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This week's newsletter is packed with leadership news, as theaters across the country — from San Francisco's Magic Theatre to Manhattan Theatre Club to the Cape Playhouse — announced new appointments and restructured their teams. We've also got honors for Heidi Schreck and Cate Blanchett, plus a reminder that the 17th Annual Jimmy Awards stream live from the Minskoff Theatre tonight!

Prescott Park Arts Festival and Seacoast Jazz Society will present the 43rd Annual Seacoast Jazz Festival, a full day of jazz on Portsmouth's waterfront featuring bebop, New Orleans brass, Latin swing, and more.

The acclaimed actor, producer and artistic leader, Cate Blanchett, has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for the academic year 2026-27.

CAP UCLA announced its 2026-27 season spanning music, dance, theater, and film, featuring Akram Khan Company's final touring production, a world premiere punk operetta starring Kathleen Hanna, and Kronos Quartet performing an all-Glass program.

Later this year, Disney will take a page out of Christmas movie history with the new full-length holiday special, Mickey’s Home Alone. Starring Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto, new details reveal a plot that is not unlike the beloved holiday staple with Macaulay Culkin. Learn more about the special now.

The Orchard Project has announced the artists and companies selected for its 2026 Summer Performance Lab in Saratoga Springs, NY. Learn more about the project here.

Whether autobiographical like “Jersey Boys,” “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” and “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” or fictionalized like “Mamma Mia!,” jukebox musicals often rely on the drama of  their source material as much as their familiar scores for success.

Broadway actress Gina Ferrall, whose stage credits included Mamma Mia!, She Loves Me, Beauty and the Beast, and Les Misérables, has died following a battle with uterine sarcoma.

Whether you’re a #1 fan of Stephen King or just coming in the door, this MISERY is worth enduring. The acting is top-notch, and the tech puts the film to shame.

Lambert House Productions announced a strictly limited five-performance season of A.R. Gurney's Pulitzer Prize finalist play LOVE LETTERS at the Playhouse Theatre in Redfern, starring Max Fernandez and NIDA graduate Amelie Devos.

'I say it a lot. Our situation would not work for everybody, for all couples, but somehow, someway, what proves to us that we’re meant for each other is that we are together all the time.'

This is a light-weight but entertaining night out.

The Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough announced the cast for Moira Buffini's Olivier Award-winning comedy HANDBAGGED, featuring Pandora Clifford, Alexandra Mathie, and Deven Modha among six performers.

Speight Jenkins, who led Seattle Opera for 31 years and transformed it into one of the most respected opera companies in the US, has died at 89, the company announced.

Long Beach Shakespeare Company will present the second weekend of its 2026 New Works Festival at the Helen Borgers Theatre, featuring LIFE AND DEATH IN COWBOY COUNTRY, THE DEED, REFLECTIONS IN A D'BACK'S EYE, and DEPARTMENT – EPISODE 2: 'ANCHOR STORE.'

The Tony Awards Administration Committee presented the 2026 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to four outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry - 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin, and Loren Plotkin. Watch their acceptance speeches here!

Constellation Stage & Screen received a $20,000 grant from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation to support general operations for its upcoming 5th anniversary season in Bloomington, IN.

Birmingham Royal Ballet announced a new photo series, OUR CITY, YOUR BALLET, shot by local photographer Clive Booth, to be displayed across Birmingham, celebrating the company's ties to the city.

The Bent, the Coachella Valley’s LGBTQ+ theatre company, is presenting its first musical, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, written by Terrence McNally (book), Stephen Flaherty (music), and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics). The writers and composer have put together a moving book, lyrics, and score that create a deeply affecting and emotional story, with just enough hilarity to soften the upsetting moments. The brilliant acting, singing, directing, and design make this show a must-see.

The Long Beach Shakespeare Company's New Works Festival will present three original plays at the Helen Borgers Theatre, featuring works by emerging and established writers on love, labor history, and memory.

 The Joyce Theater Foundation will present a one-night-only program of works by acclaimed choreographer Molissa Fenley, featuring State of Darkness and Bardo at The Joyce Theater’s Tino & Rajika Puri Auditorium.

Long Beach Shakespeare Company announced its 2026 NEW WORKS FESTIVAL, featuring staged readings and workshop presentations of original plays across three weekends at the Helen Borgers Theatre.

Everyman Theatre will present Kate Hamill's adaptation of EMMA, directed by Laura Kepley, featuring the theatre's Resident Company in a feminist, contemporary take on Jane Austen's classic.

The tenth edition of its Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance will include a retrospective of films by and about theater artist Robert Wilson. Learn more about the upcoming program and film lineup.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at CUNY will present WORLD VOICES, a four-day festival featuring staged readings of new plays in translation by playwrights from Tuscarora/Canada, Austria, France, Senegal, and Germany.