Theatre
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Williamstown Theatre Festival
Plans for 2027
By: - Oct 26th, 2026Throughout this year, the Board of Trustees has remained focused on moving Williamstown Theatre Festival forward, working closely with staff to plan for the Festival’s future, including the intention to return to programming in Williamstown in 2027.
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The Lion in Winter - the Play
A Gripping Real-Life Battle Royal
By: - Oct 25th, 2026Henry may be king, but he still has to deal with his wife, Queen Eleanor's power, despite her being his prisoner for 10 years. Their battle concerns not just her freedom but succession, she being for Richard, and he for John.
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Manon
Jules Massenet as His Lyrical Best
By: - Oct 23rd, 2026Committed to a convent as an adolescent, Manon escapes to a relationship that will be compromised by the interference of her lover's father. The complex femme fatale undergoes a roller coaster of changing fortune performed to beautiful Romantic music.
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Tony Winner Dear Even Hansen
Manatee Performing Arts Center
By: - Oct 23rd, 2026The characters in the Tony Award-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen” are all troubled in some way, struggling to fit in, trying to make connections or understand problems with loved ones they somehow missed.
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Women + on the Edge of Democracy
Shakespeare & Company
By: - Oct 22nd, 2026Shakespeare & Company will present nine readings of 10-minute plays, selected from Women+ On The Edge Of Democracy anthology of 34 woman-identifying playwrights. The titles were chosen by a committee of Company Artists, and will be presented in two acts with talkbacks at the end of each act.
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Streetcar Named Desire
At Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Oct 21st, 2026Next up in its 50th Season, Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presents André Previn’s acclaimed opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. A co-production with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, STREETCAR plays three performances November 5-8.
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Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
By: - Oct 20th, 2026Once “Sophisticated Ladies” takes off, it rarely slows down. In the first act, it’s about 30 minutes before the tempo softens briefly for a tender version of “Solitude.” But it doesn’t stay that way for long.
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Carrie the Musical
At Manatee Players
By: - Oct 20th, 2026You get a lot of intensity and just enough blood if not outright frightening moments in the Manatee Players production of “Carrie: The Musical.”
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MCLA Theatre Announces 2026-2027 Season
Celebrating Collaboration, Creativity, and the Art of Storytelling
By: - Oct 20th, 2026Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre announces its 2026-2027 performance season, featuring six events that celebrate the possibilities of live theater through professional collaboration, inventive storytelling, student experimentation, and original performance.
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Mark H. Dold in Vanya at Barrington Stage Company
A Career Defining Performance
By: - Oct 19th, 2026Everything about the Simon Stephens deconstruction of Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya into the one act solo by Mark H. Dold, Vanya, at Barrington Stage company is truly remarkable.
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Every Saturday Night: A Harlem of the West Musical
World Premiere About Urban Renewal in San Francisco
By: - Oct 17th, 2026The Fillmore was the Bay Area's center of African-American life and jazz in the 1950s. An ill-advised urban renewal project displaced over 10,000 residents and forever destroyed the area's character. A new musical looks at the environs then and now through the context of a fictional family
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Ben Bliss at the Park Avenue Armory
Mix and Match Songs Accompanied by Christopher Allen
By: - Oct 15th, 2026In the opera house, he is known as Benjamin Bliss and is highly regarded. At the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room, he goes simply by Ben, singing a wide range of songs in his beautiful voice and speaking to us through the sound of music.
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The Abduction from the Seraglio
Early Mozart Singspiel that Foretold Later Operatic Masterpieces
By: - Oct 14th, 2026A light-hearted culture clash between Europeans and Turks begins with captivity but ends in magnanimity.
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Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
Summer 2027 Co Production Barrington Stage and Tectonic Theatre Project
By: - Oct 14th, 2026“Sunday in the Park with George is one of the great achievements of the American musical theater—an exploration of the passion and courage it takes to create something beautiful and lasting,” said BSC’s Artistic Director Alan Paul. “It reminds us why art matters, and why we devote our lives to making it.”
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David Auburn's Summer of 1976
At Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge
By: - Oct 12th, 2026One of the most enjoyable plays of the season, Summer of 1976, by David Auburn is on view at the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge The one act two -hander entails young mothers in a college town. Alice (Kate Baldwin) is a faculty wife whose husband, Doug, faces tenure review in the fall. Diana (Jennifer van Dyck) is a single mother and artist who teaches part time. Their five-year-old daughters, Holly and Gretchen, have become fast friends.
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Hedda Gabler: A Life Arranged
New Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Classic Play
By: - Oct 06th, 2026Shakespeare Troupe of South Florida mounts Americanized adaptation of "Hedda Gabler." The production relocates the 1890s play to 1915 Connecticut. It unfolds in the intimate Sol Theatre in Boca Raton.
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Suor Angelica
Puccini's Tragedy in the Covent
By: - Oct 05th, 2026The intense 60-minute opera tells of a young woman consigned to the convent as punishment for having a child out of wedlock. Having already subjugated earthly desires to serving God, she is asked to make one final sacrifice.
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Urmetazoan by Alex Rugman
North American Premiere at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 05th, 2026An obtuse title is but one of many complications in an ambitious but overreaching North American premiere of Urmetazoan by Alex Rugman. With a sci fi approach it is both micro and macro from the cosmic to quotedian. There is a simultaneous production in London which has opened to mostly positive reviews.
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Little Bear Ridge Road
Tony Nominee Opens TheaterWorks Season in Hartford
By: - Oct 05th, 2026TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, announces details for its production of LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD, written by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale). The 2026 Tony Nominee for Best Play is set to kick off TheaterWorks Hartford’s 26/27 season.
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Tony Winner Jason Robert Brown
Recipient of 2026 William Finn Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre
By: - Oct 05th, 2026Barrington Stage Company will celebrate Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown, recipient of the 2026 William Finn Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, at its annual BSC in NYC event on Monday, October 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the legendary 54 Below.
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Mannes Produces Suor Angelica
Puccini in a Cathoic Church
By: - Oct 03rd, 2026Mannes School of Music filled the nave of Our Lady of Good Counsel in New York with Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Arguably the best music school in New York, Mannes produces wonderful operas and concerts week after week. They are offered free and they're always a treat.
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The Happiest Man on Earth
St. Germain One Man Play at Plahouse On Park
By: - Oct 03rd, 2026Any solo show needs a premise to explain why the character is talking to us, the audience, and telling us this story. Playwright Mark St. German who adopted this from Eddie’s autobiography has created a very effective premise to explain this. Eddie is finally going to talk about his experiences the next day at a Synagogue. He is nervous so he is practicing in front of us who he calls his new friends.
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Shakespeare & Company Festival
Celebrating Jewish Plays
By: - Oct 02nd, 2026Join Shakespeare & Company for Celebrating Jewish Plays, a three-day festival bringing Jewish stories, voices, and perspectives to the stage through powerful plays, staged readings, poetry, music, and conversation.
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Beatle Girls
Four Girls Who Ran Their Fan Clubs
By: - Oct 01st, 2026“Beatle Girls,” has its Sarasota premiere as the season-opening attraction at Tree Fort Productions.
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Snow Goose Lays an Egg
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 01st, 2026I tried so hard to like this adaptation of Paul Gallico‘s very short novella, The Snow Goose –a Story of Dunkirk, but some elements just made it difficult to do so.
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