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ONE NIGHT AT THE BLACKBIRD, a new play by Maria Messias Mendes and Thomas Mullen, will run at AMT Theater in New York as part of the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, featuring jazz, blues, and gospel in a supernatural New Orleans speakeasy setting.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will present 'Soul, Sound, and Voice: The Art of Jerry Pinkney,' a retrospective of over 75 works exploring music's influence on the late illustrator's career.
San Francisco Playhouse has revealed the full cast and creative team for Hairspray, the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical featuring songs including “You Can’t Stop the Beat” and “Good Morning Baltimore.”
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actress, author, and producer Ledisi will head to Broadway this fall in the new musical WANTED. Ledisi will star as Tallulah Clarke, mother of the sisters Clarke.
WHAT SURVIVES, a new one-act play about a community reckoning with an ICE abduction, will have its world premiere at The Broadwater in Los Angeles during the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
EXPERIENCING THE DREAM MLK THE MUSICAL, written by Kesha L. Ealy and composed by Marcus S. Mason, will hold a live audience recording featuring 27 musicians performing the 26-song score at Greater Emmanuel Temple in Lynwood, CA.
Mandala South Asian Performing Arts announced the Red Line Jazz Project, a five-month series of free performances at Chicago Red Line L stations curated by jazz musician Fareed Haque, culminating in a ticketed Harris Theater concert.
My Hero Academia in Concert, the live music experience, will embark on a U.S. tour, following a 10-city European debut this fall. Take a look at the new stops here.
The global tour dates for “Outlander in Concert: Echoes Through the Highlands” have been revealed. The tour will take place this fall, stopping in more than 75 cities across the United States and Europe.
Ebony Repertory Theatre has revealed the full cast and creative team for the production of Ain’t Misbehavin’. Based on the book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr., the Tony Award-winning musical will feature choreography by Dominique Kelley.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will perform in New Orleans as part of the New Orleans Ballet Association’s 2025–26 season. The program includes works by Bob Fosse and contemporary choreographers.
Ebony Repertory Theatre will present AIN'T MISBEHAVIN', starring Grammy-winner Ledisi and NAACP-winner Chester Gregory, from May 21 to June 8, 2026, at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center.
Ebony Repertory Theatre will present Ain't Misbehavin'. Based on the book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr., the Tony-Award winning musical is directed by Wren T. Brown, ERT’s Founder & Producing Artistic Director, with Grammy Award-winning singer Ledisi (Selma; Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story) and NAACP Award-winning actor Chester Gregory.
Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the world premiere of safronia, a landmark musical composition commissioned from Chicago’s first Poet Laureate, the interdisciplinary artist avery r. young.
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will present an updated version of the gospel musical HOW I GOT OVER: A GOSPEL REVUE, featuring a mix of traditional and popular gospel songs, from February 18 to March 29.
From the Rose Theatre in Kingston, to Wolverhampton, to Chichester and soon to arrive in the West End, Ntombizodwa Ndlovu talks the journey of Marie & Rosetta, learning, legacy and the joy of working on a two hander with Beverley Knight.
John Mulaney will bring Mister Whatever to the Mahalia Jackson Theater for Performing Arts next month. The event is on Friday, February 20, 2026 at 7:30PM.
Tony Award winner and original Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday brought the house down at 54 Below with a powerful performance of “I Am Changing,” the signature anthem she made famous on Broadway.
ATG Entertainment has promoted Erik Newson to Senior Vice President, Music, Comedy, and Events Programming, North America expanding his remit across all ATGE’s markets in the U.S.
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe will present Brian L. Boyd in ENIGMA, the first Independent Artist Program showcase of the season. The two-night event will feature an original theatrical work created in collaboration with M.A.D. Music Acting Dance Inc. and performed by a company of WBTT artists. Boyd, a longtime member of the troupe with extensive stage credits, will return to Sarasota for the premiere.
