Jingwen, The Butterfly Lovers is a legendary Chinese folktale about humble scholar Liang Shanbo and aristocratic heiress Zhu Yingtai.

Miami City Ballet has announced the appointment of Gonzalo Garcia as its new Artistic Director. This announcement ushers in a new chapter as the company prepares to celebrate its milestone 40th Anniversary Season.

This show is a Houston summer tradition, and it is the Catastrophic Theatre's version of A Christmas Carol at the Alley or The Nutcracker at the Houston Ballet. Except every year, this one's a new script and a new ball of crazy to enjoy.

Today’s subject Carlos Acosta is currently living his theatre Life as the Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet. He has been in the position since January of 2020. Carlos’ work can be seen at the Kennedy Center in the Opera House from June 4th to the 8th when Birmingham Royal Ballet presents Black Sabbath- The Ballet.

The National Ballet of Canada will welcome three new Principal Dancers: Chase O'Connell and Beckanne Sisk from Houston Ballet and Agnes Su from The Stuttgart Ballet.

The Broadway Bound Awards of Central Arkansas, presented by Celebrity Attractions in partnership with Argenta Contemporary Theatre, is proud to honor the next generation of musical theatre stars with an opportunity of a lifetime. 

Lake Tahoe Dance Collective will present the 13th Annual Lake Tahoe Dance Festival from July 22 - 25, 2025, featuring artists from New York City Ballet, Broadway, Boston Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and more.

This June, choreographer Catherine Tharin will premiere In the Wake of Yes, a work for four dancers featuring a film by award-winning filmmaker Lora Robertson, and music by renowned composer and jazz pianist Joel Forrester, who will play live.

A media investigation reveals that a ballet troupe posing as Ukrainian staged performances across Sweden while transferring proceeds to Russia, violating EU sanctions and misleading the public.