In the Long Run

San Francisco Opera will present Richard Strauss' ELEKTRA, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim, in Keith Warner's contemporary museum staging featuring a cast including Elena Pankratova and Elza van den Heever.

Strife, a rarely produced play by Nobel Prize-winning writer and social activist John Galsworthy explores the complexities of labor relations, a theme that resonated with both Galsworthy and the Geer family of actors and theater directors. Here's my interview with Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer about presenting it at Theatricum Botanicum.

The Phantom has returned: Ben Forster, celebrated for his titular role in the 30th-anniversary West End run of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 'The Phantom of the Opera,' is back to don the iconic mask for the musical’s world tour, which is now playing at the Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands.

Coventry Musical Theatre Society will present the musical Barnum, celebrating the life and legacy of America's ‘Greatest Showman', beginning next month. Learn more here!

The Cape Ann Symphony’s 73rd Concert Season will wrap up with The Swirling Romantics Concert featuring guest artist globally celebrated pianist Myron Romanul and the music of Jean Sibelius and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club has announced its 2024-25 season, which will feature dozens of new works from around the world, including new works by Richard Foreman, Belarus Free Theatre, and more.

Sarasota Jewish Theatre has announced its 2023-2024 season. Learn more about the full season lineup and how to get tickets here!

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the company of If It Please You, a night of glam, high camp and drag inspired by Shakespeare. Learn more about the event and how to attend here!

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the cast of As You Like It, directed by Ellen McDougall. Learn more about the cast here!

La MaMa will present the first-ever revival of Evelyn Brown (A Diary), a lost work by the celebrated playwright María Irene Fornés (1930–2018).

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced its 2023-24 season, which celebrates the passing of the artistic torch and the theme of Legacy, with the final farewell concerts of two esteemed American string quartets, both with long histories at CMS.

Almeida Theatre will present Women, Beware the Devil, starring Leo Bill, Carly-Sophia Davies and more. See the full cast, how to purchase tickets and more!

La MaMa ETC’s 61st season will feature world-premieres by John Kelly, Erik Ehn, Elizabeth Swados, Witness Relocation/Dan Safer, Bobbie Jene Smith and Ping Chong, along with the live, in-person stage debut of Split Britches’s 2021 digital production LAST GASP and the first-ever revival of Maria Irene Fornes’ EVELYN BROWN.

Mint Theater Company announced that Elizabeth Baker’s Chains would make its long delayed American premiere at Theatre Row.

Dracula, Krzysztof Pastor’s choreography set to a selection of music by Wojciech Kilar, became a ballet sensation of 2018. Commissioned by the West Australian Ballet, it was given its debut in September 2018 in Perth.

Joining the previously announced Alex Jennings in Stephen Beresford's The Southbury Child are Holly Atkins, Josh Finan, Jack Greenlees, Jo Herbert, Phoebe Nicholls, Racheal Ofori and Sarah Twomey. Final casting will be announced shortly.

The internationally acclaimed Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra joins Bravo! Vail for its second year in residency at the Festival. World-renowned resident orchestras-the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra-return with 17 inspiring programs led by seven prominent conductors, including Jaap van Zweden, Fabio Luisi, and Nathalie Stutzmann.

For the final entry of 2021 in its popular series of Monday Night Seminars, Theatre 40 will present a rehearsed reading via Zoom of a classic holiday tale, Beasley's Christmas Party.

Early in her career Deborah Stone used her body as a dancer in demand and left her voice to its own devices. Now, the singing actress from The Snarks has found that her voice works just as well when set to music as it does when reciting dialogue, and the cabaret community has taken to that voice like a toddler to an ice cream cake.

On Friday, October 23, 2020, cellist Diana Golden releases Tanbou Kache, an album that celebrates Haiti's rich and fascinating art music traditions, on New Focus Recordings.

One of the cabaret community's newer artists, Deborah Stone, comes of age in her new show HERE I AM! After a run downtown at Pangea, she debuts at The Beach Cafe. In this interview with Stephen Mosher, Stone talks about the journey that got her where she is.

Peninsula Players Theatre, America's oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County's theatrical icon, is thrilled to announce its 85th season performing June 16 through October 18, 2020. Nestled along Door County, Wisconsin's scenic shore, the award-winning acting company of Peninsula Players has been enthralling generations of audiences in its 600-plus seat, all-weather pavilion since 1935, presenting hundreds of pre-Broadway tryouts, world premières, classic dramas, comedies and musicals.

Ross Dinwiddy adapts Joseph Conrad's 1909 novella The Secret Sharer for the theatre and takes it to London after acclaimed runs in Brighton. The original text saw the unnamed Captain of a ship (renamed George Hotson in the play and played by John Black) takes the decision to conceal Leggatt (Gareth Wildig), a man accused of the murder of a crew member on another ship.

The Trap Door Theatre Presents THE KILLER, which will run from Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 8PM to Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 8PM.

Director Simon Levy, who has won much acclaim for his current production of Chaim Potok's The Chosen at the Fountain Theatre, now brings his directorial insight on achieving assimilation into America to the Sierra Madre Playhouse's production of THE IMMIGRANT, written by Mark Harelik about his grandfather's struggle to survive as the only Jewish immigrant to settle in Hamilton, Texas in 1909. The play is a timely and touching meditation on parents and children, newcomers and natives, Christians and Jews, and on what it means to be an American.