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'The Lion King', currently playing in Detroit, roars back into Grand Rapids April 8 - 26, 2026, at DeVos Performance Hall for a three-week engagement.

The Columbus Jazz Orchestra closes its 2025–2026 season May 1–3 with guest vocalist Paul Loren in THE LOREN LOUNGE at the Southern Theatre, featuring music from Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Ray Charles.

Lucinda Williams will perform two East Coast concerts this spring, appearing at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey on May 27 and at Beacon Theatre in New York City on May 29.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater announced a full April 2026 schedule featuring UNLIMITED MILES: Miles Davis at 100, Yellowjackets, The Hot Sardines, João Bosco, and more across both venues.

San Francisco Playhouse will present the West Coast premiere of FLEX by Candrice Jones.

York Theatre Royal has released rehearsal photos from THE PSYCHIC, a new play written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.

Composer and classically trained pianist YOSHIKI performed the Japanese national anthem, 'Kimigayo,' at the start of the 2026 FIA Formula 1 World Championship Series Aramco Japanese Grand Prix Race at the Suzuka Circuit on Sunday, March 29.

Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg stepped in with three hours' notice for Hope Davis and Maria Dizzia, who are out due to illness, in WHAT WE DID BEFORE OUR MOTH DAYS at Greenwich House Theater on April 1 and April 2.

The ECHO OF LOVE charity concert will take place May 9, 2026 at Central Presbyterian Church in Summit, NJ, featuring Grammy-nominated pianist Han Chen and benefiting Good Grief, a nonprofit supporting grieving children and families.

THE BAD DATERS, Derek Murphy's play about modern love at Paradise Factory, will host talkbacks with novelist Megan Nolan on May 7 and dating coach Love, Amy on May 16.

Going into auditions, I had already made assumptions about where I fit.

Having been on and off, in London, LA, and  New York, since 2012, Choir Boy clearly isn’t going away any time soon.

First performed in 1982, Sailmaker is a set text for National 5 English.

Boublil and Schönberg's LES MISÉRABLES stormed back to the Keller Auditorium last night.

The Korean stage production Eyes of Dawn closed roughly a month ahead of schedule after a dispute between the production company and cast members over unpaid fees.

Spring has sprung, and with it's arrival, comes new plays for theatre lovers of all kinds.

Tony Award-winner David Byrne visited The Late Show earlier this week.

After two decades shaping young performers as chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at the University of Central Missouri, John Wilson has built a reputation as one of the region's most versatile theater artists — actor, fight choreographer, dialect coach, and educator all at once.

Best known to television audiences as the lovably neurotic Howard Morris on Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, Michael Cyril Creighton has built a career on quietly stealing scenes — in Spotlight, American Fiction, and on stages across New York.

Rachel Blanchard, stage and screen actor Garret Dillahunt, Anjelica Bette Fellini, and comedian Matt Walsh have joined the cast of Netflix's Tires, which returns with Season 3 later this year.

14 years after the musical first debuted on Broadway, several Newsies alums reunited.

AMC has debuted a sneak peek clip from the upcoming Season 4 finale, featuring Zahn McClarnon and Franka Potente.

You can now get a first look at production photos of Jelly’s Last Jam at Bristol Riverside Theatre, starring Stanley Martin as Jelly Roll Morton, and Tony Award nominee Forrest McClendon as the mysterious Chimney Man.

The Carriage House on the Paper Mill Playhouse campus has been transformed from an intimate 124-seat dining room into a 228-seat, multi-level culinary and cultural destination ready to greet guests on April 6th.

Liza Minnelli is looking back on her storied career in Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!.