Festival 1979

Portland Center Stage’s 2024-2025 season will kick off in September with Stephen Sondheim’s spooky musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Buck Creek Players will present the final show of our 50th season with this musical on our mainstage. Join us for the eight live in-person performances at the playhouse starting Friday, June 14th and running through Sunday, June 23rd. 

Enjoy a free summer theater festival featuring LES artists with performances of LUNGS on June 8th and 9th at the 6B Community Garden. Learn more about the festival!

Discover 13 unique projects at Kindling Arts' 2024 Festival, featuring immersive dance-theater, outdoor sports-theater, comedy, and performance art, all exploring the theme of Imperfections. Learn more about the programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Redd Kross has shared the rousing new single “Born Innocent,” the second song made available from the highly anticipated 18-track eponymous double-album, due for release June 28, 2024. “Born Innocent” appears in the closing credits of the brilliant documentary Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story, directed by Andrew Reich, who has also directed the video that accompanies the single’s release, which features footage from the must-see documentary. Listen to the single!

BALAM Dance Theatre and Marblehead School of Ballet will perform Spanish dances at José Mateo Ballet Theatre's Dance for World Community Festival, celebrating diverse dance traditions in Massachusetts.

Les Arts Florissants will perform at summer festivals in North America and in the exquisite gardens of France, showcasing their renowned baroque music ensemble.

 Chicago’s Raven Theatre Company has announced its upcoming productions and programming during the company’s 42nd season in 2024 - 2025. Learn more about the lineup here!

The Stratford Festival has announced that actor and director Seana McKenna will receive the 2024 Legacy Award at a gala celebration on September 23 at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel.

Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre introduces THE GLORIA BOND CLUNIE PLAYWRIGHT’S FESTIVAL, a new platform for public staged readings of fresh plays from May 31 to June 2.

Experience the magic of OSL Bach Festival at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall from June 4-25. Enjoy performances from world-renowned artists like Hadelich, Bezuidenhout, and more.

The cast has been announced for the Muny production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which runs July 8-16 on the James S. McDonnell Stage in Forest Park.

Their new album – an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with 18 of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet – will hit the racks on June 28, 2024. These years of joyful service to rock’n’roll have seen Redd Kross evolve into a killer pop-rock concern, dealing in dayglo power-chords, choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop- cultural references their loyal following will gobble up like quaaludes. Listen to a single here!

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s one act song cycle TELL ME ON A SUNDAY receives a rare staging at Hayes Theatre, showcasing Erin Clare as the solo character.

Join Theater Resources Unlimited for their live monthly panel discussion on adding accessibility to D.E.I. conversations. The event, held both in-person and virtually, will be co-hosted by actor Carey Cox.

Join the Atlanta Opera for its third annual 96-Hour Opera festival from June 15-17. The event features the world premiere of 'Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)'.

Don't Miss an Orchestral Version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street!

Celebrate the 45th Anniversary Season of the CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL this summer! See who is performing and learn how to purchase tickets.

Today’s subject Peter Anastos has been living his theatre life as one of the co-Founders of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The all- male dance troupe has been parodying the classics of ballet for 50 years now. You can see the company in action for three performances only from April fourth through sixth in the Opera House at Kennedy Center.

La Secretaría de Cultura federal y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) recuerdan al poeta, ensayista, luchador social, promotor cultural, traductor y diplomático mexicano Octavio Paz en el 110 aniversario de su nacimiento, que se conmemora este domingo 31 de marzo, a través del arduo trabajo de conservación de su acervo documental y personal del Premio Nobel de Literatura 1990 y cuyo legado es parte fundamental del patrimonio artístico de México.