Sundance Institute unveiled the Legacy program for its inaugural festival in Boulder, Colorado, featuring restored classic films including BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS, REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES, SWOON, and Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, co-presented by Letterboxd.
Nick Heyward will launch his first solo U.S. tour since 1994, kicking off March 4 in Atlanta and visiting City Winery venues in Nashville, St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Boston, plus stops in Washington, D.C. and New York.
Michael Leeds' campy murder mystery comedy sold out its first three weekends at Island City Stage in Fort Lauderdale and has been extended through November 1. See photos of the show.
New Amsterdam Records announced the first full-length album by composer inti figgis-vizueta, featuring performances by Rothko String Quartet and GRAMMY Award-winning cellist Andrew Yee. The five-piece collection draws from Indigenous cosmologies and trans futurism.
Ruthie Foster's new studio album Just Say Yes arrived on Sun Records, produced by Tyler Bryant and Rebecca Lovell, alongside a video for the focus track Yes.
True to the series' M.O., the day featured a nice compliment of new, contemporary works alongside older classical ones, as well as a chance to see the Festival’s Composer-in-Residence, Allison Loggins-Hull, in action today as a flutist
Helicline Fine Art is now presenting Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen, a dynamic new exhibition celebrating nearly a century of performance as seen through the eyes of some of the most influential artists and designers of the 20th century. On view through May 10, 2026, the exhibition brings together more than three dozen works that capture the spectacle, emotion, and cultural impact of live theatre, film, dance, opera, and popular entertainment.
Director Shaun Rennie delivers his third imagining of RENT, this time in his biggest staging of the musical to date in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of Sydney Opera House. 32 years after Jonathan Larson’s (Music, Book, Lyrics) musical theatre adaptation of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème was first presented as a workshop production in the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop in 1993, almost 30 years after it’s Broadway debeut at the Nederlander Theatre in 1996, and 27 years after it’s Australian premiere at the Theatre Royal in 1998, the “rock opera” retains a relevance.
Life's greatest tragedy is the passage of time. It is a lesson we all must learn eventually. Within the proverbial circle of life, there is only a beginning and an end that occurs in the immediacy of our own lifetime. Yet, the cyclical nature of birth, death, and rebirth ensures that our spirit will carry on in legacy rather than in flesh. If we are loved, then we are remembered. And if we are remembered, then we live forever. Disney’s The Lion King transposes this message from screen to stage through an international collaboration of talent that supercedes the strength of the 1994 animated film from which it came.
“I definitely am trying to overcome imposter syndrome,” the Central Florida University sophomore said. “I haven’t been doing theater for very long and I am trying to silence that little voice in my head, saying I’m not good enough to be in the room with these very accomplished people.”
Doris Day was one of the biggest box office draws of her day. Her sunny disposition, and light hearted comedies turned her into America’s sweetheart but her personal life was far from a fairytale. In Paul Adams' new play Doris Day: My Secret Love, Doris is thrust into the spotlight again. See photos from the production.
Madison Lyric Stage, a professional theater company serving the Connecticut shoreline, is currently presenting Tony Kushner’s award-winning Angels in America: Part I, Millennium Approaches, through June 18. Check out production photos here!
