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Last week at the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg, Laura Bachman’s new creation Commençons par faire l’amour premiered as an intimate, yet universal meditation on love, memory, and gender.

Florida Studio Theatre has announced a new matching gift challenge supporting the development of the McGillicuddy Arts Plaza, following a recent unrestricted contribution from a generous donor who asked to remain anonymous.

 Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary musical, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, will go on sale on Monday, December 8 at 10 am for its engagement at Keller Auditorium.

What's happening off-Broadway? BroadwayWorld is here to guide you through the top picks for theatre this month. Get into the holiday spirit with a popular adaptation of A Christmas Carol, plus more.

New plays will ring in the new year at The Goodman when the popular annual New Stages Festival returns. This year’s line-up features the newest works by some of the country’s hottest playwrights.

This week, we look at the record-setting viewership of the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and renewed efforts in New York and abroad to redefine cultural priorities. Across Broadway, we probe shifting economic pressures on creatives through a new interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber. Meanwhile, with the announcement of a new arts and culture transition committee by Zohran Mamdani, incoming leadership may reimagine the city’s cultural agenda. On a regional level, we follow the pioneering costume exhibition by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance at Denver International Airport — a celebration of decades of creative work — and internationally, we cover a new report revealing post-pandemic shifts across UK theatres, as well as the opening night of Paddington: The Musical in London’s West End.

The Matcham Experience will descend upon the historic Liverpool Olympia next Easter – revealing a haunting ghost story that promises to unsettle, disturb and linger long after the curtain falls.

This new approach to the storytelling of Hadestown helped make me appreciate some of the compromises on the tour. And to further appreciate what they still maintained from the first tour and Broadway production. The set’s slightly modified (Hades’ door is more centered, for one), but we get to keep the band onstage. We get that dingy café feeling through the layout. We hold on to the iconic props – the rose, the candle, the guitar, the lamps – as well as the steampunk design of the costumes. The Workers are still a core five that inhabit both worlds and create their own, unspoken storylines through their movement and couplings. And the characters themselves are still the same, timeless figures that make Hadestown always feel like a new experience every time.

The Coronet Theatre will present its Spring 2026 season beginning in February, featuring six UK premieres and a slate of international productions that draw from classic literature, contemporary dance, and visual art.

Merlynn Tong’s (Playwright and Performer) latest work, CONGRAULATIONS, GET RICH! is a fabulous musical comedy that centres on Singaporean Chinese culture. 

All four actors as well as director Mirai are to be commended for keeping the action moving and characters deeply present in their own truths. Given the small and up-close staging in the black box theatre, every audience member will feel like a fly on the fence in Jessie’s backyard while seated on all four sides of the center stage playing area. Each in their own ways creates a portrait of parenthood that is by turns raw, hilarious, joyful, and profoundly moving.

The Brighton Center for the Performing Arts is setting the stage for romance and community support this Valentine's Day with 'The Best of Broadway: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber & More,'

Currently playing at Dolphin Theatre in Onehunga, It’s a Wonderful Life is a heartwarming production that captures the spirit of the classic film within the bonus intimacy of live theatre. Produced by Dolphin Theatre, directed by Maryanne Rushton and written for the stage by Mary Elliot Nelson, this show runs until 6th December.

Williamston Theatre will present its 9th Annual Giving Tuesday Play-A-Thon on December 2, 2025, offering a full day of staged readings free to the public. The lineup will include adaptations, new works, and dark comedies.

All forms of the Arts exist because of the symbiotic relationship that is creativity and awareness. Quite simply, unless the public is aware of an artistic creation it cannot resonate, impact, or educate as is the intent of all such undertakings.

Theater for the New City will present The Great American Play Series in the premiere of 'The Story of Sal B. and Barbranne: A Mob Fantasia (Cyrano Redux),'.

Within a week, Toronto audiences had the opportunity to see two musicals which parody that scourge of November to January television, the Hallmark Christmas Movie.

The Tank has unveiled their Spring 2026 Core Productions. The Spring 2026 Season will begin in January with DIRT created by Sour Milk, followed by Scarecrow.

Ardent Theatre Company focuses on Britain's forgotten twentysomethings - and not just for the plot

The Aventura Arts & Cultural Center is ringing in the holiday season with a festive lineup of performances. From empowering conversations and timeless tributes to beloved ballet classics, audiences can enjoy a variety of live entertainment.

“Since we surveyed, mapped, explored, and planted a flag,” writes Robert Lepage in his director’s note to THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON, “our interest in the moon seems to have greatly diminished.” Lepage, however, believes that, while it may no longer be as much of an enigma, the moon will never lose its poetic appeal.

Creede Repertory Theatre (CRT) will open its 61st season in late May and will include two musicals, a new Sherlock Holmes mystery from the mind of Ken Ludwig; and a hilarious one-person show.

Wild Door Theater has launched its inaugural production, Smokefall, now playing, by Noah Haidle and directed by Andrew Gallant, at Theater Wit. See photos here!

The Plug & Play Theater Showcase will present an evening of new hip hop–infused theater and live music at Paradise Community Hall @ The Capri in Minneapolis on Friday, November 14, 2025.

Sussex County Community College Visual and Performing Arts Department will present the 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, Harvey by Mary Chase, at the SCCC Performing Arts Center.