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The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will present the North American Tour of Mean Girls—the record-breaking new musical comedy adapted from the hit Paramount Pictures film—April 8-13, 2025.

The Last Five Years begins performances tonight, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, and officially opens on Sunday, April 6, 2025 for a strictly limited, 14-week-only engagement at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre. Meet the cast of The Last Five Years here!

Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated rock band Counting Crows have announced The Complete Sweets! Tour in support of their forthcoming album Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets! 

Hannah Wicklund has released her new album Live At The Troubadour, which was recorded at her March 2024 performance at the legendary Troubadour in Los Angeles. Watch footage from the entire concert here!

Famed Argentine dancer/choreographer Guillermina Quiroga will be joined by her longtime partner Mariano Logiudice, dancers Analia Carreño & Luis Ramirez and Adriana Salgado & Orlando Reyes, and the Maurizio Najt Tango Quartet.

Recently, we had the chance to talk with Ryan Whittle, who is playing the role of Harry Kane after playing Eric Dier in the last two runs of Dear England. We discussed his journey to the stage, what it’s like returning to the world of football for the third time and how his university degree relates to the show.

On April 14, 2025, Virginia's Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre will honor star of stage and screen Mandy Patinkin with the company's fourteenth Stephen Sondheim Award. The Stephen Sondheim Award will be presented at a black-tie Gala Benefit at The Anthem and will benefit Signature Theatre's artistic, education, and community programs.

Fair warning: Jackie Sibblies Drury's FAIRVIEW isn't your typical night at the theatre. The play starts out looking like a normal family comedy but quickly turns into something else entirely. Imagine sitting down for what seems like a standard TV sitcom about a Black family, and then suddenly everything you thought you knew gets turned upside down. It's funny, shocking, and confronting.

The GRAMMY Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet has announced that it will disband at the end of April 2025 after 13 years of innovative programming and impact. Learn more here.

Chay Yew’s production for East West Players - improbably the play’s L.A. premiere seven years after its debut at South Coast Repertory – is as raw and raucous as it is timely. Yee urges us to remember the past, be watchful of the future and enjoy the holy hell out of the process.

New production photos have been released from the North American tour of MEAN GIRLS, featuring the tour's new Cady Heron, Katie Yeomans. Check out the photos here!

Naomi Westerman's play Puppy is coming to the King's Head Theatre in April. Billed as  an outrageous, sex-positive, female-centric comedy about dogging, queerness, feminist porn, protest, the patriarchy, and Nick Clegg.

Round House Theatre has announced its 2025-2026 Season. The lineup will introduce audiences to four new-to-DC plays and more. Learn more about the lineup here!

This CURSED CHILD is a banquet of magical delights that also happens to be a crackling good story, which should delight series neophytes and Potter-lovers alike.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will present the Saint Paul engagement of the Tony and Grammy -winning Best Musical that connected the world Dear Evan Hansen, March 11-16, 2025.

To star in a world premiere of Beauty and the Beast is no small accomplishment, but then double bassist LonFon Law is no small musician. The talented double bassist was recently invited by the Royal Academy of Music to perform in the world-class production by Grammy-winning composer Joan Tower, as part of their bicentennial celebration.

Genre-defying Korean-American singer and rapper Audrey Nuna has announced the TRENCH Tour, her first ever headlining North American run. Kicking off in Seattle on April 22, the tour will see Audrey make her way west to east.

Town Hall will honor award-winning songwriter, actor, director and producer Lin-Manuel Miranda at its inaugural fundraising event and concert, Spring Shout. The evening will gather luminaries from the arts for a night of inspiration, impact, and performances by a concert lineup of entertainers and presenters.

Celebrate a century of innovation at Goodman Theatre with six world premieres, including two musicals, a major cultural attraction, and beloved annual productions. Join us for a year-long citywide event and a festival of new plays from September 2025 to August 2026.

Reimagining Simon Stephens' 2015 play a decade later, Katharine Farmer's new direction of Heisenberg reinterprets the story of identity and loneliness as a queer female relationship.

Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Max Frost returns with his sophomore album, Shelby Ave, a genre-blurring collection that showcases his signature fusion of inventive lyricism and genre-defying sound. Listen to the album!

Teatro Público de Cleveland and Cleveland Public Theatre will present El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom by Matt Barbot. Featuring: Roxana Bell, Nathalie Bermudez, Alisha Caraballo, Angelluis Centeno, Alejandro Martinez Jr., Elena Grace Thomson (Understudy).

The Grand will present the Wilmington premiere engagement of the Tony and Grammy -winning Best Musical that connected the world DEAR EVAN HANSEN at The Playhouse on Rodney Square. Learn how to purchase tickets.

OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Learn more about the program and the awardees.

Nordic music phenomenon Wardruna is headed to The Tobin Center, as part of their highly anticipated World Tour 2025 – Part II. Learn more here and find out how to get tickets!