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Jermyn Street Theatre has announced the cast for their Christmas show, Napoleon: Un Petit Pantomime.  Running from 21 November 2024 to 5 January 2025, this world premiere co-production reunites the theatre with Charles Court Opera following their award-winning collaboration on Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime last Christmas.

An international company of multi-cultural fools from Italy, France, Ireland, Ukraine, Spain, USA, and Canada will come to Brighton this Christmas, as Slava’s SnowShow, the multi award-winning global phenomenon that recently celebrated 30 years enchanting people of all ages worldwide, returns to the UK after a seven-year hiatus.

All new photos have been released of Keala Settle, Robyn Rose-Li and the cast of new musical Fly More Than You Fall. Check out the photos here!

Norwich Theatre and Valid Productions have announced casting for their brand new dance co-production CARLOS ACOSTA’S NUTCRACKER IN HAVANA, choreographed and directed by Carlos Acosta CBE, which will visit Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Monday 13 – Tuesday 14 January 2025.

Join record 61-time Moth StorySLAM winner Matthew Dicks and Moth storyteller Jeni Bonaldo on Friday, November 8th at 7:30pm for an evening of heartfelt, hilarious storytelling improvised, crafted, and told right on the spot! 

Hollywood lit up Tectonic Theater Project's star-studded gala, 'A Tectonic Cabaret,' at NYC's Current (Pier 59) Monday night. Check out photos here!

The smash hit TINA – The Tina Turner Musical will continue its all-new North American Tour in Vancouver March 2025. Broadway Across Canada has announced that tickets for eight performances from March 25 to 30, 2025, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre will go on sale October 28, 2024.

Writers & visual artists, musicians & singers, comedians and actors will come together to share their creativity on the “open stage,” Sunday, October 27, to celebrate the final Collaboration LAB of 2024, as this new work & talent incubator and networking program completes its fifth year of service to the area.

Lorna Courtney, Tony Nominated actress in & Juliet, recently stopped by to celebrate her birthday and laugh at herself alongside audiences in FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: Merrily We Stole A Song. Ms. Courtney met the cast after the show, still laughing.    Check out photos here!

New Village Arts has announced its 2024 holiday musical MIRACLE ON 34th STREET: A LIVE MUSICAL RADIO PLAY to be performed on the Ray Charles Stage in the Conrad Prebys Theatre at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center.

 In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the producers of Pen Pals, the new play by Michael Griffo, have announced its New York City debut at The Theatre at St. Clement's. 

Poway OnStage will welcome legendary singer and actor Frankie Avalon for an unforgettable night of music on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at 7:30 PM. 

Mother and Son, written by Geoffrey Atherden and directed by Jude Hines, comes to Adelaide next month. Performances run 21-24 and 28-30 November 2024 at 7.30 pm, 24 November 2024 at 3.00 pm and 30 November 2024 at 2.00 pm.

Jay Armstrong Johnson’s annual Halloween concert-meets-party I Put a Spell on You: ALiiVE at Webster Hall, benefiting the Ali Forney Center, played to a packed standing-room-only crowd last night, October 21.

New shows in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth have been added for Torvill & Dean's highly anticipated June 2025 Farewell Tour. 

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has announced that Tony Award-nominated composer Andrew Lippa will celebrate his 60th birthday in style with Lippa @ 60: A Birthday Benefit for TheatreWorks.

The University of South Carolina Department of Theatre and Dance will present the drama Moon Man Walk November 8-16 at Longstreet Theatre.

Serino Coyne CEO, Matt Upshaw, has announced new, significant  advances at one of New York’s leading advertising and marketing agencies. Learn more about the developments here!

The Missoula Children’s Theatre Youth Series will invite grades 8-12 students to go back in time and jump some puddles with a classic musical in the after-school production class of Singin’ In The Rain JR.

Spruce Peak has announced that the Village will be taken over by A Charlie Brown Christmas Live in Concert, a concert version of the stage production based on the beloved animated holiday special from 1965.

Greg Cameron, President and CEO of The Joffrey Ballet, and Anne Kaplan, Board Chair, have announced the appointment of Farissa Knox as the new President of the Joffrey Women’s Board.

On Friday, December 6, 2024 at 8pm, the GRAMMY Award-winning, New York-based Experiential Orchestra (EXO) led by Music Director James Blachly will bring one of its signature, immersive performances to the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Broadway Across America will launch the 2024-2025 Broadway in Miami series with the South Florida premiere of SOME LIKE IT HOT for a limited engagement from December 3-8, 2024 in the Arsht’s Ziff Ballet Opera House.

Shakespeare at Notre Dame has announced Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender, an extraordinary one-person show from internationally-renowned Shakespearean actor and director Lisa Wolpe, performing at Notre Dame December 5, 6 and 7, 2024.

Latin Grammy nominees Maestro José Hernández and his world-renowned Mariachi Sol de México - Embajadores del Mariachi - return to Seattle with their annual A Merry-Achi Christmas holiday tour, Saturday November 23 at 7:30 at Seattle’s Moore Theatre.