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The 8/15 album blends original compositions and cinematic reimaginings that reflect on the passage of time, the beauty of impermanence, and the power of presence. Read a conversation with Tucker about the new album.

The McCallum Theatre has revealed its 2026 Season programming connected to two of its long-running core initiatives, The Field Trip Series and The Aesthetic Education Program. Learn more!

The Stratford Festival has announced its 2026 season, which will be the final year under the inspired leadership of Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino. Learn more about the lineup here!

Steep Canyon Rangers, with Special Guest Crandall Creek, come to Capitol Theater Wheeling in September. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

Rajiv Karia’s Man Alive! is a thoughtful and sharply observed hour, which asks big questions with a light, playful touch. Karia discusses male friendships, issues around maintaining contact, social connection and weaves this into the everyday irritations and anxieties of modern life and with a lens of warmth, wit, and self-deprecation, skilfully keeping the audience laughing consistently.

Organizing a dinner party can be a fun and exciting experience, filled with unexpected twists and turns. Picture this: a mix-up occurs, and your hired chef ends up posing as your mistress, while your non-domesticated mistress is suddenly in charge of cooking.

The evening drew 100 distinguished authors spanning genres from fiction to memoir, with a notable contingent from the world of theater, blending stagecraft with storytelling for an enthusiastic crowd.

New Paradigm Theatre brought the spirit of the 1960s to life with its vibrant production of Hairspray, performed August 8–10, 2025, at Stratford High School. Check out photos of the show.

Rohan Sharma makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with his stand-up show Mad Dog. Rohan, a British/Indian comedian with an ambitious style of comedy, delivers his hilarious tech-heavy show. The audience is taken through a PowerPoint presentation as he speaks about his experience with racism, his love for British food and an abundance of Colonel Gaddafi jokes.

Milk on the Side: a Barista Musical is a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year which was produced by Short and Sweet Theatre. It follows a day in the cafe with baristas Amy (Clare Roberts) and Casey (Emily Mahi`ai) who invite the audience to join them for a shift in their coffee shop.

For the past 17 years, Grace Helbig has been building her online presence as a content creator. Starting out by posting daily, short, vlog-style videos, she became one of the original YouTube stars. She has now amassed over 2.6 million subscribers on her channel.

The Arvada Center will open its 50th theatre season with The Mousetrap, Agatha Christie’s legendary murder mystery, running September 5–October 12, 2025, in the Main Stage Theatre. Directed by Lynne Collins, the production will feature expanded staging, accessibility performances, and a celebrated cast.

In an age of displacement, inherited trauma, and cultural fragmentation, two short films –WEAVING and SPRING BREEZE, TAIWAN – directed by Taiwanese American filmmaker Hsuan Yu Pan, offer deeply resonant reflections on how art can restore identity, rebuild community, and help us remember who we are. Both films remind us that home is not always a place on a map. Sometimes, it is an act of making. Of remembering. Of returning – thread by thread, note by note – to ourselves.

Rhys wants to be a boxer while his father wants to learn Welsh. Yasmin is living with her nan while her mother wants to be looking over the plains of Uganda. The children can't speak to their parents, and the parents don't understand how their children are feeling.

Orange is the New Black’s Julie Lake and songwriter Annie Macleod join forces in Forget-Me-Not, a true story of motherhood, lost love and hauntings set to original music and heart-exploding harmonies. Two estranged childhood best friends reconnect in midlife – both mothers, stifled by traditional roles and longing for more creative freedom, adventure, sexual liberation and a deeper sense of self. Through storytelling and song, they rediscover the power of their bond, finding the healing and freedom they’ve been searching for all along. A moving, magical celebration of motherhood, creativity, resilience and the transformative power of female friendship.

Biloxi Little Theatre WIll Hold Auditions For SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE later this month. This enchanting, hilarious, romantic stage play reimagines William Shakespeare's creative process – and explores his inspiration – as he writes Romeo and Juliet.

The pianist Han Chen will be presented by Classical Music Chicago in a solo recital at Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist. Learn more and see how to attend!

The 2025-26 season of the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers will present the 54th year of the foundation's prestigious annual competition for young American and Canadian opera singers. Learn more!

The Hong Kong Palace Museum has announced a new special exhibition The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Treasures of the Mughal Court from the Victoria and Albert Museum (Treasures of the Mughal Court).

Pacific Theatre in Vancouver will present a remount of Wakey, Wakey by Will Eno, running October 15 through November 2, 2025. The production, originally staged by the company in 2021, earned five Jessie Award nominations and will return with the same creative team and cast for a limited engagement.

Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, and more have received nominations for MTV's 2025 Video Music Awards. The VMAs are set to air on Sunday, September 7th at 8 PM/ET on CBS and Paramount+. Take a look at the full list here!

Overall, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE—now on stage at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa through August 10, 2025—comes off as guaranteed musical candy for Neil Diamond devotees, thanks to its current form as a polished, tidy, nostalgia-baiting jukebox musical loaded with familiar hits, sprinkles of sparkle, and enough vocal authenticity to make fans of his music swoon. The impressive performances—from the lead vocals to the 'Beautiful Noise' ensemble's hypnotic, lyrical dance moves—bring a measurable level of enjoyment. But as a deep-dive drama? It's, well… just fine. The show's narrative stakes are satisfactory, but a bit paper-thin. While certainly clever in concept, the book often sacrifices real, emotional complexity for palatable, crowd-pleasing moments, and this therapy-session-as-framing-device never truly develops into the kind of character exploration one hopes for in a definitive bio-musical.

The dark musical comedy RHAPSODY - THE MUSICAL follows Pátrio, a young dreamer who, feeling hopeless, accepts his cousin Jeremias's invitation to work in an old soap factory in the mysterious town of Rapsódia. There, he encounters eccentric characters and performers from the 'Palco dos Prazeres' cabaret. Upon discovering a grotesque secret, Pátrio's journey takes unexpected turns.

Twelve members of the cast of the production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which will be playing a Summer Season at Sadlers Wells, made a special visit to St. Pancras International's International Concourse last week

Torera, by Monet Hurst-Mendoza, explores one woman's fight to break into a tradition built to exclude her and the price of challenging it. The play will make its Los Angeles premiere at Outside In Theatre. Learn how to purchase tickets!