Aurora's Paramount Theatre will open its 15th Broadway Series with the Chicago-area premiere of MEAN GIRLS, the Tony-nominated musical based on Tina Fey's film, directed by Devon Hayakawa in their Paramount solo directing debut.
Freelancers Make Theatre Work secured new funding, including £150,000 from Arts Council England, to expand support for the UK performing arts freelance workforce, which makes up around 70% of the sector.
Young Gifted and Broadway (YGB) hosted its 3rd Annual Carter Awards Ceremony, featuring performers from The Lion King, Ragtime, MJ the Musical, and more.
Rose Ayling-Ellis and James Spence will lead the cast of PRIVATE JONES, a new WW1 musical weaving sign language, live captioning, and a Foley soundscape, at Southwark Playhouse Elephant in London.
Gravity and Other Myths will be in residence with Flying Fruit Fly Circus in Albury-Wodonga, with GOM founding member Lachlan Binns directing a new work, Vanishing Point, performed at the Borderville Theatre.
Playwright Wendy Graf's THE CROSS & THE SABER, a darkly comic look at a near-future America, will have its world premiere at LAB Theater Project in Tampa, timed to the nation's 250th anniversary.
Sutter Street Theatre in Folsom will present GREASE, featuring a cast including Jax Espinosa, Paisley Jenkins, Otis Comberland, Brissa Magallanes, Desi Roach, and Addie Sahota.
Eddie Bruce and Sue Matsuki will perform THE TONY BENNETT CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION at The Cutting Room in New York, marking what would have been Bennett's 100th birthday with iconic duets and a live trio.
Indo-Canadian percussionist and composer Agneya has been named the recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation's Breakthrough Jazz Artist Award, which carries a $10,000 cash prize and was presented at the Toronto Jazz Festival.
Astrolabe Theater Company will present a staged reading of IN THE TENT OF STARS, a new family musical centered on a transgender child lead, at Music Theatre Heritage at Crown Center in Kansas City.
Insight Colab Theatre will present SHADOWS & SECRETS, a staged multimedia whodunit radio play by Nancy Wang, at Vintage Theatre in Aurora, CO, exploring the mysterious 1924 death of restaurateur Chin Foin in mob-era Chicago.
Desert Opus string ensemble will perform 'From Romance to Revolution' at the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum in Las Vegas, featuring works by Borodin and Shostakovich with commentary from musicologist Heather Buffington Anderson.
Single tickets are on sale for the Broadway touring production of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Kansas City's Music Hall, part of the PNC Broadway in Kansas City series.
Darren Criss will return to London for a very special one-night-only concert at the Royal Albert Hall, where he'll be taking audiences on a musical odyssey unlike anything he's ever done before.
Write Act Repertory will present HOT SUMMER NIGHTS - THE MUSICALS, a festival of six world premiere one-act musicals, at The Brickhouse Theatre in Los Angeles.
The Tony and GRAMMY Award-winning Broadway musical BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB will play a limited engagement at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center, featuring a book by Hialeah native Marco Ramirez and choreography by Miami-born Patricia Delgado.
Ben Fallaci's solo dark comedy AQUARIUS RISING, directed by Gretchen Egolf, will preview at Rosemary Branch Theatre in London before its Edinburgh Fringe run at Greenside at Riddles Court.
The Sarah Siddons Society announced twelve Professional Development Grants of $500 each for emerging Chicago-area theatre artists, with applications currently open.
MasterVoices announced its 85th anniversary season, featuring an all-Handel program at Carnegie Hall with soprano Erin Morley and countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, the return of VOX Opera Lab, and an Oscar Hammerstein II tribute at Lincoln Center.