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Richard Jordan has announced that he has joined the creative team for playwright/actress Priyanka Shetty's critically acclaimed solo play, #CHARLOTTESVILLE.

The Theatrical division of International Literary Properties has acquired the literary works of Alfred Uhry. Learn more about Uhry and the acquisition here!

The LAB Series program is Actors Theatre of Indiana’s commitment to nurturing new plays and playwrights. Learn more about the upcoming event and see how to attend.

FRIGID New York will present the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival at UNDER St. Marks, wild project and the Chain Theatre. Learn more about the programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Comedian Craig Hill will return to the Edinburgh Fringe stage with his brand new show Wait ‘Til You See My Entrance! The hilariously cheeky, riotously effervescent fringe favourite explodes back onto the Fringe stage.

The Virginia Theatre Festival's 2025 season will open on Friday, June 27 with Stephen Sondheim's classic musical Into the Woods. The Virginia Theatre Festival is a program of the University of Virginia.

The service and celebration of life for Ken will be on Saturday, February 15 at 3:30PM at The Bethel Gospel Assembly Ministry Complex - The Destiny Worship Pavilion at 1483 Fifth Avenue. Learn more.

Christopher Baker and Michelle Ong-Hendrick have been appointed as the new Co-Artistic Directors of Chester Theatre Company, effective immediately. Learn more!

Tanglewood has revealed details of its 2025 season, opening in late June. The 2025 Tanglewood season features more than 100 performances. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The touring company of PARADE, now playing at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, recounts the sad, but true tale of Leo Frank and Mary Phagan. Mr. Frank was almost certainly falsely convicted of Ms. Phagan’s April 27, 1913 murder due to an early twentieth century eruption of rampant antisemitism.

Today’s subject Barry Edelstein is currently living his theatre life as the Artistic Director of San Diego’s renowned Old Globe. On January 30th he will be giving a special presentation on putting together his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays entitled Henry 6. at our very own Folger Theatre as part of their third annual Reding Room Series which runs from January 30th through February 2nd.

Ryan Reynolds made a guest appearance last night at Hugh Jackman's  Radio City Music Hall concert series to host a mid-show audience Q&A. Watch the Deadpool star's appearance in the video here!

Exactly 30 years to the day, rock band Goo Goo Dolls are set to release a 30th Anniversary deluxe edition of their fifth studio album, A Boy Named Goo, on March 14. Fans can now stream the band’s Modern Rock Live version of “Name” here.

Ken Wydro, writer, producer and creator of Off-Broadway’s “Mama, I Want to Sing,” died on Tuesday, January 21 at his home in Harlem, New York. He was 81 years old. Learn more about Hydro's life and legacy.

Coppell Arts Center has announced The Hit Men of Country, featuring five of the finest musicians who have performed, toured or recorded with some of country’s greatest artists and hitmakers,.

Jason Robert Brown, one of America’s most celebrated composers and lyricists of this new millennium, is currently enjoying a resurgence with two of his finest musicals. THE LAST FIVE YEARS, an off-Broadway hit that was later adapted into a film starring Anna Kendrick, is making its return to Broadway this year starring Joe Jonas and Adrienne Warren. Meanwhile, PARADE, which originally debuted on Broadway in 1998, had a triumphant revival last year starring Ben Platt and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

The touring production of the recent Broadway revival of Parade is now on tour across the United States. What did the critics think? Read all the reviews. The company is led by Max Chernin (Broadway Revival of Parade) and Talia Suskauer  who will play Leo and Lucille Frank.

GRAMMY-Award-winning rock band OK Go has unveiled their brand new single, “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill,” alongside the official music video. The track is the first single off the band’s forthcoming fifth studio album. Watch the video now!

Stefanie Batten Bland is a global maker and a 2023 Dance Magazine Cover Artist, straddling the artistic scenes of NYC and France. Read the interview!

Red Bull Theater has announced that submissions are now open for Red Bull's ANNUAL SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL. Featuring six brand new 10-minute plays of heightened language and classic themes inspired by this year's theme, “Defiance,”

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will present its engaging Baroque Series on Saturday, January 11, 7:30 pm, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, and Sunday, January 12, 2025, 4 pm, at The Huntington's Rothenberg Hall in San Marino.

Lea Salonga, who makes her home in New York, was in Los Angeles recently when she took time out for a telephone call to discuss her new holiday album, her debut with the Boston Pops, and more.

BroadwayWorld chats with composer Andrew Lippa about 'Lippa @ 60' his one-night-only gala concert to benefit TheatreWorks Silicon Valley on December 16th

Next spring, former children's laureate and Pen Pinter Award winner, performer, broadcaster, author and scriptwriter, Michael Rosen will take to the road with his new one-person show. 

Acclaimed contemporary composer Mark-Anthony Turnage will join forces with Olivier Award-winning director Richard Jones in the world premiere of Festen.