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Emerging Artists Theatre will present the inaugural Spark Musical Theatre Festival NYC, showcasing 26 new musicals ranging from staged readings to fully produced works at the 28th Street Theatre in Manhattan.

Arts at the Edge will present select works from a collection of ten-minute plays by 36 women+ playwrights commissioned to explore the state of American democracy, with a free public reading at Manhattan University.

The Shakespeare Project of Chicago will present free fully staged readings of Shakespeare's MACBETH at libraries across the Chicago area, directed by Peter Garino with a cast of local professional actors.

Kentwood Players will present the Tony Award-winning musical SHE LOVES ME at the Westchester Playhouse, featuring Katie Cox and Kazuma Nakamura as the pen-pal protagonists.

The Whitney Museum will present ACT III, a multimedia performance by artist duo Operator (Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti), as part of the exhibition ARTPORT: A HISTORY OF INTERNET ART. The work concludes the three-act HUMAN UNREADABLE project exploring the relationship between human bodies and technology.

The Dive Musical Incubator announced its eighth Writers Group cohort and 2026–2027 season programming under artistic directors Jason Aguirre and Adam J. Rineer.

John Wayne's first leading role stars in Raoul Walsh's 1930 Western THE BIG TRAIL, presented in its restored widescreen 70MM Fox Grandeur format at the Park Theatre in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

Canadian indie rock band GIZMO released their debut album ALL YOUR WORSHIPS via Victory Pool. The Charlottetown four-piece blend 1990s slacker rock influences with guitar-driven melodies and introspective songwriting.

Agatha Christie is perhaps the most successful and prolific mystery writer in history. Nicknamed the Queen of Crime, she wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, introducing the world to household-name detectives like Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Paul Taylor Dance Company will open its Lincoln Center season with all tickets priced at $10. The program features works by Paul Taylor and Robert Battle.

The GRAMMY-winning Experiential Orchestra will open its 2026-2027 season with a program celebrating composer Anna Clyne, featuring cellist Inbal Segev performing the New York City premiere of DANCE.

The modern dance company will present three Paul Taylor masterworks including Piazzolla Caldera, Spindrift, and Cloven Kingdom at the Bronx venue The Lehman Center.

The Bronx's 97-year-old Loew's Paradise Theater, one of NYC's last surviving movie palaces, will reopen as a 4,000-seat performing arts center presenting theater, concerts, comedy, dance, and film.

Disney’s Newsies does not merely seize the day. It dances on it, vaults over it and occasionally executes a backflip before the day knows what struck it. It takes an 1899 historical event as a jumping off place and imagines the history as it might have been retold in a 1930’s Busby Berkeley movie substituting teenage newsboys for the 1930s dancing girls.  The show gets high marks for entertainment.

Private Lives is Noël Coward’s finest comedy, originally written for himself and his close friend Gertrude Lawrence. After touring the British provinces, the play opened at London’s Phoenix Theatre in 1930, starring Coward, Lawrence, Adrianne Allen, and Laurence Olivier.

The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society will present a 10th-anniversary celebration at Crooners Main Stage Showroom, featuring VIP events, a live podcast recording and performances of THE WITCH'S TALE and ALONZO AND THE WITCH.

Gustavo Dudamel will lead the New York Philharmonic on a European tour from October 9-22, 2026, with stops in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, marking his first tour as music director.

Theater fans should run and catch Ronald Rand’s fascinating solo show about Harold Clurman's life and career, which is part of the Logan Festival of Solo Performance at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, Virginia through August 30.

BritBox has cast Miles Jupp, Bryony Hannah and Cara Theobold as G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers in THE DETECTION CLUB, a 10-part mystery drama now filming across the West Midlands.

SOMM Recordings will release Telemann's Paris Quartets, Vol. 2, performed by the London Handel Players, following the acclaimed first volume marking the ensemble's 25th anniversary.

SOMM Recordings will release new albums including a second volume of Telemann's Paris Quartets performed by London Handel Players and a Cyprus-inspired work centered on the Othello legend.

PROJECT LETBE will present LET BE, HAMLET, a 20-minute reimagining of Shakespeare's soliloquy set inside a Zoom audition, as part of PBH's Free Fringe Digital Fringe programme.

Signature Theatre will present Lauren Yee’s semi-autobiographical comedy King of the Yees, in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at The Pershing Square Signature Center starring Francis Jue and Kelly Marie Tran.

Martha Graham Dance Company will present masterworks, new commissions, and Lamentation Variations while touring the US, Canada, England, Spain, Mexico, and China.

Banijay Americas will bring its immersive light and music experience LUMINISCENCE to St. Patrick's Cathedral, with Jonathan Roumie narrating alongside a live choir and orchestra.