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BAM Rose Cinemas will present FILMAFRICA 2026, a showcase of contemporary and classic Pan-African cinema curated by the New York African Film Festival, featuring world, US, and North American premieres from Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, and beyond.

English National Opera has announced its 2026/27 Season across London and Greater Manchester, featuring nine operas, with six new productions, four operas by contemporary female composers and opportunities for the next generation of opera makers.

Today’s subject Kemi-Bo Jacobs is currently living her theatre life onstage playing Agnes in the esteemed Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC’S) production of Hamnet. Yes, this is the role Jessie Buckley recently won the Best Actress Oscar for, just to end the comparison thing now. The show is presented by our very own Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) and runs through April 12th at Harman Hall.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat announced that the organization has received an unprecedented gift of land and property from the Morrison and Steans family.

The 2026 Slamdance Film Festival, the artist-led organization “by filmmakers, for filmmakers,” has unveiled its 2026 lineup. The festival will run in-person from February 19 to 25, 2026, and virtually from February 24 to March 6, 2026.

A new play titled The Big Bad has been announced from Divine Riot and Healing TREE. The production is being produced by Cassidy Layton and Marissa Ghavami, with Ren Dara Santiago writing and co-producing.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has revealed the Fall performances of its 64th season–featuring dozens of new works from around the world. See the full lineup here!

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.

The Liminal Theatre Collective has announced the premiere of In Her House, a new play written and directed by TLTC Artistic Director and Broadway veteran Azudi Onyejekwe.

The Tank has revealed programming for their eco-forward festivals, TrashFest and DarkFest, from Monday July 21 – Sunday July 27, 2025. Both festivals will take place at The Tank.

Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses has long been something of a YA classic. Rather than dreaming up a sci-fi future, however, this story presents instead an uncanny alternate present – one where discrimination and racial violence are worse than ever, but it's Black people who are the privileged ones.

Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. The Playhouse is presenting a new play, After the Funeral , starting July 30, 2025 online at http://opendoorplayhouse.org. 

Everyone and his mother has seen JOSEPH – it’s an Andrew Lloyd Webber classic. I myself, have seen the show live five times – including school, community theatre, and professional productions (Never mind the Donny Osmond version that we hired on VHS when I was a little girl and which the show’s composer graciously made available to stream for free in 2020, when we were all bored out of our minds while COVID raged outside). Why then, after so much JOSEPH do you need to see this production?

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble has revealed its 2025-2026 three-play season. The season will feature Birthday Candles and more. See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

Tennessee Playwrights Studio has announced the TPS 2025 Virtual Reading Festival. Tickets are free, and the festival is open to the public. Learn more here!

On a recent visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers, Sadie Sink shared details of her and her siblings' home productions of Cats and Mamma Mia! during COVID and performing for high school students in John Procter is the Villain. Watch the interview now!

Olney Theatre Center will produce the U.S. Premiere of Sleepova in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The play arrives in the DMV having won the 2024 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre

Kiln Theatre has announced its new 2025/26 season, Amit Sharma's second as Artistic Director. The programme features three world premieres and a new version of a much-loved hit.

SH Productions has announced the world premiere of All The Happy Things, the debut full-length play by playwright and actor Naomi Denny. Learn more here!

Douglas Lyons' CHICKEN AND BISCUITS is funny family dramedy that shows how love, loss, and grief can unite a family. The Black Rep’s production is packed with plenty of laughs and a bit of drama. Ron Himes’ fine direction and the cast’s spirited performances create a relatable family who love one another despite their differences. 

Maureen Nolan and Coronation Street’s Emrhys Cooper are set to head a the cast for St Helens Theatre Royal’s festive family show this Christmas. Meet the cast in new photos!

Every year, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company brings together emerging indigenous writers to work with experienced First Nations playwrights. In 2020, Bruce Denny used it to turn his own reflection on family and connection to country into a genuinely heartwarming and funny play called OPERATION BOOMERANG that is as funny as it is poignant.

About Face Theatre has announced plans for a 30th anniversary party and fundraiser on November 7 at Venue West in West Town.

Moses Goods’ “superhero origin story” Lovey Lee finally comes back home to Kumu Kahua Theatre four years after its digital premier over Zoom in 2020. Based on the true story of māhū icon Kealoha “Lovey Lee” Kelekolio, the show paints an intricate, beautiful, and often heartbreaking portrait of queer Hawaiian existence in the 1970s, straddling the very different worlds of Lovey’s one hānau and San Fransisco.

In a new interview, actress Anya Taylor-Joy expressed an interest in tackling musical theatre- specifically Frozen. 'I would love to do a musical because I’m a bit addicted to hard work,' the Furiosa star said.