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Chris Mundy and Tom King dive into LANTERNS Episode 7, unpacking Hal Jordan and John Stewart's bond, fear, legacy and the show's Green Lantern lore.

Noemi Zeigler writes and performs a solo cabaret blending comedy, storytelling, original songs, and pop covers at Santa Monica Playhouse. The Los Angeles premiere explores ambition, reinvention, and mother-daughter dynamics.

Costume designer Susan Hilferty – who amassed a mantel-full of awards, including the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, for the musical “Wicked,” being presented by Broadway In Boston at the Citizens Opera House through November 15 – got an early start on a career that so far includes 27 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-nominated revivals of “Parade” (2023), “Funny Girl” (2022), and “Present Laughter” (2017) as well as 2005’s “Into the Woods” and 2006’s “Spring Awakening.”

As a part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the Royal Exchange Theatre has created a costume exhibition, Mythic Reinvention: An Exhibition Celebrating 50 Years of Costume & Craft. We had the chance to speak Leslie Travers, the curator of Mythic Reinvention. We discussed how he first got started in the world of design, what it has been like to curate the exhibition and even his favourite costume on display!

Winners of The Stage Debut Awards 2026, in association with Netflix, were revealed tonight at a ceremony at 8 Northumberland Avenue, London, celebrating the performers and creatives making standout professional and West End debuts across UK theatre.

Susquehanna Stage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Jeremy Patterson, is a creative, energetic, laugh-out-loud reinvention of Shakespeare’s classic. Transporting the action to New Orleans, complete with jazz and Southern charm, Patterson gives the familiar comedy a fresh personality that works beautifully. The entire cast deserves credit for making Shakespearean language accessible, turning it into relatable drama, comedy, and satire. Chris D’Imperio’s lovable Lysander and Griffin Yeyna’s Demetrius share terrific chemistry, while Rachel Duong brings a grounded presence to Hermia and Jordyn McCrady’s Helena delivers excellent comedic timing. Marquas Fountain’s Oberon blends brawny brute with mischievous trickster, and Elizabeth Stauffer’s Titania is playful and commanding. Chrissy Nickels is a delightfully sprite-like Puck, complete with a beautiful musical solo. But the Mechanicals ultimately steal the show. Tim Riggs is extraordinary as Nick Bottom, surrounded by terrific comic turns from Alexander Bannon, Elvis Smith, Peter Cote, Jered Mackison, and Jed Hoffman. As someone who isn't normally a Shakespeare enthusiast, I had a fabulous night—and my Shakespeare-loving wife may have found her favorite Midsummer yet.

WALDEN is more successful in its exploration of family dynamics than as a work of speculative fiction. However, Icarus Theatre’s production at The Theatre Centre, directed by Erik Richards, still takes off for an engaging 90 minutes of theatre.

I think this story talks to the broader immigrant experience. A lot of what many people are experiencing now is about identity. What is identity? And what does assimilation mean? Who are we assimilating for?

Following a successful world premiere earlier this year, the theatre-hockey romance play Melt stages its encore at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre. Melt agonizes over missed opportunities and the question “What if?”

I spoke with Robin about how her own experience as a caregiver inspired her to write the play, how she handles both grief and humor in telling the story, and how she feels Caroline Aaron is the perfect person to portray Rachel, a free-spirited woman who learns a lot about herself when her “in sickness and in health” vow changes her life when her husband is diagnosed with a progressive, incurable disease and she’s thrust into the job she’s least suited for: self-sacrificing caregiver who must learn to live, love and lament a loved one slipping away.

On Saturday, September 26th, I had the pleasure of seeing another first-rate musical phenomenally performed at Center Stage Theatre in Shelton, CT, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, which is based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. This unfinished novel was made into a play in 1985 with book, music, and lyrics written by Rupert Holmes. Director Tom Simonetti combines his talents with music director Chrissy Dominguez and choreographer Matt Mancuso to help bring out the best in this first-rate cast that includes Tom Simonetti as Chairman William Cartwright, Dr. Shaun Rimkunas as John Jasper, Emma Kelly as Edwin Drood, Emily Pollack as Rosa Bud, Priscilla Squiers as Princess Puffer, JR Resto as Neville Landless, Liz Joblin as Helena Landless, Bob Hyland as Reverend Crisparkle, Katie Ciurleo as Bazzard, Michael Primorac as Durdles, Luca Moretti as Deputy, Melissa Blanco as Jemma Throttle, Jeanie D Tuzzio as Violet Balfour, Nicole Finlay as Miss Gwendolen Pynn, and Sydney Kishimoto as Isabelle and Wendy. This stellar cast has incredible stage chemistry with each other, each member individually having a strong stage presence and radiating positivity, truly enjoying the performance, as the audience does!

LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling.

Broadway actor Jenn Collela invites fans to enter a charity sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip for two to Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador to see COME FROM AWAY–You Are Here. The fundraiser benefits Pay it Forward 9/11.

The musical was on Broadway before it was a movie, and they highlight all the great songs from the movie, all the stuff with the kids, all the beautiful things with the nuns, and the captain and Maria. But there's also some really great stuff that they just didn't have time to put into the movie.

Director Loren Latarro’s production is smooth and lovely, ablaze in song and possessed of some choice bites of visual dazzle that give the production its dreaminess.

There are 115 disabled actors in Phamaly Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Tiny Beautiful Things. On any given night, only one will perform live. Actors Jessica Erin Swanson and Adrienne Asterita alternate in the role of Sugar, the anonymous advice columnist created by Cheryl Strayed. The other 113 performers appear in prerecorded videos as the people whose letters Sugar answers.

New York City Ballet named dancer and choreographer Tiler Peck to the role of Choreographic Associate, expanding her creative responsibilities with the company.

Broadway has always known that sometimes the best way to tell a story is to put on your dancing shoes. From elegant waltzes and fiery tangos to quicksteps, foxtrots, rumbas and cha-chas, ballroom dancing has found its way into Broadway musicals for generations. Sometimes it's simply part of the spectacle, while other times the act of two characters taking the floor can say more about their relationship than pages of dialogue. With ballroom dancing continuing to captivate audiences on television and beyond, we're taking a spin through Broadway history to revisit some of the shows that have brought the ballroom to the stage.

Signature Theatre has revealed the cast and creative team for the regional premiere of new musical All the World's a Stage, a moving story about embracing who you are and the life-saving power of art, written by Adam Gwon.

Nevada Ballet Theatre will launch its 2026-2027 season with an evening that brings together sweeping classical beauty, powerful choreography, and the thrill of live orchestral music and operatic voices. Carmina Burana returns to The Smith Center for three performances, Oct. 2-4.

Trombonist and composer Sam Blakeslee released his debut album NEW BLOOD with the Sam Blakeslee Large Group on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, featuring compositions praised for their melodic depth and sophisticated orchestration.

Guitarist and songwriter Scott Holiday released TOPOLOGY, the debut album from his solo project HOL1D4Y, via Sacred Tongue Recordings and Thirty Tigers. The record features the new single and video 'Holotropic,' exploring themes of transformation and altered perception.

Ghostemane announced the album AM:FM alongside the new single BUCKETLIST, marking his first full-length release since 2020's ANTI-ICON. The track follows ZERO DAY from his return after a five-year hiatus.

De Nationale Opera will present “Lennox,” a youth opera by Dutch artist Bnnyhunna, beginning in October at Nationale Opera & Ballet’s Studio Boekman in Amsterdam.

Lady A and Boyz II Men collaborate on "I Love The One," the third single from a new album of original music inspired by THE CHOSEN. The album arrives with contributions from Tyler Hubbard and Jamie MacDonald.