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The beginning of a new year always feels symbolic in theatre. It is that moment after the blackout, when the stage is quiet, and anything feels possible. January invites reflection. It asks us to look honestly at where we are and imagine where we want to go next.

With perfect timing both in delivery of lines and how the scenografy is falling down this is an evening at the theatre full of laughter.

What did our critic think of JOB at Roberts Studio Theatre?

Los Esketchis will present Besos, Bromas, y Breakups at Caveat in New York City on February 14. The bilingual comedy show features sketch comedy, stand-up, and an improvised telenovela finale.

You can now get a first look at production photos of the cast of The Mirror Crack'd at Asolo Repertory Theatre. A Hollywood film star and her entourage descend upon a quaint English village to film an epic period drama.

Last night, Benedict Cumberbatch, James Corden and more took to the stage as readers at a sold-out Letters Live in association with Cunard show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. See photos!

Waterperry Opera Festival has unveiled its full programme for the 2026 Festival. The festival returns this summer under the new leadership of Artistic Director and CEO John Savournin. 

Calgary Opera will present its 2026/27 season, showcasing a blend of classic operas and contemporary pieces. The season aims to cater to diverse audiences with performances that highlight both traditional and modern operatic works.

Production photos have been released for Children’s Theatre Company’s upcoming production of GO, DOG. GO! • VE PERRO ¡VE!, a bilingual musical adaptation of P.D. Eastman’s classic children’s book Go, Dog, Go!.

Bilingual Broadway Collective has announced its official launch as a nonprofit organization focused on bilingual theater and arts education in English and Spanish. Based in New York, the organization will develop productions, education programs, and community partnerships beginning in January 2026.

The Verdi Messa da Requiem—better known to English speakers as the Verdi Requiem—featuring the Cleveland Orchestra and its Chorus, with a quartet of soloists, breezed into Carnegie Hall the other night and promptly knocked many concert-goers out of their seats.

The play that embedded the psychological term 'gaslighting' into the English language is coming to the stage when Theatre to Go presents 'Gaslight,' at the Kelsey Theatre on Mercer County Community College's West Windsor Campus.

English Theatre Utrecht, known for their sold out run of 'Guards! Guards!' In 2025, will premiere their largest play yet: Edmond Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac'.

Two powerful women will be at the helm when Opera San José returns in the new year with the operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. See photos here!

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the world premiere of Anna Ziegler’s Evening All Afternoon opening at Donmar Warehouse next month. Check out the photos here!

English National Opera will continue its partnership with Greater Manchester with two semi-staged concert performances of Mozart's comic masterpiece Così fan tutte at The Bridgewater Hall on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 February 2026.

Soprano Reilly Bianchi Nelson and composer-pianist Friedrich Heinrich Kern will present KURT WEILL'S SONGS OF GLASS AND IRON, a music-theatre exploration of displacement and belonging through the lens of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

Japanese boy band WEST. has released “Aisyu (愛執),' a new track now available to download and stream worldwide on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Music, and more.

Inside Out Theatre Company will present a bilingual production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in Sunrise, FL, featuring performances in Spanish to enhance community inclusion.

The Dallas Opera will present a slate of winter and spring programming from February through May 2026 across Dallas and North Texas. The schedule will include two mainstage operas, family-friendly productions, free community events, and the annual National Vocal Competition.

Emerging musical theater writers Morgan Vanderlaan and Nicolas Chalise will present Love, Lust, and Loss: A Cabaret, a one-night-only evening of new musical theater, on Friday, February 14, 9:00-10:00 PM at The Bull in downtown Gainesville.

Villanova Theatre will present Tom Stoppard's masterwork, Arcadia, in the Court Theater of the Mullen Center for the Performing Arts, directed by Valerie Joyce.

Mannes Opera will present the U.S. premiere of The Silent Serenade, a rarely performed operetta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City.

Two River Theater has received an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for The Monsters: A Sibling Love Story by Ngozi Anyanwu. The award provided support for additional rehearsal time with the full creative team prior to the world premiere.

Go inside rehearsals for Chicago Shakespeare Theater's presentation of Royal Shakespeare Company's  Hamnet, based on the best-selling novel by Maggie O'Farrell, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), and directed by Erica Whyman.