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The Village Trip Festival will present additional 2026 programming, including a Janis Siegel concert with guest Lea DeLaria and a WONDERFUL TOWN walking tour led by Jamie Bernstein.

Tickets are now available for the 69th Monterey Jazz Festival, featuring 74 performances across five stages, including a duo set from Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter.

Fritz Lang's film noir SCARLET STREET, starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, will make its UK 4K UHD and Blu-ray debut as a limited edition dual format release from Eureka Entertainment.

Marine Atlan's LA GRADIVA received the Bright Horizons Award at the MIFF Awards, part of a prize pool exceeding $300,000 recognizing Australian and international filmmaking talent.

Natasha Castillo will explore the lesser-known life and music of Bobby Darin in a new show directed by Lennie Watts at Don't Tell Mama in New York City.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has launched the Keep It Fringe US bursary initiative for a second year ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe 2027, which will be the Edinburgh Fringe’s 80th anniversary year.

Over 100 artists from across New England and beyond will once again come together for four full days of music at Club Passim over Labor Day Weekend. For 28 years, this cherished semi-annual festival has brought together rising talent, seasoned musicians, and veteran performers for a marathon weekend of live music. 

Broadway's biggest landmarks are easy to spot, but some of the Theatre District's most fascinating stories are hiding in plain sight. From historic theaters and legendary rehearsal spaces to tucked-away tributes and unexpected Broadway landmarks, these lesser-known stops will add a whole new act to your next walking tour!

What does it feel like when doves cry? Broadway is about to find out! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, 42 years to the day since Prince’s legendary film premiered, and three weeks since the album re-entered the Billboard 200, the stage adaptation of Purple Rain will arrive on Broadway later this season. While we await its arrival, catch up on everything there is to know so far!

A stage production honoring gospel singer Marion Williams will run in September at Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Bruce Cockburn will release a covers album tracing the gospel, blues and folk songs that influenced him, with a title drawn from a Simone de Beauvoir novel.

Bruce Cockburn will release an album of songs by other artists that shaped his musical development, spanning gospel, blues, jazz and folk influences from his youth in Ottawa.

A genre-bending production, A Killer Night in Studio City blends a classic, fast-paced comedic stage play and musical performances of 50s hits, with a fully immersive and interactive mystery experience.

Let's go crazy! BroadwayWorld has just learned that 42 years to the day since Prince’s legendary film premiered, and three weeks since the album re-entered the Billboard 200, the stage adaptation of PURPLE RAIN will arrive on Broadway. PURPLE RAIN will premiere next spring at the Majestic Theatre, beginning previews on  Friday, March 12, 2027, and officially opening on Monday, April 12, 2027. We have all of the details here!

The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board will present the milestone edition of the Montco Jazz Fest across Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, curated by Artistic Director JOANNA PASCALE with more than 30 concerts and events.

Disney launched the D23 FANtastic Prizes sweepstakes, offering D23 members a chance to win 23 prizes including a 23-year Disney+ subscription, Super Bowl LXI tickets, and a Bluey family trip to Australia.

Drama professor, historian, director, and writer Amnon Kabatchnik has penned a new book in his reference series, Bloody Broadway: Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery, Volume II.

The Theater Project will present the first New Jersey production of Kenneth Jones's Alabama Story, a drama blending fact and fiction to explore censorship and civil rights in the Jim Crow South, at DMK Black Box Theatre in Union.

Brave New Workshop returns to the Dudley Riggs Theatre in Minneapolis with THE ALGORITHM IS GONNA GET YOU, a new sketch comedy revue targeting social media, smartphones, and the endless scroll.

The Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum will present a lineup including The Brian Barlow Big Band performing Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder and a one-night-only reading of The Amateurs, a new TV series from the creators of Slings and Arrows.

Limón Dance Company will present a program at The Joyce Theater in NYC featuring José Limón's 1958 work Mazurkas, performed in full for the first time since 1964, alongside Aszure Barton's 2025 commission Join.

Wildworks, the UK’s leading landscape theatre company, has announced the full cast for comedy-drama The Kneebone Cadillac. Directed and choreographed by Kyla Goodey, the cast includes Ben Dyson, Millie Faraway, Ed Gaughan, Carl Grose (writer of The Kneebone Cadillac), Pat Moran, Josh Penrose and Mary Woodvine. 

New York, please look after this bear. As BroadwayWorld reported last month, the record-breaking, smash hit, seven-time Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical  PADDINGTON The Musical will begin performances Tuesday, March 30, 2027 and officially open Sunday, April 18, 2027  at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

A stellar cast led by Ann Hampton Callaway and Billy Stritch celebrated the songs of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, featuring Broadway favorites Nikki Renée Daniels, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Ali Stroker.

What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH DARREN CRISS at Emerson Colonial Theatre?