To Be Or Not To Be

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will bring its 2025/26 season to a close with Season Finale: Tarmo Peltokoski Conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.

The Three Rivers Big Band will bring the sounds of the big band era to audiences during the next Wednesday Jazz Session at the Club Room at the Clyde. Learn more about the performance here!

South Korean pop star Ivy will make her Broadway debut, joining the cast of Chicago beginning this summer at the Ambassador Theatre.  Learn more about how to get tickets here!

One of Finland’s most renowned rock singers and songwriters, Maija Vilkkumaa, brings a concert to Huvila where the audience is not just watching—but actively creating the experience. 

BE LIKE BLIPPI! Will Come to the Chester Fritz Performing Arts Center. Get ready to see the world more curiously, because Blippi is coming to your hometown in the all-new Be Like Blippi Tour!

For the seventh year running, La Monnaie, KVS and the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles are joining forces for Troika Dance, a unique collaborative dance programme that has grown to become Brussels’ biggest dance scene.

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House has opened applications for Overture, its year-long mentorship programme for musicians aged 18-25 from underrepresented groups, run in collaboration with Black Lives in Music and the National Open Youth Orchestra.

The League of Chicago Theatres announced the return of its 'Thank You 5' summer promotion, offering $5 off discounted tickets at HotTix.org, alongside Pride Month and Juneteenth programming across Chicago.

Plymouth's Spire Center announced three upcoming shows, including Tennessee country-pop duo The Young Fables, Boston's seven-piece Fat City Band, and guitarist Quinn Sullivan, with tickets going on sale at spirecenter.org.

52 Hertz Productions will present the New England premiere of MORPHOLOGY, a family drama about Autism and caregiving written in verse and prose, featuring AEA actors at Boston Playwrights Theatre.

Vivid Stage will offer a summer session of adult improv classes at the Oakes Center in Summit, NJ, including introductory and advanced courses taught by veteran performer Dave Maulbeck.

Eastbound Theatre, a division of Milford Arts Council, will present Simon Stephens' Tony Award-winning play THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, directed by Kevin Pelkey, at the MAC in Milford, CT.

EnActe Arts, America's largest South Asian theatre company, will bring Tate Elizabeth Hanyok's comedy DOG MOM to London's Southwark Playhouse Borough, following an Indian American divorcée who reluctantly takes in a stray dog.

Roger Bart is scheduled to open the tour at the Bristol Hippodrome (8 October – 21 November 2026) as well as playing the Edinburgh Playhouse (2 December 2026 – 2 January 2027). 

Shakespeare's Globe announced the cast for A WORLD ELSEWHERE, a new show inspired by Shakespeare's tales, directed by Lucy Cuthbertson and co-written by Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales, running at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

love you long time (already) is a funny and moving debut by Vietnamese American playwright Katie Đỗ. Learn more about the show and check out new rehearsal photos here!

The biographical play with live music celebrating Dr Feelgood co-founder Wilko Johnson will tour 13 UK venues, with rock and roll guest performers joining the production that originated at Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.

Headlong announced the cast for its UK tour of August Wilson's FENCES, directed by Daniel Bailey. Ray Fearon leads as Troy, joined by Madeline Appiah, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, and Josh Tedeku in the first major revival in over a decade.

Jim Henson's LABYRINTH: IN CONCERT announced a one-night show at London's Eventim Apollo, featuring David Bowie's isolated vocals and a live band performing Trevor Jones' score alongside the 1986 cult classic film.

Hale Centre Theatre is currently staging HARMONY, a musical based on the true story of a group whose music brought joy during one of history's darkest times, with book and lyrics by Bruce Sussman and music by Barry Manilow.

Kate Dolan brings her Melbourne International Comedy Festival Director's Choice Award-winning show TROUT to Edinburgh's Monkey Barrel 2, exploring womanhood and absurdism through physical comedy and a realistic silicone fish helmet.

SPACE DOGS: THE MUSICAL, written and performed by Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes, will play a limited run at The Other Palace Studio in London, telling the true story of Soviet space dog Laika during the Cold War Space Race.

The Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition announced 18 conductors from 15 nationalities to compete in its sixth edition in Birmingham, chosen from nearly 350 applications across 54 countries.

Tony Award winner Roger Bart will reprise his role as Doc Brown alongside Australian actor Axel Duffy as Marty McFly in the first-ever UK tour of BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL.

Cameron Mackintosh announced a new cast for LES MISÉRABLES at London's Sondheim Theatre, including Ian McIntosh as Jean Valjean and Stefanie Jones making her West End debut as Fantine.