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La Jolla Playhouse has announced full programming for the 2026 WOW Festival of immersive, interactive and site-inspired work, presented in partnership with UC San Diego. The WOW Festival will take place April 23 – 26 on the UC San Diego campus.

In WICKED, Eden Espinosa’s skin was green. In LEMPICKA, the Tony-nominated actress had to age from 19 to 85 in a musical. On Feb. 28, Espinosa gets to perform in the skin she feels the most comfortable – her own.

Bristol Old Vic's executive partnership of Artistic Director NANCY MEDINA and newly appointed Executive Director Rebecca Dawson has outlined the ways Bristol Old Vic is delivering on the organisation's commitment to support theatre-makers of the future, and champion stories from the South West in a string of announcements that coincide with the Theatre's 260th anniversary year.

Opera Orlando is offering $15 STUDENT RUSH tickets for all performances of Silent Night this weekend in Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

FRIGID New York will present the 19th annual New York City Fringe Festival across multiple venues in New York City. The festival will feature a diverse array of performances with all box office proceeds directly benefiting the artists.

The National Theatre will present a star-studded 2026 season with Cate Blanchett, Sandra Oh, and others enhancing its global reach. Learn more about the full lineup here!

SFJAZZ will present a diverse lineup of jazz performances in February 2026, featuring renowned artists and ensembles. The month-long event will take place at the iconic SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco.

I had never been to the Dome at Exploration Place, and I want to tell you that seeing Silent Sky in this setting was magical. The breathtaking 180 degree projections, by Jordan Slusher, wrapped around and hugged the actors and the audience, immersing us completely in the world of the play. What an excellent idea for this site specific performance!

What did our critic think of OTHER DESERT CITIES at Bellevue Little Theatre?

The Legacy Theatre’s focus for 2026 is “there’s no place like home.' For Eric Santagata, those words have an incredibly special meaning as he prepares to succeed Legacy Co-Founder and Executive Artistic Director, Keely Baisden Knudsen

The Octagon Theatre, Bolton has announced that its Christmas show for 2026-27 will be Cinderella: A Fairy Tale, opening on Friday 20 November 2026. Learn more here!

Full casting has been announced for the Royal Shakespeare Company's forthcoming touring production of Hamlet which visits Truro, Bradford, Norwich, Nottingham, Blackpool, Newcastle upon Tyne, York and Canterbury.

BroadwayWorld spoke to actor Aidan deSalaiz, who plays Bobby in the immersive production, about the show’s contemporary relevance, its fascinating and revealing contradictions, and the joys of connectivity in an increasingly isolating world.

New York City Ballet’s 2026 Winter Season will feature a world premieres by Justin Peck and NYCB Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, two early ballets by Balanchine and more.

Twenty or so dancers parade before an oversized Art Deco clock, to the familiar strains of ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ from a brass band offstage. In other words, the stage is set for a reassuringly old-fashioned taste of the Golden Age of movie musicals.

One of the most effective things the musical gains by moving from page to screen to stage is permission to reframe the story without betraying it. By leaning harder into the Curtis brothers as the emotional spine, the musical clarifies a distinction that’s always been present in the text but rarely foregrounded this explicitly: Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy are family by blood, bound by obligation and grief; while the Greasers are family by choice, bound by loyalty and survival.

The Jewish Plays Project has announced the 7 finalists for the 15th National Jewish Playwriting Contest, chosen from over 325 submissions from 27 states and 7 countries.

The world premiere of All Out: Comedy About Ambition by Simon Rich, with direction by Tony Award-winner Alex Timbers, begins performances on December 12 at the Nederlander Theatre. Meet the cast of All Out here!

59E59 Theaters announced its collaboration with three iconic bookstores as part of an initiative to build relationships with local businesses. This partnership comes in connection with their upcoming production of The Bookstore.

From December 3-14, 2025, FROM THE OTHER SIDE transforms La MaMa into a home for an incredible group of Balkan artists, on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 1PM.

HERE Arts Center has revealed additional programming for their Spring 2026 lineup including the HARP world premiere of DREAM FEED by The HawtPlates as part of the Under the Radar Festival and more.

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Richard Strauss’s explosive masterpiece Salome. This gory operatic thrill ride returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 years.

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre has announced Walt McGough and Deirdre Girard as the recipients of the Jack Welch Developmental Residency and Fellowship.

A self-admitted “crazy person” for J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels who “stood in line at a bookstore whenever a new volume was released,” performer Larry Yando knows that portraying Dumbledore – onetime headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry – in the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is a high-profile piece of work.

The first national tour of THE OUTSIDERS, fresh off its acclaimed Broadway run and Tony wins, is coming to The Fox Theatre as part of the 2025/2026 Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta season November 25 – 30. I caught up with Travis Roy Rogers, who makes his professional debut as Darrel Curtis in the production, to talk about his journey from Burbank to Broadway, the heart of the show, and what it means to bring this story to Atlanta audiences.