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The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse will present a special week-long return engagement of Carlyle Brown’s The African Company Presents Richard III.

Wicked: For Good, Hamnet, Blue Moon, and more have made the longlist for the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, which includes the films that will advance to the nominating stage of voting. Learn more about what's next.

Get a first look at The Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani, marking the company’s first new production of the opera in nearly 50 years.

Tickets for the Stratford Festival's highly anticipated 2026 season go on sale this Saturday, allowing audiences to secure their seats for a year of theatrical magic.

NIGHT STORIES, comprising four tales of reanimation by Yiddish poet and resistance fighter Avrom Sutzkever, is set to conclude its limited engagement at Wild Project.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary year, the Ballet Icons Gala will return to London’s Coliseum in February 2026. The Gala is renowned for bringing together the world’s best dancers and choreographers from leading ballet companies.

Crossroads Comedy Theater has announced an ongoing monthly run of Study Hall: Comedy Inspired by Lectures, its signature live comedy show, at IF Theatre. Performances take place on the third Saturday of every month at 7:00 PM.

The Met’s new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I PURITANI made its debut on New Year’s Eve, but I caught up with it at its third performance on January 6. I was glad I did--because it offered a cast with staggering singing abilities in four major roles that offered major demands, along with at least one minor one and the brilliant Met chorus under Tilman Michael. Simply put, soprano Lisette Oropesa, tenor Lawrence Brownlee, baritone Artur Rucinski and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn sang the pants off their roles, with Marco Armiliato conducting the fearless Met orchestra.

4th Wall Theatre Company will present public readings of Furlough's Paradise, the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner by a.k. payne.

Undead Arts, in collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony, will present a reimagined production of Mozart's The Magic Flute at The Harborside Atrium.

What remains of our identity when the world and people that defined us are gone? This is the central question of MARS, a haunting new play by Daniel Mesta, making its debut at The Chain Theatre.

Tickets are now on sale for Two River Theater's Elephant Shoes, a world premiere co-production with Deaf West Theatre, directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun.

Red Bull Theater has revealed details of the next presentation of the all new season of OBIE Award-winning Revelation Readings. Red Bull’s Revelation Readings series will continue with The Rover.

The North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King will welcome Zama Magudulela as Rafiki. Magudulela will begin performances on Tuesday, January 13 in Sacramento at the Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble will present Paul Slade Smith's “Unnecessary Farce” directed by BTE Ensemble Member Kurt Naebig, Thursday, Jan. 29 – Sunday, March 1. Learn more here!

GableStage Theatre Company will present Sotto Voce, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Check out photos of the cast here!

GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL UNVEILS 2026 PROGRAMME INCLUDING ROSIE O'DONNELL, ALAN DAVIES, RUBY WAX, HARRY ENFIELD AND MORE

Irish National Opera kicks off 2026 with a major nationwide tour of Janáček's much-loved opera The Cunning Little Vixen. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

The Eisemann Center's Cabaret Series will continue with an evening of international music as acclaimed singer-songwriter Jessica Fichot performs on Friday, Feb. 21, 2026, at 8 p.m.

Franklin Light Opera will present Amahl & the Night Visitors, Gian Carlo Menotti’s English-language opera, in Brentwood. The production features young performers alongside adult singers and a chamber ensemble.

L’Alliance New York will present HD screenings of Twelfth Night or What You Will and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme at the Florence Gould Theater. The programs feature productions by the Comédie-Française and are presented in French with English subtitles.

A Noise Within will present a new English Language Arts enrichment course for youth: “Acting Fundamentals for Homeschool Ages 8–14: William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.”

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

Alley Theatre has revealed the cast and creative team of English. Directed by Evren Odcikin, Sanaz Toossi’s heartwarming comedy follows five Iranians, each with a personal reason for learning English.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has revealed the full cast and creative team for Chez Joey. The production will be directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover.