That Time of the Year

On the legal and legislative front, a federal judge ordered the removal of President Trump's name from the Kennedy Center and temporarily blocked its planned closure, while New York State added $150 million to its theatrical production tax credit program. Broadway closed out its 2025–2026 season with a new all-time box office record of $1.91 billion, and the Broadway League and Actors' Equity announced a new audition initiative called LEAP.

Latitude Festival's 20th anniversary arts programme will feature BalletBoyz's 25th anniversary production, the UK debut of Circus Zambia's AFRONAUTS, and new works from The Place and more at Henham Park.

Thirteen-time Grammy Award winners The Chicks will return to the road with the Taking the Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour in celebration of their studio album Taking the Long Way.

Stage One announced partners for its 2026/27 Producer Placement Scheme, offering emerging producers paid year-long placements at London and regional theatres, including Sonia Friedman Productions and Sheffield Theatres.

The 20th anniversary production of AVENUE Q has extended its limited run at London's Shaftesbury Theatre, with Kevin McCollum and Jamie Wilson Productions citing popular demand.

A cappella group Straight No Chaser announced a stop at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton, WI, presented by NiteLite. The performance will take place in Thrivent Hall.

The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival will present eleven live performances across five Cape Cod venues, featuring the Danish String Quartet, GRAMMY-winning Imani Winds, Harlem Quartet, and world premieres of Festival commissions.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Tommy James. He shared with us fascinating insights about his impressive career, exciting projects in the works, and his thoughts about the upcoming performance at the PNC Arts Center.

Further details are now known about the forthcoming remake film of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, written by Enda Walsh, which will have music written by Tim Minchin. Learn more here!

Tony nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Taylor Mac will perform HOLIDAY SAUCE live in the UK for the first time at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, blending music, film, burlesque and what Mac calls 'random acts of fabulousness.'

With “Rudolf – The Last Kiss,” the Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein, in collaboration with Vereinigte Bühnen Wien, has achieved a masterstroke: the beloved musical, long absent from German-speaking stages, has been so thoroughly overhauled that it emerges stronger than ever before.

Jersey City Theater Center will present the VOICES INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AND ARTS FESTIVAL across multiple Jersey City venues, featuring international artists, multidisciplinary performances, and a Professional Conference at White Eagle Hall.

The nominations are here for the 2026 Tony Awards. This year, a high number of titles have onscreen counterparts, and we have rounded up how to watch these versions at home, from The Lost Boys to Schmigadoon!

xThe LA Phil has unveiled the 2026 season at The Ford, its hillside open-air venue, running from May 8 to October 31. The 2026 season brings together a multidisciplinary mix of music, dance, film, theater, comedy and spoken word.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will return for its 43rd season, featuring 13 concerts celebrating American music, BCM founder Marya Martin’s 50th anniversary in the U.S., and more.

CAPA announced the schedule for its 57th Summer Movie Series at the historic Ohio Theatre in Columbus, featuring 28 films over nine weeks, including 13 series premieres, anniversary screenings, and two free Ohio Goes to the Movies presentations.

New York's largest dance event will feature over 10,000 dancers and four Grand Marshals for its 20th annual celebration, culminating in a festival at Tompkins Square Park.

McFly drummer Harry Judd will play Coach Bolton in the London transfer of Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, taking over the role from Jason Donovan following a Salford run.

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that Mary-Mitchell Campbell will receive the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her unwavering dedication to advocacy work through the arts.

Astounding triple-threat talent is on display in big production numbers with attention-grabbing scenic elements by brilliant designers add to the artistic wonder of the entire production helmed by EWP Artistic Director Lily Tung Crystal, choreographed by Janelle Dote Portman, with music direction by Marc Macalintal.

George Lopez, star of NBC's Lopez vs Lopez and the Warner Bros. film Blue Beetle, will perform live at Paramount Theatre in Denver as part of his ongoing national comedy tour.

Theatre Artists Studio's production of Amy Hartman's MAZEL has ended its run, but its themes of remembering, reconciliation, and forgiveness echo beyond the stage. Under Kathleen Butler's direction, the play, which was conceived in 2006, arrives in reworked form at a moment when its central question is no longer merely theatrical, but urgently real: what happens when the last witnesses to history are no longer here to tell it?

Cameron Mackintosh and LW Entertainment announced full casting for the new North American Tour of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, playing Seattle's Paramount Theatre, led by Isaiah Bailey in the title role.

Guildford Shakespeare Company and Orange Tree Theatre announced the cast for their co-production of LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, directed by Tom Littler, conceived as one continuous story set across two summers.

Michael Sheen and Callum Scott Howells will star as Salieri and Mozart in the first major West End revival of Peter Shaffer's AMADEUS in over a decade, directed by Jeremy Herrin at the Noël Coward Theatre.